While other countries in the region and around the globe have been affected by significant economic uncertainty, Indonesia’s economy is running at full bore, with a rapidly expanding middle class that is now the third-largest in the world.

NM Incite found that the iPhone has been the most frequently mentioned smartphone OS in terms of online buzz on blogs, message boards/groups, Twitter and Facebook, and online news posts, capturing 40 percent of online buzz about smartphones from July through December 2011.

According to the latest figures, 31 percent of consumers who plan to get a new smartphone indicated Android was now their preferred OS.

By 2050, Hispanics are projected to account for more than 30 percent of the U.S. population – a significant growth driver that marketers can no longer overlook.

3G mobile rolled out across Vietnam in 2009, and The Nielsen Company used the anniversary of its launch as a check point to survey consumers’ attitudes and assess market awareness of the technology

It is no secret that young people all over the world have embraced the mobile phone. But who pays for all those mobile services charges?

Mobile web banking in the U.S. has grown to more than 13 million mobile subscribers – up 129 percent in just two years – and is now poised to level the playing field for the banked, unbanked, young, old, rich, poor, downtown, uptown or out-of-town.

Most adults in the U.S. now have cellphones and one in four are using smartphones. With their rich features and capabilities, these devices are driving the mobile app economy.

Nielsen applies a wide variety of methodologies to derive insights from our data, so we’ve taken a more granular look at mobile data from our recent “What Americans Do Online” post.

Smartphones are rapidly gaining popularity in Brazil as recent price reductions have made these devices more accessible to people of all economic levels according to new research from The Nielsen Company.