Total U.S. Retail Sales Top $4.5 Trillion in 2013
Total retail sales in the U.S. topped $4.53 trillion in 2013, and ecommerce accounted for a significant portion of that growth, up 16.9% in 2013 — or nearly $40 billion — of the more than $4.53 trillion, according to a new report from eMark...
Why App Install Ads Here To Stay
If the rate of growth now holds, app install ad spending in the U.S. will reach $2.6 billion to $4.3 billion in 2014 and upwards of $11 billion in 2017, based upon eMarketer projections of the mobile display market. Some experts estimate app install ad...
Growth Seen In Mobile, Location-based Ads
Researchers at BIA/Kelsey have increased their total mobile ad revenue projections to grow from $7.2 billion in 2013 to $30.3 billion in 2018 with the share from location-based campaigns to grow from 40% ($2.9 billion) in 2013 to 52% ($15.7 billion) in...
How Biggest News Orgs Tackle Mobile Page
Mobile Marketer analyzed the mobile Web homepages of five news publishers to look at how the publishers — most of which have more than 50 percent of traffic coming from mobile — are shifting their news cycle approaches to accommodate for th...
Google Moving Into The Hotel Business
Google is moving boldly to play a larger role in booking hotel rooms by adding more photos and reviews to its hotel listings, so they increasingly resemble those of travel search sites, some of Google’s biggest advertisers. The idea, The Wall Str...
The Race To Locate Twitter Users
“There is a veritable arms race” to locate Twitter users, Kalev Leetaru, Yahoo Fellow at Georgetown University, tells Elizabeth Dwoskin of The Wall Street Journal’s Digit. Researchers say fewer than 3% of Twitter users enable a &ldquo...
New Server Security Flaw Discovered
Researchers have discovered a serious flaw known as Heartbleed that affects the security software that runs on about two-thirds of the servers on the internet and could expose user data, including passwords. GigaOM explains what you need to know about ...