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Half Of The American Public Thinks Facebook Is A Passing Fad
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-facebook-popularity-2012-5
Despite the fact that Facebook has 900 million users, almost half of people think it’s a passing fad.
CNBC and the AP surveyed 1,003 Americans about Facebook and found 46% think it will fade away. Amusingly, only 31% of the people surveyed think it’s a bad investment.
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GM’s Facebook Ads Don’t Work Because GM Sucks — Ours Work Fine
A funny comeback from Ford on the heels of news that GM is pulling its entire $10 million advertising campaign from Facebook…
GM said it was pulling its ads because they didn’t work.
Ford said on Twitter that, if GM’s ads didn’t work, it’s because GM didn’t know what it was doing:
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Source: http://gizmodo.com/5906317/we-waste-a-billion-gallons-of-gas-a-year-because-were-so-fat
Heavier cars use more fuel. Now some bright spark has calculated that the US uses one billion gallons more gas every year than if the entire population had remained at the average weight of the 1960s. For every extra pound added to the average weight, the country uses another 39 million gallons of fuel each year.
So complain about gas prices if you must, but the rapid increase you should really be worried about is your waistline. [The Atlantic]
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In Case You Had Any Doubt About Where Apple Gets Its Money From (AAPL)
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-apple-makes-money-2012-4
In case you had any doubt, Apple is an iPhone company now.
The iPhone accounted for 58% of Apple’s total revenue last quarter.
The iPhone didn’t exist five years ago. Today, the iPhone business alone is more profitable than Exxon.
Below, you can see how the iPhone has gone from zero to a hundred billion annually in the span of five years.
And if you think that’s mind blowing, then you need to check this out >
The Most Remarkable Instagram Chart You’ll See
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-increase-in-downloads-and-twitter-shares-2012-4
This chart plots both how many times Instagram has been downloaded, in gray, and how often it has been used to share photos over Twitter, in red.
Look at how, moving left to right, the red bars extend away from the gray bars.
Know what that means?
It means, in the words of the Distimo analyst who put together the chart, that “the average number of shares per users are increasing.”
That’s profound: The app isn’t just getting more popular, it is becoming a more important part of its users’ lives.
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Amazon Is About To Blow Past Best Buy In Revenue (AMZN, BBY)
Best Buy’s annual revenue growth has hit a wall, and Amazon’s is on a tear. It’s about to blow past Best Buy for the first time ever, notes Dan Frommer who made this chart for Read Write Web.
Why It Doesn’t Matter That You Thought of it First
Source: http://gizmodo.com/5901680/why-it-definitely-doesnt-matter-that-you-thought-of-it-first
Oh, man, the iPad? I totally thought of that back in 1998. And good for you! Here’s a handy flow chart that explains exactly why no one cares. Which I totally thought of drawing up myself last fall. [Doghouse Diaries]
The Only Two Smartphone Companies That Matter (AAPL)
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-smartphone-shipments-2012-4
There are only two smartphone companies that matter: Samsung and Apple.
This chart shows preliminary smartphone shipment estimates for Q1 from analyst Horace Dediu of Asymco. As you can see, it’s a two horse race. Everyone else is irrelevant.
Cable Cutting Intensifies
Source: http://gizmodo.com/5899129/cable-cutting-intensifies
Bad news for cable TV. According to a new report, some 2.65 million subscribers have abandoned cable or satellite TV since 2008 in favor of Internet and over the air delivery. Nearly half of that, 1.05 million, came in 2011 alone. Another million or so customers are expected to do so by the end of 2012. [Convergence Online via Bloomberg]
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