Weekly Tech News for December 3, 2012
Market Analysis & Industry News IBM released a study indicating Twitter generated 0% of ecommerce referrals on Black Friday and Facebook contributed 0.68%. Social as a category only drove 0.31% Continue reading
Market Analysis & Industry News IBM released a study indicating Twitter generated 0% of ecommerce referrals on Black Friday and Facebook contributed 0.68%. Social as a category only drove 0.31% Continue reading
Market Analysis & Industry News NPD’s analysis shows tablet sales will exceed laptop sales this quarter by 50% with tablet sales reaching 21.5M units. link Deep learning, a set of new Continue reading
Market Analysis & Industry News Mopub released data indicating Android eCPMs have grown by 26% in the past quarter from $0.34 to $0.43. These rates are still about half of Continue reading
Market Analysis & Industry News 30% of Android devices are running version 4, marking a mild decrease in OS fragmentation. link Apple lost a patent lawsuit for technology used in its Continue reading
Market Analysis & Industry News 67% of time spent on tablets is gaming, compared to 39% on phones according to a study by Flurry. link Android reached 75% global market share Continue reading
Market Analysis & Industry News Apple captured 57% of tablet market share in Q3; Android won 41% according to Strategy Analytics. link Product Releases Isis, the NFC mobile payment consortium, launched Continue reading
Market Analysis & Industry News Forrester estimated the number of 7 inch tablets sold. By its estimates, the Kindle Fire has sold 7M units, the Nook 5M units and Google’s Continue reading
Market Analysis & Industry News The New York Times reports the FTC will sue Google for antitrust breach because of alleged anticompetitive practices in search results and ad pricing. link Forrester Continue reading
Market Analysis & Industry News In effort to change core advertising metrics, Facebook released an ad effectiveness study concluding that 99% percent of sales generated from online branding ad campaigns Continue reading
Market Analysis & Industry News According to data from comScore, Instagram recorded 22M MAU, 7.3M DAU and 257 minutes of usage per user in August, rivalling Twitter at 29M MAU, Continue reading