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Mobile Minutes: China's social commerce; marketing technologists; Huawei smartphones; Pizza Hut's cute cats

Why China will lead innovation in social and mobile commerce
In China, social commerce has taken up a life of its own and become the backbone of e-commerce.

Last week in Boston the first MarTech conference was held to encourage and support the increasingly important, but still rare professionals ? those who are equally adept at marketing and technology. 

Huawei Technologies Co. may be unknown to many U.S. consumers, but the Chinese company is becoming a threat to Samsung Electronics, the world's biggest smartphone maker.

It?s just possible that the world of advertising has reached a peak it cannot top, thanks to this latest Pizza Hut campaign from Japan.