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Report shows iPad is driving American mobile commerce

04/18/201204/18/2012 Julie Campbell

iPad is the driving force behind almost every element of American mobile commerce As per a newly released report by RichRelevance…including browsing, shopping, and purchasing over other tablets.It also indicated that most of this mobile commerce activity in the country is coming from Texas. The study was entitled “2012 Q1 Shopping Insights Mobile Study” and it suggested a consistent increase in the share of revenue in the United States that belongs to mobile. Data for the report was gleaned from 4.4 billion sessions within the 12 month period ending in…

Android moves into iPad’s former territory with the help of Amazon’s Kindle Fire

01/30/2012 Sam Lambert

According to data from Flurry, a mobile analytics firm, Google can credit the sales of Amazon’s Kindle Fire with the significant growth of the Android operating system’s market share in 2011’s last quarter. The new Flurry data was based on measurements of app sessions on over 90 percent of devices running on Android. It indicated that between the fourth quarters of 2010 and 2011, Android gained an additional 10 percent of the tablet market share, so that it now sits at 39 percent, overall. The Kindle Fire tablet hit the…

InMobi data shows 771 percent growth of mobile and tablet impressions in 2011

01/18/2012 Stephanie Beck

InMobi, the largest independent mobile network worldwide, has released the results of the Mobile Market 2011 Review – a study it performs every year – which was conducted to analyze and identify trends over the last year, and provide insight into what 2012 will hold for the mobile marketplace. The annual review revealed a growth of 251 percent growth in worldwide impressions over mobile channels within the InMobi network. Furthermore, there was a rise of 488 percent in impressions worldwide originating from smartphones. That said, in the fastest growing InMobi…

iPad Google Catalog app released to kick start tablet commerce

08/21/201108/21/2011 L. Green

Google has announced the availability of the new Google Catalogs app, which is a free app that allows iPad shoppers to obtain a digital version of the glossy paper catalogs that consumers are accustomed to receiving in the mail. The app includes popular catalogs such as the Pottery Barn, Williams-Sonoma, Lands’ End, L.L. Bean, Crate and Barrel, and others. Though the app is currently only available to users of iPad devices, a version compatible with Android tablets will also soon be released. According to Abigail Holtz, the product manager for…

Research shows tablet users watch television while shopping online

06/28/201107/07/2011 Jorge Gonzalez

A study performed in Britain, Germany, and France by Shopzilla, almost 75 percent of mobile device users use dual screen technology in order to browse for products while they stream television programs. That said, according to the same study performed by the price comparison service, over half of all internet shoppers do so with their friends. Rachel Smith, who works for Shopzilla, said that while mobile commerce has been predicted for quite some time now, it has finally arrived. She added that “With the explosion of the tablet market we…