Tablet apps are expected to generate $8.8 billion (£5.9 billion) in revenue this year, with $16.4 billion (£11 billion) expected to come from smartphone applications.
That gives tablet apps a 35% share of the revenue, according to the latest forecast from ABI Research.
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Tracy Dempsey of Sensum writes:
Northern Irish start-up Sensum gave audiences a taste of the future at the world's largest mobile industry conference in Barcelona last week.
Sensum co-creator Shane McCourt was invited to present the Sensum audience insights platform to a 1,000-strong crowd at the “Back to the Future: Mobile Innovation 2023” conference session at Mobile World Congress 2013.
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Didier Lamouche, president and chief executive officer of mobile semiconductor specialist ST-Ericsson has announced his resignation “to pursue other opportunities”.
He’ll remain in his role until the end of the month.
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Thrills for Tesco customers, chills for Android users
Mark Bridge writes:
As Mobile World Congress 2013 disappears behind us, so the frenzy of news releases about new products and services returns to relatively normal levels.
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UK-based mobile network monitoring specialist Arieso, which was set up eleven years ago by former Vodafone research engineer Shirin Dehghan, has been acquired by American technology business JDSU for $85 million (£57 million).
Arieso analyses mobile network traffic to help network operators improve performance and see where new network services could be introduced.
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