ComScore: Android grows larger than ever among US subscribers, Apple belittles RIM

Jun 06, 2011 No Comments

The latest ComScore results from the last quarter are in, and the US mobile device wars were hotter than ever as 13% more people reported owning a smartphone. Google conquered most users’ territory with Android climbing just over five percent (now totaling 36… Tweet This Post

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Almost Half Of All Online Orders Now Include Free Shipping

May 17, 2011 No Comments

Online retail spending reached $38 billion this quarter, up 12 percent from a $33.8 billion a year ago according to Comscore. This growth is due to an increase in the number of buyers (7%), transactions per buy (9%) and tempered by a decline in spending per transaction (4%)… Tweet This Post

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Comscore report finds widening Android lead in US smartphone market, largely at RIM’s expense

May 08, 2011 No Comments

The percentage shift in the chart above tells most of the story here. According to Comscore’s latest report, Android’s share of the US smartphone market grew an impressive six percent in the three-month period ending in March to land at 34… Tweet This Post

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comScore: Android Continues To Top RIM And Apple’s iOS For U.S. Smartphone Share

May 06, 2011 No Comments

comScore’s mobile subscriber stats are in for the month and Android continues to top U.S. smartphone share over Apple and RIM. Additionally, during the three month average period ending March 2011, Samsung was top handset manufacturer overall with 24… Tweet This Post

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comScore: Including iPads, iPods And Tablets, Apple’s iOS Outreaches Android By 59 Percent

Apr 19, 2011 No Comments

comScore has just released an interesting study comparing the reach of Apple’s iOS platform to Google’s Android operating system in the U.S. The analytics and data company is reported that Apple’s device with the iOS operating system, including iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches, have a combined platform reach of 37… Tweet This Post

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Take Out Slideshows And Other Forced Search, And Bing’s Market Share Isn’t Quite 30 Percent

Apr 13, 2011 No Comments

A couple days ago, the headlines blared that Bing now has 30 percent search market share in the U.S. Not so fast. Those numbers were based on Hitwise estimates. Today, comScore came out with its own qsearch estimates, which is what Wall Street analysts following Google report… Tweet This Post

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Google Increases Lead In Smartphone Market, But Verizon iPhone Wins February

Apr 02, 2011 No Comments

comScore’s February mobile report was released today, and it looks like good news for Google. Android increased its lead as the top mobile platform, growing 7 percentage points since November, and strengthening its top position with 33 percent market share… Tweet This Post

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comScore: 170 Million U.S. Internet Users Watched Online Video Last Month

Mar 17, 2011 No Comments

ComScore has just released data from its Video Metrix service, showing that 170 million Internet users in the United States watched online video content in February for an average of 13.6 hours per viewer… Tweet This Post

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Android Overtakes BlackBerry As the Top U.S. Smartphone Platform [REPORT]

Mar 08, 2011 No Comments

The trend was obvious for quite some time, and now it finally happened: Android is the most popular smartphone platform among U.S. subscribers.According to comScore’s data, Google’s Android rose from 23… Tweet This Post

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comScore: Android Passes iOS And RIM For U.S. Smartphone Subscriber Share

Mar 07, 2011 No Comments

comScore’s monthly smartphone data is in and it looks like for the first time Android OS has surpassed both Apple’s iOS and RIM in terms of U.S. smartphone subscriber share. The data, which measured smartphone usage from October 201 until January of 2011, showed that 65… Tweet This Post

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Online Retail Spending Reaches A Record $43.4B In Q4 2010; Up 11 Percent

Feb 04, 2011 No Comments

Online spending in the fourth quarter of 2010 reached record levels, according to comScore’s latest data on retail e-commerce. After a stronger than expected holiday shopping season, online retail spending in Q4 reached a record $43… Tweet This Post

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Visualized: the state of the smartphone wars

Jan 22, 2011 No Comments

As AT&T’s iPhone exclusivity reluctantly teeters on the brink of oblivion, it seems a good time to take one last look at the smartphone playground, the way it is before V-Day. The New York Times has handily done that job for us with the above chart, which simultaneously gives us a sense of scale when [...]

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