And 58 percent of
mobile users say they expect their mobile website to load almost as fast to even faster than the experience they get on their desktop browser.
According to the Mobile Advertising Report from Nielsen Mobile, 58 million U.S.
mobile users said they were exposed to advertising over a 30 - day period.
Not exact matches
Facebook spokesman Andy Stone
said there are 69 million active Facebook
users every month, and 61 million of them are on
mobile devices.
Zuckerberg
said that the future of Facebook is
mobile, and, eventually, the company will have more
mobile users, more engagement from these
users, and more revenue per
user from
mobile.
Tencent Holdings Ltd (tcehy), China's biggest gaming and social media firm,
said it would limit play time for some young
users of Honor of Kings from Tuesday, amid claims that children were getting addicted to the popular
mobile game.
The
mobile phone's function could also be disrupted, it
said, forcing the
user to input their access codes and thereby allowing the British spy agency to intercept the information.
Marketing experts
said small businesses may increasingly turn to Pokémon Go — and redirect some of their marketing spend — as the
mobile game racks up a bigger
user base.
To create digital photography for the iPhone, Jobs drew on existing categories, namely «his experience with consumer electronic domains, his experience with
mobile wireless, and his experience with building really great
user interfaces for computer devices» to produce what, when all the parts were combined, added up to be a device that was so much larger than the sum of its parts, Sculley
says.
And LinkedIn knows this, which is why on Tuesday it
said that would roll out an entirely new inbox design for both
mobile and desktop
users.
«
Users are most likely to be attracted to simple applications and interfaces, so businesses that are able to entice consumers with new and exciting
mobile functionality will be the most successful,» he
said.
Chartbeat CEO Tony Haile, whose analytics firm has partnered with Google on AMP,
says that fixing the
mobile web in the way Google has proposed would also help the open web compete with proprietary apps, which for many
users have become the primary way they interact with content and media.
Facebook on Wednesday
said it's moving to untangle its often bewildering array of privacy options, consolidating choices in one place on
mobile devices, rather than sending
users to some 20 different screens.
«Google
says 61 percent of
users are unlikely to return to a
mobile site they had trouble accessing,» the article states.
Busque
says speeding up service is a natural evolution of the product as its
users book more of their jobs through
mobile devices.
They're also big
users of
mobile devices, with some 53 percent of buyers using a combination of desktops, smartphones, and tablets to make purchases, Jenkinson
says.
«It's really about trying to ask yourself what was it about your business or service that made it successful in the first place,» Fling
says, «and how you can use
mobile devices to create a more personalized experience for end
users.»
«If you want to target
mobile users directly, you should download it, dive in, learn how to use it,»
says Jason Keath, CEO of social media marketing and training company SocialFresh.
Countries like China — where Android devices are prevalent but Google Play is not supported — are more prone to have
mobile malware problems because
users have to use third - party stores to download apps, he
said.
Google has always
said that it feels responsive websites provide the best
user experience, and recently starting including a «
mobile - friendly» notation next to websites in
mobile search results that are indeed
mobile friendly.
At its Worldwide Developers Conference this week in San Francisco, Apple
said it will equip new iPhones and its other
mobile devices with a kill switch that allows
users go online and deactivate the devices if they are lost or stolen.
«One of the things that we thought through planning this is that the percentage of
mobile users would be definitely higher than it typically would be because a lot of people have the game on and would just bring [websites] up on their phone rather than jump onto a computer and look,» McElrath
says.
He also
said Facebook does not collect information from
users» verbal conversations through
mobile devices» microphones.
The company, which lets its 200 - million - plus
users post messages of up to 140 characters to their followers, is «interesting,» he
says, because it appears to have succeeded where Facebook initially failed: in
mobile advertising.
The carrier
says its unlimited plan allows
users to stream video at an «HD» resolution and that it includes up to 10 GB of LTE
mobile hotspot data before cutting that to 3G speeds.
Bob Quinn, AT&T's senior executive vice president,
said in a statement the service of allowing
mobile users to watch video without incurring data charges are «incredibly popular services that we hope regulators won't take away from the millions of people who enjoy them today.»
«We passed an important milestone this quarter in achieving higher monetization of
mobile users than non-
mobile users for the first time,» Chief Financial Officer Maggie Wu
said.
It's a path that includes the relatively low overhead of shooting a film entirely via a
mobile device and an app (the studio
said Sickhouse «s budget was similar to that of a typical indie film) while potentially tapping into various social networking platforms» massive built - in audiences of
users.
As Fortune noted in October, Glu
Mobile (the company that partnered with Swift on the new app)
said in statement, «The Swift Life provides a creative, inclusive and community - driven place for
users to better connect with each other... and Taylor.»
Users are submitting reviews from their
mobile phones every two seconds, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman
said.
«All
users have to do to pay a bill, purchase a good or service, or transfer money is reach in their pocket,»
says Rodrigo Teijeiro, CEO and Founder of RecargaPay, a
mobile payments platform.
Since the percentage of phone numbers that connect to
mobile phone — wielding young people and elderly landline
users is about equal, it's actually the youthful folks who may dominate a sample created by random digit dialing,
says Marc - David Seidel, an associate professor at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia.
We face a number of challenges to successfully monetizing our
mobile user traffic,» Alibaba
said in its F - 1.
It goes without
saying that having a functioning website that is optimized for
mobile phone
users is essential for all businesses.
It
said the Tehran prosecutor ordered that both
mobile and desktop versions be blocked in a way that would not allow
users to bypass the restrictions using a virtual private network (VPN).
Facebook, though, uses data pulled from a
users» profile and the
user's interactions on the platform, which is not the most accurate way to target local
mobile ads, Greenfield
said.
Recent studies
say that end -
users believe IT has more Big Brother tendencies than are actually possible, and that causes wariness to participate [in
mobile security efforts].»
As the world shifts to
mobile, Facebook's current
mobile advertising strategy, which includes showing sponsored stories in a
user's newsfeed on their device, is simply not enough to support the company's current valuation, Greenfield
said.
Mobile analytics company Amplitude
says that over 80 % of Internet
users can access a smartphone.
Snapchat
said in May it was adding an option for
users to chat with text, joining an increasingly crowded
mobile - messaging market that also attracted Facebook.
Google on Wednesday
said it would begin penalizing the search rankings of websites that use pop - up
mobile ads asking
users to install an app, the latest move by the company that could have a big impact on advertisers, publishers and other content creators.
I specifically went out there and
said, «I'm looking for a female,»»
says Rossiello, of BitPesa, a service that has operations across Africa, as well as in the U.K. and Europe, that allows
users to make business payments and buy and sell Bitcoins from their
mobile phones.
«This is a big dump about extremely sophisticated tools that can be used to target individual
user devices... I haven't yet come across the mass exploiting of
mobile devices,»
said Tarah Wheeler, senior director of engineering and principal security advocate for Symantec.
About 65 percent of its revenue derives from
mobile users, it
said.
Three - quarters of its monthly active
users are considered
mobile users, it
said in the filing.
Users click on or save ads delivered after check - ins more than 15 percent of the time on average, Rosenblatt
said — a rate that beats the less than 1 percent engagement on a typical
mobile ad.
Strengthening our business strategy along the same line, we want to build a platform that enables mobility and add great convenience to
users thereby creating a hyper - local service model through a fleet of
mobile vans plying across the geographies,» Mihir Mohan Mishra, founder and chief executive of Pitstop,
said.
Snap Inc.'s Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy saw their net worth fall more than 22 percent on Wednesday after the company
said revenue gains will be even smaller in the current quarter as
users of its
mobile photo - sharing app revolt over a redesign.
The company, which has investments in Indian e-commerce and
mobile wallet firm Paytm as well as e-tailer Snapdeal,
said mobile revenue contributed 78 % to its China retail revenue and that it now has 450 million monthly active
mobile users compared with 427 million at the end of June.
«In today's
mobile world, smartphone
users want to apply the latest technology to everything in their lives, including their retirement savings,»
said Tina Wilson, Leader of MassMutual's Investment Solutions Innovation.
The benefits for
mobile phone
users are numerous,
says Dykes — including farmers using
mobiles to find out the price of produce in other markets, meaning they do not have to travel long distances.