The FINANCIAL -- According to Octane Research’s January 2012 “Gearing Up For Growth: India e-Marketing Outlook 2012” report, marketers in India expect to increase the use of social media and email to reach their customers in 2012.

The FINANCIAL -- As US online ad spending closes in this year on $40 billion, the bulk of that spending will go toward just a few formats: search, banners and video advertising.

The FINANCIAL -- IBM named Profitero the IBM Global Entrepreneur of the Year and winner of its SmartCamp competition for startup companies.

The FINANCIAL -- Effective February 1, 2012, Shmuel Fledel will become CEO of the Solar Thermal Energy Business Unit in the Solar & Hydro Division of Siemens Energy.

The FINANCIAL -- Siemens VAI Metals Technologies received an order from the Mexican steel producer Altos Hornos de Mexico, S.A.B. de C.V. (AHMSA) to modernize the LD converter in the Monclova steel works.