Will The Hispanic Market Help Samsung Beat Apple?
Samsung’s marketing budget is legendary. In their struggle to topple Apple, the devices brand has a reported $14 billion marketing budget, which would make it bigger than those of Apple, Coca-Cola, HP, Dell, and Microsoft combined — and more than Iceland’s GDP. Yet they still trail the seemingly untouchable brand Steve Jobs built. But it turns out there is one group of consumers with whom Samsung and other Apple competitors have an...
Mobile devices: Kids know what they want but are parents buying?
Despite questions about the potentially negative aspects of electronics usage among children and adolescents, mobile devices are only growing in popularity. Recent research on parents and children reveals the extent of tablet and smartphone usage in the young, and the attitudes of both kids and parents toward mobile devices and the brands who produce them. Two-thirds of pre-kindergarten age children use tablets, and one-in-three pre-K...