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The value of mobile commerce transactions conducted via mobile handsets and tablets is set to grow from $1.5 trillion this year to more than $3.2 trillion by 2017. According to a new report from Juniper Research, the mobile banking sector is leading the way, and will keep accounting for the lion’s share of transaction values…
According to a new research report by Berg Insight (PDF brochure is available from here), smartphones equipped with quad-core processors reached 40 million units worldwide in 2012. Total smartphone sales grew almost 47% to 690 million units in 2012, up from 470 million units in the previous year. High-end smartphones with unsubsidized retail prices above…
Last year, companies spent a total of $8.8 billion on mobile ads, half of which went to Google. In fact, the search giant took a third of all digital ad dollars spent globally, according to eMarketer. This year, Google will increase revenues faster than the overall market thanks to continued monetization of YouTube and growing…
In its latest research, GSMA is looking at the impact of embedded mobile technology on the automobile industry. According to them, this technology is poised to revolutionize the motoring experience, helping create a connected car market worth almost 40 billion EUR globally in 2018, up from 13 billion EUR in 2012. The research firm SBD…
CAGR of app users has been 251% over the last 5 years, outpacing the growth of the stationary internet users worldwide by an astonishing factor of 15! However, stationary internet user base is still more than two times bigger than mobile app user base, but its growth rate of 16% (CAGR) looks rather deplorable compared…
According to CCS Insight’s new market forecast, over 6.6 billion mobile phones will be in use by the end of 2017, two thirds of which will be smartphones, up from less than 25% in 2012. In Q1 2013, smartphone shipments exceeded those of non-smartphones for the first time ever. This year will end with 1.86…
In its latest report, Juniper Research is looking into prospects of mobile ticketing, suggesting that more than 950 million mobile phone users worldwide will use their handsets for mobile ticketing by 2018, up from 458 million this year. The growth is expected to be driven primarily within key transport verticals, as well as live entertainment…
Flexible touchscreens will go mainstream in the next couple of years, not just among gadget makers but also in “the world around you,” driving a nearly 250 times expansion in shipments from 2013 through 2020. According to IHS, global shipments of flexible displays will soar to 792 million units in 2020, up from 3.2 million…
Although we still wait to see the first Tizen-powered smartphone, ABI Research is predicting the bright future for the nascent platform. The research firm says that Tizen will emerge as a 5th largest mobile OS by the end of this year, after Android, iOS, Windows Phone and BlackBerry. Other platforms like Firefox OS, Ubuntu and…
In its latest report, Berg Insight is looking at in-store mobile wallet payments, forecasting their growth in Europe from less than 0.1 billion EUR in 2012 to 45 billion EUR in 2017 (CAGR of 275%). At that time, this will correspond to 1.6% of the credit and debit card payments. Meanwhile, in North America –…