The number of wearables sold globally nearly tripled between 2011 and 2012, but the market is still tiny when compared to smartphones. Berg, however, predicts 64 million wearable device shipments in 2017. Read more »
Mobile payments powered roughly $500 million in sales in the U.S. last year, according to fresh data from Berg Insight. But Starbucks claims the lion’s share of those revenues, and there’s… Read more »
While other mobile wallet companies struggle to build up their customer and retail bases, Starbucks is rocking the still nascent in-store digital payments market. Read more »
Berg Insight believes mobile content companies are going to figure out how to monetize mobile traffic. Berg’s analysts predict that ads and marketing won’t just become a much bigger part of… Read more »
Family member locator apps will grow into a big business as tracking services gravitate from specialized devices to the smartphone, according to Berg Insight. Sixteen million people use a GPS or… Read more »