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Almost half of mobile phones in Western Europe (United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany and Italy) are Smartphones. 44% of mobile phones in Western Europe were smartphones in December 2011, against 31% in December 2010, which [...] |
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Cell phones are owned by a majority of people in most major countries in the world. 85% of people in the US report owning a cell phone, against 96% in Spain, 89% in Britain, [...] |
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Google+ adoption continues to increase among top 100 brands in the world. 77% of the top 100 global brands now have a Google+ page. Google+ is closing the gap to Facebook. This figure compares to [...] |
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Internet users are watching increasing amounts of online videos. On october 201 billion videos were watched online globally by 1.3 billion people aged 15 and older. Google leads as the top video platform on the [...] |
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Webmail continues to be the dominant platform for email use. 44% of emails are read on webmail platforms such as Gmail and Yahoo Mail. Desktop is still big. Desktop comes after webmail with a [...] |
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Linkedin is the first professional network on the internet. As of November 3, 2011, Linkedin has 135 million members in over 200 countries and territories. Most of Linkedin’s members are outside the United States. [...] |
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Internet advertising is growing. $72.8 billion were spent globally in online advertising in 2011, against $63.9 billion in 2010, which represents a 14% growth year-on-year. Paid search is the biggest segment. 49% of online [...] |
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The number of downloads in the Apple App Store and the Android Market has quadrupled over the last 12 months. 2.6 billion mobile applications were downloaded worldwide in October 2011 against 600 billion in [...] |
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Linkedin users tend to be older and more educated than Facebook and Twitter users. Only 30% of Linkedin users are under 34, while 38% are aged 35-49 and 32% are over 50 years old. [...] |
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Google+ continues to decline as a referral source. In November 2011, Google+ generated 0.00064% of all of the web’s referral traffic. In comparison, it generated 0.00354% of web referrals in July 2011, right after [...] |