Android Wins 65% Of US Market Share With Help From Galaxy S6 Sales
Kantar says sales of Samsung’s Galaxy S6 has helped drive Android’s success. “The first full month of sales of the Galaxy S6 allowed...
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Google Play Gaining Ground Against Apple, As Android App Downloads Outnumber iOS 2-to-1
According to Evans, a partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Apple and Google both offered numbers...
Report: Time With Apps Growing But Number Of Apps Used Is Not
While 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...
Snapchat Displaces Google+ App From ComScore Top 15 Chart
On Friday comScore released its latest monthly smartphone data for the US. Over the past quarter the iPhone is the only major device that...
Survey: Few National Retailers Take Apple Pay Or Intend To This Year
Most retailers are notoriously conservative, even lethargic when it comes to adopting new technologies. There’s also a herd mentality in...
Another “Market Abuse” Android Complaint Filed Against Google In Europe
Disconnect makes privacy and security apps. The company says that Google removed its new app from Google Play because it allegedly...
An Apple Pay Clone, Google’s Android Pay Will Accelerate The Market
Google Wallet failed; Android Pay will likely succeed. Like the initial versions of Android itself, Android Pay appears to be a near...
Google Photos, Android Pay, App Campaigns, Offline Maps & “Now on Tap” Some Of Many
Today Google announced a wide-range of new products and features, including a new Google Photos service to help people store and organize...
Apple, Google And PayPal Jockey For Position In Mobile Payments
Among the anticipated announcements tomorrow at Google I/O is a revamped and reinvigorated payments strategy. Google is widely expected...
Smartphone Share Stabilizes In US, Competitive Only At Margins
The US smartphone market seems to have reached a kind of homeostatic equilibrium. According to many months of comScore data, Android...
Report: Phablets Grabbed More Than 20 Percent Of Q1 Smartphone Sales In The US
Last week Flurry released data showing that “phablets” now constitute 20 percent of all active smartphones globally. Echoing this, Kantar...
Google Says Mobile Search Volumes Pass Desktop, More Effective For App Discovery
In a blog post today Google reported that “more Google searches take place on mobile devices than on computers in 10 countries including...
Google Fi, Google’s New Cellphone / Wireless Service, Has Launched
Google has now launched its anticipated own cellphone service called Fi. Details are up here on the Google Blog, as well as a new Fi...
Nokia Coming Back As Android Smartphone Brand In 2016
Stephen Elop, then Nokia CEO, famously said that the Android OS didn’t offer the company a sufficient opportunity for differentiation in...
EU Files Antitrust “Statement Of Objections” Against Google On Shopping Search, Also Tar
As expected, the European Commission has filed a “Statement of Objections” against Google. These are formal antitrust charges against the...
Report: Smartphones Reach Nearly 77 Percent Penetration In US
On Friday comScore released its latest US smartphone market-share data (February 2015). It asserts that 76.6 percent of the US mobile...
Swiss Watchmaker Joins Smartwatch Fray As More Consumers Express Interest
Recognizing a potentially serious long-term threat from smartwatches and the Apple Watch in particular, luxury Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer...
Apple Watch: Even With 70 Percent “Not Interested” Apple Could Still Sell Millions
Now that details about the functions and pricing of the Apple Watch are public, industry observers are speculating about the sales...
Google Takes On Apple Store With “The Google Store,” Starring The New Chromebook Pixel
Google has offered its own devices like Nexus phones and Chromebooks through Google Play for some time. But now the company has launched...
After Years Of Flirting With Retail Stores, Google Opens “The Google Shop”
A more ambitious Google retail strategy may be in the works. In the past, Google has opened isolated holiday “pop-up stores” and today...
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