Study: mobile phone is a revenue channel for e-commerce
Monday, June 9th, 2008Mobile devices represent a major growth opportunity for the retail industry by providing a new purchasing channel for consumers, a Cisco study reveals. The company’s third annual e-commerce study indicates that mobile devices are quickly joining physical stores, websites and catalogs as an important retail channel. The rise of social networking and advanced mobile technologies [...]
Semiconductor assembly and test services revenue up 7,4%
Thursday, March 13th, 2008The worldwide market for semiconductor assembly and test services (SATS) grew for the sixth consecutive year in 2007, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. Worldwide SATS revenue was up 7.4 percent at $20.6 billion. For the sixth year in succession, the SATS market continued to outpace the overall semiconductor market by more than 50 [...]
M2M provides revenue generating oportunities for operators
Monday, February 11th, 2008Network revenue from machine-to-machine (M2M) communications is projected to grow at three times the rate of the mobile handset business, according to Harbor Research. With typical per-dollar revenue profit margins for cellular M2M services also considerably higher than the handset market, operators investing now can benefit from this growth opportunity.
Facebook financial figures revealed
Friday, February 1st, 2008Mark Zuckerberg told analysts, journalists and bloggers all about Facebook’s financial performance in 2007 and made predicitons for 2008. Yes, the revenue were arround 150 million dollars last year, and he projected 300-350 million for this year, with 200 million investments in datacenters and servers.
