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U.S. Mobile Broadband Users To Surpass 140 Million By 2013
by Mark Walsh 16 minutes ago |
More than 140 million U.S. consumers will be paying for mobile broadband services in 2013, up from 46 million in 2008, according to a new study by Parks Associates. The research firm also predicts in its "Mobile Broadband: Beyond the Cell Phone" report that the number of smartphones sold in five years will more than triple to 60 million as multimedia devices go mainstream.
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'Net Will See Nothing But Flat CPMs, Analyst Also Says Ad Model Has Failed For Social Nets, Online Video
by Joe Mandese |
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While online ad spending is projected to continue expanding - albeit at a much more modest rate of growth - the contraction of the general economy is expected to put even greater downward pressure on the price of both online display and search advertising, according to a new 2009 outlook for the Internet industry released Monday by a top Wall Street researcher. That analyst, JP Morgan's Imran Khan, also predicted that advertising models would fail for two of the Web's hottest emerging platforms - online video and social media - and that it would take longer than expected for a substantive mobile advertising marketplace to emerge.
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