international update december 2015

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INTERNATIONAL UPDATESDecember - 2015


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Gloria GavrilovicJessica Kliem

GermanyDeutschland



A recent study has show that over two thirds of 14-29 year olds use WhatsApp on a daily basis, compared to only 3% for Twitter, which makes it less popular than Tumblr (4%) and on a par with Google+.



Mobile payment provider YAPITAL will close down in January 2016 despite a 50% stake in the 200,000-user strong industry, consumers have not taken to the service over cash and cards.

Source: http://ow.ly/VBQh7 (NL)



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Jean-Yves Scauri Subina Siddiqi

France

Jean-Christophe Verro



Mobile usage in France continues to grow, with almost two thirds of residents now owning a mobile, 70% of which a smartphone. The most popular activities are email (75%) and search (65%). Tellingly, this order is reversed when related to tablets, with more people using their larger device for researching products and services than email.



Patricia van WindenSaskia Roskam

NetherlandsNederland



Dutch online department store fonq.nl is now accepting Bitcoin as a payment method. With four additional sites across other major European countries, there is scope for an even wider roll-out.

Source: http://ow.ly/VBSem (NL)


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Patrick Vazquez

SpainEspaña



e-Commerce in Spain exceeded €16bn in 2014, representing an 11% increase on the preceding year. This is helped by the fact that over three quarters of the Spanish population now shop online.

Source: http://ow.ly/VBSQl (ESP)



Alex Frascina

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A survey conducted for the Danish Chamber of Commerce shows that a fifth of Danes intend on spending up to half their Christmas budget online, with a further 10% of the population likely to allocate over 50% to e-commerce sites.

Average Christmas expenditure exceeds DKK3,815 (£360, of which DKK850 £80) will be used online.

Source: http://ow.ly/VBVmI (ESP)



Alex Frascina

SwedenSverige Insert photo of staff member



Sweden continues to lead e-commerce in Scandinavia, with an expected 26% of all Christmas purchases being made online – equating to SEK5.4bn, or £4.2bn.

Source: http://ow.ly/VBW0X (ESP)



Three Swedish banks are now supporting MasterPass online payments. The development from Nordea, Swedbank and SEB should pave the way for an increase in online spend across multiple user devices.

Source: http://ow.ly/VBWw7 (ESP)

international update december 2015

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