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 According to the recent global survey conducted by KPMG, Chinese people use their cell phones to get into the Internet. Being more specific, 77% of Chinese people use their mobile devices to carry out financial transactions, and 44% for retail transactions, while in India 38% are using them to shop, and 43% for financial business.

One and a half year ago the company conducted the similar survey. Now having compared the statistics it was found that the number of people using mobile phones for online transactions increased from 19% to 46%.

As showed the latest survey from Goldman Sachs 10 out of the 91 banks subjected to Europe's stress tests are anticipated to fail. 

As showed the new study from Compete, rising number of people are increasingly using their smartphones for local search, social networking and gaming. 

About 30% of smartphone owners has called or stopped into a local business after finding it using a local search application.

According to Net Applications survey, Google's Chrome allured more than a few additional users , diminishing the gaps between it and two other leaders, Internet Explorer and Firefox.

Thereby, Net Applications revealed Chrome's March market share to reach 6.13%, up 0.52% from its February standing of 5.61%. That appears to be impressive gain to pull off in so short a time, especially given the smallish size of Chrome's user base.

According to the recent study of a group of 18-34 year olds from NPD, customers would rather prefer netbook to iPad.

So, as NPD survey found, while the netbook came out ahead, it was a slim margin of victory. Just over half, 51%, responde they'd prefer to roll with a conventional portable, but even more interesting, 44% of existing Apple device owners said they'd rather get a computer like the MacBook than an iPad.

According to a Retrevo Inc’s survey of 1,000 Americans, social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are occupying more and more of users' time, making users more and more addicted to a social media.

As Andrew Eisner, Retrevo's director of Community and Content pointed out that many people appear to be obsessed with trading information with their friends, family and co-workers.

According to the survey conducted by Maximiles Surveys among 1,000 youngsters in Britain, young Britons are increasingly turning to the internet to look for help with personal problems instead of seeking advice from their parents or friends.

90% of youngsters aged under 25 responded for national free helpline Get Connected that they had used the Web targeting to seek for help in solving a personal problem.

Sounds surprisingly but owing to the global financial crisis employees became more loyal. Thus, crisis has made more than 40% employees feel totally committed to their employer, according to a global survey from Kelly Services conducted in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific.

The annual Kelly Global Workforce Index polled about 134,000 people in 29 countries from October to January.

According to the head of the senior US scientific body notice, people are losing trust  in science as a whole has suffered from recent attacks on climate research.

The research company Nielsen unveiled new surprising facts concerning the users’ content preferences.

It’s not a surprise, that the majority (85%) of online consumers prefer free content. However, Nielsen found some categories of content would be willing to consider paying for access.

UK merchants say online fraud is the greatest threat they face, according to the Sixth Annual UK Online Fraud Report, an independent survey undertaken by CyberSource Ltd, the UK-based CyberSource subsidiary. Merchants stated that they lost an average of 1.8% of online revenue to payment fraud in 2009.

According to a survey, amid over 400 portfolio managers and more than 100 hedge fund firms, by executive recruiter Heidrick & Struggles International Inc, last year US hedge funds lost staff to endowments, sovereign wealth funds and the SEC. This trend seems to continue during 2010.

Veteran hedge fund and markets professionals are also in demand at the SEC, where a promise of increasing government enforcement and the creation of a new Division of Risk, Strategy, and Financial Innovation are leading to new hires.

According to the survey of 2,700 respondents was conducted by Credit Suisse in October and November 2009, household income in China soared over the last six years, especially for top earners, putting the country on track to eclipse the United States as the biggest consumer market in a decade.

The bank's survey reflected a big rise in property and car purchases, underscoring why many investors are betting big on a rise in China's consumer sector.

According to a new survey, conducted by Motorola, over 50% of holiday shoppers from 11 countries used their mobile phones for in-store activities such as comparison shopping, getting peer feedback, product information and coupons.

Thus, the research found 64% of youth aged between 18 and 34, GenY shoppers used their mobile phones for in-store shopping-related activities during the holiday season. Moreover, all surveyed age-segments cited interest in next-generation retail technologies to make better-informed decisions.

U.S. employers unexpectedly cut 85,000 jobs in December, limiting optimism on the labor market's recovery and pressing on President Barack Obama to find ways to spur job growth.
The Labour Department said on Friday that November payrolls were revised to show the economy actually added 4,000 jobs rather than losing 11,000 as initially reported, breaking a streak of consecutive losses that dates back to December 2007.
With revisions to October, however, the economy lost 1,000 more jobs than previously estimated over the two months.