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Mobile research firm ABI Research has a higher forecast of 35 million.]»
By Siobhan O'Leary
The mobile research firm research2guidance reports that German mobile users downloaded around 900 million apps to their mobile telephones in 2010 — more than double the number of apps downloaded in 2009 (458 million) and nearly 150 million more than were forecasted in September.
Not exact matches
About 21 % of Canadians polled by
research firm GfK said they had made
mobile payments in the past six months, compared to 24 % of western Europeans, 33 % of Americans and 39 % of Latin Americans.
Meanwhile, a huge amount of video consumption has shifted from TV to the
mobile phone (over 70 % of video is now viewed on
mobile devices, according to
research firm eMarketer), and Legere believes that puts some of the pay - TV industry's $ 100 billion of annual revenue in play.
According to a report from telecommunications market
research firm IDC, for example, 75 % of workers in the United States will rely solely on
mobile communications, whether cellular or internet - enabled, by 2020.
«Just look when you go into a phone store,» says Iain Gillott, president at iGR, a market
research firm that focuses on the wireless and
mobile industry.
Android is the world's most popular
mobile operating system with more than 80 % market share, according to market
research firm IDC.
«There's a whole lot of upside and security advantages to
mobile devices,» says James Van Dyke, president of Javelin Strategy and
Research, a financial services resear
Research, a financial services
researchresearch firm.
Uber, which has been valued at more than $ 51 billion, is a comparative latecomer in China, where the number of
mobile taxi - hailing app users is forecast to triple to 45 million by 2015 from 2013, according to Chinese
research firm iResearch.
Mobile peer - to - peer payments is growing faster than expected, according to
research firm Forrester, and will reach $ 17 billion in transaction volume by 2019.
«It took them a long time, but Nintendo finally realized that the $ 30 billion
mobile gaming market in 2015 is too big to ignore,» said Peter Warman, analyst at video game
research firm Newzoo.
«ByLock is an insecure messaging application that is not widely used today,» Tim Strazzere, director of
mobile research at U.S. - Israeli security
firm SentinelOne told Reuters.
According to the
research firm, there are a number of obstacles facing Apple Pay, including the fact that iPhone 6 penetration is still small among
mobile users.
That is less than the annual volume of transactions in Kenya, a
mobile payments pioneer, according to
research firm Timetric.
In its most recent report on the U.S.
mobile phone industry, market
research firm ComScore Inc. found that Google Inc.'s Android platform held 51.6 % of smartphone market share, compared with 32.4 % for Apple.
Downloads over the past few weeks have been higher than average, according to
research firm Mobile Action.
Using PRIME's proprietary social media analytics methods and technology, the
research firm identified 13 million relevant social media posts from March 2013 to December 2013 on the subject of
mobile payment innovation in the context of MasterCard and its industry peers; sentiment analysis shows the majority of posts were driven by news - story sharing 92 % positive / factual, only 8 % negative tone overall which is a reflection of the original content as it appeared in traditional news outlets.
The market for
mobile ads is set to grow nearly 85 % this year, one of the fastest - growing areas of digital advertising, estimates
research firm eMarketer.
Recently, a market
research firm has estimated that
mobile ad revenue could reach to $ 32.9 billion over the next four years.
The retail industry is the leader in paid online and
mobile media spending, according to new data from market
research firm eMarketer.
According to media
research firm ComScore, the average
Mobile Taobao user spends more than 25 minutes a day on the app, compared with Amazon
Mobile's 9 minutes.
Harry Wang, director of health and
mobile product
research at Parks Associates, a Dallas - based market
research firm, said the study is one of the largest randomized trials of its kind and appears to be well - designed.
Juniper
Research agrees: A January report by the
firm predicts the market for
mobile dating and chatrooms will grow to nearly $ 1.4 billion by 2013.
Of course, organizations first need to fix their authorization and other security measures (
Research firm Gartner predicts that by 2021, 27 % of corporate data traffic will bypass perimeter security, and flow directly from
mobile and portable devices to the cloud).
The
research firms says that increased WiFi availability and
mobile broadband adoption in the country are behind the increasing share of internet traffic flowing to smartphones and tablets.
A recent study by Skyhook and
research firm Yankee Group has put fourth new information on piracy and
mobile operating systems.
Market
research firm The NPD Group on Monday published the latest data surrounding sales of supersized smartphones in the U.S. Using its «
Mobile Phone Track,» which tracks smartphone sales in the U.S., NPD >>
Giving Apple still another accolade, DisplaySearch said Apple was the top - selling
mobile PC shipper during the fourth quarter of 2010, in a Feb. 16 report in which it - like
research firm Canalys - decided the time was right to begin folding figures for tablets into
mobile PC tallies.
Analyst Tom Mainelli at
research firm IDC said Apple has discovered that larger tablets are not universally popular, noting that users in Japan «with a more
mobile culture» may prefer a smaller format, which also may be better for education in primary schools.
Google's Android
mobile operating system surged past Apple's iPhone and Canada's Blackberry in the third quarter to become the second biggest smartphone platform after Nokia's Symbian,
research firm Gartner said Wednesday.
US sales of smartphones running Google's Android
mobile operating system surged past those of Apple for the first time in the first quarter of the year, industry
research firm NPD said Monday.
Sales of Apple iPads significantly impacted
mobile PC shipment figures during the second quarter of 2010, DisplaySearch, an arm of the
research firm NPD Group, reported Sept. 30.
Research firm, Technology Strategy International forecasts that by 2016, almost 80 percent of the smartphones in Canada will be NFC - enabled, while total
mobile payments will reach $ 14.2 billion according to IE Market
Research.
In other words, aesthetics can't drive everything, said Ramon Llamas,
mobile analyst at
research firm International Data Corporation.
India and other emerging markets are on pace to show the strongest growth (even though worldwide combined shipments of devices (PCs, tablets, and
mobile phones) are expected to be 2.4 billion units in 2015, down 1 percent from 2014 and the previous quarter's forecast of 1.5 percent growth, said market
research firm Gartner.
In fact, recent
research conducted by Connexity, a Los Angeles - based multi-channel marketing
firm, shows 56 percent of online searches for retail businesses begin on a
mobile device.
Rewards dangled as a carrot to use to
mobile payments In the battle to become the default card, the real winners will be customers, as issuers turn to the tried - and - true tactic of rewards offers, notes Lars Holmquist, senior vice president for the Americas at Collinson Group, a customer behavior
research and consulting
firm.
- Nintendo ultimately could match its heyday in 2008, when Ebitda (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization) hit $ 5.6 billion - it could get 25 % of the total smartphone - game market, which
research firm IDC puts at $ 40.5 billion by 2018 - at a reasonable 50 % margin, that's $ 5.1 billion worth of profit for Nintendo - «The casual - gaming market moved to the
mobile platform, but Nintendo did not.
According to the independent market
research firm Niko Partners, a full 38 % of Chinese
mobile gamers will spend some money inside a game in 2014.
According to China market
research firm iResearch,
mobile gaming became the largest market segment in the game industry in 2016.
NativeX, a marketing
firm that focuses on
mobile technology, did
research on how long
mobile gamers use their phones to play
mobile game applications.
According to video game
research firm Newzoo, the migration from computers and consoles to tablets and smartphones sent worldwide
mobile game revenues surging more than 40 percent in 2014 versus the year prior, hitting $ 25 billion.
Pokémon Go has been labelled the most successful
mobile game in week 1 by many
research firms due to the fact that it is the fastest game to reach number 1 on the iOS grossing chart and because the game has more daily active users on Android than Twitter and other popular social apps.
«There's sort of a third generation of
mobile game developers emerging, and it's really about relationships at that point,» said Joost Van Dreunen, founder and CEO of digital gaming analysis
firm SuperData
Research.
The game, the first - ever
mobile title based on Fallout, made $ 5.1 million in its first two weeks from the sale of virtual lunchboxes, according to a
research firm.
Epic's free - to - play battle royale game Fortnite brought in $ 223 million across
mobile, PC and console in March, according to
research firm SuperData.
We called this out long ago when our own
research showed that nearly one - third of traffic to our own clients» law
firm websites was coming from
mobile devices.
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