mobile sales
Domino’s UK launches Windows Phone app, says 13% of orders are now mobile
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Popular worldwide pizza chain Domino’s has released a new smartphone app for Windows Phone users, adding to its wide portfolio of mobile applications including Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android platform and becoming its seventh mobile sales channel. As we have reported before, mobile has been a hugely successful market for...
Google’s Mobile Sales Head: US Smartphone Ownership Grew 7% Last Year — Plus, Predictions
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Jason Spero, Google’s head of mobile sales and strategy, will be taking the stage at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later today, where he’ll be revealing new research about smartphone growth and making some predictions about what we’ll be seeing in the mobile world over the next year. In...
Gartner: Apple’s iPhone Stole The Smartphone Show In Q4
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We’ve seen handset makers like HTC, LG and Nokia all warning of declines in smartphone sales. But if there is a slowdown affecting some, it’s not because people are not buying smartphones; it’s because they’re all buying iPhones. Figures out from Gartner today say that smartphone sales totalled 149 million...
Gartner: Phone Sales Declined 2 Percent In Q1 2012, Dragged Down By Slow Sales In Asia-Pacific
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Sign of a maturing marketing flattening out, a lack of compelling devices, or a contraction in the economy? Gartner today released figures that note that worldwide sales of mobile phones were actually down by two percent this quarter, to reach a total of 419.1 million units — the first time...
60% of US smartphone users are shopping on the go, showing a preference for mobile sites over apps
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As m-commerce continues to gain ground, a new study from NielsenWire gives a little insight into how exactly consumers are getting their mobile shopping done. Surveying 5,000 US mobile users, the study shows that retailers own websites are winning the popularity contest over their official apps. The study also shows that...
Android retains lead over iPhone as UK smartphone ferment goes on
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Share of handsets sold nudges 50% but analysts think it could hit a ceiling – while Nokia's Windows Phone devices start making inroadsAndroid is back in cruise control at the top of the UK's smartphone market, after the jump in sales of Apple's iPhone 4S dented its lead over Christmas.New...
Nokia’s 2011 by the numbers: $1.4bn operating loss, 77.3m smartphones and 339.8m mobiles shipped
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Today, Finnish mobile giant Nokia submitted its annual SEC financial report for 2011, detailing its yearly financials, risks, forward-looking statements — generally giving us an overview of the company’s health at the end of last year. Last year, Nokia took action to reverse its smartphone business, signing a deal with...
Despite the iPhone’s monumental Q4, Android still powered 50% of all smartphones sold
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Despite selling more than 35 million smartphones in the fourth quarter, sales of Android handsets more than doubled those of the iPhone, as the Android platform grew to hold 50% of the smartphone market, a new report from Gartner reveals. Apple and Samsung were the biggest contributors to the smartphone...
Android now accounts for half of all smartphones sold in Southeast Asia
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Android has propelled Samsung to the top of global smartphone, and overall mobile, sales and the operating system is flourishing in Southeast Asia, where it now accounts for half of all smartphone purchases. The diverse range of devices running the Google-owned platform saw its share of new smartphones sales in...
M-commerce much? Domino’s UK arm sees £1 million in mobile sales in a single week
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Domino’s adoption of mobile commerce has proved time and again that if a company offers the right mobile apps and services, it can be a hugely lucrative market. Smashing records over the past two years, the company today announced it took £1 million ($1.59 million) in sales via its mobile platforms...
The Avengers Sets New Mobile Ticket Record For Fandango
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The Avengers can add another record to its tally — it represents the most opening weekend tickets sold in Fandango history, and a new record for mobile ticket sales. Fandango didn’t share the exact number of sales, but it did say that The Avengers beat the previous record holder, The...
No turnaround in sight as Nokia loses another $1bn
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It may be the height of summer in Finland, but the view from Nokia chief Stephen Elop’s office window must look pretty dismal right now. Things just keep getting worse for the beleaguered handset maker, which has just announced that it lost $1 billion over the last three months. Announcing...
Galaxy S III dev edition sales page goes live, 'coming soon' for VZW freedom-lovers
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Even if you have $600 in your pocket and plenty of reasons to want a custom ROM on your Galaxy S III, you still can't quite get hold of Samsung and VZW's promised developer edition. That said, the tinkerer-friendly device has now appeared on Sammy's US mobile sales site,...
Nokia’s Lumia gambit: TNW’s take on the company’s biggest bet
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It’s game time for Nokia, as the firm has initiated its advertising campaign to launch the Lumia 900, its great hope for a massive return to glory in the United States, a critical mobile market. We’ve written much on the Lumia 900, a handset that we have reviewed favorably in our testing thus...
SMARTPHONE SALES: It's Now Apple And Samsung's Game To Lose--Everyone Else Is An Also-Ran
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Gartner has released its Q1 mobile sales stats. Here are the key points: Mobile handset sales actually fell 2% globally in Q1 (year over year), from 428 million units to 419 million units. This was the result of weakness in Asia. Smartphone sales continue to surge, growing 45% year over...
Google Releases A Playbook For “Winning With Mobile”
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As Google continues to push businesses to embrace mobile advertising, it’s trying to make that process a little less intimidating with a new publication titled “The Mobile Playbook: The Busy Executive’s Guide to Winning with Mobile.” The playbook is co-written by Jason Spero, Google’s head of mobile sales and strategy...
Elop pledges ‘urgency’ as Nokia takes another beating
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Will the gloom ever lift for Nokia? Not yet, at least — in fact, the storm clouds are looking distinctly ominous. In its latest quarterly results, the Finnish handset maker said things were “mixed” in the face of “greater than expected competitive challenges”, as it posted a loss of €1.3...
Google wants to mobilize your Web site – for free
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Google wants to bring more small websites to mobile phones, and to help nudge those sites along it’s willing to foot the bill for a year. Google, with the help of mobile Web optimization startup Duda Mobile, is offering for 12 months free hosting and customization of Web sites for mobile...
Slow And Low: Smartphone Sales Grew By Only 32% This Quarter; Overall Mobile Market Just 1%, Says StrategyAnalytics
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Now that all the big handset makers have put in their quarterly sales figures, Strategy Analytics has done the number crunching for an overall picture of what happened in the mobile market. The upshot: just as many predicted, mobile as a whole — facing wider economic slowdown and “shifting consumer tastes”...
Slow And Low: Smartphone Sales Grew By Only 32% This Quarter; Overall Mobile Market Just 1%, Says StrategyAnalytics
Best Buy tops expectations in Q1, online revenue and mobile sales up
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Best Buy on Tuesday reported results for the first quarter of 2012. The electronics retail giant posted better-than-expected earnings per share, despite declining store sales. Revenue came in at $11.6 billion, ahead of analysts’ consensus of $11.52 billion, and non-GAAP earnings came in at $0.72 per share, up 11%...
Order Takeout "Seamlessly" on iPad
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Seamless, the popular Web site for placing food takeout and delivery orders, has launched an iPad app after seeing mobile sales increase to more than 25 percent of all transactions, up from 1 percent just two years ago. The free app features slider tabs instead of drop-down menus for selecting...
Liveblogging Inside Social Apps: Acquiring Users on iOS and Android
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We’re at the San Francisco Design center, blogging Inside Network’s third annual Inside Social Apps conference. Kim-Mai Cutler hosts a panel on mobile marketing distribution featuring Fiksu CEO Micah Adler, Flurry’s VP Marketing Peter Farago, Google’s manager of global mobile sales and product strategy George Meredith and Tapjoy’s CEO Mihir...
MASSIVE: Google Just Created A Gigantic New Mobile Ad Marketplace (GOOG)
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Google has integrated AdMob, its mobile advertising service, into AdWords so that anyone buying web ads through AdWords can now also buy them on mobile devices served by AdMob, according to Jonathan Alferness, Google's director of product management/mobile ads. The move essentially turns the web and mobile ad markets into...
Etsy: 1 in 5 visits is from mobile device
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Six months after launching its iPhone app, Etsy says that nearly one in five visits to its site comes from a mobile device. In a blog post today, the company said that it has surpassed 1.5 million downloads of the app (two months ago, it reached its one millionth download)....
Another record for “The Hunger Games”: Mobile ticket sales
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Over this past weekend, “The Hunger Games” set the highest opening weekend for a non-sequel, raking in an estimated $155 million at the box office. That’s a ton of tickets and a chunk of them were sold online and on smartphones. Fandango, one of the first movie ticket sales sites,...
On track to process $6B in payments, Square hires new CFO
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Square, the mobile payment company founded by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, announced in a press release on Wednesday that it has hired a chief financial officer amid strong growth over the past six months. The company is now processing payments at a rate of more than $6 billion in payments...
BII REPORT: How Consumers Are Using Their Phones To Shop
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Mobile devices are playing an increasingly large role in commerce. Consumers use their phones for mobile commerce in several different ways. In a special report just out from BI Intelligence, we analyze how people use their phones to shop, and also take a look at the most popular mobile activities, the growth of...
Google's Jason Spero: Tablets will lead to more innovative and valuable ads
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For advertisers, tablets may beget some of the most creative and innovative digital ads, which could also be more valuable than comparable desktop ads, according to Google’s head of mobile sales and strategy Jason Spero. Speaking at our MobileBeat 2012 conference in San Francisco today, Spero said that tablets...
Apple leads mobile revenues, well ahead of Samsung
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Data released by UKís Juniper Research shows that although Samsung has retaken the smartphone sales lead from Apple, with 42.2 million sold against 35.1 million, Apple is easily leading in terms of revenue from mobile sales. It estimates that Appleís mobile revenues were $29.3 billion, when including the iPad. By...
Samsung touts cutting-edge marketing campaign for converting iPhone users to Galaxy S III [Photos]
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Samsung let New Yorkers experience the all-new Galaxy S III today at a release event in Manhattan and reiterated its primary goal to “win over” the competition’s user base (ahem, iPhone 4S users) with this latest Android offering. Chief Marketing Officer Tom Pendleton and Chief Product Officer Kevin Packingham were on stage...
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