Android had 22% of the tablet market in Q4 2010

"The latest research published by market research company Strategy Analytics, has found that Android’s momentum is not limited to mobile devices but is also showing big gains in the tablet market.
According to the research during Q.4 2010, 22% of the 10 million tablet devices that where shipped ran on Android. Overall the market grew by 120% sequentially with Apple maintaining it’s leading position with 75% of global market share."

Source:  Data from Strategy Analytics, reported by MobiADNews, 27th February 2011 

"Mommy Blog" Dooce.com generates an estimated $30,000 - $50,000 per month in revenue

"She [Heather Armstrong] is one of the few bloggers who wield that kind of clout. Typically, there are 100,000 visitors daily to her site, Dooce.com, where she writes about her kids, her husband, her pets, her treatment for depression and her life as a liberal ex-Mormon living in Utah. As she points out, a sizable number also follow her on Twitter (in the year and a half since she threatened Maytag, she has added a half-million more). She is the only blogger on the latest Forbes list of the Most Influential Women in Media, coming in at No. 26, which is 25 slots behind Oprah, but just one slot behind Tina Brown. Her site brings in an estimated $30,000 to $50,000 a month or more — and that’s not even counting the revenue from her two books, healthy speaking fees and the contracts she signed to promote Verizon and appear on HGTV. She won’t confirm her income (“We’re a privately held company and don’t reveal our financials”). But the sales rep for Federated Media, the agency that sells ads for Dooce, calls Armstrong “one of our most successful bloggers,” then notes a few beats later in our conversation that “our most successful bloggers can gross $1 million.”"
Source:  New York Times, 23rd February 2011

Old Spice's 2010 marketing helped the brand become the best selling men's bodywash and deodorant in the US

"Old Spice brand manager James Moorhead agrees. "Old Spice is the number one male body wash and deodorant in both dollar and volume share," Moorhead said in an e-mail. "While we can't disclose specific sales data, we can tell you we are very happy with the positive business growth that has been a result of the campaign." "

Source:  Oregon Live, 17th July 2010

99% of internet access in Kenya is through mobile operators

"Highlights of Q4 2010:
There are 22 million mobile subscribers in Kenya
9.5% mobile subscriptions growth, which is increasing over the previous quarters
6.63 billion minutes of local calls were made on the mobile networks
740 million text messages were sent
Prepaid accounts for 99% of the total mobile subscriptions
The number of internet users was estimated at 8.69 million
The number of internet/data subscriptions is 3.2 million
Broadband subscriptions increased from 18,626 subscribers in the previous quarter to 84,726"
[...]
"A whopping 99% of the internet traffic in Kenya is done via mobile operators, meaning 3G, Edge or GPRS."

Source:  The latest Communications Commission of Kenya report, reported by White African, 18th February 2011

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What Google learned in 2010

Insights into search, purchase paths, and more



Source:  Google internal stats, published 1st February 2011

Apple took an estimated 83% of all app store revenues in 2010

"Though more online stores have been crowding the mobile app market, Apple remains by far the app-store leader, according to data out today from IHS, which recently acquired technology researcher iSuppli.
For 2010, Apple took in $1.78 billion in worldwide sales from its App Store, a leap of 132 percent from $769 million in 2009. And while it lost market share to some of its mobile rivals, Apple still captured 82.7 percent of the app store market last year, down from 92.8 percent the prior year."

Source:  Data from iSuppli, reported by CNET, 15th February, 2011

The three main telecoms operators in China added over 11m new mobile subscribers in January

"China's three main telecom operators have announced their subscriber totals for January 2011.
January saw the net addition of 11.03 mln new mobile subscribers. China Mobile (NYSE: CHL; 0941.HK) added 5.26 mln new mobile subscribers, pushing the operator's total mobile user base to 589.28 mln, of which a total of 22.63 mln subscribers used China Mobile's TD-SCDMA terminals during the month. China Mobile added 1.93 mln new TD-SCDMA subscribers during the month.
China Unicom (NYSE: CHU; 0762.HK; 600050.SH) added 0.83 new GSM subscribers, bringing its total GSM user base to 154.19 mln, and added 1.41 mln subscribers to its WCDMA 3G network, for a total of 15.47 mln WCDMA subscribers.
China Telecom (NYSE: CHA; 0728.HK) added 3.53 mln CDMA subs, taking its total to 94.05 mln, of which 13.64 mln were CDMA2000 EV-DO subscribers. China Telecom added 1.35 mln new CDMA2000 EV-DO subscribers during the month."

Source:  Marbridge Daily, 21st February 2011