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Mobile Year in Review 2012 Infographic

January 8th, 2013

Mobile Future

This year, mobile tech and wireless innovation stole the spotlight. Take a look back at some of the most remarkable moments in Mobile Future’s 2012 Mobile Year in Review infographic.

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Some highlights:

  • More than half of Americans now own smartphones.
  • At 31 million tweets, the American election was the most Tweeted event in history.
  • This Thanksgiving, Instagramers shared a record 10 million photos.
  • Apple sold more mobile devices this year than they’ve sold computers ever.
  • The U.S. leads the world in next-generation mobile.
  • NASA’s Mars Rover checked-in on Foursquare from Mars.
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Instagram surges past Twitter in mobile user race

October 1st, 2012

Computerworld

By Sharon Gaudin

Instagram has seen a huge spike in popularity among mobile device users over the past six months, pushing it past Twitter for the first time.

Instagram, which is just two years old, went from 886,000 daily mobile users in March to 4,589,000 in June and 7,302,000 in August, a nearly 8.5-fold increase, according to comScore, an online tracking and analytics firm. Twitter had 6,868,000 daily active mobile users in August, up 24% over the same six month period. comScore said.

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Age, Interests Dictate Social Networks Used

September 5th, 2012

eMarketer

Social network users overall skew young, but when looking at specific sites, differences emerge between age groups. In June 2012, Pingdom analyzed DoubleClick data and found that 26% of US social network users were between the ages of 25 and 34, with another 25% between the ages of 35 and 44. Users ages 18 to 24 made up 16% of all US social network users. This study looked at users of a variety of sites, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Tumblr, Reddit, StumbleUpon, deviantART and Goodreads.

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Facebook to Buy Instagram For $1 Billion

April 9th, 2012

Wall Street Journal 

Facebook Inc. said it is acquiring the popular photo-sharing app maker Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock in what is the social network’s biggest acquisition to date.

Facebook, which is in the process of going public in an offering that will raise as much as $10 billion, has stayed away from big acquisitions. The Menlo Park, Calif., company has traditionally purchased small start-ups for tens of millions of dollars, often discarding the technology and focusing on the human talent that comes with the deal.

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