Tag archive: growth

Eyes are on the Facebook IPO and how it may change the way investors view social media; but in the shadow of Facebook's big $5 billion IPO filing news is the 6-year old Twitter, moving past its awkward revenue stage and working its way around the globe. According to a new report from social media research company Semiocast, out of 383 million Twitter profiles created before this new year's beginning, 72% of all user profiles are… Read More

Touchscreen smartphones have been dominating mobile sales for a while now. With their rise we've begun to see a relatively fast uptick in the percentage of Web traffic coming from these devices. Back in July 2009, mobile phones made up only .89 percent of Web traffic, but two years later, that number has more than quintupled, now reaching more than 5 percent, according to NetMarketShare. In the United States, this trend is greater, with… Read More

Android is now outselling most major consumer product launches on a daily basis. Earlier this morning, Google's Andy Rubin, senior vice president of mobile, tweeted that 500,000 Android devices are now activated by Google each day and that rate is growing at 4.4 percent week over week. For reference, Google celebrated 400,000 activations per day at its Google I/O conference in May and Andy Rubin announced that the company hit 300,000… Read More

Yesterday, Apple announced its financial figures for the first three months of 2011 (which it reports as Q2 2011). The numbers are quite impressive, with strong growth across the board. One country that we didn't mention, however, was China. PC World reports that during the call, Apple's acting CEO Tim Cook said that iPhone sales in “Greater China” grew by nearly 250 percent from the same period (Jan. – March) last… Read More

HTC has come a long way in the past few years. High Tech Company has been building and selling smartphones roughly as long as Nokia and RIM, but its early and focused embrace of Android has helped it grow to  have a market value 30 times what it was five years ago, reports All Things D. Today, HTC's market cap (the price of its shares multiplied by the number of shares) is $33.9 billion, edging out Nokia's $32.8 billion and… Read More

Reddit.com has hit a new high: More than 1 billion pageviews per month, served to nearly 14 million unique visitors in January, according to their Google analytics report. “Never has a single punctuation mark brought us so much joy,” writes Reddit's Mike [raldi] in a post on the official Reddit blog that appeared on the site yesterday. “There are only about 100 sites on the entire Internet that get a billion pageviews in… Read More

The amount of data passed over the mobile Internet will increase 26-fold between 2010 and 2015, according to a study released today by Cisco Systems Inc. The dramatic increase, reports Cisco in its Visual Networking Index, will be due to a “projected surge” in the number of mobile Internet-enable devices, like tablets and smartphones, and a massive jump in mobile video consumption. These factors will bring the amount of data passed… Read More

Hide your blogs! There are more than 457 million people on the Internet as of the end of 2010, according to new figures released by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) and reported by Xinhua. That means 34 percent of Chinese citizens are now on the Net. China gained 73 million new users in the last year, or a 19 percent increase over 2009, when the country gained 86 million users, which was itself a 28 percent increase from… Read More

If you hate the expanded role of apps in smartphones, the next five years are gonna be brutal. A new study by MarketsandMarkets predicts that the global apps market will swell to about $25 billion in annual revenue by 2015, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 29.6 percent from now until 2014. The growth will mostly come from the high adoption rate of smartphones, proliferation of high-speed 4G services, and falling data costs in the… Read More

Or maybe sooner. The Next Web published a neat infographic that breaks down the world's 1.97 billion Internet users by language and found that while English is still the dominant language of the Internet at 27.3 percent (536.6 million), Chinese is catching up fast. It is already number two with 22.6 percent (444.9 million) and is growing at a pace much faster than English (what you're reading now!). In the last 10 years, Chinese grew… Read More

The original digital music store is still top dog 10 years later. iTunes still controls 66.2 percent of the digital market, according to an NPD report in WSJ. It's biggest rival, Amazon, has a 13.3 percent share. However, those close to the record labels say iTunes dominance can get much higher. On some days, the Apple music store reaches almost 90 percent of the market, with Amazon holding onto a scant 6-10 percent. Is this healthy?… Read More

People may think Mark Zuckerberg is weird, but nobody thinks he's stupid. ComScore has released data that shows just how monumental Facebook's growth has been in the past year. According to Mashable, unique visitors to the site hit 151.1 million in October 2010, up 55.2 percent from a year ago when it posted 97.4 visitors. A year ago, Facebook had only 300 million active users around the world, now it has more than 550 million. This… Read More

Despite a rocky start for Hulu Plus, CEO Jason Kilar is very happy where Hulu is headed. The flash video site is set to bring in $240 million in 2010, doubling its revenue from 2009. Reuters reports that Hulu had 30 million viewers last month and is the second most popular video site on the web; YouTube is still number one. Hulu's most popular content is broadcast television shows from NBC, ABC, and Fox, who each own a portion of the… Read More

According to research firm IDC, PC shipments were down 1.8 percent during the last quarter of 2008 and are expected to decline by more than 8 percent during the first half of 2008. The declines follow five years in which the sector almost always showed double-digit growth every year. However, IDC seems to detect what may be light at the end of the tunnel: the research firm expects small positive growth in PC shipments by the end of the… Read More

Analysis first Gartner has released its figures on worldwide PC shipments during the fourth quarter of 2008…and, as many expected, the news is not good. Worldwide, PC shipments during the fourth quarter of 2008 were up just 1.1 percent compared to the last quarter of 2007, marking the worst growth rate the industry has seen since 2002. But there were some bright spots: mini notebooks are hot, and Acer and Toshiba both posted… Read More