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Opera Releases 'State of the Mobile Web' Report
AppScout —
Opera Software released its final State of the Mobile Web report for 2008. The company found that over the course of the year, the BlackBerry Bold made an immediate impact on its November release, judging by its high placement on the list of handsets preferred by Opera Mini users.
They also found that Facebook and MySpace are in a tight race for the lead in mobile social networking, similar to how the two portals are fighting for desktop market share. Overall, Opera Mini users rung up 5.7 billion page views in November alone, a 12 percent increase ...
Opera’s “State of the Mobile Web” November 2008 report is out
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... Mini users in the States.
Facebook and MySpace are locked in a battle for mobile social networking supremacy in the U.S., although Facebook has surpassed MySpace on the top 10 list for the first time this year.
Facebook is also successful in Europe, where other social networks such as Nasza Klasa in Poland and vKontakte in Russia and Ukraine, are consistently the top sites in their respective countries.
Want more? Hop over to Opera Software’s website to grab the full report.
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Opera: Facebook and vKontakte Soar on Mobile
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... Know anyone who uses vKontakte instead of Facebook? It turns out that those are the two most visit social networks on cell phones for Opera Mini users, according to Opera's State of the Mobile Web report published today. ...
Opera releases its State of the Mobile Web report for December
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... Africa also had Facebook as its top social network. Outside of the anglophone world, Facebook had impressive performance in Egypt as usage jumped more than 3400%.
In Germany, however, MySpace was the strongest of all the social networks, growing 492% during last year.
As for other social networking services, Orkut was the most popular in India and Brazil, while Nasza-klasa was the most popular in Poland.
As always, Opera’s full report is available from their website.
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Opera Serves Up 1 Petabyte For Mobile Users
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
Opera now has more than 20 million users surfing the Web with its Opera Mini browser, and it has seen an 18% growth in data transfer, according to the company's latest State of the Mobile Web report. Opera Mini is a lightweight, Java-based browser that can work on low-end handsets, and smartphones like the ...
Opera Serves Up 1 Petabyte For Mobile Users
TechWeb —
Opera now has more than 20 million users surfing the Web with its Opera Mini browser, and it has seen an 18% growth in data transfer, according to the company's latest State of the Mobile Web report. Opera Mini is a lightweight, Java-based browser that can work on low-end handsets, and smartphones like the ...
Opera’s State of the Mobile Web for January is out!
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... Ukraine, China, India, South Africa, United States, United Kingdom, Poland and Germany.
As for the Facebook usage in the Middle East, the popular social networking service was one of the top 10 sites in 9 of the top 10 countries in the region: Iran (#9), Israel (#1), Saudia Arabia (#10), Syria (#3), Jordan (#3), United Arab Emirates (#3), Oman (#9), Kuwait (#4) and Lebanon (#1).
More information about Opera’s State of the Mobile Web report is available from here.
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Opera Mini Continues Its Path for Global Domination
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... Opera Mini has become one of the most popular mobile web browsers, with a solid product that keeps getting better over time. Recent usage figures released give an indication of just far and wide Opera Mini has spread globally. ...
Opera Mini Continues Its Path for Global Domination [jkOnTheRun]
GigaOM Network —
... Opera Mini has become one of the most popular mobile web browsers, with a solid product that keeps getting better over time. Recent usage figures released give an indication of just far and wide Opera Mini has spread globally. ...
Opera Mini Sees Usage Spike 157 Percent
mocoNews —
... million people using the mobile browser in March—a 12.1 percent increase from February and a 157 percent increase year-on-year. People using Opera Mini viewed more than 8.6 billion pages in march, and page views increased by 17.4 percent over the previous month and 255 percent year-on-year. Opera Mini served 148 MB of data to handsets worldwide, after compressing it an average of 90 percent, and data traffic is up 319 percent. The full report with a focus on Latin America is available here. ...
BlackBerry Users Browse The Web More Than We May Have Thought
RIMarkable —
... I was just taking a look at Opera’s State of the Mobile Web, a monthly analysis of the key trends affecting the mobile Web worldwide, and I was a little surprised when I learned that the BlackBerry 8330 was the number one web browsing handset (running Opera Mini) for the month of April. I was downright shocked to find that BlackBerry devices hold 7 of the top 10 spots on the list of mobile devices running Opera Mini. ...
Opera: Mobile Search On The Rise, Google Still King Of The Hill
TechCrunch —
... , the Norwegian software company behind mobile browser Opera Mini, has released its latest State of the Mobile Web report, providing some interesting data points for a detailed look at the evolution of Web browsing on mobile phones. ...
Mobile browser usage more than doubles, according to Opera
Betanews —
... In its "State of the Mobile Web" report, which analyzes aggregated information from Opera Mini's servers, browser company Opera Software today said that in June 2009, 26.5 million users viewed more than 10.4 billion pages. In annual performance, that represents a 143% increase in users and a 224% increase in pages viewed. ...
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mocoNews —
... —Opera Mini page views broke 10 billion: For the first time, Opera Mini users viewed more than 10 billion pages in one month, according to Opera’s State of the Mobile Web report. In June 2009, Opera Mini had nearly 26.5 million unique consumer users, a 4.2 percent increase from May 2009 and more than 143 percent compared to June 2008. ...
Opera Reports Global Mobile Browsing Trends
WebProNews Feed —
... Opera released its monthly report on the state of the mobile web. The report looks at the link between downloads and usage by Opera Mini users. ...
The Top Mobile Websites in your Country
Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog —
... Opera has just released their monthly report on the state of mobile web (also available as PDF) that highlights key trends in mobile web browsing worldwide and also provides a list of most frequently visited websites in different regions of the world.
Google, Facebook, Wikipedia and YouTube are hugely popular among mobile users in every region but Twitter is missing probably because smartphone users prefer using standalone apps and not the main Twitter website to tweet.
These reports are based on usage of Opera mobile browsers (Opera ...
Opera Software: Opera Mini saves consumers $8.1 billion per year in mobile data costs!
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... to September 2008. These people viewed 15 billion pages in the period – 7.2% increase since August and 230% since September of last year. In terms of data usage, September 2009 accounted for nearly 227 million MB of data for operators worldwide.
The top 10 countries for Opera Mini usage are (in order): Russia, Indonesia, India, China, Ukraine, South Africa, United States, United Kingdom, Poland and Vietnam.
As usual, you can get the full report from Opera’s website.
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Mobile Web Usage Continues To Explode As Opera Mini Nears 40 Million Monthly Users
TechCrunch —
... Opera Mini, Opera’s mobile browser, grew its monthly users by 11 percent to nearly 40 million users in October from 32 million users in August. In terms of page views, Opera Mini delivered 17.2 billion last month, a 238 percent annual increase, indicating that mobile web usage is growing fast. Since ...
Opera State of the Mobile Web October 2009: 39.6 million people accessed 17.2 billion pages
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... As we near the end of the month, it is time to read the latest “State of the Mobile Web” from Opera. Thanks to Opera Mini’s server-client architecture, the Opera folks in Norway have the ability to provide detailed analytics and insight as to what is popular in a particular nation. ...
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... page views generated 263 million MB of data for operators worldwide in October 2009, up 16 per cent from September. The top 10 countries for Opera Mini usage are (in order): Russia, Indonesia, India, China, Ukraine, South Africa, United States, United Kingdom, Poland and Vietnam. Opera has also broken out usage data from Latin America, where the top 10 countries using Mini are (in order): Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Paraguay and Ecuador. Click here to view the full report.
