iPhone sales grew 245%, RIM’s Blackberry sales grew 96% and HTC grew 58%. In the end of it, here is the market share of the different companies at the end of 2008 for the smartphone segment. Nokia : 44% RIM (Research in Motion) : 17% Apple : 8% HTC : 4% Sharp : 4% Others [...]

The African American population has had relatively lesser Internet penetration compared to the other ethnic groups in the US. However, the gap has been reducing. Here is the projected Internet penetration of African Americans till 2013: 2008 : 46.4% 2009 : 48.7% 2010 : 51% 2011 : 53.2% 2012 : 54.8% 2013 : 56.4%

A major downfall of a majority of the social networks today is that they are not globally popular. Facebook is now vying to be that global Social network. Here are a few interesting facts: Number of active users : 175 million Percent of Non-English users : 40% Percent of Non-US population : 70% Available number [...]

This has always been a million dollar question, right? A study of more than 10 billion ad inquiries by Adtech reveals the obvious – that banner blindness has indeed been creeping in. The average Banner CTR in the month of November-December since 2004 have been: 2004 : 0.33% 2005 : 0.23% 2006 : 0.22% 2007 [...]

Google is not just a search engine now. At least four of Google’s services including search are among the top ten most visited websites on the Internet. So here are the list of the top five most popular Google services: 1. Google search 2. Gmail 3. Youtube 4. Google Images Search 5. Google Maps

The broadband penetration in Argentina is booming and is expected to continue so for the next few years. Here is a projection of the broadband penetration in terms of the percent of households. 2008 : 31.4% 2009 : 42.2% 2010 : 51.5% 2011 : 56.9% 2012 : 59.7% 2013 : 60.9%

In a study by Nielson over the use of “member communities” which is a mix of both social networks as well as blogs, the following is the reach among the Internet population: Global : 67% Brazil : 80% Spain : 75% Italy : 73% Japan : 70% UK : 69% USA : 67% France : [...]

If you try to buy every app in the iPhone AppStore, it shall cost you $71,442.69. This is because there are over 25000 iPhone applications on store right now. Here are the top three categories of iPhone apps and the number of apps in that category: 1. Games : 5263 2. Entertainment : 3497 3. [...]

Retail ecommerce grew only by 6% in 2008, which is the slowest since the dot com crash in the early part of the decade. The most popular ecommerce categories during January, have been: Sports and Fitness Books and Magazines Home and Gardening Flowers, Greetings and Gifts Apparels and Accessories

Podcast has been slowly and steadily getting mainstream in the USA, and the number of podcast listeners as percentage of internet users has been growing. Here is the projection of podcast audience as percent of internet users from 2008 through 2013. 2008 : 9% 2009 : 11% 2010 : 13% 2011 : 14.5% 2012 : [...]