Topic “Featured News” — Exporter Magazine

Airlines’ load factors are still at record or near-record highs due to slower rise in capacity while air freight demand rose 26% during the first quarter, according a report by the Shipping Gazette. Google has pulled back another curtain and revealed the size of its lucrative internet ad network in the US. It spans more than 1.5 million advertisers and websites, according to the NZ Herald, citing an Associateed Press (AP). Despite the financial crisis in 2009, the Chinese appetite for luxury goods remains high. While luxury goods sales in Europe, Japan and the United States declined, sales in China rose more than 30%. Google is introducing a software that puts web content on television to persuade more consumers to use the internet in their living rooms and view advertisements that generate revenue, according to GulfNews.com.

The new tool, Google TV, will work with Intel chips in products by Sony and Logitech International.

Designed to work with over 3000 mobile devices, Mobile Emirates.com has been optimised to ensure that customers on the move can easily and efficiently access the emirates.com website, through their mobile phones. Exports by 4,645 Dubai companies grew 13% in April to BHD16.8 billion (NZ$65.26 billion), compared to exports in April 2009, according GulfNews.com.