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Smartdevices continue to gain momentum and according to Tapjoy’s recent study, m-commerce is expected to globally explode by 300 percent. Read Original Content

U.S. social media ad revenues are expected to reach $9.2 billion in 2016, up from $4.6 billion in 2012, representing a compound annual growth rate of 19.2 percent, according to the fall update of the BIA/Kelsey’s U.S. Local Media Forecast. Read Original Content

Mobile payment volume through PayPal on Black Friday increased 193 percent compared to last year’s Black Friday, and customers shopping through the site increased 173 percent, according to research by the National Retail Federation. Read Original Content

Founded in 1979, DSI is a global provider of Enterprise Mobility Solutions®, helping companies worldwide increase productivity and profitability regardless of data source, device type, operating system or network connectivity.  DSI serves clients globally through its offices in Australia, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by DSI.

Deloitte predicts the UK will see a 17 percent hike in online retail sales this year, with £330 million of transactions made through smartphones and £500 million through tablet computers. Read Original Content

IAB/PricewaterhouseCoopers latest report reveals that growth in mobile advertising continues to skyrocket as it increased 190 percent YOY and 25 percent on the prior period to $22 million. Read Original Content


Research firm, ABI Research, predicted earlier this year that an estimated 80 million NFC-enabled smartphones would be shipped this year. Read Original Content

IBM recently reported that total online sales saw a surge of 20.7 percent in spending from last year. eBay-owned PayPal is reporting that Black Friday global mobile payments volume was up 193 percent from last year. Read Original Content

The latest statistics from Australia are indicating the country is on track for its mobile commerce to exceed $5 billion this year, as smartphones and tablets have become an important shopping tool for product discovery and research. Read Original Content

Disruptive mobile technologies are shaking up traditional payment processes and mobile e-commerce is expected to exceed $1 trillion in worldwide volume by 2017, a new study says. Read Original Content

U.K. marketers will increase spending by 14% to $8.8 billion for online and mobile campaigns this year, up to $10.7 billion in 2014, and $12.4 billion in 2016, according to an eMarketer digital advertising report released Monday. Read Original Content

Mobile ad network Adfonic says that Apple in Q3 accounted for 37 percent of all mobile ad impressions on its network, with Samsung the second-most popular at 24 percent. Read Original Content

Online advertising has continued to grow, achieving 10 percent year on year growth recording $813.25 million for the three months ending September 2012. According to IAB Australia. Read Original Content

Kony is the industry’s leading mobile and multichannel application platform provider. Kony develops a suite of customizable pre-built apps, the KonyOne™ Platform and a comprehensive mobile application management solution, which give companies the confidence and control to quickly build apps once and deploy everywhere -- across all mobile devices and operating systems. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Kony.

The iPad continues to drive more retail shopping than any other device with traffic reaching more than 7 percent versus 6.9 percent and 4.5 percent for iPhone and Android respectively, according to the IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark. Read Original Content

This year online shopping sales on Black Friday increased by 20.4 percent, and 24 percent of those online shoppers were using mobile devices.  Not surprisingly, Apple led the mobile shopping experience with a whopping 88.3 percent of the tablet shopping traffic and 9.3 percent of all mobile shopping. Read Original Content

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