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With the introduction of LTE-enabled high bandwidth, video has become easier to download and stream. While mobile communications, particularly smartphones, tablets, and other wireless devices have gained significant penetration in recent years, data consumption remains relatively low. However, it is important to note that with only about ten percent of mobile subscribers using video, it represents a demand on network capacity of 50%.

Google’s mobile advertising business continues to fuel impressive growth for the online search engine pioneer. Google has much at stake in the worldwide shift from desktop advertising to mobile advertising. The company has taken various measures to brace for the shift. It acquired mobile-related corporate vehicles, notably Android (2005), YouTube (2006), DoubleClick (2007), AdMob (2009) and Motorola Mobility (2012), and launched mobile marketing tools like the Google Playbook (2013).

“Global Business Outlook Survey of Senior Executives 2013-2014” is a new report by ICD Research that analyzes how companies' procurement expenditures, business strategies, media spend, marketing and sales strategies and practices, and business planning are set to change in 2013-2014. This report gives you access to the category-level spending outlooks, budgets, supplier selection criteria, business challenges, current size of the marketing and advertising budgets and investment opportunities of senior level executives. The report also identifies the future growth of buyers and suppliers, MandA, capital expenditure, staff hiring, and e-procurement. This report not only grants access to the opinions and strategies of business decision makers and competitors, but also examines their actions surrounding business priorities. The report also provides access to information categorized by region, company type and sizes.

Biofuels are a class of fuels whose energy is derived biologically from carbon fixation. They are derived from various conversion procedures from solid biomass, liquid fuels and various gases. Liquid biofuels are produced from various oil-rich crops and are grown in many regions across the globe. With the growing demand for energy across the globe, the biofuels market is witnessing large amounts of investments to ensure a permanent source of clean energy. There has been a tremendous increase in the demand for biofuels since they are naturally derived and can replace non-renewable resources.

In 2012, the output volume of rubber tires reached 891.67 million in China, increasing by 7.16% YOY. Among that, the output volume of radial tires totaled 460.5 million, increasing by 17.1% YOY. In terms of regions, China tire production mainly concentrated in east coast regions in 2012. The output volume of Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang totaled 591 million, accounting for about 66% of the total tire output volume in China.

The most enthusiastic home cooks, who have both strong interest in cooking from scratch and advanced cooking skills, are a core target for the cookware market and are well-served by top cookware brands and specialty retailers. While marketers can’t ignore this hard-core group, category growth may require a more concerted effort at reaching out to a broader, less highly skilled audience.

The 12th Five-Year Planning concerning cold chain logistics was issued in 2011 following the release of Farm Produce Cold Chain Logistics Development Planning by National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) in 2010. Thanks to these plannings, China cold chain logistics industry has seen exceedingly rapid development in recent years.

With its humble beginning as a novel concept in the 1960s, vacation/timeshare ownership tourism has gradually attracted masses of tourists, real estate developers, and investors equally. It is one of the key segments of hospitality industry, holding vast growth potential, with major drivers being growing interest in vacationing and increasing disposable income. Developed countries like the US and Europe are the foremost markets for vacation ownership.

Pipeline Selector helps you avoid hours of painstaking research by quickly providing you with an accurate snapshot of a single INN, including key patents, extensions and data exclusivity expiry for 44 countries (7 country coverage also available), regulatory issues and key players.

In 2012, the global luxury market valued EUR212 billion, representing a year-on-year increase of 10%. Chinese consumers became the world's largest consumer group of luxury goods and they spent RMB306 billion in the world, most of which was done in Hong Kong, Macao and other countries / regions, while only 39.28% in Mainland China. In 2012, as China's economic growth slowed down as well as the government cut expenses on dining, cars, wine and other aspects, the Chinese mainland luxury consumption cooled down substantially, and the growth rate of the total consumption of luxury goods dropped from 30% in 2011 to 7.2% in 2012. However, Chinese luxury consumers have changed their attitude from showing off to enjoying and rational consumption with more mature consumption concept, so Chinese luxury market will still witness steady growth in the future.