“Mobile Internet usage is on the rise. Apple’s share of the mobile smartphone market is only going to increase. AT&T’s mobile data traffic has increased by 4,932% over the last three years. There will be over 1 billion “heavy mobile data users” by 2013. These are just some of the stats that were shared with the audience at the Web 2.0 Summit today in San Francisco.”
“PayPal is opening up a platform to developers on November 3, to spur innovation in outside payment apps that can connect with anything as far out as physical advertisements or home appliances.”
“The data set is provided at two levels of segmentation. In the first level, mobile communications services are segmented into three categories: United States Private/Public Sector, Self-Employed and Military, and Canada. In the second level, the United States Private/Public sector data is further segmented by vertical, occupation and size of business.”
“This study forecasts that new handheld platforms will transform the Augmented Reality ecosystem, with revenue associated with Augmented Reality growing from less than $10 million currently to more than $300 million in 2014. Mobile advertising revenue will begin slowly but will represent a large portion of the revenue growth in the 2013-2014 timeframe, with advertisers placing tags onto the navigation information displayed.”