Archive for March, 2008
Gender Distribution of American Internet Population
Women have been surprisingly outnumbering men in terms of the number of online population. The numbers and projections till the year 2012 are: 2007: 90.8 million males and 97.3 million females 2008: 93.5 million males and 100.4 million females 2009: 96.4 million males and 103.7 million females 2010: 99.3 million males and 106.9 million females [...]
Posted: March 22nd, 2008 under Demographics.
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PC Market for Dell in China
China and India are two very critical markets for Dell and they have also plans to introduce market specific PCs for these two countries. Last year, Dell consumer sales in China grew by 54 percent. This is 3 times over the industry average of 17%. Market Share in China is 18% by revenue and 10% [...]
Posted: March 22nd, 2008 under Gadgets.
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Perceived Impact of American Recession on Consumer Tech Spending
The currently unstable American market has taken its toll on the consumer tech spending. In a recent survey to understand the same, only 19% respondents shall spend more on tech gadgets in the next 90 days 33% shall spend less on tech gadgets in the next 90 days People tending to spend more in the [...]
Posted: March 20th, 2008 under Miscellaneous.
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American Venture Capitalist Investments on Web 2.0 Companies in 2007
The list of VC investments in web 2.0 companies region-wise for the year 2007: Bay Area : 72 deals worth $721 million (Including Facebook) New England : 20 deals worth $158 million Southern California : 14 deals worth $115 million New York Metro : 25 deals worth $58 million Pacific Northwest : 13 deals worth [...]
Posted: March 20th, 2008 under Miscellaneous.
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Indian Cell Phone Penetration
Average number of subscribers added every month : 8 million Subscribers added in Feb ’08 : 8.46 million Total number of mobile subscribers : 246 million In 2004, there were only 34 million mobile phones in India!!!
Posted: March 19th, 2008 under Mobile Internet.
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Worldwide Distribution of Internet Users
US used to account for 66 percent of the world’s internet users back in 1996. Now it is just 21 percen. The percent change in the number of users over the past one year is a glaring reflection on the growing importance of Asia in the scheme of things: Asia Pacific – 13.9% Europe – [...]
Posted: March 19th, 2008 under internet.
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2007 Ad-Revenue Gains/Losses Among Media Companies
Not surprisingly, this list is headed by Google. The list of the highest ad revenue gains or losses over the previous year in descending order: Google – $2.6 billion NewsCorp – $915 million Microsoft – $510 million Viacom – $400 million Clear Channel Outdoor – $384 million Yahoo – $361 million AOL – $345 million [...]
Posted: March 19th, 2008 under Milestones.
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Growth of Gaming Industry in US
The American gaming industry growth rate was a prolific 34 percent to reach $1.33 billion for the month of February. This includes the sales of both the hardware and the software. Two of the gaming consoles manufacturers, Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox had such high demand in this period that they fell short of supply. [...]
Posted: March 19th, 2008 under Gaming.
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Most Popular Online Video Sites
Youtube has put Google well ahead of the rest. The market share that the different companies are currently holding in the online videos market: Google – 34.3% Fox – 6% Yahoo – 3.2% Microsoft – 2% Viacom – 2% AOL – 1.2% Disney Online – 1.0% Time Warner – 0.9% ESPN – 0.8% ABC – [...]
Posted: March 16th, 2008 under Social Media.
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Population of Online US Adult Female With Children
35 million – This is the number of American women with children under 18 who are online. This is more than 40 percent of all online women in US. The projected increase in their numbers till 2012: 2007 – 34.2 million 2008 – 35.3 million 2009 – 36.5 million 2010 – 37.7 million 2011 – [...]
Posted: March 14th, 2008 under Demographics.
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