"4-Information and Communication Technology" via MaRS
Toronto-based invoice startup FreshBooks announced today that they have crossed $1 Billion in billings paid worldwide over the FreshBooks ecosystem between January and May of this year. CEO Mike McDerment also provided an infographic to display activity based on country as well as some other stats.
- The average invoice size on FreshBooks was US $1,677
- Mexico and Sweden saw the largest invoice sizes with US $4,669 and US $4,423 respectively. India and Malaysia were the lowest with US $414 and US $406
- Average invoice size for the U.S. was $919
- The average time to pay was 22.8 days
- China saw the shortest time to pay with 11.9 days, while India saw the largest at 31.7 days
- Average time to pay for the U.S. was 20 days
BISG Numbers
Q1 2010
E-Book sales Up from 1.5% of total US book sales in 2009 to 5% in 2010.
The BISG’s “Survey of Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading” consists of three surveys taken over the course of nine months. The most recent findings and their implications for the industry include:
Thirty-seven percent of e-book buyers bought their first digital book within the last six months. Because so many consumers are only beginning to develop the habit of buying e-books, publishers have an opportunity to shape expectations about such things as pricing and the timing of digital releases.
Among e-book buyers, 25 percent said they bought fewer print books than before. Fifteen percent said they buy no print books, and 9 percent said they wouldn’t buy a print book even if the title they wanted wasn’t available digitally. This shift means publishers will be forced to reduce print runs, resulting in higher per-copy costs.
Source: Publishing Perspectives
See Also: A Few Additional Stats from the BISG Survey in a mediabistro.com Report
Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak -- the real-life version of the film's eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface. Is this how tomorrow's computers will be controlled? (Recorded at TED2010, February 2010 in Long Beach, CA. Duration: 15:23)
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“There’s an app for that” is Apple’s catch phrase to promote the literally thousands of applications that can be downloaded to an iPhone. Whether you want to check the weather or traffic, bide time playing a game, or study a new language, there is likely a free or paid application that you can access. While Apple may be best known for mobile apps, BlackBerry, Android and other devices also have a huge range of apps available in their stores, as well as in those operated by mobile service providers. With smartphones expected to overtake feature phones in the U.S. by 2011, the popularity of mobile apps will only grow. To get a better sense of what’s popular and what’s not now, Nielsen recently launched its ‘App Playbook,’ surveying more than 4,200 people who had downloaded an application in the past 30 days.
Key Stats
- 21% of American wireless subscribers have a smartphone at Q4 2009, up from 19% in the previous quarter and significantly higher than the 14% at the end of 2008
- 14% of mobile subscribers have downloaded an app in the last 30 days
- Average number of apps: Smartphone: 22, Feature phone: 10
- BlackBerry: 10
- iPhone:37
- Android: 22
- Palm: 14
- Windows Mobile: 13
Who is downloading what?
- Games are the most downloaded – both free and paid
- Facebook, Google Maps and Weather Channel are the most popular apps across smartphones
- iPhones: Facebook (58%), iTunes (48%), Google Maps (47%)
- Android: Google Maps (67%), Facebook (50%), Weather Channel (38%)
- Blackberry: Facebook (51%), Google Maps(34%), Weather Channel (28%)
- Social Networking: Facebook clearly favorite app, but MySpace is hugely popular among teens; LinkedIn attracts adults 25-44
- News/weather: Weather Channel was used by 58%; age distribution across sites was similar, save for Time Mobile and Thomson Reuters
- Shopping: Amazon and eBay lead (57% and 41%)
- Search/Map: skew male, particularly Instamapper (80/20)
- Video/Movie: skewed towards males; Imeem and Moviefone show a higher proportion of young users
- Music: iTunes, Pandora, Sirius XM appeal more to males, while Yahoo Music almost evenly split (51/49)
