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  Instagram is demonstrated on an iPhone Monday, April 9, 2012, in New York. Facebook is spending $1 billion to buy the photo-sharing company Instagram in the social network's largest acquisition ever. Instagram lets people apply filters to photos they snap with their mobile devices and share them with friends and strangers. (AP Photo/Karly Domb Sadof)   

U.S. mobile market dominated by smartphone owners

Smartphone owners are now the majority of the US mobile market. According to a new report from Nielsen, the US passed the tipping point in March, with 50.4 percent of mobile subscribers now sporting a smartphone. This is up from just under 50 percent in February and 37 percent from March 2011.

Yep — this is a smartphone country. And that affects how, when, and where we work, shop, and play.

Full Story: Smartphone owners now a majority of US mobile market, a multicultural feast for advertisers