New research conducted by IDC’s Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker found that in Q4 2012 Android & Apple (iOS) increased their dominance of the Global Smartphone Operating System Market, with a combined share of 91.1% compared to 75.9% combined in Q4 … Read More
For the first time in over five years, global PC shipments saw a year-on-year decline by Q4 2012, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly PC tracker. With 89.9 million shipments worldwide in Q4 2012, this meant a 6.4% decrease across all … Read More
Given 2012 was such an eventful and record-breaking year for the mobile and app market, it is difficult to know where to start summarising! Apple has stated that half of its 40 billion down loads to date came in 2012 … Read More
As the web becomes more complex, so does the role of the search marketer. The explosion of the mobile web has certainly introduced a range of new challenges and considerations for marketers, especially those working internationally. With mobile usage exceeding … Read More
There is no doubt that the mobile ecosystem is rapidly evolving; infrastructure, Wi-Fi connection availability and connection speeds are improving. There are now more mobile broadband accounts than fixed globally, and during a recent presentation at Bloomberg, San Fransisco, Mary Meeker … Read More
Yesterday, rumours spread quickly that Yandex Maps will be integrated into Apple’s own mapping service on iOS6 (Bloomberg, TechCrunch, SearchEngineLand). TechCrunch’s Ingrid Lunden gives a good description of how this integration will play out: “When users are looking for details … Read More
New statistics pop up every day about mobile and its growing share of overall web traffic. According to a nice infographic on this exact topic by Go-Globe, mobile has broken past 10% of total web traffic globally. This seems to … Read More
Mobile Internet usage has overtaken desktop for the first time in the world’s largest internet market. A report from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) confirms that there are now 538 million Chinese users accessing the web, with over … Read More
Global Android growth is quite mind-boggling. About a month ago Andy Rubin, the father of Android, stated that 900,000 Android devices were being activated every single day. 900,000 – take a minute to let that number sink in. Obviously, such … Read More
It’s no secret that mobile internet usage and ad spend are rapidly gaining on PCs, nor is the fact that digital overall is eating into traditional media’s share of the total ad market, with 2012 being the year where online … Read More
Russia’s most visited website and leading search engine, Yandex, announced yesterday in a press release that it has purchased a license for digital maps supplied by world-leading location content provider, NAVTEQ. In using NAVTEQ’s comprehensive map data, Yandex follows in … Read More
On Friday 2 September Baidu launched its new Android-based mobile OS called “Baidu Yi” (Yi meaning Simple) at the Baidu World event in Beijing. Because it is based on Google’s Android OS it has kept most of the same core … Read More
Kakao Talk, a Korean Mobile Messaging App, is to launch an aggressive international campaign to grow its subscriber base and compete with global giants Facebook and Twitter. The free messaging service, which currently has 9 million subscribers in South Korea, … Read More
ComScore has released The ComScore 2010 Europe Digital Year in Review which covers 18 European countries and gives an insight into digital trends in individual markets and the region as a whole. The complete report is available for downloaded but … Read More
