Apple iTunes just crossed a milestone..Over 10 billion songs have now been downloaded from the online music store. Here are the approximate revenues made by Apple over the past few years from its iTunes store 2006 : $895 million 2007 : $1.20 billion 2008 : $1.59 billion 2009 : $1.80 billion

In 2007, Apple’s profits from its mobile handset business constituted just 3% of the overall profits made by the industry. At the end of 2009, this number was 37%. The biggest loser in this period has undoubtedly been Nokia whose share of profits has fallen from 60% in 2007 to 31% in 2009. Here is [...]

Google’s share of revenue from United States have fallen below the 50% over the past one year. One of the primary contributors to Google’s revenue from outside the United States is UK. Google’s total revenues in Q4 2009 : $6.67 billion Share of revenue from USA Q4 2008 : 50% Q3 2009 : 47% Q4 [...]

There are over 380 million Chinese who use the internet today. Popular activities include gaming, shopping and social networking. Revenues from these as well as advertising is seen to propel the industry in the near future. Here are the estimated online revenues from China according to a study conducted by iResearch 2008 : 57.15 billion [...]

A Forrester Research study on the uptake of digital music against the decline in purchase of physical music reveals that digital music growth is still not enough to cover the decline in physical sales. Here is the projected revenues from digital music sales in the years ahead 2008 : $1.7 billion 2009 : $1.8 billion [...]

Twitter’s 1.84% market share in the US is no match for Facebook’s 58% share. LinkedIn users’ average salary of $110,000 is much higher than the other social networks. Despite all this, Twitter manages to have reduced the gap between the companies when it comes to its estimated valuation. Most probably because Twitter offers real time [...]

If you are following the job market closely, you might be aware of Monster’s Career Ad Network. So how has the job based ad network perform? Here are the monthly uniques the company saw in the past few couple of months September 2009 : 84 million uniques October 2009 : 78 million uniques How much [...]

Will Windows 7 help in spurring the growth in PC shipments? Gartner looks skeptical. The company predicts only a modest increase in the shipment and sales revenue from PC in the 2009-2010 period. Shipments 2008 : 290.6 million 2009 : 298.8 million (2.8% growth) 2010 : 336.6 million (12.6% growth) Sales 2008 : $243 billion [...]

You might have been following the dispute over the past few months between VOIP provider Skype’s original founders and eCommerce giant eBay, the company that acquired them in 2005. Well, the dust has seemingly settled over the issue and new ownership agreements have been signed. Here are the stakes held by the various parties: eBay [...]

The Software-as-a-Service model has been getting pretty popular in the recent times and as Gartner notes, the revenue from SaaS are growing in double digits and shall continue to grow in the near future. Worldwide revenue from Saas 2008 : $6.4 billin 2009 : $7.5 billion (apprx.) 2013 : $14 billion As you see, this [...]