I’ve been discussing this with the iCrossing SEO team and there’s no doubt about it: mobile has transformed consumer shopping behaviour. According to research by Google and Nielsen, more than half of consumers who search for items on their mobile …
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Google’s Mark Howe added a new word to the vocabulary of online marketers at the iCrossing 2013 client summit. ‘Frazzing’, explained Howe – Managing Director of Agency Operations in North & Central Europe – is a term coined by psychologists …
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Every year we like to take a look at the state of mobile usage around the world, what platforms dominate in each country and how this has changed over time. The last 12 months have seen some interesting changes in …
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The arrival of the smartphone has re-written how we browse and interact with the internet. They have become so integrated with our day to day habits that many people feel lost without them. I’ve collated a few quick smart phone …
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New data released by IBM shows that mobile traffic to e-commerce sites now represents an average of 26.5% of all site traffic (up from 15.8% in 2011) and sales from a mobile device are now at 14.1% of total site traffic. Apple …
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It’s ironic that although Facebook has 600 million nondesktop users, mobile is still perceived as its Achilles’ Heel. During IPO preparations this past spring, the social giant admitted that Facebook lacked a model to monetise mobile. The $1 billion purchase …
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Today’s iPhone unveiling was a bit anticlimactic. The iPhone 5 is clearly chock-full of exciting features and improvements, but the blogosphere has been buzzing about all of them for months. I was hoping for a moment of surprise and delight (An iPad …
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Joining the browser battle, Yahoo has unveiled a new search tool called Axis that will offer users an improved way of searching the web on a desktop browser, smart phone or tablet. Yahoo Axis alters the browser to display search …
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Mobile platforms such as smartphones and tablets continue to grow in importance at a rapid pace. Below we’ve look at 10 statistics that show how quickly mobile is growing and why it’s important for you to have a solid mobile …
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As has become tradition in February we’ve taken a fresh look at the state of the mobile web and who are the main players with respects to Mobile Operating System (Mobile OS) market share. We looked at 15 countries from …
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