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The m-commerce market is poised for significant growth, with ABI Research forecasting that it will account for 24.4% of overall e-commerce revenues by the end of 2017. According to their findings, we have the rapid adoption of smartphones in both mature and developing markets to thank for this growth, as well as a retail market…
The latest Distimo Report looks at Apple’s App Store, four years after it was unveiled alongside iOS 2.0 (then iPhone OS). At launch, it had only 500 applications and today it counts more than 650,000 titles. Here are the highlights from the report: Due to emerging competition, the number of downloads among the top 200…
With more and more people getting a smartphone, mobile data consumption keeps rising. According to a new study by ABI Research, the global volume of mobile data traffic will exceed 107 exabytes in 2017, which is eight times more than what is expected for 2012. However, ABI’s senior analyst Aapo Markkanen says that although the…
According to a report from the Wireless Smartphone Strategies service by Strategy Analytics for smartphone shipments in the second quarter of 2012, overall shipments in the United States fell 5.4 percent from the year-ago quarter to just under 24 million units. Q2 had one of the slowest growth rates ever for the U.S. smartphone market.…
Most handset makers are struggling these days. According to ABI Research‘s senior analyst Michael Morgan, global handset shipments decreased YoY for the second consecutive quarter, depicting the global economic crisis of 2008-2009. Even Apple experienced a 26% QoQ decline in Q2 shipments as consumers withheld purchasing an iPhone in anticipation of the new model to…
According to ABI Research, the world’s smartphone subscribers will download about 36 billion apps in 2012, resulting in almost 37 native apps through the year for the average smartphone subscriber. That’s nearly 6% increase to the 35 apps downloaded per smartphone subscriber on average in 2011. However, the average download count will not increase substantially…
Samsung has taken a sizeable lead in the smartphone market in terms of unit shipments. According to Juniper Research’s estimates, the Korean giant shipped 52.1 million smartphones in Q2 2012, just over double the number shipped by Apple – 26.0 million. What’s more, Samsung has also doubled its lead over Apple quarter-on-quarter, with its flagship…
The 2008 presidential election season marked the first time that candidates allocated substantial campaign resources to mobile marketing. Now in 2012, sharp growth in smartphone adoption coupled with improvements in mobile apps and mobile ad technology, it’s easier to reach and connect with voters through their phones. According to a study by Localytics, 70% of…
Juniper Research (and many other research firms for that matter) is bullish on the prospects of NFC-based contactless payments. According to them, the NFC retail payments market will exceed $180 billion globally by 2017, which is more than a seven-fold increase over 2012. The leading regions of North America, Western Europe and Far East &…
Around three-quarters of the world’s population now have access to a mobile phone, according to a new report from the World Bank and infoDev, its technology entrepreneurship and innovation program. The number of mobile subscriptions in use worldwide, both pre-paid and post-paid, has grown from fewer than 1 billion in 2000 to over 6 billion…