IDC: Worldwide Tablet Shipments Hit A Record Total Of 52.5M Units In Q4 , Including 22.9M iPads
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On the web, there's plenty of room to throw a scattershot of ads at people and hope one resonates. On mobile where there's reduced real estate, you have to make every pixel count by targeting ads with surgical precision. That's how Facebook succeeded in Q4 2012 and why the social network is actually well equipped to weather the shift to mobile. There's no room for the shotgun approach on the small screen.
According to Strategy Analytics, about 1.6 billion mobile phones were shipped in 2012, with 700 million of those being smartphones. That doesn't even take tablets into account. Compass Intelligence estimates that 18 million new tablets were sold during the fourth quarter of 2012. Naturally, as waves upon waves of new smartphones and tablets hit stores, people need a way of disposing of their old, used devices.
Congress is looking to keep popular Internet-only services, such as email and social networks, permanently free of taxes. Sen. Kelly Ayotte and Sen. Dean Heller are seeking a permanent extension of the original 1998 Internet Tax Free Act, which is set to expire in November 2014. “E-commerce is thriving largely because the Internet is free from burdensome tax restrictions. Unfortunately, tax collectors see it as a new revenue source, and they must be stopped,” said Ayotte, in a statement.
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If you've ever gotten a fake friend request, you know Facebook has spammers. But it's winning the fight against them. Facebook's estimate of the total percentage of monthly users that are "undesirable" or spammer accounts dropped to 0.9 percent from 1.5 percent in June 2012. That means there's only around 9.5 million of these trouble-makers on the site, down 37 percent from 15.1 million in mid-2012.
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Facebook risked driving users away by showing more ads in the news feed last year, but to Mark Zuckerberg's surprise, a big increase in their presence during 2012 only reduced Likes and comments by 2%. Users are staying loyal, which during the 2012 Q4 earnings call Zuckerberg called a sign of the value Facebook provides.
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