Software and Services Drive New IT Spending at SMBs

Digital transformation projects have fueled the IT budgets of all business types. Total IT spending by small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) will approach $568 billion in 2017, and exceed $676 billion by 2021, according to the latest worldwide market study by International Data Corporation (IDC).

Source: Digital Lifescapes

Disruption in the Worldwide Mobile Roaming Sector

‘Roam Like at Home’ enables mobile users to utilize their monthly voice, data, and messaging allowance while roaming on other service provider networks, without incurring additional charges.

Source: Digital Lifescapes

Why Peer-to-Peer Payment Transactions will Double by 2021

The transaction value of U.S. mobile peer-to-peer (P2P) payments will grow 55% this year to $120.38 billion, and that will double by 2021. In 2017, 63.5 million U.S. adults will use a P2P payment app at least once a month.

Source: eMarketer

The Four Waves of Augmented Reality (that Apple owns)

Since early 2015 we’ve said that Apple could deliver as great dominance and profitability in AR as it has in mobile today. These four waves could drive AR from tens of millions of users and $1.2 billion last year, to over a billion users and $83 billion by 2021.

Source: Digi-Capital

Digital Transformation of In-Flight Entertainment Services

According to the latest worldwide market study by Juniper Research, commercial aircraft adopting in-flight Wi-Fi services will reach 14,419 globally by 2022 — that’s up from an estimated 5,243 in 2017.

Source: Digital Lifescapes

Generation Z Boasts the Largest, Most Diverse Media Users

While Millennials continue to grab headlines for their tech-savvy penchant for adopting new technologies and their unique media behaviors, the first-quarter 2017 Nielsen Total Audience Report sheds some much-needed light on the NEXT generation of consumers — Generation Z.

Source: Nielsen

Retail eCommerce in China will Reach $1.13 Trillion

Retail eCommerce sales in China are expected to reach $1.13 trillion this year, a figure equal to 23.1% of total retail sales. Growth is expected to continue, with eCommerce accounting for 40.8% of all retail sales in China by 2021.

Source: eMarketer