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Stats from International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker-FabriQate Android and iOS, the number one and number two ranked smartphone operating systems (OS) worldwide, combined for 92.3% of all smartphone shipments during the first quarter of 2013 (1Q13) as Windows Phone crept past BlackBerry for 3rd place. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, Android smartphone vendors and Apple shipped a total of 199.5 million units worldwide during 1Q13, ...

Facebook sees 751M mobile users in Q1 2013 with $375M or 30% of ad revenue coming from mobile-FabriQate On the heels of Facebook announcing its first quarter earnings of 2013, the social networking company has revealed that it has 751 million mobile active users, an increase of 54 percent year over year. It has also reported ad revenue in the first quarter of $1.25 billion with 30 percent coming from mobile, or $375 million.The 751 million mobile users is particularly important because it marks the second consecutive quarter ...

Personal-computer shipments plummeted in every region of the world in the first quarter as buyers opted for smartphones and tablet computers and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)’s newest operating system met with weak demand. Global PC unit shipments fell 14 percent in the first quarter — the worst such decline on record — to 76.3 million, a bigger drop than the 7.7 percent decline IDC had forecast, the market researcher said in ...

Circl a new startup helping businesses run online promotions using social media and email marketing. The platform allows the business to set up a promotion using Circl’s centralized dashboard. When the customer clicks the link, they’re prompted to enter their phone number which sends the offer or deal via text to their phone. Once in store, the customer clicks the link in the text at point-of-sale, which verifies that they’re ...

Hey, bosses who block employees from using social media at work: You’re doing it wrong. That’s one conclusion that can be drawn from new data on the workplace by Evolv. Hourly employees who regularly used up to four social networks — such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest or LinkedIn — made more sales or handled customer service calls faster than those who weren’t on any social networks. Those who use five social ...

Thank you for reading the intern diary over the last few weeks, I hope it has been as fun to read as it has been to write. The point of course, is to try and share the experience of interning at FabriQate and to offer a unique insight to the way we work. The intern’s point of view is like no-one elses; they have a fresh perspective on things and ...

  For us it’s been a great journey to see how consumer-tech has become a pivotal part of the business workflow. Apps for life and apps for business have become more intertwined. And so have our devices as we expect everything to be accessible off our smartphones (which are transforming into Superphones!) At FabriQate, we don’t just work with other companies to help them be more mobile from an enterprise perspective, we ...

Our world has become mobile. It’s done. Accept it. 77% of the world population (5.3 billion) uses a mobile phone as their most important device for communication. The last three years over 500,000 mobile apps have been developed across the many platforms, every day YouTube plays back 200 million videos on mobile devices. M-payments are now worth US$240 billion.

The tech industry has been hailed as a boon for growth and job creation. But upon closer inspection of multi-billion dollar valuations and scrappy startups on their way to profitability, you might notice that the revenues these companies command are wildly disproportionate to the number of people they employ. Facebook, which some have valued at $100 billion after filing for an IPO last week, employs a mere 3,000 people.

So here are some of the most interesting trends and graphs we came across in the later part of 2011 (therefore showing trends of 2011). They are from a variety of sources and we have tried to include the relevant credit at the bottom of each. We will be adding a couple more as this is a useful repository of mobile stats and trends in the industry (and globally). Enterprise Mobile Apps ...