Tag: IDC

Mobile phone market grew 18.5% in 2010 to 1.39 billion devices

The worldwide mobile phone market grew 17.9% in the fourth quarter of 2010 (4Q10), a new quarterly high driven by smartphones. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) The IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, shows vendors shipped 401.4 million units in 4Q10 compared to 340.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2009. Vendors…

Google grabs majority of US mobile search revenue

Google will end 2010 with a 59% share of the $877 million US mobile advertising market, according to a new report from IDC. The US mobile-ad market, including search and display ads, has more than doubled since last year, when it reached $368 million in sales. IDC attributes the growth to companies devoting larger slices…

App builders favour Android

Developers may soon be voting with their feet and abandoning iOS if an IDC/Appcelerator survey of mobile app developers is to be believed. A September 2010 developer survey from IDC, sponsored by app builder Appcelerator finds that despite developers only having nine countries to reap profits from paid apps, and the significant updates to the…

Worldwide mobile phone shipments jumped by 14.5% in the second quarter of 2010

Worldwide mobile phone shipments jumped by 14.5% in the second quarter of 2010, driven by sales of smartphones and entry-level handsets. The worldwide mobile phone market continued to show signs of improvement during the second quarter of 2010, driven primarily by smartphone vendors and companies outside the top five leaders worldwide. According to IDC’s Worldwide…