Mobile Commerce News Weekly-Week of December 1, 2012

The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made
up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile commerce
and marketing, mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking, mobile
ads and mobile security that I run across each week.  I am specifically
targeting market size and market trend information.

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A recent study by Javelin Strategy & Research revealed
that consumers spent $20.7 billion shopping on mobile devices within the last
year, though only $417 million of those profits have come from point-of-sale
transactions. Read Original Content

The number of British men waiting until the last minute to
purchase Christmas presents is likely to halve this year, according to research
commissioned by online payment service Paypal. This is due to more than one in
ten British men saying they had already bought or plan to buy gifts using their
mobile phone this Christmas, and nearly half browsing for products on their
phones. Read Original Content

On Black Friday mobile commerce increased nearly 21 percent
over last year, according to IBM
Digital Analytics Benchmark. The biggest surge came from mobile consumers, with
sales reaching 16.3 percent, led by the iPad. Read Original Content

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Approximately $1.1 billion is spent annually on fashion in
Australia on mobile devices, while $1 billion is spent annually on electronics
via mobile. The research, conducted by Nielsen and Stokes Mischewski, found
that 22 percent of Australians are shopping on mobile devices this Christmas
season. Read Original Content

Mobile payments have taken off in the last few years, and
are now poised to grow from $240 billion this year to $670 billion worldwide in
2015, according
to Juniper Research. Read Original Content

By the end of this year, it has been predicted that mobile
marketing spending in the United Kingdom, alone, will have reached £7.2
billion. This will represent an increase of 85 percent over last year’s totals.
Read Original Content

Mobile app
marketer Fiksu said that mobile app downloads surged 33 percent in October
after the Sept. 21 arrival of the Apple iPhone 5. Users began organically
searching for new apps, and that help drive down mobile marketing costs in
October. Read Original Content

 Apple’s iPad won a Black Friday victory by
being the device more mobile shoppers used than any other for online purchases.
iPads were used in 10 percent of all mobile commerce purchases, IBM reported,
and iPhones made up another nearly 9 percent. Read Original Content

PayPal has released
its final batch of Cyber Monday numbers and they’re up big in the mobile payment
space. The site saw a 190 percent increase in global mobile payment volume
compared to 2011 and had 44 percent more payment volume overall. Read OriginalContent

Wells Fargo & Company have announced the nationwide
expansion of Wells Fargo Mobile Deposit.
Using an Android or iPhone device, customers across the nation can easily
deposit checks into their eligible Wells Fargo accounts by taking pictures of
the front and back of the check. Read Original Content

The mobile phone industry is booming in Korea and the
related advertising industry is now starting to catch up. According to a local
finance firm on Thursday, the local mobile advertising market has ballooned
over 100-fold in the past two years and is expected to be worth US$2 billion by
the end of this year. Read Original Content

Mobile ad network Adfonic says that Apple in Q3
accounted for 37 percent of all mobile ad impressions on its network, with
Samsung the second-most popular at 24 percent, and the rest trailing some ways
behind. Read Original Content

According to the latest research from IAB, the UK mobile
advertising market rose 157 percent in 2011 to more than $326 million. In the
first half of 2012 alone, mobile and tablet ad spend in the UK grew to $292
million. Read Original Content

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The restaurant industry is quickly adopting mobile
advertising compared to other industries, according to a new report released
this week from Millennial Media, an independent mobile advertising and data
platform. Read Original Content

U.K. marketers will increase spending by 14 percent to $8.8
billion for online and mobile campaigns this year, up to $10.7 billion in 2014,
and $12.4 billion in 2016, according to an eMarketer digital advertising report. ReadOriginal Content

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Kevin Benedict,
Head Analyst for SMAC,
Cognizant

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Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and SMAC analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.