How Mobile Drives Growth of American Travel Revenues

According to eMarketer’s latest forecast on digital and mobile travel. This year, digital travel sales in the U.S. will reach $189.62 billion, 40 percent of which will come from mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

Source: eMarketer

Study Finds U.S. Merchants Increase Digital Sales in 2017

The 2017 American Express Digital Payments Survey shows that consumers are increasingly relying on online and mobile technology to make purchases, opening new opportunities for merchants to reach more customers and grow revenue.

Source: American Express

Enterprise Wearable Device Market Reaches $10.5B in 2017

Wearable technologies are entering the workplace. ABI Research forecasts enterprise wearable device revenue — such as smartwatches, smart glasses, and wearable scanners — will exceed $55 billion in 2022, which is growing from an estimated $10.5 billion in 2017.

Source: Digital Lifescapes

How Blockchain will Transform Banking and Online Payments

Two billion people worldwide lack access to a financial transaction account. Studies have shown that having a basic bank account automatically raises standards of living: people save more, they can borrow for education, start a business or buy property.

Source: World Economic Forum

Enterprise Mobile App Demand is Evolving in 2017

Many enterprises across the globe are not creating mobile applications. According to the findings from a recent Gartner survey, 39 percent of respondents said they had not built, customized or virtualized any mobile apps in the previous 12 months.

Source: Digital Lifescapes

Gigabit LTE Network Deployments Advance in 2017

The mobile internet continues to drive mobile network infrastructure investment. 4G LTE will grow from approximately 30 percent of global mobile subscriptions in 2017 to 50 percent in 2024, according to the latest worldwide study by ABI Research.

Source: Digital Lifescapes

Chinese Smartphone Vendors Gain New Market Share

Global sales of smartphones to end users totaled 380 million units in the first quarter of 2017 — that’s a 9.1 percent increase over the first quarter of 2016, according to the latest market study by Gartner.

Source: Digital Lifescapes