Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! The U.S. Labor Department’s monthly employment report is one of the most-anticipated market-moving data points watched by investors and traders on Wall Street. But ahead of Friday’s February jobs data, CNBC reports that the Labor Department and other government agencies are concerned some traders are illegally accessing data [...]
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A new report at the Wall Street Journal says that the U.S. Department of Justice has threatened Apple and five major publishers with an antitrust lawsuit, alleging the publishers and Apple colluded to fix e-book prices.
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The notion that success is a simple matter of following routine and sticking to good habits isn’t exactly new. But in his just-released book, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, Charles Duhigg explains why. An investigative reporter at the New York Times who also has an MBA, [...]
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Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! As oil prices continue to surge, economists are locked in a full-on debate about how much they will affect the economy. Bulls argue that “this time is different,” saying that today’s consumers have handled oil above $100 a barrel so far, so they’ll be able continue to handle [...]
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Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! With the average price of gas nearing $4 a gallon and the unemployment rate still above 8%, the economy is certainly on most voters’ minds this election year. (See: U.S. Consumers Stronger Than Expected: Barry Ritholtz Isn’t Buying It) But recent economic data, particularly retail and auto sales, [...]
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inmobi just surveyed 20,000 users in 18 different markets to understand how much time they spend on different media and how much they are using mobile. The results in the infographic below give an interesting snapshot of how far mobile has penetrated into our lives.
The headline figure is that more time is now spent looking at mobile phones than at televisions. PCs are still out in front.
Beyond that we see that people are making an impact in just about all areas, but there is plenty of scope for the impact to increase. E.g. 11% of people have had an in-store purchase influenced by mobile. That is a lot of people, but equally there are 89% who have yet to be touched in this way.
This already significant level of activity coupled with the massive growth rates we keep hearing about for all things mobile (e.g. mcommerce growth of 91% 2010-2011) suggests to me that we will feel the force of mobile in a big big way this year.
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