In 1990, the Gartner Group coined the acronym, ERP, for Enterprise Resource Planning – which essentially became the umbrella term for big-business software platforms that automated efficiencies in areas of supply chain and vendor management...
Recent Gartner research revealed that global mobile ad expenditure is forecast to be $11.4 billion in 2013, up from $9.8 billion in 2012. Advertising on mobile is big business. A significant part of that business involves being able to monitor the...
Social media revenue will reach $34 billion by 2016, according to Gartner analysts. New revenue opportunities will exist in social media, but no new services will be able to bring significant fresh revenue to social media by 2016," said Neha Gupta...
Gartner predicts social media revenue will reach $34 billion by 2016, up from $11.8 billion in 2011. In their Forecast: Social Media Revenue, Worldwide, 2011-2016 report, Gartner analysts project $8.8 billion and $6.2 billion in 2012 global social...
Ray Valdes, research director for Internet platforms and web services at Gartner, believes the acquisition is primarily based on bringing in Gowalla's engineering team and, to a lesser extent, intellectual property.
Gartner analyst Michael Gartenberg told CNET in August, Motorola Mobility will be the search giant's favorite, regardless of what Google executives state. November 17, 2011 is the date Motorola Mobility stockholders will vote on the company's...
Market researcher Gartner says that sales of smart phones will soar 56%, to 467.6 million and tablet sales will grow nearly four times, to 69.8 million this year. Fish where the fish are. Taking your social PR message to the market works best when...
Dell has got nothing to lose, said Sandy Shen of Gartner. Baidu, China's largest search engine, has released a mobile operating system built on top of Android. The Baidu OS will be getting hardware from Dell and possibly others.
In a past column, we focused on breakdowns in mobile ad formats (search, display SMS), and reasoned that search will be the largest growing revenue driver (Gartner agrees). Last week, BIA/Kelsey released its latest forecast, projecting U.S.mobile...
Gartner Predicts Huge Android and Microsoft Mobile OS Growth - Marketing Pilgrim Search Industry News Google-ITA decision may be just days away: source - Reuters Google Said To Have High Level Mole At Twitter, Makes Massive Counteroffers To Retain...
Android, which had a market share of 3.9 percent in 2009, now has 22.7 percent market share, according to Gartner's report on worldwide sales to end users in 2010. Android advertising revenue could potentially generate $1 billion for Google next year.
One Gartner analyst says Google is facing a unique and extraordinary challenge from Mark Zuckerberg's social network. Was CEO Eric Schmidt really forced out and why? Was there friction among the Google triumvirate?
Android is the number two operating system worldwide, with 25.5 percent of smartphone sales, and is particularly dominant in North America, according to Gartner. Android phones accounted for between 75 and 80 percent of Verizon Wireless's...
Google Places Upgrades Owner Review Response Feature - Understanding Google Maps Duplicate Listing Removal - Understanding Google Maps Smartphone Sales Increased 96 Percent - Gartner Here's a roundup of this week's columns and news stories for...
If you take that model and you extend it to television, suddenly Google's power becomes enormous in the advertising space and the broadcasters don't like that idea," Gartner analyst Van Baker Baker told Reuters.
According to Gartner, the Finnish mobile maker is the world's largest, with a 35% global market share in the first quarter this year, compared to 36.2% last year. Google announced it has closed its acquisition of AdMob, in a move that will likely...
Gartner, Inc.and Crane Co. Once AOL is spinned off from Time Warner, it will require a Board of Directors. Today, nine members were named. They are: Richard L. Dalzell made a name for himself at Amazon, where he started held a variety of executive...
According to a recent Gartner report, mobile advertising is poised to grow 74 percent this year to $913.5 million. It's then predicted to accelerate in 2011 and then reach $13 billion in 2013. The increased consumer use of smartphones is said to be...
Last October, Gartner unveiled a study that stated that by 2010, 60 percent of the Fortune 1000 companies with a web site will be involved in some form of online community that is utilized for customer relationship purposes.
This brings Gmail up to enterprise class, embedding the security,'' said Peter Firstbrook, a research director at Stamford, Connecticut-based Gartner Inc. Google bought Postini Inc.the San Carlos, California-based email security company - for $625...
