Today it’s clear that digital marketing is influencing both online and offline purchasing behavior more than ever. In fact, several studies show that, depending on the product or service need, 50% to 90% of consumers who buy in-store have conducted online research prior to purchase. To capitalize on consumers' new inclination to research online before
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– Euro zone joblessness at 12.2 pct for two months in a row – 60,000 Europeans lose jobs in September compared with August – Inflation hits 4-yr lows, drops below 1% Euro zone inflation unexpectedly dropped to a nearly four-year lows in October and unemployment stood at a record high in September, increasing pressure on
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An International Monetary Fund mission visiting Ukraine has urged the government to raise gas prices for domestic consumers and introduce a flexible exchange rate for the national currency, the hryvnia, a Fund official said on Thursday. Jerome Vacher, the IMF's resident representative in Kiev, told a ratings conference that these were among recommendations made by
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Six major central banks said on Thursday they would make their web of currency swap arrangements permanent as a "prudent liquidity backstop" in case of future global financial strains. The Bank of Japan, U.S. Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the central banks of Canada and Switzerland will convert their
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Syria has destroyed all of its declared chemical weapons production and mixing facilities, meeting a major deadline in an ambitious disarmament programme, the international chemical weapons watchdog said in a document seen by Reuters. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said in the document its teams had inspected 21 out of 23 chemical
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For the first time, scientists have found a planet beyond the solar system that not only is the same size as Earth, but has the same proportions of iron and rock, a key step in an ongoing quest to find potentially habitable sister worlds. The planet, known as Kepler-78b, circles a star that is slightly
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A Troika mission (EC, ECB, IMF) continues on Thursday its second review of Cyprus’ implementation of a Memorandum of Agreement, the basis of an international bail-out, with discussions focusing on energy matters, semi-governmental organizations, closed professions, and national air carrier Cyprus Airways. A Technical Support Group appointed by the European Commission in the context of
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A newly discovered species of humpback dolphin has been seen swimming off the northern Australia coast, an international team of scientists reported this week. All humpback dolphins have a characteristic hump just below the dorsal fin, but there are several distinct species in this family of marine mammals, the scientists found. While the Atlantic humpback
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Facebook Inc posted strong growth in its mobile advertising business on Wednesday but rattled investors after saying that it did not plan to boost the frequency of ads shown to users. Shares of the world's No. 1 online social network soared as much as 15 percent in extended trading before suddenly falling to $47.40, down
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The European Central Bank will provide more liquidity by the time cheap long-term loans it made in late 2011 and early 2012 expire, governing council member Ewald Nowotny told CNBC. "What is clear is there will be liquidity provision," he said in an interview aired on Thursday, declining to anticipate whether the ECB would do
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