Posts tagged Holiday Season
Android and iPhone users are the most active mobile shoppers
Jan 5th
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According to Compete’s Q3 2009 Smartphone Intelligence Survey of nearly 2,000 smartphone owners, 37% purchased something non-mobile with their handset in the past 6 months. While that’s still far from a majority, the study found that at least 68% of smartphone users conduct some mobile shopping activity, such as looking for reviews, [...]
Online holiday sales grew 5 percent despite weak economy
Dec 30th
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Online holiday spending rose 5 percent to $27 billion during the holiday season, according to market researcher comScore.
Sales were measured from Nov. 1 to Christmas Eve. Adjusted for the extra day of shopping this year compared to last year, sales were up 3.5 percent. From Black Friday through Christmas Eve, sales were up [...]
1.5 million items purchased via mobile this holiday season
Dec 29th
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Shoppers are doing more holiday gift-buying from their mobile phones, according to new numbers from eBay. The e-commerce giant says users purchased 1.5 million eBay items from either the eBay mobile website or the company’s iPhone application over the recent holiday season. That’s three times the amount sold during the same period last [...]
1.5 million items purchased via mobile this holiday
Dec 28th
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Shoppers are doing more holiday gift-buying from their mobile phones, according to new numbers from eBay. The e-commerce giant says users purchased 1.5 million eBay items from either the eBay mobile website or the company’s iPhone application over the recent holiday season. That’s three times the amount sold during the same period last [...]
How soon till mobile TV really gets going?
Dec 15th
Mobile TV has analysts excited. ABI Research estimates that mobile TV will have 43 million subscribers by 2013, and research firm TeleAnalytics estimates 50 million mobile TV users in North America by the same year. But so far mobile TV has not nearly lived up to the hype. Qualcomm’s FLO TV, the technology used behind [...]
