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๐Ÿš• Lyft has eaten into Uberโ€™s U.S. market share

#Uber controls the majority of U.S. ride-hailing but #Lyft is growing twice as fast. And both plan to go public in early 2019.

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๐Ÿ“ฑ 2018's Highest Grossing iPhone Apps

#Netflix was by far the highest grossing #iPhone and #iPad app in 2018, bringing in 790 million dollars. Tencentโ€™s video streaming app was the second highest earning iOS app, grossing 490 million dollars. Netflix blew the other top ten apps out of the water, racking up 62 percent more revenue than second-place iOS app,Tencent.

While Netflix outperformed #Tencent, video streaming and sharing applications did well overall, dominating the top ten list. Seven out of the ten highest grossing iOS apps were video streaming or sharing applications. Notably, half of the apps were owned by Chinese companies like #Baidu, Tencent, and #Alibaba.

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๐Ÿ’ก The Problem with Facebook...

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๐Ÿ” Googleโ€™s Top Trending Searches of 2018

Itโ€™s that time of the year again, for the most special of retrospectionsโ€ฆ year-in-review lists. Googleโ€™s top trending searches of 2018 show that natural disasters and celebrity deaths were atop our minds again this year, though nothing trended quite as much on our keyboards as the exciting World Cup.

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๐Ÿ‘ค e-Commerce App vs Web Engagement

Using the top four e-commerce brands, here Verto dives into what form of traffic was driving the majority of their visits. Unsurprisingly, Web (including mobile & desktop) continues to dominate e-commerce reach and time spent. 179 million unique monthly visitors access #Amazon at least once via Web which is 97% of Amazonโ€™s user base for September 2018; only 53% of those users, 98 million, access it via the application. Even in terms of engagement, the average user on Amazon spent slightly more than 5 hours on web browsers compared to slightly under an hour on the app.

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๐Ÿ“ธ the Perfect Shot!

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๐ŸŽ„ We would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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๐Ÿ˜… So... We're back - after a loooong break and not scrolling so much!

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๐ŸŽถ TikTok Continues Its Climb With 75 Million New Users in December, Up 275% From 2017

Short-form video social networking app #TikTok from Beijingโ€™s Bytedance continues to expand its global footprint, chalking up its biggest month yet in terms of first-time installs during December. According to Sensor Towerโ€™s Store Intelligence estimates, the app added 75 million new users worldwide across the App Store and Google Play last month, representing year-over-year growth of 275 percent from 20 million in December 2017.

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๐Ÿ˜ People on the Internet

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๐Ÿ“Š Facebook's User Growth Stalls Where It Hurts

Considering its size, itโ€™s not a surprise that #Facebookโ€™s user growth has been slowing down recently. After all, the social network has more than 2.3 billion (!) monthly active users while the International Telecommunications Union puts the number of global internet users at around 3.9 billion.

What hurts the company though, is the fact that the regions most affected by the slowdown are the ones where Facebook generates the lionโ€™s share of its revenue. Over the past three months, the social network has added just 2 million users in North America & 5 million users across Europe, which is where it generated 50% & 25% of its total revenue in the past quarter, respectively.

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๐Ÿ˜ Happy Monday!

'People Nowadays' by Mehmet Geren.

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๐Ÿ“บ The Social Side of TVideo Viewing

As internet-connected devices proliferate and streaming services grow in popularity, itโ€™s easy to assume that TV viewing has become an individual pastime. But the reality is that just about half (48%) of #TV or video total viewing time in the ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ is still done in groups โ€“ and this may even be growing as a social activity.

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๐Ÿ˜ซ Can You Relate, too?

'Work: A Short Story' by James Regan.

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๐Ÿš• Uber vs. Lyft: Loyalty Edition
Ride-sharing customers are becoming less loyal.

Americans who used both #Uber and #Lyft in the last quarter of 2018 accounted for about a third of the companiesโ€™ ride-sharing revenue, according to new data from Earnest Research. Thatโ€™s up 13 percentage points from the beginning of 2016.

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๐Ÿ“ฎ In Just a few Years

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๐Ÿ“ˆ Microsoft's Share Price Tripled Under Satya Nadella

Five years ago, Satya Nadella took over as CEO at #Microsoft, following in the footsteps of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. It wasnโ€™t an easy situation to come in for Nadella, considering that Microsoft had missed the transition to mobile devices, Windows 8 had flopped miserably and the PC market had started its decline, putting Microsoftโ€™s core business, Windows, into question.

Back in 2014, most people given the choice to invest $1,000 in either Microsoft or #Apple, probably would have invested in the latter, considering the huge success that Microsoftโ€™s old foe was having with its mobile devices, most importantly the iPhone. And yet, here we are, five years into Nadellaโ€™s tenure and Microsoft is not only the most valuable public company on the planet, it has also outperformed Apple over the past five years.

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๐Ÿ“ฐ The most engaged publishers on Facebook in January 2019

It
โ€™s time once again for our monthly rankings of the top publishers on Facebook, and itโ€™s certainly been a busy news month.

This has been reflected in the engagements driven by the top publishers on Facebook, with abnormally high numbers in the first month of 2019 compared with previous months we have looked at.

Some top-line insights first:
- Overall engagements were well up on the previous month, as much as 50% higher for some publishers
- CNN leaped back up the rankings, jumping to almost 40 million engagements for the month
- The Daily Mail also jumped in engagements, from 27 million to nearly 40 million

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โค๏ธ Happy Valentine's Day!

'Staying in' by Jim Benton.

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