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Mobile traffic gave Yelp a shot in the arm

11/08/201611/07/2016 L. Green

The company’s third quarter earnings revealed solid growth due to a large number of smartphone users. Yelp’s third quarter 2016 earnings report has been issued and shows a significant impact from mobile traffic. The company saw considerable growth in both its revenue and its active users. These areas of growth have been credited to the sizeable mobile user base and because customers are using those devices on an increasing basis while on the go. Yelp’s year over year revenue for the third quarter increased by almost 30 percent, in 2016.…

Almost half of the United States has lost or damaged mobile phones

03/17/201603/16/2016 Jesse Collins

Approximately 49 percent of the country’s population have broken one of these devices or has had one go missing. The results of a new study from Verizon and KRC Research have revealed that Americans have broken or lost a total of approximately 230,685,172 mobile phones, and that nearly 49 percent of the population of the country had experienced these events. This means that about 1 in every 2 Americans has either broken a cell phone or has lost one. The report on the research also identified many of the ways…

Mobile technology played an important role in holiday shopping

01/04/201601/03/2016 Jesse Collins

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Consumers turned to their smartphones more than ever, this year, to quickly find what they needed. While a growing number of consumers are still getting attached to the trend toward shopping online, mobile technology has been carving a growing portion of that market for itself as people used their devices to find the products and services they wanted this year. A new report has shown that consumers enjoyed using their smartphones to buy holiday presents. It doesn’t come as any shock to learn that consumers are relying on their mobile…

BlackBerry CEO promises more mobile phones after Priv

11/12/201511/11/2015 Jennifer Goula

John Chen has now said that he is never going to allow the company to entirely give up on hardware. According to CEO John Chen of BlackBerry, “I am never going to give up the phone business,” suggesting that the Priv will not be the last of the mobile phones that will carry the company’s name. Chen has stated that BlackBerry will continue to produce more smartphones as a part of its business. At the moment the market share maintained by BlackBerry in the United States is smaller than 1…

Using mobile phones behind the wheel is top UK peeve

09/01/201509/01/2015 Jesse Collins

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Among all of the frustrations that drivers face on the road, seeing other motorists with handsets tops the list. As much as not signaling a lane change and hogging lanes can cause a driver’s blood to boil, those two frustrations have dropped on the list among U.K. road users, and taking the first place has been the use of mobile phones while behind the wheel. Nearly one in every three U.K. drivers feels that seeing other drivers using a cell phone while driving angers them most. At the same time…