Smartphones market share – upside down in one year

As the numbers of phones and smartphones for Q3 were released (go here to read the numbers)

We got some surprises. The first unexpected one is that in a market growing over 40% a year (smartphones alone), the US market dipped for the first time.

However, the greatest surprise was that a manufacturer that did not have any smartphones two years ago has now the largest global market share of smartphones.

Manifesto to act against the economic crisis

Ms Nuria Vilanova, a Spanish entrepreneur, founder and Chairman of the largest Communication and PR company in Spain, Inforpress, has published a more than interesting book: “Act against the crisis”

The book mixes good analysis with excellent edition. It is fresh air in the middle of a negative economic mood.

Economic Cartoon of the week

Mr Yoram Bauman, PhD, a Professor in economics published a book in which he teaches Macro and Microeconomics through some cartoons.

Reading it, I come about this one and show one of the most relevant misunderstandings about why people die because famine

Samsung sells more smart phones than Apple

¿a new born leader?

Numbers of phone sales and market share for Q3-2011 are out. And it just happened, Apple is no longer the largest seller of intelligent phones.

Neither it was last year, it just achieve first position at the beginning of 2011, but it is no longer number one…

It is not what you think but what others think of you … even after European agreement

India and Turkey think of themselves much better than what they think of them in the rest of the world

Italy and Greece have a much worse image of themselves than what the rest of the world thinks.

Watch the graphics

Advertising on the Internet reaches 27% of total advertising spent in UK

UK advertising

Numbers for UK advertising spending from January to June have come out, and they show how Internet is the only growing area in a market nearly flat.

Television advertising was smaller than Internet advertising for the aforementioned period.

Viral marketing video: Google Unveils Their Brand New Ice Cream Sandwich

Image via CrunchBase

With the expectation for next October 19 announcements by Google, the company (and many fans) are developing expectations.

One of the “interesting” ones is this video by Google developers … Watch it and enjoy the largest ice cream sandwich

Privacy is an “old people issue” says LinkedIn founder

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Mr. Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn made some astonishing remarks at the last Davos Meeting.

I suggest you watch the full video as it is remarkable.

This is the one things Steve Jobs did for human beings

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What was Steve Jobs success key?

This Cartoon says it all. I did really like it when I sawed it, and decided to leave it as my personal tribute to the co-founder of Apple

Some of the best tributes to Steve Jobes around the glob (Songs, Speeches, Pictures, Twitters,…)

Steve Jobs

I have summarized in this article some of the best tributes to Apple’s Innovator-in-Chief, Steve Jobs.

Let me know of the ones you really like to also include them and their links in the text below