Sales of smartphones to U.S. customers hit 9 million units from January through July 2008 compared to the same time period last year, representing an 84 percent increase.Overall handset sales and revenues dipped in the U.S., but smartphone revenue increased 71 percent hitting almost $4.7 billion. With the launch of Apple’s iPhone in July, Apple took the second spot in smartphone sales, behind RIM.
Google Sacrifices Clicks To Increase Advertiser ROI
Google investors are still at the table eating their losses after comScore’s report that paid click revenues were flat in the month of January. Impending recession was the chief suspect among speculators, but nobody finds any real support for that. More astute observers noticed that revenue flattened very soon after webmasters began reporting on decreases in AdSense earnings.
Local Ads To Increase Faster Than Online Ads
Local advertising will increase by 13 percent from 2007 to 2012,faster than online advertising as a whole, which will see 12 percent growth during the same period according to a JupiterResearch report, "US Online Local Advertising Forecast, 2007-2012."
10 Ways To Increase Pages Indexed
For a while now webmasters have fretted over why all of the pages of their website are not indexed. As usual there doesn’t seem to be any definite answer. But some things are definite, if not automatic, and some things seem like pretty darn good guesses.
PC Shipments Increase 16%
Global PC shipments are estimated to rise by 16 percent in the fourth quarter of 2007, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. After a slow second half of 2006, with growth hitting a low of 7 percent in the fourth quarter, growth has increased steadily in 2007 and the annual growth rate is expected to reach 14 percent up from 10 percent in 2006.
TV Growth To Increase More Than Online Video
Growth in television viewing will increase more than time spent watching online video through 2012 and attracting a large audience for Internet video could take even longer according Bain & Co.
Can Social Media Increase Online Ad Response?
Seventy-eight percent of marketers view social media marketing as a way to gain a competitive edge, but only 7.7 percent of online marketing spend goes towards social media according to Coremetrics survey "Face of the New Marketer."
Use Of Online Data Providers To Increase
Market researchers around the globe are expecting use of online data providers and online access panels to increase in the next 12 months, according to "The Online Research Barometer," a survey by Greenfield Online-Ciao Surveys.
Businesses Expect Ecommerce Sales To Increase
Close to 30 percent of small businesses in the U.S. are estimating that their ecommerce sales will increase over the next 12 to 24 months, according to the Small Business Research Board study out now.
Facebook Widgets Cause Dramatic Traffic Increase
In what there calling "The Facebook Effect," metrics firm Quantcast says widgets developed on the Facebook platform are driving substantial traffic spikes for the websites they’re connected to.