Holiday shopping season already 500 percent better than last year for mobile payments

mobile technology wallet Holiday Shopping

As had been predicted, Thanksgiving was an extremely profitable day for retailers online, with reports from IBM showing that sales this year were 39 percent higher than they were on the same holiday in 2010, with a sharp increase in shopping using a mobile device. IBM wasn’t alone in these reports. PayPal and eBay have also reported comparable trends. For example, PayPal Mobile has reported that Thanksgiving 2011 saw an increase of 511 percent worldwide in mobile payments over last year on Thanksgiving. The most common time for American consumers…

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Just the stats ma’am…

Mobile Marketing Statistics 2011

Mobile statistics are showing helpful info for marketers on what, who and where mobile shopping is occurring. Here are some mobile shopping news updates that analyze age groups, grouped 13-17 together, 18-24 and 25-34. Some of the recent studies have shown that most mobile shoppers are rather young. 5% mobile shoppers are 13-17, 22% are 18-24 and 36% are 25-34 years old. 13.1 million of their consumers access general retail content by mobile phone. This makes out to be 3.2 million users have used apps after downloading them.  4.2 million users…

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