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Appreciate, the personal Android Market that’s incredibly easy on the eyes has just released a nifty little chart pertaining to OMGPOP’s (Now Zynga’s) application, Draw Something. By now, you’ve probably heard of the app but it looks like the Appreciate guys wanted to see if it was all hype and how much people are actually…
Okay, so Justin Bieber may not be the average teenager, but he is rocking an iPhone just like the majority of teens these days. Piper Jaffray’s survey of 5,600 teenagers in the United States finds that interest in the iPhone among the high school demographic continues to rise. 34 percent, or a hair over one-third,…
Mobile data isn’t free. You know that, we know that, and we thought everyone else knew that, but according to a recent survey that was done by comScore, we couldn’t have been more wrong. They say that 29% of iPhone users in the US connect to the internet using nothing but cellular data. That number…
Surprise, surprise … it turns out rich folks do not tweet or play games on their smartphones. Seriously, I mean, how could you if you’re too busy making all that gwop (cash, for the slang challenged), right? Well, according to a new study by the Luxury Institute, our wealthier brethren are less likely to play…
Apple and Samsung, though normally sworn enemies in the courtroom, are mighty forces when they combine powers — and by powers, I mean profit. It turns out the two smartphone vendors account for a whopping 95 percent of profit in the entire mobile industry. Canaccord Genuity proclaimed these results just recently in a new study.…
The battle over supremacy of sales and consumer mindshare in the smartphone market continues between Apple and Samsung. According to Canaccord Genuity’s Mike Walkley, Samsung has topped Apple in Q1 for the number one spot, thanks to a slew of handsets teaming up on the iPhone 4S. Walkley states that several models from Samsung have…
According to a new report by ABI Research, global handset shipments will increase 29% from 1.7 billion in 2012 to 2.2 billion in 2016. As you can imagine, most growth will come from smartphones sales, with this market becoming larger than the ultra-low cost, low-cost, and feature phone segments combined by 2016. To put it…
According to the new NPD In-Stat report, the growth of mobile processors in 2011 exceeded 43% and is forecast to grow at a 22% CAGR through 2016. Needless to say smartphones and tablets are leading the demand though other devices like e-readers, handheld game consoles, mobile PCs and portable media players are also helping the…
Google Play, formerly the Android Market, apparently isn’t pleasing developers in the same way the iOS App Store or even Amazon’s Appstore are. According to data from Flurry Analytics, Amazon generates nearly four times more revenue from in-app purchases than Google Play does. Flurry compared the iOS App Store, Amazon Appstore and Google Play by…
According to a new report by Juniper Research titled “Mobile Revenue Assurance & Fraud Management: Business Strategies & Forecasts 2012-2016,” mobile telecoms industry lost over $58 billion last year (more than 6% of global revenues) due to inadequate FM (Fraud Management) and RA (Revenue Assurance) processes. The report suggests that if these processes aren’t fixed,…