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MOBILE The mega trend of
21st century is empowerment of people via connected mobile devices. Mary Meeker

People who use phones and
tablets to access the Internet will outnumber those who use a PC by 2015. Mary Meeker

Over 200 million tablets will
be sold in 2013. Enders Analysis

29% of Americans say their
phone is the first and last thing they look at every day. People are always connected. Qualcomm

At least 50% of consumers
will use 2 or more devices in their purchase process. Sites must be mobile-friendly. IBM

One half of all local
searches are conducted on mobile. People search while on the move. Microsoft

On average, Americans spend 2.7
hours socializing on mobile devices. Fish where the fish are. Microsoft

90% of mobile searches lead
to action, 50% lead to a purchase. SEARCH Search Engine Land

80% of smartphone owners use
their device in stores to shop. SEARCH $9.99 $12.99 Google – Mobile in-Store

60% of mobile users expect
a website to load in less than three seconds. Gomez

Tablet adoption is expected to
jump from 51% to 58% within the next 12 – 18 months. IDG Enterprise

SOCIAL Social media is about
sociology and psychology more than technology. @BrianSolis

100 hours of video are
uploaded to YouTube every minute. Is your company contributing? YouTube

85% of users say social
networks help them decide what to purchase. IBM, Generation C Study

93% of marketers are using
social media for business. Business Insider

YouTube reaches more US adults
ages 18 – 34 than any cable network. Nielsen

70% of YouTube traffic comes
from outside the US. YouTube

The fastest growing age bracket
on Twitter is 55 – 64 years old. Pew Research

2 new users join Facebook
every second. Pew Research

LinkedIn is 277% more effective
for lead generation than Facebook and Twitter. TopDogSocialMedia BRAND

62% of people are more
likely to engage with brands that integrate social media content into their owned properties. Mass Relevance BRAND

The visual web is driving
the rise of Pinterest and Tumblr with growth rates of 88% and 74% respectively over the last 12 months. Global Web Index

CLOUD The personal cloud will
gradually replace the PC as the location where individuals keep their personal content. Gartner

Forbes Cloud Will Generate 14
Million Jobs By 2015. NOW HIRING

CloudHyperMarket 1/3 IT budgets to
be spent on cloud computing in 2013. 2007 3hrs B

IDG Within the next two
years, over half of the capital allocated to IT budgets will be spent on cloud computing. 2007 20123hrs BUDGET

Mozy Online Backup Every week
140,000 hard drives crash in the United States. 131billion 1 1 1

Gartner $131 billion estimated global
cloud services market by the end of 2013. 131billion 1 1 1

IDC By 2015, 1 of
every 7 dollars spent on packaged software, server, and storage offerings will be through the public cloud model. 1 EXABITE 1 1 1 1

IDC Worldwide IT cloud spending
will approach $ 100 billionby 2016.

CSC 82% of companies saved
money when they moved to the cloud. $

Neowin As of 2013, there
is over 1 exabyte of data in the cloud. (that’s 1,073,741,824 GB) 1 EXABITE 1 1 1 NOW

Cloud Industry Forum 90% of
public sector respondents and 78% of private sector respondents admitted data security was their primary worry. 1 EXABITE NOW HIRING $

BIG DATA The real issue
is making sense of big data and finding patterns in it that help organizations make better business decisions. Gartner

WHAT’ IDC 68% of companies
do not have a stated Business Intelligence/ Analytics strategy.

McKinsey 15 out of 17
sectors in the United States have more data stored per company than the US Library of Congress. GROWTH SPENDING

IDC IDC forecasts a 44-fold
increase in data volumes between 2009 and 2020. 2009 2020

McKinsey 40% projected growth in
global data generated per year vs. 5% growth in global IT spending. GROWTH SPENDING

Huffington Post Big Data could
save up to $450 billion in healthcare spending. $

Wikibon Facebook stores, accesses, and
analyzes 30+ petabytes of user generated data. 2.5BILLION

The Economist Decoding the human
genome originally took 10 years to process; now it can be achieved in one week.

YouTube YouTube’s content ID system
scans over 250 years of video every day. 2BILL GIGAB T’S ON

IBM 2.5 billion gigabytes (2.5
exabytes) of data are created every day. That number doubles every month. 2.5BILLION GIGABYTES ON YOUR MIND

Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers 9-fold
increase in digital information created and shared over the last five years. GIGABYTES WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?

APPS Industry to reach tipping
point in next 12 – 18 months; plans for corporate app stores need to start today. IDC TM

Nielsen 73% of business apps
use pre-buying features like product research, price comparisons, inventory checks and consumer reviews, as opposed to strictly purchasing.

New Relic More than 1.5
million apps are available in the Apple App Store and Google Play. DOWNLOADS: 0 ADS: 0

PortioResearch 82 billion apps will
be downloaded worldwide in 2013.

New Relic Of the apps
downloaded, 1 in 4 are abandoned after the initial use. People use apps that enhance their lives. $25,000,000,00

ABIResearch Apps will generate $25
billion in revenue in 2013. $25,000,000,000

ABIResearch By 2018 more app
revenue will come from tablets than smartphones. $25,000,000,000

Mapdom More than half of
those who purchased as a result of a marketing message on their smartphone did so on the device itself. BUY NOW

Gartner By 2017, 25% of
enterprises will have an enterprise app store.

Nielsen 82% of mobile media
consumption time is within apps and 18% is from mobile browsers. BUY NOW

AerIcon 40% of marketers are
planning to develop a mobile app in the next year.

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