comScore Reports January 2010 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share
comScore released a January 2010 report on the U.S. mobile subscriber market share. The report reveals that in the 3 month average ending in January, 234 million Americans were mobile subscribers aged 13 and older, and Motorola ranked as the top original equipment manufacturer with 22.9% of U.S. mobile subscribers. In an average month during the November through January 2010 time period, mobile browsers were used by 28.6% of U.S. mobile subscribers (up 1.8 percentage points).
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
EBay generated $400M in business from iPhone app
Mobile Marketer
By Giselle Tsirulnik
EBay President/CEO John Donahoe said mobile is one of the key areas that the company is focusing on since devices will surely impact the way that consumers shop.
Mr. Donahoe said that the iPhone and BlackBerry devices are already changing consumers’ shopping habits and recommended that retailers change and evolve if they want to compete. He spoke at the Shop.org annual summit in Las Vegas.
“Mobile devices will play a role and the notion of mobility will have a huge impact on ecommerce,” Mr. Donahoe said.
In two years, about 40 percent of Internet access will happen from a mobile device. IPhones are only about 8 percent of the market, but they make up about 40 percent of Internet usage at present.
Since $400 million was generated in business since the eBay application’s launch, Mr. Donahoe said that devices like this one and others like it are going to impact his company.
Mr. Donahoe is president/CEO of eBay
Last week someone bought a $350,000 Lamborghini on the iPhone. Also, someone bought a $150,000 boat from their iPhone.
Consumers are bidding via mobile, browsing products and eBay’s mobile sales volume is growing in the double digits every month.
“I know this will be an important device for ecommerce,” Mr. Donahoe said.
Mrs. Freeman Evans is vice president and research director of Forrester
One of Mr. Donahoe’s colleagues came into his office and laid a book on his desk. To cover the title of the book, his colleague placed a pack of M&Ms on it. He snapped a picture with his iPhone and was able to locate various book stores that sell it and their prices for it.
Mr. Donahoe believes that innovation is driven by the small application developers and that they will impact how people will shop.
EBay is launching its first developer conference and will open its PayPal and eBay platforms for developers.
Mr. Donahoe talked about PayPal and said the payments side of ecommerce is what stifles the business.
“People are just not comfortable providing their credit card information over the Internet,” Mr. Donahoe said.
Mobile payments are the future.
EBay is right at the center of the technology and commerce worlds. 300-400 million people use eBay products worldwide.
The reason for eBay’s success?
“You have to adapt to compete and that is what we have done,” Mr. Donahoe said. “We adapted to the fact that consumers are embracing new technologies and we took advantage of that.”
Ecommerce is maturing as a market, but it is only about 5 percent of overall retail sales.
Mr. Donahoe forecasts it will eventually end up at 20-30 percent.
Traditionally in retail people talk about the online and offline, but the lines are blurring.
People are researching online, go in-store to buy and then once they are at a retail location, they use their mobile phones to comparison shop.
“There won’t be just one winner in ecommerce,” Mr. Donahoe said. “There will be many winners. When there is a lot of innovation, there are multiple winners.
“Online payments are a bit different, as it is a major friction point for online retail,” he said. “The online payments world will soon mirror the offline.
“It is all about convenience and speed and mobile payments and micro payments will help bring that 5 percent to 10 percent.”
After Mr. Donahoe’s keynote, Patti Freeman Evans, vice president and research director at Forrester Research interviewed the eBay executive.
She asked who he considers as his competition and he said instead of worrying about competition, eBay focuses on the customer.
Most likely this type of an approach is what got eBay 90 million unique visitors per month. A whopping 75 percent of that traffic is organic. The marketplace also buys about 20 million keywords from Google.
EBay is all about giving its merchants – big and small – access to traffic so that they can sell their merchandise.
“When we though about competition we did not want to focus on any competitor,” Mr. Donahoe said. “Instead we ruthlessly focus on customers. We need to think about how to win and get our sellers to win."
Senior Editor Giselle Tsirulnik covers ad networks, advertising, content, email, media, messaging, legal/privacy, search, social networks, television and video. Reach her at giselle@mobilemarketer.com.
By Giselle Tsirulnik
EBay President/CEO John Donahoe said mobile is one of the key areas that the company is focusing on since devices will surely impact the way that consumers shop.
Mr. Donahoe said that the iPhone and BlackBerry devices are already changing consumers’ shopping habits and recommended that retailers change and evolve if they want to compete. He spoke at the Shop.org annual summit in Las Vegas.
“Mobile devices will play a role and the notion of mobility will have a huge impact on ecommerce,” Mr. Donahoe said.
In two years, about 40 percent of Internet access will happen from a mobile device. IPhones are only about 8 percent of the market, but they make up about 40 percent of Internet usage at present.
Since $400 million was generated in business since the eBay application’s launch, Mr. Donahoe said that devices like this one and others like it are going to impact his company.
Mr. Donahoe is president/CEO of eBay
Last week someone bought a $350,000 Lamborghini on the iPhone. Also, someone bought a $150,000 boat from their iPhone.
Consumers are bidding via mobile, browsing products and eBay’s mobile sales volume is growing in the double digits every month.
“I know this will be an important device for ecommerce,” Mr. Donahoe said.
Mrs. Freeman Evans is vice president and research director of Forrester
One of Mr. Donahoe’s colleagues came into his office and laid a book on his desk. To cover the title of the book, his colleague placed a pack of M&Ms on it. He snapped a picture with his iPhone and was able to locate various book stores that sell it and their prices for it.
Mr. Donahoe believes that innovation is driven by the small application developers and that they will impact how people will shop.
EBay is launching its first developer conference and will open its PayPal and eBay platforms for developers.
Mr. Donahoe talked about PayPal and said the payments side of ecommerce is what stifles the business.
“People are just not comfortable providing their credit card information over the Internet,” Mr. Donahoe said.
Mobile payments are the future.
EBay is right at the center of the technology and commerce worlds. 300-400 million people use eBay products worldwide.
The reason for eBay’s success?
“You have to adapt to compete and that is what we have done,” Mr. Donahoe said. “We adapted to the fact that consumers are embracing new technologies and we took advantage of that.”
Ecommerce is maturing as a market, but it is only about 5 percent of overall retail sales.
Mr. Donahoe forecasts it will eventually end up at 20-30 percent.
Traditionally in retail people talk about the online and offline, but the lines are blurring.
People are researching online, go in-store to buy and then once they are at a retail location, they use their mobile phones to comparison shop.
“There won’t be just one winner in ecommerce,” Mr. Donahoe said. “There will be many winners. When there is a lot of innovation, there are multiple winners.
“Online payments are a bit different, as it is a major friction point for online retail,” he said. “The online payments world will soon mirror the offline.
“It is all about convenience and speed and mobile payments and micro payments will help bring that 5 percent to 10 percent.”
After Mr. Donahoe’s keynote, Patti Freeman Evans, vice president and research director at Forrester Research interviewed the eBay executive.
She asked who he considers as his competition and he said instead of worrying about competition, eBay focuses on the customer.
Most likely this type of an approach is what got eBay 90 million unique visitors per month. A whopping 75 percent of that traffic is organic. The marketplace also buys about 20 million keywords from Google.
EBay is all about giving its merchants – big and small – access to traffic so that they can sell their merchandise.
“When we though about competition we did not want to focus on any competitor,” Mr. Donahoe said. “Instead we ruthlessly focus on customers. We need to think about how to win and get our sellers to win."
Senior Editor Giselle Tsirulnik covers ad networks, advertising, content, email, media, messaging, legal/privacy, search, social networks, television and video. Reach her at giselle@mobilemarketer.com.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Smartphone Growth Expected to Continue
Smartphone shipments will reach 406.7 million by 2014. During 2008, in a first for the mobile industry, consumer demand for third-party applications started driving both handset sales and revenues for developers and OEMs. Apple’s success with the App Store has prompted other players to focus on devices that can enable third-party developers to easily bring applications and services to mobile phones.
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Monday, July 27, 2009
App stores are not the future, says Google
Financial Times
Google's Vice President of Engineering, Vic Gundotra, forecasts that consumers will prefer using mobile browsers to access news and entertainment, rather than popular applications. He cites economic reasons for the shift, explaining that Google will invest in the mobile browser instead of attempting to support all of the different application platforms available.
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Google's Vice President of Engineering, Vic Gundotra, forecasts that consumers will prefer using mobile browsers to access news and entertainment, rather than popular applications. He cites economic reasons for the shift, explaining that Google will invest in the mobile browser instead of attempting to support all of the different application platforms available.
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Friday, July 3, 2009
M-commerce is catching on: 5% of the top 500 e-retailers offer mobile sites
Internet Retailer
Mobile commerce, what some retailers call the fourth sales channel, is catching on. Today, 5% of the largest e-retailers offer m-commerce sites or iPhone-optimized m-commerce sites, according to new research from e-commerce and m-commerce consulting firm Acquity Group LLC.
“Within five years that figure will approach 50%,” predicts Adam Boysen, project manager at Acquity Group. “The trends all are pointing in that direction—people are increasingly on the move, smartphone sales are soaring, awareness of mobile web browsing is growing greatly. We’re primed for big growth in mobile retailing.”
Learn about ProVenueMobile from Tickets.com >
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Mobile commerce, what some retailers call the fourth sales channel, is catching on. Today, 5% of the largest e-retailers offer m-commerce sites or iPhone-optimized m-commerce sites, according to new research from e-commerce and m-commerce consulting firm Acquity Group LLC.
“Within five years that figure will approach 50%,” predicts Adam Boysen, project manager at Acquity Group. “The trends all are pointing in that direction—people are increasingly on the move, smartphone sales are soaring, awareness of mobile web browsing is growing greatly. We’re primed for big growth in mobile retailing.”
Learn about ProVenueMobile from Tickets.com >
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Touch-Screens Driving Smartphone Sales
A recent Gartner Research report found that smartphone unit sales - including iPhones, Blackberry models and the Google Android-based phone - climbed to more than 36.4 million units worldwide, a 12.7% increase from the same period last year. This massive growth in smart phone sales also indicates a huge rise in the number of people who can easily access the mobile Web from their phones.
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