Travel bookers prefer their computers when making high-priced decisions. US travel bookers will transact 62.2% of digital travel sales via desktop and laptop computers this year, an indication that many buyers are more comfortable with a wider view and a keyboard when finalizing major bookings. This ratio has come down over time, but only slightly. Mobile sales will still be enormous.
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| Oct 13, 2023
While buying clothing online may be popular across all generations, other categories (such as accessories, home furniture, and computers/computer accessories) are purchased at higher rates by consumers ages 18 to 34. Younger generations are getting a later start on adulthood.
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| Jan 31, 2024
Computer and consumer electronics. Items such as TVs and computers are discretionary, cyclical purchases, which helps explain why demand has been weak after sales soared in 2020 and 2021. The big takeaway: The current winners may see demand slow as spending on travel and entertainment return to more historical norms. But the losers will likely continue to face tough conditions well into 2024.
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| Dec 20, 2023
Computing products and consumer electronics: Includes hardware (computers, computer storage devices, and computer peripheral equipment), consumer electronics, prepackaged software (operating, utility, and applications programs), local area network systems and network systems integration, computer processing, and data preparation and data processing services.
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| Sep 5, 2023
Time spent with these mainly desktop computers was 3:29 daily in Canada, down 19 minutes from H1 2022. Social media consumption dropped slightly this year. Social/messaging time spent fell by 4 minutes from H1 2022 to H1 2023. It now sits at 1:55, just 5 minutes more than in 2019, suggesting it’s nearing a ceiling for daily time spent, even as newer platforms like TikTok attract younger users.
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| Oct 30, 2023
Historically, apparel and accessories and computer and consumer electronics were the most dominate categories in ecommerce sales. They will remain significant sales drivers, but in the future, ecommerce will be more evenly spread among categories.
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| Mar 14, 2023
Computers don’t need brake pedals, feds say: AVs are changing the vehicle regulation landscape, but driverless cars still lack the necessary training wheels.
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| Mar 14, 2022
In the US, desktop computers had the highest ecommerce conversion rate of any device during Q4 2021, at 3.8%. Tablets followed with a 3.2% conversion rate, while mobile registered a substantially lower rate of 2.3%.
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| Apr 28, 2022
Amazon will account for 38.2% of all US ecommerce sales this year, per our estimates. In addition to dominating the books, music, and video category, Amazon will capture 50.3% of computer and consumer electronics ecommerce sales and 47.0% of office equipment and supplies ecommerce sales in the US.
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| Dec 15, 2022
She also says a key part of the partnership is that Anthropic agreed to build its AI using specialized computer chips designed by Amazon. But Jacob, the biggest takeaway of this extra $3 billion investment from Amazon is what? Jacob Bourne:.
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| Apr 22, 2024
From 1,000 songs in your pocket to $3 trillion in theirs: The iconic music player set the computer maker on a course to dominate consumer products that carried over to the iPhone and beyond.
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| May 12, 2022
Computing products and consumer electronics: Includes hardware (computers, computer storage devices, and computer peripheral equipment), consumer electronics, prepackaged software (operating, utility, and applications programs), local area network systems and network systems integration, computer processing, and data preparation and data processing services.
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| Aug 18, 2023
Computer and consumer electronics must mount a Prime Day comeback for Amazon to recharge its ecommerce growth. Amazon’s recent slowdown in ecommerce growth can be attributed largely to soft demand in one of its most critical categories—computer and consumer electronics. Computer and consumer electronics is vital to the health of Amazon’s ecommerce business.
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| Jun 20, 2023
Historically, three categories led the US ecommerce market: apparel and accessories, computer and consumer electronics, and furniture and home furnishings. But in recent years, growth has been fueled by essential goods, including food and beverage items, personal care products, and household supplies. This shift will take grocery to the top of the four major ecommerce categories by 2026.
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| Jan 9, 2024
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The factory has eyes: Startup Invisible AI will deploy its computer vision analytics system in all of Toyota’s factories in North America. But the unprecedented insight could have some downsides.
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| May 9, 2022
Smartphones will continue to gain ground as digital sales shift away from computers and tablets. In 2027, mcommerce (sales made on smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices) will near the tipping point of half of ecommerce sales. Online sales growth will be driven by smartphones. Ecommerce is becoming mobile-first.
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| Jul 28, 2023
Technologies like computer vision (to identify and classify in-store shopper behaviors), digital twins (which create digital replicas for similar behavioral analysis), and mobile tracking (to identify which customers are at various locations within the store) can provide more granular insights into customer journeys within the store.
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| Aug 10, 2023
Synthetic data is data created artificially through computer simulation or that algorithms can generate to take the place of real-world data. It can supplement or be used as an alternative to real-world data when the latter is not readily available, per IBM. What it means for payment providers. Connecting genAI assistants to checkout can create a more seamless consumer experience.
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| Mar 22, 2024
Consumers are averaging less daily time on computers and more than making up for it on their CTVs. But this milestone occurred later than we anticipated. Our April 2023 forecast had CTV eclipsing desktop/laptop in 2022. This is due to a retroactive downward revision in programmatic CTV ad spending.
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| Jan 19, 2024
AI has a measurement problem, suggests Kevin Roose of the New York Times, asking which AI system writes the best computer code or generates the most realistic image. He says that right now, there's no easy answer because AI companies aren't required to submit their products for testing before release. Mr. Roose questions, which AI tools should folks use for a certain task?
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| Apr 23, 2024
Computer and consumer electronics ranks No. 1. With 29.8% of sales online, this category leads by a significant margin. This is a result of early ecommerce innovation from the likes of Dell and Apple that still persists today. Apparel and accessories has 27.9% penetration, ranking second.
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| Jul 28, 2023
CTV will grow more than three times as fast as mobile, and programmatic ad spending on desktop and laptop computers will be flat this year. In other words, despite its relatively small share of the total programmatic market, over 2 in 5 new programmatic ad dollars will go to CTV. To view the full forecast, click here. As mobile picks up steam, CTV’s momentum will wane.
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| Sep 13, 2023
US adults still spend more combined time with traditional media like TV and radio than they do with desktop/laptop computers and CTVs. Digital’s overwhelming dominance can create the illusion that traditional forms of media have died out. While they are marching in opposite directions, traditional still has plenty of life.
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| Mar 21, 2024
Very good, so he's talking about with media, it's TV, print, smartphones, computer, computers, everything and it's if you are watching TV whilst you're on your smartphone, it's an hour for each device, so that's how we count it. There's still a lot of time and you would've thought it would have hit its ceiling. Oscar Orozco:.
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| Apr 4, 2024