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Ecommerce Market
E-Tailing
2 min read

Korean e-commerce firms under fire over hidden review rankings

Approximately 40% of significant online shopping portals in South Korea utilize proprietary algorithms to order product reviews, but the metrics behind these rankings are not publicly disclosed. This lack of transparency has caused some concerns about…

amazon
E-Tailing
1 min read

Amazon to invest in Japanese beauty retailer Istyle

Amazon.com will invest in istyle, the company behind the @cosme review and retail site, gaining access to the Japanese beauty product vendor’s trove of user reviews. Under the agreement announced Monday, istyle will issue 2.5 billion yen ($18.7 million) in…

Google Data
1 min read

Google improves its search criteria for product reviews

You’ve probably been in a situation where you’ve been looking to buy a new smartphone and have been constantly searching for reviews in order to decide if this phone is worth your hard-earned cash. Apparently, Google understands how important product reviews…

yelp
General
2 min read

Google Maps is Adding Yelp Features

Over the past couple of years, Google Maps has transformed from a simple navigation app to one of the most powerful information databases for travelers and commuters around the world. Booking a hotel room, reserving a table at a restaurant, or simply checking…

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Telecom
1 min read

Telstra conducting network review after outages

Australia’s Telstra and vendor partners Ericsson, Cisco and Juniper have assembled a team of engineering experts to conduct an end-to-end review of its network after the company experienced three mobile network outages in two months. During a recent speech at…