Motorola, which has long led U.S. mobile sales, could be the most in danger.
Private banks like to employ teams of polite, well-groomed, desperately upperly-mobile sales lackeys to service clients.
Consumers with an iPad made up the majority of mobile sales on Thanksgiving and Black Friday.
Another bit of information Jirafe looked at was mobile sales verses non-mobile sales.
This year, it includes gross revenue from mobile sales of Google Play content and consumer spending on the Play apps.
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Online and mobile sales exploded, but all the discounts and free shipping offers may well have bled away much of the profits.
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Mobile sales topped 16 percent, up from 9.8 percent in 2011.
Overall, mobile sales were up 96% compared to those in 2011 with the iPad taking the top spot as it drove more than 7% of online shopping.
But figure that most of the top acts on this list do as well proportionately across the globe as they do in the U.S. Also not included: revenue from sponsorship, merchandise sales and mobile sales.
Shares of Facebook surged on the heels of a better-than-expected third quarter and stronger mobile sales, while Netflix was flattened thanks to lower U.S. subscriber guidance and a negative turn for free cash flow.
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Add to the equation mobile sales devices and applications to manage individual accounts, and a direct sales force can be empowered to help customers choose items that suit their wants and needs, make references to past purchases, experience products first hand while visually browsing alternatives online, and make purchases in real time at the click of a button.
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Total smartphone sales in 2011 reached 472 million units and accounted for 31 percent of all mobile devices sales, up 58 percent from 2010.
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In its third-quarter results reported Tuesday, Facebook said ad sales jumped 36%, up from 28% growth in the second quarter, thanks partly to surging mobile ad sales.
Hickman figures that mobile phone sales worldwide are forecast to reach nearly 2 billion units in 2013.
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As it turned out, mobile phone sales would disappoint, as they did when the quarter was reported.
Smartphone sales were up 46.9% from a year ago, and accounted for 39.6% of overall mobile phone sales.
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Third quarter figures from Gartner are out, reporting worldwide mobile phone sales slowed again in Q3 2012.
We expect global mobile phones sales would rise from about 1.2 billion in 2009 to 1.8 billion in 2016.
Right now they account for nearly a quarter of all mobile market sales, up nearly 85% over a year ago.
Content drives mobile device sales, and content comes in two general categories: media (music, movies, tv episodes, books) and apps.
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In the fourth quarter of 2011, Nokia's mobile phone sales numbered 111.7 million units, an 8.7 percent decrease from last year.
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Nokia shares have risen sharply after the Finnish group said mobile phone sales in the fourth quarter exceeded its own expectations.
Mobile related sales rose 3.3% driven by tablets and postpaid wireless sales.
Last year, its annual mobile phone sales dropped 7.5%, according to Gartner and its share of the smartphone market declined 6.7 percentage points.
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With mobile phone sales up 30% last year, it is no surprise that there are a few of them on display at Cebit.
Worldwide mobile phone sales fell 3.1% in the third quarter from a year ago, market research firm Gartner reports, to almost 428 million units.
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This expected increase in mobile phones sales should bode well for RIM as well as its competitors Apple, Motorola and Nokia.
This is the world beyond AdWords, one where the principles of second place auctions are applied to display, video and mobile ad sales and purchases.
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