apps over the course of a month
g it as a way to kill time," he said. Apps are also leveraging context - such as a python birkin baguser's location, or the current weather in their area - to pull users back into the app more frequently with information that is relevant to where they are and what they are doing. "The weather apps might proactively message people and say, ‘Hey, there's a storm coming' or ‘Today's going to be really hot day' as a way to bringing people back in," Aggarwal explained.ected by global events -- are positioned to post the strongest growth over the next two years. Ivory Coast will lead Sub-Saharan Africa in economic growth with a stellar 8.5% growth this year, but the Democratic Republic of Congo will exceed that with a double-digit growth of 10.5% in 2014. Ivory Coast economy has picked up pace as the government pursues The National Development Plan (2012-15),
which is aimed at reducing poverty and aspires to push economy to emerging market levels. "Through this plan, the government is targeting growth of 9%, 10% and 10.1% in 2013-15, respectively, with the help of both private and public investments," noted management consultancy KPMG in a report. "The government plans to increase public investment from 3% of GDP in recent years to 9.7% of GDP by 2015." Meanwhile, DR Congo is also pushing hard to alleviate its people out of poverty with the help of a new Poverty Reduction Strategy led by hermes kelly walletmultilateral agencies. The country has seen substantial foreign direct investment He said consumers were similarly using social media apps for shorter bursts of time but much more frequently. "Social networking apps have continued to grow rapidly in terms of the total amount of time people spend with them, but the average session is actually pretty small.
But when you look at the amount of time people open these apps over the course of a month it's huge," he added. "It's close to 45 times a month, so people are coming back to them multiple times per day." Accordingly, apps are limiting content that people can post, to keep it brief and palatable for consumers. Vine, for iPhone and Android, allows users to share videos as long as they are chanel reissueshorter than six seconds. And in June, Instagram updated their app to allow users to share videos, but only if they are shorter than 15 seconds.