Fahad HJan 6, 20161 min readAmid Growth Doubts, Apple Touts App-Store Success: $20B In 2015, 4.5 Million JobsAccording to earlier reports, Apple had roughly 50 percent of all device activations over the holidays. Now a press release from Apple...
Fahad HDec 29, 20151 min readReport: Apple Had 50% Of All Device Activations Over 2015 Holiday SeasonFlurry has come out with their holiday mobile stats showing that Apple devices captures just about half of all device activations over...
Fahad HDec 17, 20151 min readNielsen: Top Apps Of 2015 Dominated By Facebook, Google & AppleNielsen has released a look at the top smartphone apps of 2015. Amazingly the top ten reflects the properties of just three companies:...
Fahad HDec 7, 20152 min readSmartphone Data: Android Regains Share, But Apple Maps Wins The iPhoneAccording to comScore’s latest data (October 2015), 78 percent of US mobile subscribers own smartphones. I suspect we’ll reach 80 percent...
Fahad HOct 27, 20152 min readApple Beats Expectations With $51.5 billion Quarter, 48 Million iPhones SoldApple has announced its fiscal Q4 earnings. Financial analysts had been expecting $51.04 billion in revenue and earnings per share (EPS)...
Fahad HSep 9, 20152 min readContent Blocking In iOS 9 Unlikely To Bring About Mobile “Admageddon”There’s a great deal of hand-wringing over iOS 9 and the prospect of “content [ad] blocking” in mobile. Some ad-industry execs are...
Fahad HSep 9, 20152 min readApple Event: iPhone 6s, iPad Pro, Apple TV And Ad Blocking Expected TodayLater this morning (at 10 a.m. Pacific) in San Francisco, Apple is expected to introduce its widely anticipated interim-generation...
Fahad HSep 4, 20152 min readFactual Announces Deals With Apple And Facebook For Improved Location DataMarketers and publishers are just starting to understand that as the cookie was to desktop advertising, location data is to mobile....
Fahad HAug 27, 20151 min readIDC: Smartphone Growth Slows, Apple Watch Now #2 Wearable After FitbitLukas Gojda / Shutterstock.com China’s stock market crash has inserted fear and doubt into the global economy over the past week. A...
Fahad HAug 8, 20152 min readMicrosoft Mobile Share Reaches Lowest Level Since comScore Tracking BeganWhile Android continues its march as the dominant global operating system, its market share in the US is essentially flat and roughly at...
Fahad HAug 7, 20152 min readReport: iPhone Drives Less Than A Third Of Android Traffic, Nearly 75 Percent Of RevenueLast week Opera released its State of Mobile Advertising report for Q2. Headlines on coverage tended to focus on the finding that “the...
Fahad HJul 21, 20154 min readApple Beats Expectations With $49.6B But iPhone Sales Disappoint AnalystsApple just announced its fiscal Q3 earnings. The company generally beat analyst expectations with $49.6 billion in revenue and $10.7...
Fahad HJul 1, 20151 min readMobile App Push Notifications Drive 90-Day Retention Rates By As Much As 180%For opted-in users, push notifications drove the average 90-day retention rate by 180 percent, with a 27.6 percent retention rate for...
Fahad HJul 1, 20152 min readAndroid Wins 65% Of US Market Share With Help From Galaxy S6 SalesKantar says sales of Samsung’s Galaxy S6 has helped drive Android’s success. “The first full month of sales of the Galaxy S6 allowed...
Fahad HJun 12, 20152 min readReport: Time With Apps Growing But Number Of Apps Used Is NotWhile time spent with apps has grown dramatically, the number of apps used by people on a monthly basis has not. That’s according to new...
Fahad HJun 9, 20156 min readiPhone-Friendly Website Strategies Every Brand Should Be Consideringhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/smjb/10624494845 Although the battle between Apple and Android for market share wages on, it’s a safe bet...
Fahad HJun 7, 20152 min readSnapchat Displaces Google+ App From ComScore Top 15 ChartOn Friday comScore released its latest monthly smartphone data for the US. Over the past quarter the iPhone is the only major device that...
Fahad HMay 29, 20152 min readAn Apple Pay Clone, Google’s Android Pay Will Accelerate The MarketGoogle Wallet failed; Android Pay will likely succeed. Like the initial versions of Android itself, Android Pay appears to be a near...
Fahad HMay 28, 20152 min readReport: Google Had $12 Billion In Mobile Search Revenue, 75 Percent From iOSYesterday the New York Times writer Farhad Manjoo exposed part of a Goldman Sachs report about Google in which the firm estimated that...
Fahad HMay 28, 20153 min readApple, Google And PayPal Jockey For Position In Mobile PaymentsAmong the anticipated announcements tomorrow at Google I/O is a revamped and reinvigorated payments strategy. Google is widely expected...
