Nielsen: Nearly half of US smartphone owners use mobile shopping apps

06.08.2012

The popularity of mobile shopping apps is growing, at least for the top names. The estimated unique users for eBay Mobile in June were up by 31 percent from January, according to Nielsen. Amazon Mobile's went up by 35 percent. Those gains outpaced the market-share growth of smartphones as a whole. Over the same period, smartphones went from 48 percent to 54.9 percent of all mobile phones in the U.S., according to Nielsen.

The IDG News Service