Retailer’s app must contain functionality that’s compelling enough to convince consumers to download it and use it in the store. For example, Home Depot solved a major customer pain point — difficulty finding items without the assistance of a store…
Right now, there are more than two-billion smartphone subscribers in the world, making up an increasingly large chunk of its near 5-billion mobile subscribers. We are carrying mobiles in a way that we treat them more like prosthetic limbs than gadgets.…
285 million fitness devices will be on human bodies by 2018, with a 40 percent CAGR. Smartwatch sales are predicted to grow from 1 million devices in 2013 to 92 million devices in 2018. It’s not a matter of if…
Nine in 10 US mother smartphone users surveyed said they used their phones at least daily to send texts, while 79% said they accessed social media via such a device once a day or more learn more at emarketer Mothers…
Smartphone and tablet gaming app revenues in Germany came in at €465 million ($620 million) in 2014, learn more in emarketer
Researchers surveyed multiscreen users—people ages 16 to 44 who owned or had access to a television and a smartphone and/or tablet—in 30 countries between November 2013 and March 2014. The sample was clearly designed to represent digitally literate younger adults…
Even with the assumption of “ad relevancy,” a majority (56 percent) of U.S. smartphone users say they don’t want to ever be targeted on their devices, at least according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) study. Only 10 percent were…
The numbers being forecast for the Internet of Things (IoT) are truly mind-boggling. The number of everyday and enterprise devices that will soon be connected to the Internet — from parking meters to home thermostats — will be huge. …
Smartphone penetration across the world is on a record rise, with sales surpassing desktop/laptop sales for the first time in history, according to new research on mobile phones by Google, which adds that more than 900 million mobile devices were…
