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63% of consumers who search for local businesses online are more likely to use businesses with information on social media sites 27 Aug 2013 | 09:35 am

63% of consumers who search for local businesses online are more likely to use businesses with information on social media sites

91% of US consumers who use social media to search for local businesses do so with Facebook

15% of US consumers use social media to search for local businesses

23% of brand marketers are developing social media strategies, but struggle to execute

Social media sites account for 25% of total time spent online in the US

Mobile devices account for 65% of bus ticketing sales in Sweden

16B transport and events tickets will be delivered annually to mobile handsets by 2018, 3 times the volume in 2013

Apple and Samsung’s global smartphone shipments will reach 800M in 2018, compared with 677M in 2012

Apple and Samsung combined will shipping 17% more smartphones in 2018 than were shipped globally by all vendors in 2012

After page authority, a URL's number of Google +1s is more highly correlated with search rankings than any other factor