Twitter Now the World's Fastest Growing Search Engine. A Third of Adults Now Post to Sites Like Facebook, Twitter Once. PayPal Seeing $10M In Mobile Payments Per Day; Will Hit $3B Total In 2011. PayPal is upping its estimates of the amount of mobile payments transactions using the technology this year; doubling the estimate to $3 billion in mobile total payments volume (TPV) in 2011.
PayPal says that the rate at which people are using the payments technology to buy items via their mobile phones is growing rapidly and this is actually the third time the company has had to update its numbers. At years end in 2010, PayPal predicted $1.5 billion in mobile payments and in February, the company revised this to $2 billion. Is LinkedIn A Gender Equalizer? Women are the best networkers in the tobacco and ranching industries; men rule cosmetics, according to LinkedIn's new study of the 21st century workforce, Battle of the Sexes, in which the social network tapped its massive trove of user data to examine gender imbalances between industries.
A logical conclusion from the results that seem contrary to common sense is that women in male-dominated industries (and vice versa) seek refuge through social media. According to LinkedIn's data scientist, Scott Nicholson, the "top U.S. industries where women are savvier online professional networkers than men" are: Alternative dispute resolutionTobaccoAlternative medicineRanchingInternational trade and development Nicholson says the "savviness" measure accounts for the fact that more men are on LinkedIn and also have more connections in general.