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Mobile business
Smart Move
Smartphones save small-business owners 1.24 billion hours and $32.3 billion a year.
Tabulate That
Tablets are saving these owners 754.2 million hours and $19.6 billion a year.
Awesome Apps
Mobile apps are saving 599.5 million hours and $15.6 billion a year.
Complete Connectivity
94% of small businesses use smartphones to conduct business.
Full Work Week
49% use smartphones to conduct business seven days a week, even though their companies are only open 5.7 days a week.
There’s an App for That
More than one-half use mobile apps for business, and the overall use of apps among small businesses has increased by 65% in the past two years.
Core Functions
77% consistently rely on three or four mobile apps, most commonly to access documents, plan trips and manage finances.
On the Go
92% use mobile apps on their smartphones and a little more than half use them on their tablets.
No Small Savings
31% say they save at least five hours a week from using laptops or notebooks.
Data Use Is Up
One-third have doubled their use of mobile data over the past two years by downloading and uploading files on their devices.
