7. Mobile World Congress 2011 Highlights Handset Fragmentation Wholesale Application Community Tablets Apps are the Future 4G
8. Apple WWDC 2011 iOS Highlights iOS 5 Beta Released 1,500+ New APIs 200+ New Features 200 million iOS devices 44% of the Market Share Sold 25 million iPads in first 14 months App Store 425,000+ Apps (now more than 450,000) 90,000+ for iPad 14 billion downloads in less than 3 years 225 million accounts with credit cards
9. Facebook 750 million active users Average Friends = 130 Average time spent = 700 billion minutes a month 190 countries 70+ translations 2.5+ million websites integrated Mobile Devices are twice as active as non-mobile users Source: www.facebook.com
10. Twitter 450,000 new twitter accounts created daily 200,000,000 registered users 1 billion new tweets weekly 180,000,000 new tweets daily 50% of users access on devices (i.e. mobile, iPad) 1,000,000 apps that work with twitter A new app is added every 1.5 seconds 70% of accounts outside the U.S. 30% of twitter users have a household income of $100,000 Twitter is valued at more than $8 billion Source: www.thedigitalbandit.com
11. Google Plus 25+ million users Users still signing up but visiting less 42nd most visited social website Grown by 821% since introduction on July 2, 2011
12. Googorola Google on the path to becoming more like Apple Sustaining relationships with competitive hardware vendors is unlikely Acquisition beefs up Google’s Patent Portfolio Adds 17,500 patents to Google’s meager 2,000 patents Source: www.bloggersnetwork.net
13. U.S. Patent Reform The U.S. owns 30% of the world’s patents The U.S. Patent system should encourage innovation and not litigation Patents in fields such as mobile, where innovation moves fast, should have shorter terms The standards for obtaining a patent in areas such as software, should be much higher
