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Mobile Commerce News Weekly – Week of February 3, 2013

The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile commerce and marketing, mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking, mobile ads and mobile security that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information.

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As more consumers than ever shift over to smartphones and tablets, 2013 is shaping up to be the biggest year for mobile so far. Indeed, 17.4 million iOS and Android devices were activated on Christmas day alone. Read Original Content

Forrester Research analyst Denee Carrington predicts that over the next five years, U.S. consumers will spend money using mobile payments at an accelerating rate: $90 billion by the end of 2017, up from $12.8 billion last year. Read Original Content

Despite a record holiday quarter for iPad sales and a strong 2012 for the popular Apple tablet, the market-leading product saw its global market share dip in Q4 of last year. Read Original Content

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A new report from Research 2 Guidance says in 2012, most online stores made less than five percent of their revenue via a mobile app. Fewer than a fifth made a significant percentage of their revenue from mobile, only 19 percent of companies realized more than a quarter of their revenue via their mobile shopping apps. Read Original Content

By 2014, US adult digital coupon users will surpass 100 million. As emarketer Inc. said, growth will come in at 4.6 percent this year and will remain slow but steady through 2014. Read Original Content
Facebook on Wednesday posted a 40 percent fourth-quarter revenue jump to $1.59 billion and reported its strongest quarterly advertising growth for all of 2012, as it ramped up its mobile business and offered new tools to advertisers to better target consumers. Read Original Content

More than 80 percent of marketers expect their organization to increase focus on mobile marketing strategies this year, according to the 2013 Aquent/American Marketing Association survey. Read Original Content

Forrester forecasts US mobile payments will reach $90 billion in 2017, a 48 percent compound annual growth rate from the $12.8 billion spent in 2012. Read Original Content

It's a good time to be supplying retailers with mobile marketing solutions. According to UK-based analysts at Juniper Research, spending by retailers on mobile marketing will reach $55 billion by 2015, up from $28 billion this year. Read Original Content

U.S. Bank will be offering FlexPerks Visa cardholders in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Portland, Oregon, the option to try a new mobile payment product called U.S. Bank Go Mobile. Customers carrying an iPhone 4 or 4S will be shipped a special case from DeviceFidelity that will enable the phones to use NFC technologies to pay for purchases at the point of sale. Read Original Content

The mobile payment market in China looks to be turning into a force to be reckoned with. Market research firm Analysys International recently predicted that by 2015, mobile payments in the People’s Republic would top $114 billion. Read Original Content

A report from yStats.com reveals the number of mobile payment users is poised for a significant increase in the coming years, with total global user base to reach 400 million by 2016. Read Original Content

More than one billion mobile phone users will have made use of their mobile devices for banking purposes by the end of 2017, according to a new report from Juniper Research. Read Original Content

According to a new report from Gartner, revenue from mobile advertising is expected to hit $11.4 billion worldwide this year, up from $9.6 billion in 2012. And by 2016 worldwide mobile ad revenue is expected to reach $24.5 billion. Read Original Content

Mobile advertising prices rose dramatically in the fourth quarter of 2012, as the advertising season began. In fact, the metric for effective cost per thousand impressions was up 50 percent, new data suggests. Read Original Content

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Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and SMAC analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

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Kevin Benedict is an enterprise mobility analyst, mobile strategy consultant, writer, speaker and SAP Mentor Alumnus. Follow him on Twitter @krbenedict. He is a popular speaker around the world on the topic of enterprise mobility. He maintains a busy schedule writing and speaking at events in North America, Asia and Europe. He has over 22 years of experience working with enterprise software applications and has built a mobile enterprise software company from the ground up that experienced 100% year-over-year growth for 4 straight years.

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