Mobile is the new cigarette

We pull a smartphone from our pocket, and it seems to squeeze perfectly well into our life. It fits in our hand. It works on a table.

BII We hosted our IGNITION: Mobile conference on March 21 in San Francisco. To kick off the conference, our BI Intelligence team-Marcelo Ballvé, Alex Cocotas, and I-put together a deck on the current trends in mobile. We looked closely at the growth of smartphone and tablet adoption, the platform wars, and how consumers are actually using their devices.

Regular viewers tune in more often As internet penetration rises in India, the digital video audience is growing fast. Between March 2011 and March 2013, unique visitors to video sites rose 69%, for a total of 54 million unique video viewers at the end of the observation period, according to comScore Video Metrix.

Mobile web and apps get most investment Spending on mobile marketing keeps rising, as brands learn the power of reaching consumers on these devices, and consumers become increasingly mobile-first. The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), in partnership with IHS Global Insight, studied US mobile marketing expenditures and their impact on sales for the "Mobile Marketing Impact Study," released in May.

Mobile video's ad share to remain small Video advertising on mobile devices blends two of today's most sought-after marketing channels, according to a new eMarketer report, "Mobile Video Advertising: Choices for a Rapidly Changing World." The growth of the mobile video audience is impressive.

BusinessNewsDaily Accepting mobile payments -whether by accepting credit cards in the field or by letting users pay on-site with smartphones -is a must for businesses of all types. Figuring out which mobile payment technology is right for your business can be a challenge.

The latest edition of the annual Internet Trends report finds continued robust online growth. There are now 2.4 billion Internet users around the world, and the

In the same week that Motorola and launched the new Moto X smartphone in New York, the Chinese mobile-phone company Xiaomi unveiled a new model in Beijing that also has potential to reshape a domestic smartphone market.

In a survey report released today by Layer 7, enterprise-grade respondents were adamant about establishing API programs for developers. In fact, more than 43 percent of those respondents said their organization already has an API program. A further 27 percent told Layer 7 that a program is scheduled to launch at their company within a year.