Of late, the mobile industry has been booming offering endless possibilities to its users and a mobile store is the hub which has millions of applications catering to the consumer needs. Each mobile store is specific and exclusive to its mobile OS platform. Apple is the pioneer with their App store which still reigns the market followed closely by Google Android’s Market. Right from productivity tools, messaging and business apps, the stores engage the users with movies, music, games and so on. As per the analysis of Dutch apps analysis firm Distimo, during each day of December 2010 top 300 free applications in different app stores generated 3 million downloads. If that’s not the enough data to surprise you keep reading for more analysis and highlights of top mobile apps stores.

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Time to update some Facebook facts and numbers worldwide. By now most of us knows that Facebook has over 500 million users; that’s just little less than total number of people living in North America. And it’s almost 1/12th of total world population ( 6 billion ). Traffic wise Facebook has surpassed many big online networks. Though these are gigantic numbers for any social networking site, Facebook still is not number one social network in many countries. Other social networking portals dominate these countries. Like in India and Brazil, Orkut is number one ( Though Facebook has almost ousted Orkut in India ). As one can conclude from the chart below, all other countries except India and Brazil has social networks dominating are of their own language.  Zyng, Hyves, Orkut, Mixi, Vkontakte are still dominating respective countries over Facebook. And this situation might not change for years to come as the language barrier has high impact on user’s choice. Anyway 500 million is not a bad number after all!

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Is that a legitimate word to use for anything to do with financial speculations? But look at the chart and you will realize that its ture. For Apple, these numbers are more than satisfying. Apple’s market cap has already been crossed that of Microsoft’s. For now the operating income of Apple is $3.9 billion trailing Microsoft’s $5.2 billion. But the future looks different with the trend showing up on this chart. Apple’s iPhone proved to  be growth engine while iPad is climbing new heights. Apple’s profits are increasing at the pace of F1 car an may cross past to Microsoft’s profits in few years. What Steve Ballmer has to say on this? Nothing. Steve Jobs will have the last laugh.

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Mobile is being used more and more. But when the matter comes to mobile browsing and mCommerce, it is still in the infant stage, as it seems to be derived from the survey of ATG. ATG is research specialist in e-commerce. Survey has concluded that, 87% of the mobile users have never purchased anything from mCommerce and 73% never browsed on mobile anything at all!!! Though on the arrival of smartphones the market is getting better, but still bleak compared to eCommerce scene. The other derivation of this scenario is mobile ad market size, which is very small. It’s evident from the size of mobile market itself,  to conclude the mobile ad market size.

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Microsoft’s search engine Bing – launched last summer – actually eating up Search Market Share of Yahoo. If the current trends continue as we’ve shown in the chart, possibly by November this year, Bing can pass Yahoo in the U.S. Though this gain in Bing’s numbers is mostly because of hefty advertisement money burnt by Microsoft. But anyway, this is not good news for Yahoo’s search business. What’s your thoughts on this?

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Since Google announced its Android powered Nexus One smartphone, people are getting excited about, it seems. As ChangeWave report suggests , 21% people looking to buy a smartphone in next 90 days want to buy one running on Android. That’s up from 6% when ChangeWave surveyed before 3 months. Now Android is at number 2 position, getting ahead of Blackberry, Windows and Palm. Look at the chart below.

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In last article, we saw how traffic stats are measured, a bit controversial article but yes, it is fact. Now, let’s take a look at drastically different results. I decided to check Compete.com Vs Alexa.com statistics on each Compete.com and Google Trends. (Note: As Alexa.com doesn’t show result for itself, I have included only Compete and Google Trends results.)

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Facebook’s U.S. unique visitors numbers are now more than that of AOL’s and that makes former the fourth largest website in the U.S. In the month of November, Facebook has almost crossed the 100M unique visitors mark. Look at the chart below.

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Twitter saw peak in new user sign ups in July,2009. Since then new user sign ups are continuously decreasing. There were 9.4 million new user singups in July, 2009 compared to that of 7.1 million in Nov, 2009. Is twitter losing its charm? Look at the chart below for detailed statistics.

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Two days before, we covered Google’s acquisition of mobile advertising platform AdMob. Google bought AdMob for around $750 million. If you are curious about why so much amount, take a look at the chart below. As reported by AdMob, its ad requests jumped from $2.5 billion in January 2008 to $10.2 billion in September 2009.

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