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This article talked about eBay increasing their revenue in double digit percentage and brought in 1.8 million$ last quarter. They were able to do so because in the long run they planned ahead and predicted that mobile phones would become a platform for commerce, so eBay used PayPal to make a lead in mobile payment, which gave them more market share. eBay was also experimenting with new app called eBay Now, which allows customers to buy goods from their phones from Macy's Target and Walgreens and have them delivered the same day. So we can see how important it is for a form to plan ahead in the long run: it decides the revenue for the firm in future.

This article talks about how geographic mobility in America helps increase prosperity and how unemployment benefits encourage mobility. 

This article talks about how the mobile market is driving economic growth in not only the U.S, but also in Asia markets. 

This article talks about how the prices of mobile phones have changed. In the beginning a mobile phone cost $8700 in today's money which has been adjusted due to inflation.

This article is about the demand for mobile apps. Mobile apps are commonly inexpensive or free and very useful. Matt Greenwell is an app developer and when he started working there were he had 50 colleagues and nowadays there are 300. He says this change occurred in the last year and a half. Apps are cheap and the demand for them when they cost $0 is high, some of them can even be bought for $0. This is what made the market for Apps grow at an exponential rate.

Aircel, a private telecom operator, is implementing a mobile internet tariff plan. This plan will allow its users to use 2G/3G services in the same package. The article states that this plan is targeted towards those who use their data for applications, music, and games.

This article talked about how Apple broke the monopoly in computer industry controlled by Microsoft. 14 years ago Justice Department worried that without government intervention, consumer choice would be significantly limited by Microsoft. However, today Apple broke this monopoly and took a big share of market. By using non-price competition and creating innovative product, Apple survived and succeed in computer industry. So we can see there is no such thing as a monopoly in computer industry, the advancement of technology will always give the market to the firm.

Safari is still by far the largest browser in the industry, but there are other browsers that are still in the competition. Examples of these competing browsers are Opera Mini which accumlates around 12.72% and Android Browser which amounts to 22.82%. Safari still holds 55.41%. These three big firms have huge control over the browser industry.

This article talks about: Egypt's unemployment rate for 2012 grew to 12.7 percent, mainly due to the "circumstances that followed the January 25 Revolution," the country's official statistics agency, CAPMAS,(Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics).

This article talks about how people are more hurt by unemployment than by inflation. 

The article is about how demand was massive on the first day of sales on IPHONE 5 the sales were doubled when you compare it with IPHONE 4S. Also e-bay offers standard prices that people can afford.