In emerging markets, Black Friday is present in a lesser scale – different countries have bigger and better sales days. Here is a quick round-up. India Black Friday in India…
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Is It Time for Mobile Payments to Take Off in Brazil?
Two years is a long time for technology development. Back in 2015, several home-grown mobile payment apps were taking off. Still, none of the big players was showing a real…
Emerging Markets Have a Lot to Teach Us About Entrepreneurship
Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg are legendary American entrepreneurs. These giants’ success stories might make it seem as if the United States owns the market when it comes…
Brazil: car sales are going digital
Vehicle purchasing in Brazil is one-third more likely to start in the digital media realm today compared to just one year ago. Those wanting to sell their cars are replacing…
China is investing big in Brazil but not how you’d imagined
Brazil and China are the world’s foremost emerging markets. Brazil’s political turmoil and the economic downturn in the last to years didn’t seem to change China’s will to invest into…
Social Gaming: How China became the games industry of the world
It was recently announced that the games company Zynga, most famous for Farmville, has donated an undisclosed amount to the University of Southern California (USC) so that courses in social…
Banking the unbanked in emerging markets
As countries progress, citizens migrate from remote villages to large cities and foreign countries. Their economic power rises and they participate in the global economy. People need to purchase food,…
Netflix vs Amazon Prime Video: Who’s winning in emerging markets?
As internet penetration is growing exponentially in some emerging economies, particularly Brazil and India, the two biggest video streaming services Netflix and Amazon Prime Video are going all in. Amazon Leading the…
Activists are close to saving broadband in Brazil
The fight for no data caps on home broadband connections in Brazil is heating up.
How an aging population will impact emerging markets
China’s elderly population will keep growing while the working age population will proportionally shrink over the next few decades. This is particularly worrying as in absolute number terms it means a huge over-65 population in the near future.
