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• About by: Anand Srinivasan

  August 21, 2007, 04:25

  'Tech Crunchies' is a website on the latest internet related statistics and surveys. Statistics covered here are all taken from some of the most credible names…

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  June 13, 2009, 17:10

  Privacy Policy for Techcrunchies.com The privacy of our visitors to Techcrunchies.com is important to us. At Techcrunchies.com, we recognize that…

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  September 13, 2009, 14:30

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  September 13, 2009, 14:45

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  November 29, 2009, 18:16

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• Contact Us by: Anand

  December 31, 2009, 18:03

  Tech Crunchies is based out of Chennai, India and has readers from across the world. We welcome feedback, queries and suggestions from our readers. Snail…

• Keep Visiting Tech Crunchies by: Anand Srinivasan

  June 21, 2010, 16:40

  Tech Crunchies offers readers an exciting database of statistics from the world of internet and technology. It is not only useful for marketers and students…

• Google+ Demographic Report - Gender Distribution by: Anand Srinivasan

  July 14, 2011, 15:48

  <<Previous In a sample of close to 950,000 Google+ users, it is seen that over 73.70% of them happen to be male. The percentage of women on Google+ at…

• Google+ Demographic Report - Top Occupations Of Users by: Anand Srinivasan

  July 14, 2011, 15:59

  <<Previous Not surprisingly, the top occupation of users on Google+ is "Engineer" at just less than 25%. However, the actual nerd crowd is bigger than…

• Google+ Demographic Report - Top Cities by: Anand Srinivasan

  July 14, 2011, 16:06

  <<Previous Most tech ideas grow from the Silicon valley and Google+; despite the strong backing from the Mountain View based tech giant, is no…

• Google+ Demographic Report - Top Countries by: Anand Srinivasan

  July 14, 2011, 16:10

  <<Previous If you were looking for the usual suspects like Canada and United Kingdom in the top five, you may be in for a surprise. Indians, with…

• Google+ Demographic Report - World User Distribution by: Anand Srinivasan

  July 14, 2011, 16:15

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  • Need Your Opinion - Please Vote by: Anand

    September 21, 2009, 08:59

    TechCrunchies has always been a website that caters primarily to internet related statistics, and we have close to 780 posts till date on this topic. However,…

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  • How Twitter Can Help You Become a Media Darling? by: Anand

    September 30, 2009, 07:53

    What if you are a professor no student cares about or own a market research agency no client comes to? You can still become a media darling with the help of…

  • More Social Networking Means More Time Spent on Email? by: Anand

    September 29, 2009, 09:10

    A new study by Nielsen into the consumption patterns of internet users of social media and email has 'proved' that the heaviest consumers of social media are…

  • Bull Whip Effect on Website Activity, Ad Spending and Valuations by: Anand

    September 26, 2009, 08:21

    Bullwhip effect is a term used in Supply Chain systems to describe the forecasting error that occurs as you move upstream in the supply chain cycle. A classic…

  • 5 things to do when your site gets a bad review by: Anand

    October 18, 2007, 12:46

    Suppose this: You have just invested a few thousand dollars and built your own niche social network website. And you frantically write to the influential…

• Apple  (51)
  • World's Largest Phone Manufacturers By Units Sold by: Anand Srinivasan

    October 29, 2010, 17:25

    The mobile phone segment is very competitive with every quarter bringing some sort of a surprise. Back in May this year, I had written about an IDC report that…

  • Number Of Smartphones Sold Per Day - iPhone Vs. Android Vs. Nokia by: Anand Srinivasan

    September 14, 2010, 13:16

    Apple and Google have been fighting a lot over numbers of late. Steve Jobs had recently mocked Google's claims of activating over 200,000 devices everyday by…

  • Apple Revenue Breakdown From iPhone, iPad, Mac & iPod by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 21, 2010, 14:20

    Apple has reported extremely impressive results for the last quarter. The most critical pointer is that the company's revenue is no longer dependent on just…

  • Apple Revenue Share From App Store by: Anand Srinivasan

    June 24, 2010, 07:59

    From the outset, the numbers are pretty evident - The app developer stands to earn 70% of the price of an app and Apple earns 30%. But Steve Jobs has also…

  • Income Level Distribution Of iPhone Users by: Anand Srinivasan

    June 9, 2010, 07:23

    Don't accuse me of stereotyping people, but isn't it a generic observation that older people are less technological savvy than the younger lot - and that the…

  • iPhone OS Geographic Distribution Worldwide by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 27, 2010, 06:49

    AdMob has published its latest list where it has looked into the distribution of iPhone devices worldwide. The study reiterates what we already know - that the…

  • Total Number Of iPad Apps By Category by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 1, 2010, 11:09

    The iPad was launched on April 3rd and since then over 600,000 iPads have been sold. Distimo has also noted that there are over 200,000 apps on the App Store…

  • How Many iPhones Have Been Sold To Date by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 22, 2010, 08:00

    Apple just released their latest quarterly earnings report and we had already written, the company has clocked its highest earnings in a non-holiday quarter.…

  • Apple Revenues By Product by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 21, 2010, 08:27

    Following up with Apple's Quarterly revenues distribution by geography, it also an interesting study to look at it from the product perspective. While the…

  • Apple Revenues By Geography by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 21, 2010, 08:09

    Apple has just announced its latest quarterly earnings. It is apparently the company's highest ever earnings outside the holiday season. Also impressive is its…

  • Largest Apple Markets In USA by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 17, 2010, 04:09

    Apple, based out of Cupertino, California has always been popular in the region. A recent study conducted by Experian Simmons confirms this report. According…

  • Cost To Manufacture iPad by: Anand

    January 30, 2010, 10:03

    The entry model of the Apple iPad has been tagged at a price of 9. How much does it cost to make an entry level iPad? Here is a Bill of Material analysis…

  • Quarterly Break-down Of iPhone Sales by: Anand

    January 26, 2010, 07:14

    The iPhone was launched in mid-2007. Nearly ten quarters have passed since then. How many iPhones did Apple sell through each of these quarters? Here is a…

  • Apple Share Of Worldwide Mobile Web by: Anand

    January 9, 2010, 05:35

    The iPhone is no doubt a major contributor to the web content consumption via mobile phones. In a study conducted by Quantcast, the region with highest…

  • iPhone User Distribution Worldwide by: Gowri Naveen

    December 21, 2009, 05:26

    Where do most iPhone users come from? AdMob's latest report says half the users are just from the US. And that's by far the only country which has user…

  • Fastest Growing iPhone Markets by: Anand

    December 21, 2009, 04:58

    In a recent report released by AdMob, the company studied the number of ad requests sent by iPhones in different parts of the world from January to November of…

  • Apple Website Traffic Statistics by: Kasthuri VN

    December 15, 2009, 05:23

    While it is not an internet property by itself, Apple is still among the top ten internet portals in the US. Most of this could come from users looking to…

  • Cost of iPhone Components by: Gowri Naveen

    December 10, 2009, 05:47

    What is the cost price of an iPhone? GigaOm has a fantastic presentation that outlines the cost of every component inside the iPhone which brings the total…

  • Most Popular iPhone Apps in China by: Anand

    November 19, 2009, 04:17

    The iPhone sales have not picked up enough in China with only 30,000 sold so far. However, the apps have started to move off the shelves and no surprise a…

  • Apple Mac Ownership in American Households by: Anand

    October 6, 2009, 05:55

    Most American households that own a Mac also own a Windows PC. A study into this suggests a probability that in most households, Apple is probably the second…

  • How Much Money Does Apple Make From App Store? by: Anand

    September 26, 2009, 16:50

    Apple apparently makes millions, though that is still a small percentage of their overall revenues. Apple charges 30% on the sale of every iPhone app. Close to…

  • Apple - Split of Revenues From Various Businesses by: Anand

    September 9, 2009, 09:46

    How much Apple make from its different businesses - Mac, iPhones, iPods, iTunes,etc? Here is the estimated split in its margins for 2009: iPhone : 15% Macs :…

  • Interesting Facts About Apple's App Store by: Anand

    August 22, 2009, 09:09

    It's tough job to be on the panel of reviewers who review each of the several thousands of iPhone apps being submitted to Apple every day. Here are some…

  • Forecast of iPhone Yearly Sales by: Anand

    August 19, 2009, 09:13

    Assuming market shares to remain flat, which is not very likely, Apple could expect to sell around 11 million handsets a year by 2011. This comes from 10.3…

  • Most Popular Camera Phones by: Anand

    August 18, 2009, 08:21

    An iPhone only has a 2MP camera. But that doesn't make it any lesser and is seemingly the most popular camera phone (by a huge margin) among the photography…

  • Are iPhones and iPods Kid Friendly? by: Anand

    August 14, 2009, 09:12

    You might guess the answer to be in a whopping affirmative since the survey can only be conducted among iPhone owners, those who are anyway madly in love with…

  • Interesting Facts About iPhone in China by: Anand

    August 14, 2009, 08:22

    Here are some interesting facts about the upcoming launch of iPhone in China: Exclusive distributor : China Unicom Number of iPhones purchased : 5 million (@…

  • How do iPhone Users Discover New Apps? by: Anand

    August 13, 2009, 07:58

    There are 65,000 iphone apps currently available on the app store. How can a human possibly surf through them all and download the best apps? Here is how…

  • iPhone and iPod Touch Distribution by Region by: Anand

    July 24, 2009, 15:26

    It was no secret that iPhone and iPod touch were more popular in US than anywhere else. A testament to the fact is here with the new Admob report on iPhone and…

  • Malfunction Rate of Smartphones : iPhone vs. Blackberry vs. Treo by: Anand

    June 28, 2009, 08:50

    iPhones are seemingly less prone to malfunction than a blackberry or a Treo. Here is the malfunction rate observed after the first 22 months of use: iPhone :…

  • Age Demographics of iPhone Users by: Anand

    June 15, 2009, 13:04

    iPhone users are older than you might think. More than half of the iPhone users are above the age of 35. Here is the percent-wise distribution of iPhone users…

  • Most Popular Free Apps for iPhone by: Anand

    April 11, 2009, 15:12

    Here is a list of the most downloaded free apps on iPhone: 1. Facebook 2. Google Earth 3. Pandora Radio 4. Tap Tap Revenge 5. Shazam 6. Pac Man Lite 7.…

  • Worldwide Smartphone Market Share in 2008 by: Anand

    March 13, 2009, 15:17

    iPhone sales grew 245%, RIM's Blackberry sales grew 96% and HTC grew 58%. In the end of it, here is the market share of the different companies at the end of…

  • Most Popular iPhone Apps Categories by: Anand

    March 6, 2009, 15:00

    If you try to buy every app in the iPhone AppStore, it shall cost you ,442.69. This is because there are over 25000 iPhone applications on store right now.…

  • How Many iPhone Apps Downloaded Till Date? by: Anand

    January 21, 2009, 14:10

    Over 300 million iPhone apps have been downloaded in the last three months. Here is the number of apps been downloaded by the iPhone users in the past three…

  • How iPhone Fared in Indian Market by: Anand

    November 14, 2008, 17:59

    Here are some numbers to analyze how Apple performed with their iPhone in India: Number of mobile phones sold in a year in India : 120 million Number of Smart…

  • Network Provider for iPhones in Different Countries by: Anand

    March 31, 2008, 18:31

    Here is the list of the carrier that iPhone comes locked with in each of the countries it is sold or shall be sold. US - AT&T Germany - T Mobile UK -…

  • What Percent of America Newly Owned an iPod Last Quarter? by: Anand

    February 29, 2008, 19:07

    40 percent of iPod sales in the fourth quarter of 2007 were from first time buyers. That is 40 percent of 22.1 million iPods that were sold in this time…

  • Sales Target for iPhone in 2008 by: Anand

    February 28, 2008, 15:30

    Apple COO has made a sales forecast of 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008. Mr.Cook says with the progress till now, the company is on the right track to…

  • Worldwide Distribution of Unlocked iPhones by: Anand

    January 30, 2008, 17:05

    Apple has an agreement with AT&T to sell iPhones enabled with only the latter's network. However unlocking the iPhone is not that uncommon, if not…

  • iTunes vs. Zune by: Anand

    December 28, 2007, 21:31

    This comparison is solely for the Christmas day 2007. Market share of visits to Zune increased by 392% compared to the previous day Market share of visits to…

  • Residual Impact of iPhones and iPods on Apple's Revenue by: Anand

    December 28, 2007, 14:53

    This post is not about the revenue from sales of iPods and iPhones. It is about the sale of songs, movies and TV Shows through iTunes. 5 Million iPhones are…

  • DRM-free Music: Apple vs. Amazon by: Anand

    December 27, 2007, 18:09

    Amazon is currently winning over Apple. Amazon Collections from Warner Music Group ( Led Zeppelin, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Green Day) EMI Universal and 33,000…

  • Rent Videos through iTunes by: Anand

    December 27, 2007, 10:18

    The deal is between Apple and 20th Century Fox. This shall be announced formally on Jan 14. Possible video rental charge :.99 for 30 days.

  • How many iPhones sold till now? by: Anand

    December 22, 2007, 10:24

    Apple's target : 10 million iPhones to be sold by end of 2008 No. of days to sell the first million iPhones : 74 Expected number of sales by end of 2007 : 5…

  • iPhone popularity US vs. Europe by: Anand

    December 6, 2007, 14:23

    USA beats Europe hands down when it comes to iPhone sales. Apple had sold 270,000 units of iPhones in the first week of sales in US. But, the sales in Europe…

  • New plans for iPhone international travelers by: Anand

    November 3, 2007, 06:29

    Current plan charges

    .0195 per kilobyte of data processed. In the new plan, AT&T offers 50MB of data per month to browse, check email. The charge for…

  • How to get read-write access for your iPhone filesystem? by: Anand

    November 1, 2007, 20:51

    Use AppSnapp. It's a web based script that installs Installer.app that shall enable you to catalog and install other third party applications on your iPhone.…

  • Should I buy iPhones from Canada? by: Anand

    October 29, 2007, 06:53

    Get if from US, if possible. Deal you get in Canada (December 7, 2007 onward) Selling price                    9 CAD (0 USD) Network     …

  • Why are iPhones locked? by: Anand

    October 29, 2007, 06:41

    Because of the profit Apple stands to make by maintaining the exclusivity of the deal with AT&T Amount AT&T pays per iPhone connection in one…

  • Is there a restriction on iPhone purchase? by: Anand

    October 27, 2007, 20:46

    Yes. Apple has recently announced this. Here on, you may only purchase iPhones on credit card (No cash). Also, you may purchase not more than two units. So,…

• Blogs  (25)
  • Number Of Bloggers In The US by: Anand Srinivasan

    June 23, 2010, 07:44

    Acording to a recent study by Sysomos, close to 30% of all bloggers worldwide are from the United States. While the study did not elaborate on the number of…

  • Bloggers Demographics By Location, Age And Gender by: Anand Srinivasan

    June 9, 2010, 07:09

    Sysomos has released its latest study on blogger demographics. To do this, the firm looked into more than 100 million blogs. According to their report, USA…

  • Tumblr - Interesting Statistics by: Anand

    March 16, 2010, 04:16

    Tumblr is one of most popular microblogging platform which may not have the same buzz about it as a Twitter or Facebook, but definitely quite popular; if the…

  • Blogging Among Teenagers And Adults by: Anand

    February 5, 2010, 05:41

    Blogging among teenagers is no longer a fad and lesser teens blog today compared to 2-3 years back. However, 30+ year olds are still waking up to the concept…

  • Corporate Blogging : Frequency Of Updates by: Anand

    January 2, 2010, 05:25

    How frequent should a corporate blog be updated? While there is no thumb rule to go by, Technorati's study on blogging shows the following update frequency…

  • How Bloggers Make Money by: Gowri Naveen

    January 2, 2010, 05:14

    The past decade has seen a lot of people make money publishing online content on their blogs. So, how do these bloggers make money? Technorati's study on the…

  • New Media Usage Among Bloggers by: Anand

    January 1, 2010, 04:40

    Is blogging mainstream yet? While we might tend to believe it that way, considering the several thousands of blogs that exist today, it apparently is not.…

  • Statistics on Active Bloggers and Blog Readers by: Anand

    October 21, 2009, 04:19

    Statistics can be so confusing, especially when it comes from different sources. It was only a few days back when I wrote about 9% of all bloggers doing it…

  • How Many Full-Time Bloggers in All? by: Anand

    October 17, 2009, 06:36

    According to a new report by Technorati, close to 9% of all bloggers are self-employed/full-timers and a majority of the bloggers are merely hobbyists who do…

  • Online Ad Spending on Podcasts by: Anand

    September 10, 2009, 10:00

    Are podcasts still to say? Though they have not taken the world by storm as it was predicted to be, they are still growing and that is very important. Here are…

  • Number of Professional Bloggers in USA by: Anand

    April 22, 2009, 17:14

    Blogging is catching up as a profession in the United States, matching up to the attorneys in number. Here are a few numbers to chew Number of bloggers in the…

  • How Many Podcast Listeners in USA by: Anand

    March 3, 2009, 14:50

    Podcast has been slowly and steadily getting mainstream in the USA, and the number of podcast listeners as percentage of internet users has been growing. Here…

  • Credibility of Blogs As Information Source by: Anand

    December 16, 2008, 18:27

    How trustworthy are blogs perceived? An exhaustive global survey provides a dismal picture of blogs as a trustworthy news medium. Here are the percent…

  • Are Blogs Influential? by: Anand

    November 11, 2008, 16:38

    How influential are blogs in helping the reader make a purchasing decision? Here is the percent of American bloggers who accepted to have been influenced to…

  • US Female Participation in the Blogosphere by: Anand

    May 19, 2008, 12:55

    More than one third of American women participated actively or passively in the blogosphere: Participate in the Blogosphere : 36.2% Read and/or post comments…

  • Blog Readership Statisics by: Anand

    May 16, 2008, 06:18

    Any not-so-internet savvy friend would wonder if people actually visit blogs and read them. However, with increase in the number of blogs, the readership is…

  • American Market for Podcast Advertising by: Anand

    May 1, 2008, 21:25

    Podcast advertising is growing much more than expected. A projection of the advertising spending on podcasts in the American market for 2007 - 2012. 2007 -…

  • Do Blogs Influence Public Perception About A Company? by: Anand

    April 5, 2008, 07:19

    Blogs do not influence a great deal, but it has already started to be seen as a credible source of information by elite consumers as a source of information…

  • Do Political Blogs Have a Following? by: Anand

    March 12, 2008, 18:57

    Do blogs that discuss politics have a loyal following among the American population? Seemingly, it does not. In a recent survey on the popularity of Political…

  • Corporate Blogging Among B2B Marketers by: Anand

    February 8, 2008, 18:14

    A majority of B2B marketers have still not taken to corporate blogging. 33% feel they are open to this medium but were still experimenting with the medium. 5%…

  • Growth of US Podcast Audience by: Anand

    February 1, 2008, 06:00

    The American Podcast audience grew by over 285% last year to 18.5 million listeners. This number shall continue its dramatic rise to reach 65 million listeners…

  • Popularity of Blogging in Russia by: Anand

    January 30, 2008, 17:53

    Blogging as an internet activity is growing phenomenally in Russia. In the past year alone, the number of Russian blogs multiplied over 2.6 times. There are…

  • Teenagers Online Social Content Creation by: Anand

    December 20, 2007, 06:57

    How much are the American 12 to 17 year old involved in User-Generated-Content creation? 64 percent of all those online do it. Blogging : 35% girls and 20%…

  • Top 25 Web celebrities for 2007 by: Anand

    December 19, 2007, 20:27

    The Forbes released its list of the celebrities on the web 1. Perez Hilton 2. Michael Arrington 3. Mark Frauenfelder 4. Seth Godin 5. Cory Doctorow 6.…

  • Popularity of blogging platform LiveJournal in Russia by: Anand

    December 3, 2007, 06:22

    Current number of LiveJournal accounts: 14 million Esimated monthly audience of LiveJournal worldwide: 18 million unique visitors Share of Russian audience :…

• browsers  (25)
  • Web Browser Market Share - September 2010 by: Anand Srinivasan

    October 8, 2010, 13:35

    What's your favorite browser? I changed from Firefox to Chrome over a year back and it looks like there were several people like me. The latest report from…

  • Internet Browser Market Share 2010 by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 4, 2010, 07:08

    Janco Associates have published a white paper that elaborates on the latest browser market share (based on usage in April 2010).  The firm writes, "Based on…

  • Opera Mini On iPhone - Interesting Statistics by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 28, 2010, 08:19

    Opera has released its customary 'State of the Mobile Web' report and this is the first report since the Opera Mini app for iPhone was approved by Apple few…

  • Firefox Worldwide Market Share And Number Of Users by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 1, 2010, 04:17

    Mozilla Firefox has been the browser that has been able to take on the dominance of Internet Explorer most effectively. In its most recent metrics report,…

  • Social Networks Access Via Mobile Browsers by: Anand

    March 5, 2010, 05:34

    In the past one year, the number of users accessing Facebook from their smartphone mobile browser has jumped 112%. The corresponding number for Twitter is…

  • Firefox Growth Rate Worldwide by: Anand

    January 9, 2010, 05:24

    Firefox has continued to grow over the past year. You might remember that back in August, Firefox 3.5 garnered a 4.5% market share among web browsers within…

  • Opera-Mini Usage Growth Region-wise by: Kasthuri VN

    December 23, 2009, 05:45

    We had earlier seen the top 10 countries for Opera Mini in terms of usage. Now, here is how the mobile web browser is growing in the various parts of the…

  • Most Popular Browser in Germany by: Kasthuri VN

    December 3, 2009, 05:17

    This news made me happy - Firefox has overtaken IE as the most used web browser in Germany. Right now, the lead is marginal and so it is still so much possible…

  • Opera Mini Mobile Browser Usage Statistics by: Kasthuri VN

    November 27, 2009, 05:47

    Opera Mini is no doubt still one of the most popular browsers on the mobile phones. So how has the usage been growing? A in-house report released earlier this…

  • Mobile Browser Market Share Worldwide by: Anand

    November 23, 2009, 06:59

    How long before Android overtakes the iPhone? At least quite some time, if we are to go by what StatCounter statistics say. According the market share recorded…

  • Growth and Usage Statistics of Opera Mini Mobile Browser by: Anand

    September 25, 2009, 09:49

    Opera claims the mini browser as the most popular mobile browser in the world. While that is debatable, here are some stats released by the company on their…

  • Firefox Add-ons Adoption And Usage by: Anand

    August 27, 2009, 08:57

    The core strength of Firefox has been the implementation of add-ons to your browser. So, how many users have installed Firefox add-ons on their system? Average…

  • Year-on-Year Growth of Opera Mini Mobile Browser by: Anand

    August 26, 2009, 08:52

    Opera mini's usage has considerably grown through the vacation season possibly because more people are on the move. This does not mean they have not grown…

  • Browser Market Share Statistics (July 2009) by: Anand

    August 17, 2009, 08:20

    Firefox 3.5 launched just a month and a half back, now has a 4.54% market share. This simply means that the earlier versions of Firefox suffered a slight…

  • Most Popular Mobile Browser (2008 - 2009) by: Anand

    June 10, 2009, 14:48

    Since iPhone launched, it has very swiftly taken to the top ranks and lags behind the most popular Opera by only a small margin. Here are nine mobile browsers…

  • Are You Using the Latest Version of Your Browser by: Anand

    July 12, 2008, 12:28

    New versions of browsers are often the most secure. The readiness of the users to update to the latest versions of the browsers that they use, is however very…

  • What is Download Day 2008 by: Anand

    June 2, 2008, 18:30

    Download Day 2008 is a marketing initiative by Mozilla to set a world record downloads of Firefox 3 when it is launched this year. People who pledge to help…

  • Firefox Reaches 500 Million Downloads by: Anand

    February 22, 2008, 18:33

    Firefox has now been downloaded 500,000,000 times. This is a milestone for the browser that now has a regular users base of over 150 million users. The site…

  • Firefox Popularity in Europe by: Anand

    January 31, 2008, 07:11

    Firefox usage is leaping ahead in Europe. In the beginning of 2007, Firefox had a 7.3 percent market share in Europe. In one year's time, this has increased to…

  • Most Popular Browser in Businesses by: Anand

    January 13, 2008, 07:37

    Internet Explorer remains the most favorite corporate browser. The market share ascertained from 17 top B2B websites are Internet Explorer (IE) - 67% Firefox…

  • Netscape Navigator dead? by: Anand

    December 28, 2007, 20:48

    AOL that acquired Netscape in November 1998 shall stop development work on the Netscape Navigator browser from February 1, 2008. This shall mark the end of the…

  • What does Mozilla do apart from Firefox? by: Anand

    December 23, 2007, 09:46

    You had always thought about it right? Well, till now, Mozilla owned two things: Firefox - browser Thunderbird - email Now, they are also adding a new web…

  • Which is the most popular browser? by: Anand

    December 5, 2007, 17:47

    The recent report from NetApplications on the popularity of browsers by usage throws the following percentage share of the different browsers in the market: I…

  • How many Mozilla users? by: Anand

    December 4, 2007, 11:34

    New study based on pings to Mozilla server estimates that the number of Firefox users is around 49 million. Studies in July had estimated the number of be…

  • How much does Mozilla Firefox earn? by: Anand

    November 12, 2007, 08:34

    Mozilla foundation owns assets around million. In 2006, the revenues came to about million. Of this million, 85 percent has come from Google.…

• Business Marketing Strategies  (10)
  • Will Facebook overtake Orkut in India? by: Anand

    October 12, 2007, 16:00

    It has been three years since social networking started off in this part of the world, and for almost the entire period it has been Orkut that has been the…

  • iPhone: 9 to 9 - Where Apple goofed up by: Anand

    September 7, 2007, 18:44

    When Apple announced yesterday that they are dropping the price of their iPhone 8GB from 9 to 9, you would expect jubilation all around. One thing that…

  • Celebrity advertising - No, this is different! by: Anand

    March 21, 2007, 22:02

    We all know how brands are made or broken with celebrity advertising. But of late, Yahoo and Google have chosen the new way to use celebrities as a way to…

  • 'Google Bombing' for the right reasons by: Anand

    March 10, 2007, 18:56

    Google Bombs are always thought of as part of technology humor; something to simply show why George Bush is a 'Miserable Failure' or to do other similar…

  • IM through Ads by: Anand

    March 6, 2007, 15:01

    I recently came across an Adsense ad on John Tp's blog. Here is a screenshot of the same. The advertiser in this case was John Chow, a technology blogger.It is…

  • Marketing Internet companies in different geographies by: Anand

    February 21, 2007, 19:54

    Companies which establish a global presence usually take marketing locally; the very reason why Pepsi makes such a cry about 'blue' in India (where the local…

  • YouTube Monetization plan - Loopholes and Ways to combat by: Anand

    February 2, 2007, 15:01

    This week, YouTube founder Chad Hurley had set up a storm by announcing that YouTube is planning to share its revenue with its users. This has, over the week,…

  • NOFOLLOW: Business sense of manipulation by: Anand

    January 30, 2007, 17:48

    Earlier during January, Wikipedia announced that all external links on its websites shall be hyperlinked with a NOFOLLOW tag in order to put a curb on…

  • Implications of changes in the Adsense ToS by: Anand

    January 24, 2007, 20:50

    This week, Jennifer Slegg, author of the blog on Contextual advertising, JenSense announced after her conversation with Brian Axe, the Senior Product Manager…

  • Age of Google: Branding an alternative Search Engine by: Anand

    January 23, 2007, 19:38

    In a book titled '101 Best Dotcoms' published in 2000, I found an interesting line from the author which went like this: 'Amongst your favorite search engines…

• Business Model Analysis  (29)
  • Freemium : Most Popular Premium Services On Free Websites by: Anand

    January 16, 2010, 05:27

    The Freemium business model has been one of the popular ways to make money from websites. Offering the basic service for free brings loads of new users to the…

  • Nexus One vs. iPhone vs. Droid vs. myTouch : First Week Sales by: Anand

    January 13, 2010, 10:04

    Much like the box office, the number of handsets sold in the first week of launch of the handsets very well give us a picture of things to come. Flurry, the…

  • Consumer Willingness To Pay For Online Content by: Anand

    January 7, 2010, 05:11

    Ever since Rupert Murdoch stirred up the debate on letting people pay to access his company's online content, people have been discussing the viability of such…

  • Cloud Computing Growth Forecast by: Kasthuri VN

    January 1, 2010, 05:25

    Cloud computing is being touted as the future of the web. Everything from your Word documents to pictures, music has been moving to the cloud. In Google Apps,…

  • Newspaper Online Revenues by: Anand

    November 24, 2009, 05:07

    Things are not looking great for the newspaper industry. Revenues have been falling both online and in print and looks like News Corp was right in taking a…

  • Most Preferred Means of Payment To Read Paid-News Service by: Anand

    September 22, 2009, 08:45

    Only 5% of the people might be ready to pay to read news online. However, a majority of them would be willing to rather pay a yearly subscription once than…

  • Subscriber Readiness To Pay For Online News Content by: Anand

    September 21, 2009, 07:31

    If your favorite news website (if it were not WSJ) decides to charge money in turn for your access to their news, will you continue to stick to the same…

  • Ecommerce, Advertising - What works best for a Casual Games site? by: Anand

    November 12, 2007, 08:45

    More and more casual games sites are looking into advertising as the form of revenue. SHOCKWAVE.COM Traffic to free, ad-suported games: 90 percent Revenue…

  • What does the 6 million loss means for eBay? by: Anand

    October 20, 2007, 21:39

    This is only the second time eBay is posting a loss. But the loss has been huge this quarter: 6 million. The loss is seen as a hangover of eBay's purchase…

  • Is Web 3.0 Web-mobile? by: Anand

    October 5, 2007, 22:15

    Sometime back, I had written about how Google and Nokia are trying to penetrate the mobile web market. Back then, I had speculated that Google was trying to…

  • LinkedIn getting wary of the FB virus? by: Anand

    September 27, 2007, 19:56

    Facebook has been the most talked about social network in recent times. Be it for the latest Facebook app or the rumors of acquisition, the blogosphere loves…

  • Did Robert Scoble forget Nokia? by: Anand

    August 31, 2007, 20:38

    Duncan Riley caused a mass heart-attack of the Techcrunch audience this week when he reported Robert Scoble's prediction that Mahalo, Techmeme and Facebook are…

  • Now get rewarded for Spamming! by: Anand

    August 28, 2007, 11:48

    The blogosphere is now speculating a new form of ad network that Google is coming up with. This is after a series of patents have been filed by Google in that…

  • Youtube video ads - Where Google is going wrong by: Anand

    August 23, 2007, 15:38

    Yesterday, Google announced that they shall now be placing ads inside the Youtube videos. Here are a few significant points with regard to this announcement: Ad…

  • Three reasons why Yahoo should not partner with Google - An advertiser's perspective by: Anand

    August 10, 2007, 20:05

    If you cannot face an enemy, become his ally. That's exactly what Yahoo is trying to do. If the recent rumours are to be believed, Yahoo might give up its paid…

  • Google "Smartads" on Mobiles? by: Anand

    August 2, 2007, 18:52

    Last week, Nokia announced that they were acquiring the multimedia sharing website Twango. Twango is a website where you may share all the pictures, videos,…

  • Is Wikipedia a vulnerable tool for propoganda? by: Anand

    July 28, 2007, 14:44

    Wikipedia is the most celebrated example for success in Search Engine Optimization. There are hundreds of thousands of keywords that get a link to Wikipedia on…

  • Del.icio.us - Is Yahoo getting anything out of this? by: Anand

    July 11, 2007, 14:30

    It is one and a half years since Yahoo acquired Del.icio.us, the online bookmarking service. Any acquisition goes with a long term business strategy. At most…

  • What if Google buys PayPerPost? by: Anand

    May 24, 2007, 17:20

    Google has been on a buying spree over the past few months. Just weeks after announcing the purchase of DoubleClick, the online advertising network, this week,…

  • Ad Network consolidation by: Anand

    May 1, 2007, 10:53

    This April, Google announced their acquisition of Doubleclick. This was for a whopping .1 billion dollars. This has signalled the first step towards online…

  • Web History - the story inside out by: Anand

    April 21, 2007, 19:31

    Every business has a 'Statement of Purpose' from two points - the Marketing view point and the Operation view point. The Marketing purpose is to look out for…

  • David Vs. Goliath - Does it hold true? by: Anand

    April 6, 2007, 19:56

    Google recently launched MyMaps, which allows you to create custom maps with your own placemarks. This has sort of made websites such as Wikimapia and other…

  • Widget Networking - the next in-thing? by: Anand

    March 15, 2007, 16:47

    MyBlogLog has had a fair share of criticism in recent times. It was accused of revealing Google Adsense information that was hereto confidential under the…

  • Next: Google Ads for your Video Games! by: Anand

    February 16, 2007, 18:48

    TechCrunch recently announced that Google has made a million acquisition of AdScape Media. Adscape is a San Francisco based company that is credited with…

  • 'Most Valuable Sites' for the Web 2.0 era by: Anand

    February 13, 2007, 20:36

    Web 2.0 has been around for more than two years now. Around June of 2006, two Israeli programmers got together to create a website in their sparetime that will…

  • Yahoo makes a BrickHouse opposite Google's Labs! by: Anand

    February 10, 2007, 13:45

    This week, Yahoo announced the launch of its new super-product called Pipes. Pipes is not just a great product in terms of innovation, but it is also that…

  • Yahoo's Panama model - For good or bad? by: Anand

    February 6, 2007, 17:46

    In a significant move in the advertising segment of the Search Engine industry, Yahoo has announced that it is now completely doing away with the bid-to-positio…

  • Offline Businesses Online: Comparison of different Business models by: Anand

    January 28, 2007, 07:17

    It makes a lot of sense for small businesses to enter online. The extremely cheap setup cost, coupled with a wordwide audience and a 24X7 open shop makes it an…

  • Next Generation Image Search technology by: Anand

    January 22, 2007, 15:12

    What is the next generation image search going to be like? StockPhotoTalk, in an article on a similar topic hints at image search engines like YotoPhoto and…

• Communication  (46)
  • Number Of Emails Sent Per Day 40 Years Since It Was First Sent by: Anand Srinivasan

    October 9, 2011, 09:25

    Forty years back, in October 1971, the first email was sent. The email was sent between two computers separated by a distance of 1 meter and presumably…

  • Number Of Users On Hotmail Vs. Gmail Vs. Yahoo Mail by: Anand Srinivasan

    November 13, 2010, 11:26

    There has been a lot of talk about Facebook launching their own email service next week. The buzz is already so high that the new "Facebook Mail" is touted to…

  • Average Number Of Text Messages In A Day - Adults Vs. Teens by: Anand Srinivasan

    September 20, 2010, 13:09

    In any discussion about the growth and usage of text messaging, it is always the teenage population that dominate the discussions. However, according to a…

  • Email Marketing : Email Open Rate Vs. Click Through Rate by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 20, 2010, 12:46

    Is email as a marketing medium losing its sheen? For quite some time, email marketing has been one of the cheapest and most effective medium to catch up with…

  • Mobile VoIP Growth Forecast by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 5, 2010, 12:47

    In February of this year, I had written about the growth of mobile data by application and had noted that mobile VoIP and IM applications had grown by 47% over…

  • Global Spam Statistics by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 29, 2010, 06:18

    Symantec has announced its latest MessageLabs report for April 2010 that looks into the proliferation of spam in the various geographies. There are some…

  • Average Teenage Text Messaging Statistics by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 23, 2010, 14:32

    It has been a long established fact that text messaging is the most popular medium of communication among teenagers. This is primarily because it is always-on,…

  • Study On Email Subscription Management  by: Anand Srinivasan

    March 29, 2010, 05:28

    Offering an easy way out for unwilling subscribers to email newsletters is considered good business manners. Yet, a lot many companies fail to simplify the…

  • Dutch Mobile Market Statistics by: Anand

    March 13, 2010, 06:09

    TelecomPaper released their latest report on the wireless market in Netherlands. According to the report while growth rate has slowed down since a year…

  • Number of Emails Sent Worldwide by: Anand

    March 2, 2010, 05:08

    Here is a video compiled by Jess3 from various sources that give an interesting perspective of the state of the web today. According to its sources (Radicati…

  • US Mobile Network Operators Market Share by: Anand

    February 20, 2010, 04:00

    Verizon is undoubtedly the leader among the mobile network operators. Thanks to the prolific growth of smartphones including the iPhone, AT&T comes second.…

  • GSM Mobile Market Share In India by: Anand

    February 15, 2010, 04:31

    The Cellular Operators Association Of India (COAI) has just released their January 2010 list for the number of GSM subscribers across the various cell phone…

  • Global Email Delivery Rates - By Region And ISP by: Anand

    February 5, 2010, 05:07

    A study of the number of instances permissioned commercial mails failing to reach the inbox of the recipients was studied by Return Path.  Here are some…

  • Skype International Phone Traffic Volume by: Anand

    January 20, 2010, 05:26

    International calling minutes is increasing. But the growth of traffic over conventional carriers is slowing down while VoIP, especially Skype is picking up.…

  • Text Messaging Volumes in USA by: Kasthuri VN

    December 20, 2009, 07:37

    If you need any evidence to see how much text messaging has proliferated in the past few years, you just need to see this statistic. Of course, this is also a…

  • Volume of SMS Sent in Japan (And Asia Pacific) by: Anand

    November 26, 2009, 05:43

    The Asia Pacific and Japan region has one of the most voracious users of text messages as is evident in the numbers here. The numbers are provided in Gartner's…

  • Online Radio vs. Traditional Radio - Revenue Estimates by: Anand

    November 4, 2009, 03:51

    Online radio is still a minuscule part of the entire radio industry, but it has been seeing a slow and steady growth over the past few years. Today, online…

  • Categorization of Emails Received Based on Spam,Offers,Personal and Business by: Anand

    September 26, 2009, 09:02

    We all receive spam. However, it forms the major portion of an American's inbox, much more than the inbox of people from anywhere else. Here is how the email…

  • Most Popular Tools For Personal Online Communication by: Anand

    September 26, 2009, 08:51

    Email is still king when it comes to communicating online. Social networks, still far far behind. Here are the numbers for North Ameica, Europe and Asia…

  • Email Service Providers Most Conducive For Email Marketing Campaigns by: Anand

    September 8, 2009, 09:45

    If you are an email marketer, you will realize that it is not just about how big your database is, but how well your targets respond. You might probably not…

  • Skype Usage Facts You Didn't Know by: Anand

    September 2, 2009, 09:06

    Some really interesting tidbits of information about Skype: Volume of free Skype-to-Skype talk time in 2008 : 65.5 billion minutes (43.4 billion in 2007) Volu…

  • Text Messaging in Philippines by: Anand

    August 26, 2009, 08:33

    How big is mobile phone text messaging in Philippines? Pudding Media managing director, Emmanuel Allix, calls Philippines the number 1 SMS country in the…

  • Largest Email Service in USA by: Anand

    August 15, 2009, 06:24

    Things have changed since 2008. Gmail seemed to have caught up with AOL and overtaken it to become the third largest email service provider in USA. Here are…

  • Largest Email Service Providers In USA by: Anand

    July 31, 2009, 15:04

    Surprise Surprise if you were to guess Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail as the top three. There is an entrant in the top five you might have not given much thought…

  • Top Email Services in 2008 by: Anand

    January 19, 2009, 14:21

    Google launched Gmail four years back, and they continue to be the fourth largest email provider. However, they have had the fastest growth rate in 2008…

  • Number of Telephone and Internet Users in China by: Anand

    December 22, 2008, 18:40

    China is approaching the One Billion mark in the number of telephone subscribers. As of October end, Total number of telephone users : 979 million Number of…

  • Preferred Means of Communication Among Teenagers by: Anand

    December 15, 2008, 13:11

    Ironically, all means that were taken up for the survey are the modern digital forms. Here are the percent popularity of the different methods of communication…

  • RSS Feeds Adoption Rate in Different Countries by: Anand

    May 30, 2008, 19:57

    Have you subscribed to an RSS feed? A recent survey found that the 34% of the respondents had subscribed to at least one RSS feed. This is more than double of…

  • Email Archiving Market by: Anand

    March 23, 2008, 07:20

    There are two basic divisions on which the email archiving market is studied : The on-premise and the hosted email archiving solutions. In 2007, the combined…

  • 2008 North American Web Conferencing Company of the Year by: Anand

    January 24, 2008, 12:19

    Frost and Sullivan has announced that Citrix Online is the 2008 North American Web Conferencing company of the year. The Frost & Sullivan award recognized…

  • Most Requested Mobile Service by: Anand

    January 21, 2008, 06:26

    If speed and quality weren't an issue, Email is the most requested mobile service according to a new study. The different preferences were 1. Email 33% 2.…

  • Does Email Marketing Give Sufficient Returns by: Anand

    January 19, 2008, 16:06

    If the trend on companies spending more and more on Email marketing is to be studied, the return-on-investment on such campaign looks encouraging. Marketers…

  • Spending on Email Marketing by: Anand

    January 16, 2008, 17:46

    Email marketing is estimated to have reached .2 billion through 2007. This amount is projected to reach .1 billion by 2012.

  • Highest Perpetration of Spam by: Anand

    January 15, 2008, 17:34

    October 2007 marked the highest perpetration of spam emails. According to Commtouch, the Global Spam levels during this month reached an astounding 96 percent…

  • Gmail Vs. Yahoo Mail Vs. Hotmail Vs. AOL by: Anand

    December 25, 2007, 21:39

    Popularity of each of these mail accounts: Hotmail : 47 million unique visitors (April) AOL : 42.3 million unique visitors (April) Gmail : 90 million (approx.…

  • Are ecards still popular? by: Anand

    December 24, 2007, 07:56

    They are indeed gaining lot of popularity this festive season. Users at Hallmark send 300 million ecards every year. American Greetings had a 10 percent…

  • What does Mozilla do apart from Firefox? by: Anand

    December 23, 2007, 09:46

    You had always thought about it right? Well, till now, Mozilla owned two things: Firefox - browser Thunderbird - email Now, they are also adding a new web…

  • How many iPhones sold till now? by: Anand

    December 22, 2007, 10:24

    Apple's target : 10 million iPhones to be sold by end of 2008 No. of days to sell the first million iPhones : 74 Expected number of sales by end of 2007 : 5…

  • Popular Form of Online Communication for Adult users by: Anand

    December 21, 2007, 07:24

    An overwhelming 90% or above of online adult population (18+ years of age) use email as their prime source of communication. Less than a quarter of Japanese…

  • Corporate Business Email usage by: Anand

    December 19, 2007, 20:50

    How many emails do you think a corporate manager reads and sends per day? Average number of emails sent per day : 38 Average number of emails received per day…

  • Top 10 Email Spam Lists for 2007 by: Anand

    December 19, 2007, 19:52

    As the American Presidential elections draw near, the number of spams related to politics is likely to increase. And that's for 2008. For 2007, here is the…

  • How big is email advertising? by: Anand

    December 15, 2007, 13:40

    It's big and attractive. This year (2007), .2 billion was spent on Email advertising, and is projected to grow to billion by 2012. However, advertising…

  • Fastest Growing Internet Communications Service by: Anand

    December 11, 2007, 16:09

    Jaxtr claims it is the one in its recent press release. That means, Jaxtr is ahead of Skype, Hotmail and ICQ when it comes to growth rate. Six months ago,…

  • Which is the biggest email service? by: Anand

    December 6, 2007, 17:58

    Well, Google is not the leader in this one at least. The Comscore Media metrix for October shows Gmail jumped a 64% increase in userbase from the same time…

  • Global market for mobile messaging by: Anand

    December 1, 2007, 22:09

    Mobile messaging includes the following: SMS MMS Mobile IM Mobile e-mail Global market for mobile messaging in 2007 is billion. This is expected to grow…

  • Do I email or chat on IM? by: Anand

    December 1, 2007, 22:05

    What's your age? If you are a teen, then like 50 percent of people your age, chat on IM. But if you are an adult, then like 75 percent of all adults, then you…

• Demographics  (100)
  • Age Distribution Of Internet Users In UK by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 20, 2010, 06:09

    It is a no-brainer that the number of internet users are on the rise, not just in UK, but globally. Refreshingly, a modest level of increase has been coming…

  • Government Websites Usage Demographics by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 3, 2010, 07:44

    Pew Internet has published an interesting study that looks into the usage of Government owned websites by citizens. Here are some interesting perspectives into…

  • Male-Female Gender Ratio Of Blackberry Handset Owners by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 9, 2010, 05:30

    When it comes to gadgets like smartphones, you would normally expect men to be more predominant in ownership. However, Blackberry pleasantly surprises with its…

  • Average Age Distribution Across Social Network Websites by: Anand Srinivasan

    March 22, 2010, 05:16

    Close to one-third of social network users are over 45 years of age. This is according to a recent study from Pingdom. The study looks at the age distribution…

  • Mobile Social Network Usage By Age by: Anand

    March 4, 2010, 04:02

    Unlike popular perception, it is not the kids and young adults social networking on the go with their mobile phones. Instead it is mostly the middle aged…

  • Demographic Profile Of Social Gamers by: Anand

    February 18, 2010, 04:55

    A comprehensive study of social gamers (which includes games like Farmville and Mafia Wars) was conducted by Information Solutions Group in USA and UK. Here…

  • Internet Usage Among African American Population by: Anand

    February 9, 2010, 04:12

    In a study published on eMarketer last year, the internet penetration among the African Americans is close to 50%. While this might not be a particularly…

  • Most Popular Websites Among Senior Citizens by: Anand

    December 11, 2009, 04:16

    The generation gap is seemingly narrowing online with popular online destinations among the senior citizens (65+) being not too different from what it could be…

  • E-Reader Demographics by: Anand

    December 5, 2009, 04:17

    The e-book reader market is assumed to be worth 1 million in 2009 riding on the sale of close to 22 million e-readers this year. Who is buying these…

  • UK Internet Users Statistics by: Kasthuri VN

    December 1, 2009, 05:38

    I must admit that this statistic caught me by surprise. The percent of Internet users in UK looks pretty lower than one would have assumed. First let us look…

  • Male vs. Female Gender Distribution on Social Networks by: Anand

    December 1, 2009, 04:08

    A couple of months back, we had written about the Male-Female distribution on social networks. The data was from Google Ad planner, a seemingly credible…

  • Senior Citizens vs. Baby Boomers On the Internet by: Kasthuri VN

    November 21, 2009, 05:36

    How many senior citizens and baby boomers are online and what exactly are they doing here? Well, there are quite a few active users in this demographic. 28%…

  • Countries With Largest Number of Twitter Users by: Anand

    November 11, 2009, 05:39

    Ever wondered how big Twitter is in your country? With a valuation of over billion and easily one of the fastest growing websites (though it has slowed down…

  • Comprehensive Demographics of American Twitter Users by: Anand

    October 28, 2009, 04:23

    Here is a nice comprehensive picture about what your average Twitter user from the United States is like. These numbers are as a percentage of the total…

  • iPhone Usage Among Mothers And Children by: Anand

    October 27, 2009, 06:07

    In a recent study by GreyStripe, "iPhone Moms" or the mothers of children who use iPhones is found to be a significant proportion of the whole iPhone population…

  • Representation of Women in Silicon Valley IT Jobs by: Anand

    October 26, 2009, 05:36

    This has been a constant worry that women are under-presented in the IT jobs. While some have taken this as an issue of 'glass ceiling', it looks more as an…

  • Average Time Spent on Social Networking Sites Among 18-24 Year Olds by: Anand

    October 22, 2009, 04:15

    How much time do we spend on social networking? If this study is to be believed, social networking can well be a full time profession for some of us. Here is…

  • LinkedIn Users Distribution Across Countries by: Anand

    October 15, 2009, 05:44

    I do not have a comprehensive distribution chart for the users of popular business networking website LinkedIn. However, according to a recent blog post by the…

  • Internet Usage Among American College Students by: Anand

    October 14, 2009, 06:30

    Over 95% of college student in the US have access to the Internet. This number is likely to increase over the next five years where it will cross the 96%…

  • Age Demographics of Facebook vs. MySpace by: Anand

    October 10, 2009, 05:27

    Facebook and MySpace are the number one and two social networks in US respectively. How do the profiles of users from these two social networks stack up…

  • American Facebook Users Age Demographics by: Anand

    October 7, 2009, 04:13

    Close to one-fifths of Facebook users are now above the age of 45, which is interesting because this can potentially be detrimental to one another social…

  • Age Distribution of Mobile Internet Users in USA by: Anand

    October 5, 2009, 07:19

    There are more men than women among the 56.9 million mobile internet users in the US. What is more noteworthy is that a majority of the American mobile…

  • Male-Female Gender Ratio of American Mobile Internet Users by: Anand

    October 5, 2009, 07:12

    Mobile internet users in USA increased by 34% in the past year and they now number around 56.9 million. The growth rate among women was higher than men by 9…

  • Male-Female Gender Ratio on Major Social Networks by: Anand

    October 3, 2009, 11:51

    Women rule in most of the social networks, except one, where they just cannot beat the men anytime soon - Digg.com. Also, never knew Twitter, MySpace and…

  • State of Internet in Mexico by: Anand

    September 28, 2009, 08:49

    Internet in Mexico is growing at a healthy pace. Though it does lag behind quite a few Latin American countries, the overall penetration and numbers are very…

  • Age-Gender Demographics of Facebook Users in USA by: Anand

    September 17, 2009, 08:12

    More women are into Facebook in the US than men. In the most recent study, there were over 34.3 million American men and 45.4 million American women who were…

  • Peak Internet Traffic in USA vs. Europe - Characteristics by: Anand

    September 4, 2009, 08:37

    Lifestyles seemingly are very different when it comes to the internet behavior of Americans vis-a-vis Europeans. Peak Internet traffic in Europe : 7 PM…

  • How Active Are Indian Internet Users? by: Anand

    September 1, 2009, 08:55

    The numbers may not be proportionate to the population, but the Indian users are very highly engaging: The number of broadband subscribers : 6.8 million The…

  • Why Women Use Social Networks? by: Anand

    August 17, 2009, 08:02

    Not all women who are on sites like Facebook are there to answer those 'How many crushes do I have' kind of quizzes. A study of American women revealed the…

  • How Many Internet Users in UK? by: Anand

    August 14, 2009, 07:48

    What is the population of Internet users in United Kingdom? It is definitely projected to grow to the following numbers in the coming years: 2009 : 37.1…

  • Cities With the Largest Twitter Population by: Anand

    July 7, 2009, 15:00

    USA accounts for 62% of all Twitter users. Then, it should come as no surprise that four out of the top five cities with the most number of Twitter users are…

  • Growth of Facebook Usage Among Senior Citizens by: Anand

    July 7, 2009, 13:37

    2009 has been a tremendous year for the proliferation of Facebook among the elderly. The numbers have been so good that their numbers (55+ age group) has…

  • Popularity of Orkut in India by: Anand

    June 11, 2009, 15:10

    Orkut is the largest social network in India. Here are a few interesting facts about the social network's presence in India. Page views per month : 5…

  • Online Classifieds Usage By Age by: Anand

    June 10, 2009, 15:12

    Who views online classifieds? Here is a list based on the percentage of respondents from different age groups who accepted to have used online classifieds: 18-…

  • Internet Growth Among Mexican Population by: Anand

    June 3, 2009, 14:30

    Mexico is among the hub of Internet growth in the past few years. Here are a few numbers to complement this growth: Internet user base grew 10% to 13 million…

  • American Teenage Population with Access to Internet by: Anand

    May 23, 2009, 13:12

    The teenagers population (12-17 years of age) that shall have access to Internet is expected to crawl from 20 million odd presently to 22 million by 2013. Here…

  • Distribution of Affluent Internet Users By Age by: Anand

    May 16, 2009, 15:30

    Children in rich families get online much earlier than those in other families, seemingly. They form close to 10 percent of all Internet users from families…

  • Reach of Social Networks among Internet Users in Asia Pacific by: Anand

    May 9, 2009, 11:18

    Asia has a lesser inclination to social networks as compared to Europe, but it is still a healthy internet population that is in to social networking. Here is…

  • Reach of Social Networks Among Internet Users in Europe by: Anand

    May 9, 2009, 11:13

    A majority of the Internet users are on to social networking in Europe. Social networking in France has grown 45%! Here is the percent reach of social networks…

  • Males Vs. Females - Internet Users in USA by: Anand

    April 14, 2009, 15:21

    More women are getting online than men and this trend is expected to increase in the next few years. Here is the share of men in percentage for 2008 and the…

  • African American Internet Population in USA by: Anand

    March 12, 2009, 14:43

    The African American population has had relatively lesser Internet penetration compared to the other ethnic groups in the US. However, the gap has been…

  • Gender Distribution Among Internet Users in UK by: Anand

    January 31, 2009, 14:40

    Men shall continue to outnumber women in terms of Internet usage in the United Kingdom, though the gap is closing in gradually. Here is a projection of the…

  • UK Internet and Mobile Internet Demographics by: Anand

    December 6, 2008, 14:43

    Inspite of the huge adoption of mobile internet among British internet users, the growth rate of internet has still surpassed WAP. Internet: Grew 11 percent…

  • Internet Penetration of American Baby Boomer Population by: Anand

    December 4, 2008, 04:15

    Baby boomers form the largest segment of the US Internet population. Here is their percent share of the entire American Internet population from 2008 projected…

  • Income Levels of MySpace and Facebook Users by: Anand

    December 3, 2008, 18:08

    What is the average annual income of MySpace and Facebook users? Here is a percent distribution that is likely to throw some idea: MySpace: Income>K :…

  • Growth of Internet Usage Among Indian Users by: Anand

    November 18, 2008, 17:32

    There are 49 million Internet users in India; 40 million from the Urban areas. 35 million people access Internet regularly. This is a 19 percent jump from last…

  • Which is the Best Ad-Format for your User? by: Anand

    October 23, 2008, 17:09

    The best ad format depends on your user's age as well. Here is the most favorite ad format inferred from the US internet users who happened to click on online…

  • American Bloggers Demographics by: Anand

    July 25, 2008, 13:04

    Race/Ethnicity of bloggers in USA (in percentage) White - 69.7% Hispanic - 20% African American - 12.2% Asian - 3.7%

  • Internet Access Among Senior American Citizens by: Anand

    May 28, 2008, 07:29

    Internet penetration among the senior citizens in USA (62+ years) is increasing. Here is a projection in terms of the percent of the total population of senior…

  • Internet Demographics for USA by: Anand

    May 24, 2008, 08:08

    The most recently updated demographic profile for America was released by Nielsen. Accordingly, the numbers in percent terms are: Male : 48.48% Women :…

  • Internet Access Among Different Races in America by: Anand

    May 15, 2008, 07:49

    This study is based on the October 2007 study of the internet access (in percentage terms) among the different races in America: BROADBAND White : 54.9% Black…

  • Internet Penetration in India by: Anand

    May 6, 2008, 08:22

    In a 250 million Urban population in India, 65 million are PC literate. Out of them, 46 million claim to be internet users though only 32 million are active. T…

  • Comparative Estimates of US Adult Female Internet Users by: Anand

    May 6, 2008, 07:34

    Inspite of diversifying the samples in order to get closest to actual numbers, different market research agencies have come up with different numbers when…

  • Internet Usage Among American Senior Citizens by: Anand

    May 5, 2008, 13:54

    More than one-third of the Americans in the senior age group (62 years and above) use the internet. Among them, the younger group (62 to 71 years) are much…

  • Study of NRI Activities Online by: Anand

    May 1, 2008, 21:56

    A recent study of the online activities of Non-Resident-Indians revealed the following as the top most: General News about India Indian Sports and Music Datin…

  • Population of Affluent Baby Boomers Shopping Online by: Anand

    April 12, 2008, 14:58

    Percentage of Baby Boomer population with annual income of ,000 or more that shoppped online: 2004 - 50.2% 2007 - 65.6%

  • Gender Distribution of UK Internet Population by: Anand

    April 5, 2008, 07:23

    There are now more female Brits online than Male Brits. And this trend is likely to increase over the next few years. Here is a year-wise projected growth of…

  • Gender Distribution of American Internet Population by: Anand

    March 22, 2008, 21:39

    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…

  • Population of Online US Adult Female With Children by: Anand

    March 14, 2008, 07:16

    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…

  • Whites,the Most Avid Bloggers by: Anand

    February 28, 2008, 19:11

    A study into the race of the bloggers reveals the following information: 69.7% of bloggers are White/Caucasian 12.2% of them are African Americans or…

  • Top 10 Websites in Canada by: Anand

    February 26, 2008, 18:38

    Google has beaten Microsoft in the race to the top of the Canada websites ratings. The top 10 websites are 1. Google 2. Microsoft 3. Yahoo 4. Facebook 5.…

  • Demographic Profile of Google and Yahoo Search Users by: Anand

    February 16, 2008, 15:57

    The age-wise distribution of Yahoo Search users: 18-24 : 19.33% 25-34 : 23.13% 35-44 : 22.34% 45-54 : 17.97% 55+ : 17.23% The age-wise distribution of…

  • Distribution of Orkut Users in USA by: Anand

    February 12, 2008, 18:32

    USA ranks third in terms of the number of Orkut users with Americans comprising 14.89% of the total Orkut member base. Within USA, the popularity of Orkut in…

  • Internet Penetration in Russia by: Anand

    February 7, 2008, 06:53

    The online population in Russia has taken off and expected to boom in the next few years. The numbers for 2007 and the projections till 2012 are given…

  • Growth of ECommerce in India by: Anand

    February 6, 2008, 06:30

    India's share of online commerce is projected to grow from 1.3 percent of Asia-Pacific in 2006 to 3.3 percent by 2011. The projected value of the market over…

  • Is Localization of Website Content Good? by: Anand

    January 23, 2008, 07:23

    Average number of languages for the top 10 global brands : 30 Only 37% of American websites do not provide content in other major languages Websites that…

  • Top 10 Websites in Canada by: Anand

    January 22, 2008, 13:38

    The top ten websites in terms of the number of unique visitors from Canada for the month of December 2007 are: 1. Microsoft 2. Google 3. Yahoo 4. Facebook 5.…

  • World's Largest Internet Market by Users by: Anand

    January 18, 2008, 13:10

    China is slated to overtake USA as the largest Internet market in terms of the number of users. The Chinese internet market rose to 53% to 210 million at the…

  • Asian American Internet Usage Figures by: Anand

    January 17, 2008, 12:55

    Number (in millions) of Asian Americans online: 2006 : 10.2 2007 : 10.9 2008 : 11.6 2009 : 12.3 2010 : 13 2011 : 13.7 A majority of Asian Americans are…

  • Popularity of Video Sharing Among Young Adults by: Anand

    January 16, 2008, 12:39

    More than one third of young adults had visited Youtube or other video sharing website in December. Percentage of Young adults (18-29 years) visiting Video…

  • Hispanics' Tolerance to Email Marketing by: Anand

    January 13, 2008, 09:04

    US Hispanics have greater tolerance to Email marketing compared to Non-Hispanic US citizens. This is attributed to the larger time spent online. Number of…

  • Most Popular Finance Website by: Anand

    January 13, 2008, 08:45

    According to the Comscore rating released for December: 1. AOL Finance - 13.5 million unique visitors 2. Yahoo - 13.2 million unique visitors 3. MSN Money -…

  • Market Share of Operating Systems by: Anand

    January 1, 2008, 21:42

    Here is the latest market share of the different Operating Systems Microsoft Windows XP : 76.97% Windows Vista : 10.43% MacIntel : 4.01% Mac OS : 3.28% Windows…

  • Internet Usage in Public Libraries by: Anand

    January 1, 2008, 14:30

    Public Libraries are  visited by over 53 percent of the Americans. Of these, the majority of the Generation Y (18 to 30 years) made use of the computer…

  • Japanese Online ad spend by: Anand

    December 28, 2007, 21:15

    Worth of online advertising market in Japan : .4 billion to .1 billion Projected growth by 2011 : .8 billion to billion Contribution of Search based…

  • Video Gaming in India by: Anand

    December 28, 2007, 21:01

    India's internet population is 42 million strong Percentage of them that are active gamers : 5% Revenues from Gaming in India : million per year

  • Internet and Cellphone Usage of American Population by: Anand

    December 28, 2007, 15:18

    38% Americans watch Television shows online 36% use Cellphones for entertainment purposes 45% are involved in creating Social web content 62% of millennials(13-…

  • Mobile Internet Population in Japan by: Anand

    December 28, 2007, 11:29

    90 percent of Japanese own a mobile handset. 40 percent of this population use mobile phones to surf internet. Population of Japanese using the Internet : 89.1…

  • US Presidential Hopefuls Campaign on the Internet by: Anand

    December 27, 2007, 10:47

    The following is the Ad-impressions that the online campaigning of the US Prez candidates generated through 2007 Romney 103.8 million John McCain 94.6…

  • Yahoo vs. Google in Japan by: Anand

    December 27, 2007, 10:25

    Unique Japanese visitors to Yahoo properties : 41 million (August) Unique Japanese visitors to Google properties : 31 million (August) Search Engine market…

  • How to Improve Efficacy of Public Service Announcements? by: Anand

    December 27, 2007, 10:14

    Possibly the Scotland way! Previous studies in Scotland showed that out of 902 Television Public Service Announcement ads showed in over 30 markets, only 11.2%…

  • Top Yahoo subsites in 2007 by: Anand

    December 26, 2007, 19:34

    Yahoo has around 1084 subsites. Among them the top subsites in popularity terms are Yahoo.com Yahoo Homepages Yahoo Mail Yahoo Search Yahoo US Mail Yahoo US…

  • What's most popular at Amazon this season? by: Anand

    December 26, 2007, 15:44

    62.5 items were ordered on Amazon every second on December 10. The best sellers at Amazon from November 15 to December 19 are Toys : Jakks EyeClops Bionic…

  • Watching TV Online vs. Real TV vs. Print media by: Anand

    December 25, 2007, 07:39

    The study shows Online TV works better for advertisers. and the producers alike 47% of the people feel more engaged with Online TV ads 25% of the people are…

  • Ask.com Growth Rate by: Anand

    December 24, 2007, 20:10

    From November 2006 to November 2007, the traffic on Ask.com has increased from 29.8 million visitors to 46 million visitors. This is after 0 million was…

  • Country With The Best Broadband Connectivity by: Anand

    December 24, 2007, 14:18

    Taiwan by all means. Except for Haucha village which is damaged due to Typhoon, the whole country has now access to high speed internet connectivity. Taiwan…

  • Google traffic growth in 2007 by: Anand

    December 22, 2007, 18:24

    The traffic is still as much growing as it had been all along. Overall growth has been 22.42 percent. Gainers iGoogle : 267.64% Book search : 54.66% Gmail :…

  • Popular Form of Online Communication for Adult users by: Anand

    December 21, 2007, 07:24

    An overwhelming 90% or above of online adult population (18+ years of age) use email as their prime source of communication. Less than a quarter of Japanese…

  • Fastest growing websites in France by: Anand

    December 21, 2007, 06:58

    Here is the list of the fastest growing websites in France for November. Social networking on top, as usual. Growth percent shown adjacent to the website…

  • Are internet users getting old in UK? by: Anand

    December 20, 2007, 07:23

    The UK internet population seems to be ageing. Under 25 year olds Percent share in 2006 : 29% Percent share in 2007 : 25% This is a relative drop of 16% Aged…

  • How many users prefer Internet to TV for watching videos? by: Anand

    December 20, 2007, 07:09

    An increasing number of them! 65 percent of American adults watch them online compared to just 42 percent same time last year. 42% of Youtube users are…

  • Teenagers Online Social Content Creation by: Anand

    December 20, 2007, 06:57

    How much are the American 12 to 17 year old involved in User-Generated-Content creation? 64 percent of all those online do it. Blogging : 35% girls and 20%…

  • Corporate Business Email usage by: Anand

    December 19, 2007, 20:50

    How many emails do you think a corporate manager reads and sends per day? Average number of emails sent per day : 38 Average number of emails received per day…

  • Ad spending: Europe vs. USA by: Anand

    December 18, 2007, 14:03

    Here is a head to head comparison of the European and American markets: 2006 Europe : €8 billion US : €12.8 billion Difference : €4.8 billion 2007 Europ…

  • Do you need a multi-lingual website? by: Anand

    December 18, 2007, 13:49

    The global study certainly thinks so. Nearly 50 percent of Web site decision makers worldwide translate their website content to another language in order to…

  • Demographics of the Searchers by: Anand

    December 15, 2007, 14:00

    In US, 65 percent of all searches are done on Google; three times more than the searches made on Yahoo. Amongst these searches, the key demographics are Health…

  • How long do people surf internet at work? by: Anand

    December 15, 2007, 13:43

    A full workday every week on an average is spent surfing the internet! The time spent online for one full work-week : 7.8 hours This amounts to almost 31…

  • Top Consumer Packaged Goods websites by: Anand

    December 15, 2007, 13:21

    Food brands dominate this category. The top 5 consumer packaged goods websites in terms of unique visitors in the third quarter of 2007 are: Kraftfoods.com -…

  • Do green policies pay for online retailers? by: Anand

    December 11, 2007, 17:18

    Probably it does. More than 25 percent of European online shoppers decided to purchase after looking at the retailer's green policies or were willing to pay a…

  • Baby boomers Internet usage stats by: Anand

    December 5, 2007, 10:02

    Population of American baby boomers using internet in 2006: 58.2 million Estimated population of Baby boomers using internet in 2011: 68.3 million The…

• Ecommerce  (67)
  • Retail eCommerce Spending In USA by: Anand Srinivasan

    August 23, 2010, 16:35

    How much spending goes online when you take away the travel bookings part? According to a study conducted by Comscore, the growth of retail eCommerce spending…

  • Top Travel Sites In India by: Anand Srinivasan

    June 5, 2010, 07:18

    eCommerce in India is more or less the same as online travel. A study by Visa last year showed that all the three top categories in online shopping was related…

  • Virtual Goods Purchase - Top Source Websites by: Anand Srinivasan

    June 4, 2010, 05:38

    Virtual goods are growing to become a massive economy in itself. Several companies including Facebook, SecondLife and game developers like Zynga are banking on…

  • Number Of iTunes Users Vs. Nokia Music Store Users In Europe by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 22, 2010, 06:18

    Comscore conducted a study of digital music download among mobile phone users in five major European markets : UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy. The…

  • Retail e-Commerce Sales In Western Europe by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 19, 2010, 06:50

    The Western Europe region has been the leader when it comes to retail e-commerce sales. According to a report on e-Marketer, while Great Britain has traditional…

  • US Mobile eCommerce Revenue Estimates by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 14, 2010, 19:03

    A recent study by Coda Research agency has revealed that mobile eCommerce in the US shall grow at a compounded rate of 65% between 2009 and 2015. According to…

  • Mobile Shopping Popularity By Age Of Shoppers by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 5, 2010, 05:41

    Have you ever purchased any product through your mobile phone? I have not. A recent study conducted by Retrevo concludes that mobile phones are getting…

  • eCommerce Third Party Service Providers by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 5, 2010, 05:07

    One of the most interesting aspects about owning an online store is that many of the things that go with running an ecommerce shop may be outsourced - The…

  • Online Commerce vs. Retail Store : Sales Breakdown by: Anand Srinivasan

    March 23, 2010, 08:18

    eCommerce is truly taking over traditional retail stores in many segments like books, apparels and software. However, there is still a far way to go in…

  • ECommerce Fraud : Estimated Online Revenue Loss by: Anand

    March 18, 2010, 04:06

    Frauds in online commerce appear to be on the wane. This is according to a study published by CyberSource. According to the study, total revenues lost in 2009…

  • eCommerce Growth Categories In China by: Anand

    March 12, 2010, 05:59

    With 384 million internet users, China is seeing a massive growth in ecommerce. Close to 7.9% of the population now makes online travel bookings. Here are the…

  • Online Retailers Consumer Complaints With BBB by: Anand

    March 11, 2010, 03:58

    Internet retailers are among those with the highest number of consumer complaints filed against them. This is according to the North American Better Business…

  • Online Debit Card Usage Statistics by: Anand

    February 26, 2010, 04:02

    According to a study by Javelin Strategy and Research, the volume of debit card usage online in US is expected to grow over the next few years. However, as a…

  • Mobile Internet Shopping Growth Forecast by: Anand

    February 20, 2010, 04:21

    Mobile commerce is a huge industry in some parts of the world. For instance, in Japan, billion worth of goods and services were puchased online in the past…

  • Number Of Books Purchased On Kindle by: Anand

    February 3, 2010, 14:10

    During the recent quarterly earnings announcement, Amazon chief Jeff Bezos announced that several million Kindles have been sold till date.  The precise…

  • Growth Of eBay In India by: Anand

    January 30, 2010, 09:53

    A low internet penetration and customer apprehensions has meant that eCommerce is still not huge in India. Despite this, in absolute terms, the volumes are…

  • Share Of eCommerce In Overall Turnover Among European Enterprises by: Anand

    January 21, 2010, 12:57

    Online commerce is turning to be one of the major revenue drivers for enterprises in Europe. In a recently released report (PDF) by Eurostat, the overall…

  • Factors Influencing Online Purchases by: Anand

    January 20, 2010, 06:06

    If your online store is not delivering encouraging conversion rates, you can probably try one of the following stratgies. In a study by Compete, free shipping…

  • Top Growing eCommerce Categories by: Anand

    January 9, 2010, 04:00

    There was a 4% increase in online commerce in the holiday shopping season of 2009 compared to the sale numbers in the last months of 2008. But the top…

  • Largest eCommerce Hub in India by: Anand

    December 29, 2009, 05:01

    eBay has close to 3 million registered users from 2471 cities in India. While the numbers are not huge, it is still big enough considering that eCommerce in…

  • China eCommerce Statistics by: Kasthuri VN

    December 7, 2009, 05:12

    The Chinese eCommerce market is growing and most of it is through consumer-to-consumer selling on sites such as Taobao.com. Here are some interesting statistics…

  • Thanksgiving : US Online Retail Traffic Market Share by: Gowri Naveen

    November 30, 2009, 06:38

    How did the various popular online retail stores fare this Thanksgiving? Amazon got close, but not close enough to Walmart. Here is where the online traffic…

  • Black Friday Online eCommerce Spending by: Anand

    November 30, 2009, 04:02

    Is an increase in the value of online shopping point towards a recovery in the economy or merely that more people choose to order from their homes to save on…

  • State of eCommerce in India by: Gowri Naveen

    November 26, 2009, 05:12

    Visa recently studied the state of eCommerce in India that showed that the eCommerce segment has really been picking up well in India. Nevertheless, I am…

  • Social Marketing For eCommerce by: Anand

    November 16, 2009, 05:21

    Purchasing stuff over the web increases when you know there are a lot more people doing it, and also when you are recommeded to it by your own network of…

  • eCommerce in Europe by: Anand

    November 16, 2009, 04:21

    A study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) paints a pretty optimistic picture on the growth of eCommerce in the Europe region…

  • Free Shipping on E-Commerce Websites by: Anand

    November 6, 2009, 05:39

    Free shipping is increasingly being used to incentivize online shoppers. Comscore reports that close to 42% of all shipped items today are shipped 'free of…

  • Popularity of Online Banking - 1 in 4 Customers Bank Online by: Anand

    September 28, 2009, 08:27

    Online banking has risen to the top spot in the most popular ways to bank. 25% of all surveyed respondents regarded online as the most preferred way to bank.…

  • Average Delay In Making An Online Purchase by: Anand

    September 23, 2009, 08:23

    65% of those who add items to cart only to log off later actually return to buy the item. Here is the average delay time between adding an item to cart to…

  • Do Security Seals on eCommerce Websites Help? by: Anand

    September 18, 2009, 07:34

    Yes, absolutely. In a recent study by McAfee of over 165 million shoppers, it was observed that those B2C sites that had some kind of security seals over them…

  • Most Popular Online Retail-Apparek Sites in France by: Anand

    September 7, 2009, 16:45

    Online retail apparel is a category which I would not personally think would click. But it sure is growing. Here are the top ten retail clothing websites in…

  • Popular Consumables Purchased Via Mobile Phones by: Anand

    September 3, 2009, 08:14

    If you are on the move and would want to take away a Pizza from a nearby Pizza Hut, would you mind ordering via your mobile even as you reach there? M-Commerce…

  • Growth of Mobile Payment Service Worldwide by: Anand

    August 19, 2009, 09:48

    South East Asia has been ahead over the rest of the world when it comes to mobile technology, especially using your cell phones as a mobile wallet. Here is the…

  • Stats on The Mobile Music Industry by: Anand

    August 19, 2009, 09:29

    This is one segment of the mobile market that is not showing much promise. Here are a few stats to bore you: 10% of Americans listen to music on mobile…

  • What Percent of UK Internet Users Buy Online? by: Anand

    August 17, 2009, 07:52

    The number of internet users in UK is seen to grow steadily over the next few years from 37 million to 42 million. However, a larger percent of them will shop…

  • Growth of E-Commerce in Germany by: Anand

    June 3, 2009, 14:53

    Ecommerce in Germany has almost tripled in the five years from 2003 to 2008. Here are the retail ecommerce sales numbers in value from 2003 to 2008. 2003 :…

  • Most Popular Retail E-Commerce Categories in US by: Anand

    March 4, 2009, 14:19

    Retail ecommerce grew only by 6% in 2008, which is the slowest since the dot com crash in the early part of the decade. The most popular ecommerce categories…

  • Mobile Banking Growth Prediction for Five Years by: Anand

    March 2, 2009, 15:55

    A recent research by Informa predicts a very optimistic picture for mobile banking. Here is the scenario of mobile banking predicted for the year 2013: Number…

  • Kijiji Vs. Craigslist Traffic by: Anand

    March 1, 2009, 08:40

    Craigslist is increasing on the lead it enjoys over its eBay competitor Kijiiji.com. The gap widened with the worldwide number of visitors in January. Kijiji…

  • Most Preferred Form of Online Payment by: Anand

    January 21, 2009, 15:16

    What's the most preferred method for internet users to pay their bills online? No surprises for guessing credit cards. Here is the ranking of the most…

  • Average Annual Online Spending By UK Buyers by: Anand

    December 11, 2008, 15:03

    The average annual spending online per online buyer in UK is projected to increase at a nominal rate till 2012. Here is the spending online on an average: 2007…

  • Do You Buy From Spam? by: Anand

    September 6, 2008, 17:43

    From a personal viewpoint, most of us might not agree to having bought from Spam, but the results differ from market researches. A recent study shows 30…

  • B2C E-Commerce Sales in India by: Anand

    May 9, 2008, 09:06

    The Indian retail growth story continues on the internet as well. The ecommerce sales have been growing consistently over 30 percent year on year: 2006 :…

  • US Retail E-Commerce CAGR by: Anand

    February 26, 2008, 17:08

    The American retail ecommerce is growing at a 12 percent compounded annual growth rate (CAGR). The growth in value terms over the next few years shall…

  • American Online Retail Projections for 2012 by: Anand

    February 21, 2008, 19:01

    The projections for the US Online retail market has widely differed among the different research agencies. eMarketer projects a 0 billion more in 2012 than…

  • Gifts For Your Valentine Purchased Online? by: Anand

    February 14, 2008, 16:57

    Were you among those who bought a gift for your valentine online? Then you are more likely to be a Brit than an American. In a recent poll, 49 percent of…

  • Online Travel Market Growth in Asia-Pacific by: Anand

    February 6, 2008, 06:35

    Online travel is the largest category of ecommerce among the major economies in the Asia Pacific region. It is projected to grow from .7 billion in 2007 to…

  • Growth of ECommerce in India by: Anand

    February 6, 2008, 06:30

    India's share of online commerce is projected to grow from 1.3 percent of Asia-Pacific in 2006 to 3.3 percent by 2011. The projected value of the market over…

  • Growth of Retail ECommerce Worldwide by: Anand

    February 1, 2008, 06:28

    More than 85 percent of the worldwide respondents to a poll had purchased something online. Growing middle class is spurring online commerce in China and…

  • How Big is Netflix? by: Anand

    January 24, 2008, 12:06

    In the final quarter of 2007, Netflix added 451,000 new customers to its online DVD rental service Earned .8 million or 24 cents per share Now, Netflix…

  • Top 10 Gaining Categories for US Market in December by: Anand

    January 16, 2008, 12:33

    The top 10 categories that attracted the maximum traffic for the month of December: 1. Fragrances/Cosmetics 2. Consumer Goods 3. Jewelry/Luxury Goods/Accessori…

  • Christmas Shopping in UK and France by: Anand

    January 15, 2008, 08:27

    The period between September and October was taken as the base period for the study. Dec 3 - Dec 9 resulted in a 38 percent increase in shopping in UK and 45…

  • Amazon Vs. eBay by: Anand

    January 15, 2008, 08:22

    eBay has always beaten Amazon when it comes to traffic. However, for the holiday season in December Amazon had won over eBay for the first time ever. 59,624,00…

  • B2C E-Commerce in Asia-Pacific by: Anand

    January 15, 2008, 07:50

    The Business to Consumer ecommerce in Asia Pacific region shall grow at 23.11 percent annually. The projected volume by 2011 is 8.7 billion. Japan and South…

  • How Big is the Chinese Video Sharing market by: Anand

    January 10, 2008, 21:41

    Chinese video sharing market is small, yet growing. Youku.com is one of the largest and raised million in venture fund. Revenue from Chinese Video Sharing…

  • Growth of B2B Online Advertising in US by: Anand

    January 10, 2008, 20:48

    In 2006, the online spending of B2B advertising was .8 Billion. That was 16.6% of the total spending online. It grew to .5 Billion in 2007. The projected…

  • How rampant is IP violation? by: Anand

    December 28, 2007, 15:00

    Legally filling up an iPod shall cost upto ,000. This has been the reason of the rampant violation of IP. According to Digital Music News, over 36.4 percent…

  • Residual Impact of iPhones and iPods on Apple's Revenue by: Anand

    December 28, 2007, 14:53

    This post is not about the revenue from sales of iPods and iPhones. It is about the sale of songs, movies and TV Shows through iTunes. 5 Million iPhones are…

  • DRM-free Music: Apple vs. Amazon by: Anand

    December 27, 2007, 18:09

    Amazon is currently winning over Apple. Amazon Collections from Warner Music Group ( Led Zeppelin, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Green Day) EMI Universal and 33,000…

  • Rent Videos through iTunes by: Anand

    December 27, 2007, 10:18

    The deal is between Apple and 20th Century Fox. This shall be announced formally on Jan 14. Possible video rental charge :.99 for 30 days.

  • What's most popular at Amazon this season? by: Anand

    December 26, 2007, 15:44

    62.5 items were ordered on Amazon every second on December 10. The best sellers at Amazon from November 15 to December 19 are Toys : Jakks EyeClops Bionic…

  • Web Customers most satisfied with Retail Firms by: Anand

    December 22, 2007, 10:48

    Retail firms topped the rankings for customer respect index, measured to see the customer service levels on the web. Overstock.com was ranked Number 1. Now why…

  • Revenue loss from Phishing - 2007 by: Anand

    December 19, 2007, 20:23

    That's a mammoth .2 Billion!! Number of victims in 2007 : 3.6 million Average loss per incident : 6 Most spoofed portals : Paypal and eBay

  • Do green policies pay for online retailers? by: Anand

    December 11, 2007, 17:18

    Probably it does. More than 25 percent of European online shoppers decided to purchase after looking at the retailer's green policies or were willing to pay a…

  • Size of the Local Online Advertising market by: Anand

    December 10, 2007, 15:31

    The market for local online ads seem to be erupting again. Estimated worth of market by end of 2008 : Billion Growth from 2007 : 50 percent What's…

  • How much is spent on the Holiday season? by: Anand

    December 10, 2007, 15:08

    More than 18 percent from what was spent a year ago. Since November 1, the holiday spending on purchasing online has reached billion. The day with the…

  • What to buy for the holiday season? by: Anand

    December 6, 2007, 18:20

    Buy videogames this Christmas!! A Comscore study shows that Videogames and consoles have had an 145% increase in sales compared to the holiday season till date…

• Enterprise  (7)
  • IT Spending In 2010 by: Anand

    January 26, 2010, 04:44

    IT spending by enterprises is expected to see a revival this year following last year's decline. However, IT spending of the 2008 levels is not expected to…

  • Need For Real Time Collaboration A La Google Wave by: Anand

    November 2, 2009, 05:27

    Google wave is touted as the next big thing from Google assisting in real time collaboration. So if you thought why it is so necessary, here are some recent…

  • Information Management on Facebook Servers by: Anand

    October 17, 2009, 07:15

    Facebook now has close to 300 million users on its social network. Ever wondered what it takes to manage the activities of so many users? 300 million users…

  • Most Popular Web 2.0 Tools Among Enterprises by: Anand

    September 16, 2009, 09:17

    Enterprises are looking more and more towards the web in order to be able to communicate better with their clients. These tools are used not just to communicate…

  • Use of Cloud Services in Businesses by: Anand

    August 31, 2009, 08:33

    Cloud computing and services could be generating craze, but still a whopping 44.1% of the small businesses interviewed do not use them. Here is a statistic on…

  • Business Usage of Web 2.0 Technology by: Anand

    April 22, 2008, 18:42

    Businesses are using more and more Web 2.0 in their enterprise. This includes spending on Social Networking, RSS, blogs, mashups, wikis, podcasting, etc.…

  • Acceptance of Windows Server 2008 Among Businesses by: Anand

    February 19, 2008, 18:08

    A survey among IT decision makers' perception revealed the following important statistics: 63 percent shall upgrade to Windows Server 2008 18 percent are…

• Financial  (32)
  • Employee Worth Estimates - Companies With Top Cash per Employee by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 30, 2010, 12:15

    If the total worth of a company was to be divided among every employee, how much each person receive? With an amazingly huge cash in its coffers, it is no…

  • AT&T Revenue Split-Up By Business by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 22, 2010, 07:24

    AT&T reported revenues of .5 billion and sales worth .6 billion for the quarter ending March 2010. So where has this money come from? According to the…

  • Apple Revenues By Product by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 21, 2010, 08:27

    Following up with Apple's Quarterly revenues distribution by geography, it also an interesting study to look at it from the product perspective. While the…

  • Apple Revenues By Geography by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 21, 2010, 08:09

    Apple has just announced its latest quarterly earnings. It is apparently the company's highest ever earnings outside the holiday season. Also impressive is its…

  • Twitter Revenues Estimates by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 1, 2010, 05:53

    How much money does Twitter make? While realistically, they have just made about million so far following the real-time search deals that they signed with…

  • Revenue Per Unique Visitor Of Major Portals by: Anand Srinivasan

    March 27, 2010, 04:33

    Yes, Facebook has just overtaken Google Search in traffic. What does that amount to? Nothing significant, if a study of the revenue per unique visitor (total…

  • US Ebook Market Growth by: Anand

    March 10, 2010, 05:36

    Ever since the eBook as a format appeared in the early part of the decade, the market has been growing steadily. However, the biggest spike has come in the…

  • ARPU Of American Wireless Operators by: Anand

    March 5, 2010, 04:35

    Data ARPU among American mobile network service providers is steadily on the rise since 2004 and the corresponding number for voice has been falling. In a…

  • Fastest Growing Wireless Operators By Revenue by: Anand

    March 4, 2010, 05:34

    Thanks to the terrific growth in number of subscribers, mobile network service providers from the emerging economies are among the fastest growing companies.…

  • ARPU On Data And Voice For US Wireless Carriers by: Anand

    March 4, 2010, 05:19

    The average revenue per user (ARPU) on voice has been steadily falling as the data usage has been on the rise. According to a study by Chetan Sharma Consulting,…

  • Apple iTunes Store Revenue by: Anand

    February 25, 2010, 04:22

    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…

  • Estimated Share Of Profit Among Mobile Phone Manufacturers by: Anand

    February 9, 2010, 05:40

    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…

  • Google's Share Of Revenue From United States by: Anand

    February 3, 2010, 13:34

    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…

  • Online Revenue In China by: Anand

    January 21, 2010, 04:09

    There are over 380 million Chinese who use the internet today. Popular activities include gaming, shopping and social networking. Revenues from these as well…

  • Revenues From Digital Music : Forecast by: Anand

    January 19, 2010, 05:55

    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…

  • Facebook vs. LinkedIn vs. Twitter Estimated Valuation and Revenues by: Gowri Naveen

    December 8, 2009, 04:17

    Twitter's 1.84% market share in the US is no match for Facebook's 58% share. LinkedIn users' average salary of 0,000 is much higher than the other social…

  • Monster Career Ad Network Performance by: Anand

    November 27, 2009, 05:01

    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…

  • PC Shipments Forecast For 2009-2010 by: Kasthuri VN

    November 24, 2009, 04:14

    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…

  • Who Owns Skype? by: Anand

    November 20, 2009, 04:42

    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…

  • SaaS Model : Revenue and Growth Forecast by: Anand

    November 12, 2009, 04:25

    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…

  • Mobile Paid Apps Revenue Estimates by: Anand

    November 10, 2009, 05:50

    How much money do these paid apps on smartphones such as iPhone and others bring? A study by eMarketers shows a terrific potential for growth over the next 3-4…

  • Paid Social Networking Website Revenues Projection by: Anand

    November 2, 2009, 09:12

    Do Freemium models work on social networks? A good number of social media market leaders think so, and it also seems so looking at the revenues paid social…

  • Transaction Volumes on Paypal by: Anand

    October 23, 2009, 06:11

    Much like Skype, Paypal, the ecommerce platform from eBay too has been growing significantly through the downturn. This is despite a 29% drop in profits for…

  • Number of Registered Users on Skype by: Anand

    October 22, 2009, 05:30

    The third quarter earnings for Skype were announced recently. We now have the latest information on the number of registered users, revenue made,etc. Number…

  • Apple Q4 2009 Sales Report by: Anand

    October 20, 2009, 04:26

    More iPhones and Macs have been sold this year than same time last year. iPod sales have however seen a decline in the YoY comparison. Here is the latest sales…

  • How Much Money Does NewEgg.com Make? by: Anand

    September 29, 2009, 09:53

    NewEgg.com, the electronics ecommerce retailer recently filed for an IPO to raise 5 million. From the filing, here are some numbers that we know regarding…

  • Market Share of Popular Finance/Investment Websites by: Anand

    September 26, 2009, 09:19

    Wall Street Journal needs to rethink about its monetization strategies. Clearly with free alternatives abound, not many are going to pay for their services.…

  • How Big Is SurveyMonkey? by: Anand

    September 8, 2009, 09:33

    SurveyMonkey lets users create surveys and is highly popular among small businesses. And they are bigger than one would assume. Here are some details about…

  • Details of Skype Sale by: Anand

    September 2, 2009, 08:24

    eBay sold a majority stake from Skype to Silver Lake group. Here are the details of the transacation: Company on sale : Skype Communications Value of the…

  • Yahoo - Maktoob Acquisition Details by: Anand

    August 25, 2009, 09:18

    Yahoo has acquired Maktoob, which is a popular portal from the Gulf region. Value of the deal (estimate) : million Yahoo users from Gulf : 20 million Makto…

  • China Mobile Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results by: Anand

    August 21, 2009, 08:21

    China mobile has seen a drop in profits YoY for the second quarter of 2009. It has also failed in its attempt to proliferate 3G in the country. Net Income :…

  • Facebook-Friendfeed Deal Details by: Anand

    August 12, 2009, 12:45

    Facebook has acquired Friendfeed and that's known. Here are the details about the deal: Value of Friendfeed : million Amount paid in cash : million Amo…

• Gadgets  (55)
  • World's Largest Phone Manufacturers By Units Sold by: Anand Srinivasan

    October 29, 2010, 17:25

    The mobile phone segment is very competitive with every quarter bringing some sort of a surprise. Back in May this year, I had written about an IDC report that…

  • Number Of Smartphones Sold Per Day - iPhone Vs. Android Vs. Nokia by: Anand Srinivasan

    September 14, 2010, 13:16

    Apple and Google have been fighting a lot over numbers of late. Steve Jobs had recently mocked Google's claims of activating over 200,000 devices everyday by…

  • Most Popular Laptops Among Students (USA) by: Anand Srinivasan

    August 10, 2010, 16:32

    Students are increasingly being lured towards Macbooks, a recent study by Student Monitor has showed. In their recent report, the Ridgewood, NJ based research…

  • Smartphone Share : Men Vs. Women by: Anand Srinivasan

    August 10, 2010, 16:30

    Men or Women - Who do you think own a majority share in smartphone ownership? Not being chauvinistic, but I found the results from this study entirely along…

  • US Tablet PC Sales Forecast by: Anand Srinivasan

    June 18, 2010, 06:48

    Till a day before the iPad hit the stores, people asked if this was a form factor consumers will really need. To this date, iPad remains one of the few devices…

  • Tablet PC Sales Forecast Worldwide by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 26, 2010, 07:14

    Tablet PCs were not considered an ideal form factor until now. However, the success of the iPad has changed it all and every other technology manufacturer is…

  • Global Semiconductor Chip Sale Statistics by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 5, 2010, 06:21

    Semiconductor sales normally see a slump during the March season since a majority of electronic good shopping happens during the Christmas holiday season.…

  • Mobile Phone Manufacturers Market Share And Ranking by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 1, 2010, 05:16

    IDC has published their latest report on the state of mobile phone growth worldwide. One of the biggest take-aways from the recent study is the emergence of…

  • Japan Smartphone Market Share By Shipments by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 23, 2010, 04:33

    In the quarter ending March 2010, Apple shipped 1.69 million iPhone units to Japan. This accounted for 72% of all smartphones shipped to the country in the…

  • US Smartphone Ownership Penetration Forecast by: Anand Srinivasan

    March 29, 2010, 04:16

    Attractive features, the app economy trend, affordable prices and a whole lot of other factors have all helped in expediting the adoption rate of smartphones…

  • E-Reader Brand Awareness by: Anand Srinivasan

    March 24, 2010, 04:29

    Apple iPad has generated a lot of buzz and though that is not strictly an eReader, it goes without saying that the ebook reading population is a primary target…

  • Mobile Phone Penetration : Country Rankings by: Anand Srinivasan

    March 23, 2010, 04:03

    China and India are among the countries with the fastest growth in mobile phones. However, when it comes to its penetration in the market, these countries…

  • Use Of Smartphone For Business Purposes by: Anand

    March 19, 2010, 05:41

    There used to be a time when smartphones were primarily used for business purposes. That has quite changed since the likes of iPhone came into the market. A…

  • Netbooks Sale And Revenue Statistics by: Anand

    March 10, 2010, 04:31

    In 2009, Netbooks accounted for 11.9% of the portable computer market. This is according to a study published on the Washington post. While the growth in…

  • Cell Phone Radiation : Smartphones With Highest Radiation Levels by: Anand

    February 25, 2010, 06:05

    The Environment Working Group has come up with some statistics on how the new age smartphones have been pushing towards the edge of acceptable levels of cell…

  • Worldwide Touch-Screen Smartphone Market Share by: Anand

    February 16, 2010, 01:43

    Till a couple of years back stylus supported touchscreens were the norm. However, ever since Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone as a device with the best user…

  • Growth Forecast For Wi-Fi Enabled Mobile Handsets by: Anand

    February 10, 2010, 03:58

    Last month In-Stat published statistics on the growth of Wi-Fi enabled handsets globally. According to this, 184 million Wi-Fi enabled mobile handsets will be…

  • Cell Phone Ownership Among Teenagers by: Anand

    February 4, 2010, 04:30

    Mobile phone ownership among teenagers is on the rise. In August of last year, a Pew Internet study had put the number of cell phone toting teens in US at 71%…

  • Most Popular Android Smartphones by: Anand

    February 2, 2010, 05:42

    The arrival of Motorola Droid and HTC myTouch have seriously shaken up the Android market. According to a report by media portal Myxer, three months back in…

  • Most Desired Features On A Smartphone by: Anand

    January 29, 2010, 05:34

    Features such as Internet and Camera are nearly ubiquitous on mobile phones, let alone smartphones. Yet, they remain the "must have" features among smartphone…

  • Cell Phone Ownership Among Children by: Anand

    January 14, 2010, 04:52

    In August last year, I had written about the cell phone ownership among teenagers. A recent study by MediaMark R&I group studies cell phone ownership among…

  • Smartphone Ownership Growth in USA by: Anand

    January 13, 2010, 05:38

    Smartphone ownership has increased by over 30 percentage points in three years. A recent study on smartphone ownership among Americans reveals the growth over…

  • Internet Tablet Growth Forecast by: Anand

    January 8, 2010, 06:14

    Apple is expected to announce the launch of their Tablet at the end of this month. With Google and a few other companies also in the process of launching their…

  • Total Contractual Cost Of Smartphones by: Kasthuri VN

    January 6, 2010, 04:11

    How much money do you spend on your iPhone or the Motorola Droid over the entire contractual period? While iPhone looks cheaper at the cost price, it in fact…

  • Mobile Phone Market Share In USA by: Gowri Naveen

    December 23, 2009, 04:23

    Apple iPhone, for all the buzz hasn't surely been the best selling manufacturer, yet. However, on a model-by-model basis, it looks like Apple has something to…

  • Android Platform Versions - Most Popular by: Anand

    December 21, 2009, 04:19

    Android is definitely promising and already holds significant market share among the mobile operating systems. However, the bigger concern is the fragmentation…

  • Gadget Ownership Among American Internet Users by: Gowri Naveen

    December 16, 2009, 05:55

    A recent survey was recently conducted to look into the gadget ownership among the average internet users. What comes as striking is that a lot more respondents…

  • Mac vs. PC Average Retail Selling Price by: Anand

    December 2, 2009, 05:05

    Last week, I had written about the average revenue share held by Apple and Microsoft in the desktop and laptop market. So, what is the average selling price of…

  • Mac vs. PC US Retail Revenue Share by: Gowri Naveen

    November 26, 2009, 04:22

    After all those Mac and PC ads, who's winning? Well, Microsoft PCs are still the leaders, but the Mac is not too far behind if we go by the revenue share. Here…

  • Malfunction Rate of Laptops by Manufacturer by: Anand

    November 18, 2009, 05:52

    A study by SquareTrade looks into the malfunction rate among the different laptops over a three year period. The conclusion of the study is that smaller brands…

  • Smartphone Market Leaders - 2009 Through 2014 by: Anand

    November 14, 2009, 04:13

    The gap between market forecasting and prophecies seem to be narrowing by the day. This is because thanks to the PR that research reports generate, market…

  • Number of Smartphones Sold Worldwide in Q3 2009 by: Anand

    November 13, 2009, 04:35

    The iPhone has been at the forefront of smartphone growth. Despite this, when it comes to the volumes of smartphones sold, Nokia has still managed to cling on…

  • Size of China's Cell Phone Gray Market by: Anand

    November 5, 2009, 04:13

    As of today, the number of cell phones shipped by the gray market in China constitutes 13% of the legitimate cell phone market. And the bad news is that it has…

  • Touchscreen Phone Growth and Market Share by: Anand

    November 4, 2009, 05:27

    Touchscreen phones have been growing much faster than the smartphone segment and with many more touchscreen phones expected to be launched during the Christmas…

  • Multiple Handset Ownership Among US and Canada Users by: Anand

    October 9, 2009, 06:40

    More women in the US and more men in Canada own more than one device for communication. The Average North American had 1.3 cellular device with them. Here's…

  • E-Readers Market Share in US by: Anand

    October 8, 2009, 05:22

    A recent Forrester research has increased its forecast of the sale of e-readers from 2 million to 3 million for 2009 following an increased optimization of…

  • Growth and Fall of Marketshares of Mobile Handsets in Western Europe by: Anand

    September 25, 2009, 09:14

    Nokia is yet to discover upon a device that will comprehensively compete against the likes of iPhone and the other smartphones. Here is a snippet from the…

  • Growth in Popularity of Netbooks by: Anand

    September 1, 2009, 09:32

    Netbooks are cheaper than Notebooks and maybe that's a reason why they grew by 40% in the last quarter compared to 22% growth of notebooks. Here are the…

  • How Big is the E-Reader Market? by: Anand

    August 27, 2009, 09:23

    First there was Amazon's Kindle. Then there are the new ones launched by Sony and Barnes & Nobles. How big can this market grow? Here are some forecasts: Numbe…

  • Price of Zune HD by: Anand

    August 14, 2009, 08:30

    What will the Zune HD cost when it launches? Here are the prices: 16GB : 0 GB : 0 It's existing competitor, iPod touch 16GB is now being offered at…

  • Worldwide Mobile Phone Shipment in 2009 - Top 5 Ranking by Handset Manufacturer by: Anand

    August 11, 2009, 16:17

    The second quarter results are out and based on the results posted in Q1 and Q2 of 2009, here is the ranking of global handset makers in the order of the…

  • Ranking of Vendors for Computer Sales in USA by: Anand

    July 16, 2009, 13:57

    Apple and Dell are two companies that are predicted to have lost market share since winter of 2008. Here are the top five computer vendors in America according…

  • Top Five Smartphones Globally by: Anand

    March 25, 2009, 14:17

    Admob reports that the smartphone market share has grown from 26 percent to 33 percent. Here are the top five smartphones globally: 1. iPhone 2. Nokia N70 3.…

  • Sale of Digital Music Vs. Music CDs by: Anand

    March 18, 2009, 14:19

    No surprise, but a recent research has just confirmed that the sale of music CDs is on the drop while the sale of digital music is on the rise in USA. Digital…

  • Semiconductor Chips Sales Projection for 2009 by: Anand

    February 26, 2009, 15:09

    It is a very uncertain market and projections have consistently been revised. Here are the 2009 sales projections that have been made (and revised) by Gartner…

  • Most Popular Gadgets For Christmas in Europe by: Anand

    December 19, 2008, 15:02

    What are the top five most searched gadgets during the Christmas season? Nintendo tops the list in Britain, Germany and France! TOP FIVE GADGETS IN UNITED…

  • Microsoft Zune vs. Apple iPod by: Anand

    May 13, 2008, 06:10

    Microsoft Zune, the portable media player developed as a rival to the iPod has completed two years of launch. It now has reached a milestone two million units…

  • PC Market for Dell in China by: Anand

    March 22, 2008, 18:18

    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…

  • How much data do Google servers process everyday? by: Anand

    January 10, 2008, 07:49

    Google processes 20 petabytes of data per day. That is, 20,000,000,000,000,000 bytes every day. This works out to around 231,000,000,000 bytes per second!!!

  • PC World Top 25 Most Innovative Products for 2007 by: Anand

    December 28, 2007, 21:24

    The list of 25 products are 1. Google Gears 2. Apple iPhone 3. One Laptop per Child OLPC XO Notebook 4. Apple Time Machine, in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) 5.…

  • How to Improve Efficacy of Public Service Announcements? by: Anand

    December 27, 2007, 10:14

    Possibly the Scotland way! Previous studies in Scotland showed that out of 902 Television Public Service Announcement ads showed in over 30 markets, only 11.2%…

  • What's most popular at Amazon this season? by: Anand

    December 26, 2007, 15:44

    62.5 items were ordered on Amazon every second on December 10. The best sellers at Amazon from November 15 to December 19 are Toys : Jakks EyeClops Bionic…

  • Broadband market in Europe by: Anand

    December 7, 2007, 18:23

    Radicati group estimates that Current number of installed base lines : 92 million Estimated number of installed base lines by 2011 : 118 million Estimated…

  • What is a green computer? by: Anand

    November 10, 2007, 09:04

    Green computing is an initiative taken by Google to make computers more environment friendly. There are a few upfront costs to using a green computer, but it…

  • Acer's market share in Hardware market by: Anand

    October 27, 2007, 21:12

    Third quarter resulted in a 58 percent growth for Acer. Acer shall gain 11-12 percent market share by 2008. The percent growth in sales shall be 25% in this…

• Gaming  (54)
  • American States With Highest Number Of Facebook Gamers by: Anand Srinivasan

    November 22, 2010, 08:45

    Where do the most number of gamers on Facebook come from in the United States? A study conducted by AdParlor looked into data gathered from hundreds of…

  • US Mobile Gaming Revenues Forecast by: Anand Srinivasan

    August 18, 2010, 16:35

    With mobile phones getting smarter by the day, the number of people who access gaming applications on their mobile phone is definitely on the rise. Consequently…

  • Social Gaming Revenue Estimate And Forecast by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 29, 2010, 11:56

    Social gaming has been become amazingly popular over the past year and a half with the launch of games such as Farmville and Mafia Wars on Facebook. It is not…

  • Average Number Of Games On Smartphone by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 7, 2010, 16:13

    How many games do you have on your smartphone, if you have one? This is not entirely surprising, but a study by Compete found that iPhone users are pretty…

  • US Video Game Revenues By Platform by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 25, 2010, 08:08

    Spending on video games in the US is estimated to be close to .2 billion for 2009. This includes a variety of platforms including mobile phones which is…

  • Top Gaming Countries By Average Revenue Per Gamer by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 12, 2010, 07:42

    PlaySpan, a company focused on providing monetization solutions for online games, social networks and virtual worlds has released its latest report on the…

  • Game Console Failure Rate : XBox 360 Vs. PS3 Vs. Wii by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 20, 2010, 08:45

    First things first - this is not a study from an established market research firm. Independent review site, NoFussReviews conducted a survey of over 500,000…

  • Smartphone Mobile Gaming Market Statistics by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 15, 2010, 16:51

    Comscore has published its results on a recent study conducted to look into the mobile gaming market in the US. The study reveals that the number of mobile…

  • Broadband Connected Gaming Console Stats by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 14, 2010, 08:19

    Internet connected gaming is slowly becoming the norm. You may recall a recent study which pointed out that close to 85% of online gamers preferred their PC…

  • Largest Social Game Developers On Facebook by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 8, 2010, 04:07

    Facebook gaming is one of the most popular pastimes of late and close to 70 million users (of the total 400 million Facebook users) play just one game -…

  • China Online Game Market by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 2, 2010, 04:37

    In a study published late last year, Analysys International projected the revenues from the Chinese gaming industry to be around .8 billion in 2009 and…

  • US Video Game Market Share By Revenue by: Anand Srinivasan

    March 23, 2010, 08:47

    If you need any proof to underline the fact that the Apple App Store is proving to be a serious threat to the video gaming market as we know it, it is here. A…

  • MMO Games Revenue By Country by: Anand

    March 12, 2010, 05:52

    USA is without doubt the leader when it comes to revenues made from Massively Multiplayer Online games like World of Warcraft and Runescape. In a new study by…

  • PC Gaming Software Revenue Statistics by: Anand

    March 11, 2010, 05:55

    The PC Gaming Alliance (PCGA) recently unveiled their report that studied the growth in PC Gaming revenues over the past one year. Here are some interesting…

  • Global Video Game Market Growth by: Anand

    March 9, 2010, 05:17

    According to a study by Strategy Analytics, The video game market worldwide has grown by over 50% in the period 2005-2010 thanks to the popularity of console…

  • Most Used Online Gaming Platform by: Anand

    March 3, 2010, 04:19

    The PC is without doubt the most used gaming platform for online games. However, a recent study by NPD Group reveals that gaming consoles have been contributing…

  • Virtual Goods Spending Behavior On Social Games by: Anand

    February 22, 2010, 13:23

    Virtual goods are big business. According to a study by Piper Jaffrey last year, the industry was expected to be worth billion by 2013. So how much do…

  • Most Popular Social Networks For Playing Games by: Anand

    February 20, 2010, 05:48

    With Farmville, Mafia Wars and the likes on Facebook, there is no doubt that Facebook is the most preferred platform to play social games. A study (also read…

  • Demographic Profile Of Social Gamers by: Anand

    February 18, 2010, 04:55

    A comprehensive study of social gamers (which includes games like Farmville and Mafia Wars) was conducted by Information Solutions Group in USA and UK. Here…

  • Number Of Users On Second Life by: Anand

    January 27, 2010, 07:18

    Second Life is one of the early games that spawned web based virtual economy with the use of virtual goods. Is Second Life still growing? A recent blog post on…

  • Mobile Gaming In UK by: Anand

    January 22, 2010, 05:54

    Mobile Gamers are a rapidly growing breed in UK. A recent study constituted by UK National Gamers Survey Report once again reveals the revolution that iPhone…

  • Video Gaming Among Adult Population by: Anand

    January 11, 2010, 04:22

    Video gaming is getting popular among the baby boomers and matures. A recent report from Deloitte shows the surging popularity of gaming among the older…

  • Gaming Among Children In USA by: Gowri Naveen

    December 31, 2009, 05:38

    Gaming is very highly popular among the kids in USA with children as young as 2 joining the gaming crowd. A recent study by the NPD group revealed the…

  • Computer Gaming Among Females by: Kasthuri VN

    December 31, 2009, 05:08

    Computer games are least associated with females and have always been male-oriented. However, that has been changing over the past few years with more and more…

  • Online Gambling In Germany by: Anand

    December 25, 2009, 04:30

    Online gambling continues to thrive in Germany despite a state ban. The stats emphasize the need to legalize gambling in a country where more than 2 million…

  • China Online Gaming Industry Revenue Projections by: Anand

    December 7, 2009, 05:37

    The current internet penetration in China is close to 27% and there are close to 69 million online gamers in the country. The online gaming industry is…

  • Top Ten Games Websites in USA by: Anand

    November 13, 2009, 05:15

    We had seen the list of most popular games websites in USA just a couple of months back and it is interesting how the rankings have changed quite a bit since…

  • Mobile Gaming Industry - Growth Forecast and Drivers by: Anand

    November 11, 2009, 04:15

    The portable and mobile gaming market has just seen the start of a boom. A study by DFC Intelligence sees a huge surge in the industry revenues as more and…

  • Biggest Social Gaming Applications By Number of Users by: Anand

    October 26, 2009, 11:22

    Fans of Farmville and Mafia Wars should be happy to note that they are among the games with the largest number of users on the social network platform. Here…

  • How Many Nintendo Wii Consoles Sold Till Now? by: Anand

    September 28, 2009, 07:43

    Nintendo Wii was launched in November 2006. Ever since, sold at a price of 9, Nintendo Wii has sold over 53 million units worldwide. Of this close to half…

  • Number of Games Available On Portable Gaming Platforms by: Anand

    September 26, 2009, 11:54

    A sidetrack to the growth of iPhones has been Apple's foray into the portable gaming platform. The iPhone platform has a lot many more games than what is…

  • Most Visited Gaming Websites in USA by: Anand

    September 25, 2009, 12:30

    Casual gaming is as big a market, if not bigger than MMORPGs. Here are the top destinations for casual gamers in this recently released list by Hitwise for…

  • US Gamers Owning More Than One Video Game Console by: Anand

    September 23, 2009, 10:09

    Nintendo Wii is apparently the most popular video game console in the US owned by close to 32% of all gamers. A large percentage of them also own an XBox or a…

  • Most Popular Online Gaming Sites in Japan by: Anand

    September 16, 2009, 09:12

    Online gaming in Japan has grown by over 18% in the past one year ending July 2009. There were 16.5 million online gamers in the month of July. Here are the…

  • What Does An Average Gamer Look Like? by: Anand

    August 20, 2009, 09:40

    I don't know how true this survey is, but coming as it is from the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, here is how the average video game player looks…

  • Worldwide Revenue From Virtual Goods - Projection by: Anand

    August 13, 2009, 07:44

    Virtual goods like avatars are money makers in MMORPGs, virtual worlds, and even on Social networks. Apparently, a lot of people are buying virtual goods. Here…

  • Effect of Recession on Gaming Industry by: Anand

    July 19, 2009, 17:31

    The Gaming market had evaded the effects of recession for quite sometime. However, the time has come and here are the results of the same: Total industry…

  • Most Popular MMORPG (Online role playing games) By Time Spent Per Week by: Anand

    July 3, 2009, 15:37

    MMORPG stands for Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. Though World of Warcraft is a rage among its users, survey upon the average time spent per…

  • PlayStation Network Member Base Vs. Xbox Live Subscriber Base by: Anand

    February 26, 2009, 15:26

    Sony PlayStation is focusing at its online service PlayStation Network to increase its sales. Here are the membership of PlayStation Network as compared to…

  • Overview of the Online Gaming Sector by: Anand

    February 2, 2009, 14:05

    Free online games have picked up momentum thanks to the downturn and avid gamers are seeking cheaper alternatives. Here is an overview of the online gaming…

  • Growth of Gaming Industry in US by: Anand

    March 19, 2008, 15:19

    The American gaming industry growth rate was a prolific 34 percent to reach .33 billion for the month of February. This includes the sales of both the…

  • Growth of Gaming Market in Germany by: Anand

    March 9, 2008, 08:30

    Gamers are fast moving from video games on their personal computers to game consoles in Germany. The sale of game consoles grew by 21 percent to reach .1…

  • Projected Mobile Gaming Revenues in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific by: Anand

    March 5, 2008, 18:56

    The Estimates for revenues from mobile phone gaming industry for USA, Canada: 2007 - 7 millions 2011 - 1700 millions In comparison, the revenues from the…

  • Projection of American In-Game Advertising Spending by: Anand

    March 5, 2008, 16:46

    The projection of the US in-game advertising market for the years 2007 - 2012: 2007 - 5 millions 2008 - 3 millions 2009 - 1 millions 2010 - 9…

  • Sale Figures of Gaming Consoles in Japan by: Anand

    February 29, 2008, 19:01

    A look into the sales figures for consoles in Japan for the month of February: Nintendo Wii - 331,627 consoles Playstation 3 - 89,131 consoles XBox 360 -…

  • Is Ad-Supported Free Casual Games Better Than Paid Games? by: Anand

    February 6, 2008, 18:06

    Which is better - Free to play games, but embedded with 15 or 30 second ads between levels OR No-Ads, but paid casual games? A survey has found that the…

  • Eight Most Upcoming Games for 2008 by: Anand

    January 29, 2008, 13:07

    This is not about Olympics. Here is a list of eight most hyped video games for 2008: Grand Theft Auto IV KillZone 2 LittleBigPlanet Metal Gear Solid 4 - Guns…

  • How Many Play World of Warcraft by: Anand

    January 23, 2008, 14:16

    The game now has 10 million paying subscribers worldwide. This includes 5.5 million players in Asia, 2.5 million in the US and 2 million in Europe. The…

  • Video Gaming in India by: Anand

    December 28, 2007, 21:01

    India's internet population is 42 million strong Percentage of them that are active gamers : 5% Revenues from Gaming in India : million per year

  • Which firms have a presence in Virtual Worlds? by: Anand

    December 27, 2007, 10:42

    The following is just a few of the many present in virtual worlds for marketing their brands Second Life Microsoft Starwood Hotels Reuters CBS CSI (franchise) …

  • How to Improve Efficacy of Public Service Announcements? by: Anand

    December 27, 2007, 10:14

    Possibly the Scotland way! Previous studies in Scotland showed that out of 902 Television Public Service Announcement ads showed in over 30 markets, only 11.2%…

  • What's most popular at Amazon this season? by: Anand

    December 26, 2007, 15:44

    62.5 items were ordered on Amazon every second on December 10. The best sellers at Amazon from November 15 to December 19 are Toys : Jakks EyeClops Bionic…

  • What to buy for the holiday season? by: Anand

    December 6, 2007, 18:20

    Buy videogames this Christmas!! A Comscore study shows that Videogames and consoles have had an 145% increase in sales compared to the holiday season till date…

  • Ecommerce, Advertising - What works best for a Casual Games site? by: Anand

    November 12, 2007, 08:45

    More and more casual games sites are looking into advertising as the form of revenue. SHOCKWAVE.COM Traffic to free, ad-suported games: 90 percent Revenue…

• Google  (49)
  • Google Plus - User Demographics : Gender, Occupation, Cities & Countries by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 14, 2011, 16:32

    It has barely been weeks since Google launched their new social network - the Google+. Despite its earlier failures at getting their social strategy right,…

  • How Big Is The Internet? by: Anand Srinivasan

    November 18, 2010, 10:38

    Google has an overwhelming presence on the internet and it is very unlikely that any of us remains untouched by their service yet. Even if you do not use their…

  • Number Of Smartphones Sold Per Day - iPhone Vs. Android Vs. Nokia by: Anand Srinivasan

    September 14, 2010, 13:16

    Apple and Google have been fighting a lot over numbers of late. Steve Jobs had recently mocked Google's claims of activating over 200,000 devices everyday by…

  • Biggest Advertisers On Google by: Anand Srinivasan

    September 6, 2010, 16:59

    British Petroleum deals with products that really don't need to be advertised on Google. At least that used to be the thinking of the marketing team at the…

  • Search Engine Market Share : Web Vs. Mobile by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 30, 2010, 11:42

    It's a no-brainer to say that Google leads the way by a huge margin in the search engine rankings. But considering that the mobile internet took off relatively…

  • Income Level Distribution Of Android Users by: Anand Srinivasan

    June 9, 2010, 07:39

    Close to 40% of iPhone users earn more than 0K a year in the US. While this may sound impressive, it also needs to be noted that the iPhone users are, on an…

  • Worldwide Android OS Geographic Distribution  by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 27, 2010, 06:57

    In its latest report, Admob has compared the geographic distribution of Android OS devices against iPhone OS. While Apple has seen a major portion of its sale…

  • Most Searched Keywords On Google by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 29, 2010, 13:34

    Hitwise has released its latest report for March 2010 where it has published its list of the most searched terms on Google. Unsurprisingly, it is 'Facebook'…

  • Google Government Data Removal Request Statistics by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 22, 2010, 13:37

    Google has released a new online tool called 'Government Requests' that chronicles the number of data requests and removal requests the several Governments…

  • Average Number Of Search Engine Queries Per Month by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 7, 2010, 02:56

    Microsoft has been slowing clawing its way up the search engine market share. But no, Google is not feeling the heat. Rather, it is the other search engines in…

  • Google Profit And Revenues Timeline by: Anand

    March 3, 2010, 05:05

    The rise of Google has been an amazing success story in the past decade. As of July 2008, over 1 trillion pages had been indexed on the Google search index…

  • Website Clickthrough By Search Engine Results Page by: Anand

    February 18, 2010, 06:02

    Companies spend thousands of dollars in trying to get their websites up on the first page of search engine results. A recent study by iCrossing underlines the…

  • Google Quarterly Revenues From Online Advertising by: Anand

    February 11, 2010, 06:08

    Google is no doubt the biggest online ad network worldwide. As we had reported earlier, nearly 50% of Google's ad revenues come just from the US. So, how much…

  • Publishers Share Of Adsense Ad Clicks by: Anand

    January 26, 2010, 07:30

    As an Adsense publisher, most of us would have wondered the exact share of the ad-click revenue that Google shares with us. Interestingly, this can be roughly…

  • Cost of Nexus One Components by: Anand

    January 12, 2010, 04:30

    Remember our post on the cost of iPhone components? The manufacturing cost of the iPhone worked out to 8. Nexus One is just marginally cheaper - at 4.15.…

  • Average Length of Google Search Keywords by: Anand

    October 13, 2009, 05:15

    With more and more webmasters focusing on SEO to get to the top of the search results, it is probable that the users are finding it more difficult to exactly…

  • Google Dominance in Brazil vs. India - Category Based Comparison by: Anand

    September 15, 2009, 08:29

    India and Brazil are pretty similar when it comes to website preferences, be it in search, social networking or anything else. Google dominates in these two…

  • Top Ten Global Markets For Google by: Anand

    September 15, 2009, 08:20

    In India, Google is omnipresent. The top five websites in India are Google.com,Google.co.in, Yahoo, Youtube and Orkut - a 4/5 dominance by Google. So is…

  • How Many Internet Searches in a Month? by: Anand

    September 2, 2009, 08:00

    Personally, how many searches do you do on a monthly basis? I cannot tell for myself, cos I search a lot! Probably that is why the worldwide internet search…

  • Five Most Important Factors for Search Engine Optimization by: Anand

    August 24, 2009, 08:05

    A study of the most important search engine ranking factors according to 72 expert SEOs at SEOMoz revealed the following list: 1. Anchor text from external…

  • Top Ten Search Engines in USA (July 2009) by: Anand

    August 17, 2009, 08:36

    The search engine market is so vulnerable and market share keep changing, albeit by a few percentage points every month. Here are the top ten search engines in…

  • Mobile Search Engine Market Share by: Anand

    July 9, 2009, 15:03

    If Google is a killer search engine on the internet, it is even more - a monopoly on the mobile web. Google is almost the only search engine that is accessed…

  • Most Popular Google Services by: Anand

    March 11, 2009, 14:19

    Google is not just a search engine now. At least four of Google's services including search are among the top ten most visited websites on the Internet. So…

  • Bandwidth Consumption of Google in the US by: Anand

    December 5, 2008, 13:12

    In 2008, Google used 16.5 percent of all US Consumer internet traffic. This is projected to rise to 25% in 2009 and 37% in 2010. This terrific share is because…

  • How Many Searches Are Made Every Month by: Anand

    September 22, 2008, 12:06

    Here are a few interesting statistics on the search engine market for June 2008: Worldwide number of searches : 74,217 million Worldwide number of searchers :…

  • Popularity of Youtube Videos in USA by: Anand

    September 21, 2008, 09:31

    Americans watched 558 million hours of Online videos in a single month of July 2008. Among the different online video sharing websites, Youtube was the most…

  • How Many URLs Are Indexed on Google by: Anand

    July 27, 2008, 16:40

    Google has announced a major landmark. The search engine has now crawled 1 trillion unique URLs. Here is how Google grew in terms of number of indexed…

  • Search Engines Usability Study by: Anand

    May 25, 2008, 18:42

    Do people using search engines able to achieve what they wanted to? At least the growing numbers indicate so. 60% of people achieved their objectives using…

  • Top Twenty Googled Health Conditions by: Anand

    April 12, 2008, 15:08

    Here is a list of the most commonly searched Health Terms on Search Engines: 1. Pregnancy 2. Cancer 3. Flu 4. Depression 5. Diabetes 6. Addiction 7. Herpes 8.…

  • Growth Rate of Paid Clicks on Google by: Anand

    March 27, 2008, 18:08

    According to a Comscore report, Google had 515mm Paid clicks in the US in February. This is how the paid clicks growth rate on Google have been over the past…

  • Google's Performance on Social Networks by: Anand

    February 1, 2008, 06:14

    Google deals with two major social networks : MySpace and Orkut. With MySpace, Google has also signed a deal to deliver at least 0 million per annum in…

  • Are Search Engines Trust-Worthy? by: Anand

    January 18, 2008, 13:18

    Do you think Google is trustworthy? More and more people have begun to distrust information provided by Search Engines. Only 51 percent of people in 2007 trust…

  • How much data do Google servers process everyday? by: Anand

    January 10, 2008, 07:49

    Google processes 20 petabytes of data per day. That is, 20,000,000,000,000,000 bytes every day. This works out to around 231,000,000,000 bytes per second!!!

  • Yahoo vs. Google in Japan by: Anand

    December 27, 2007, 10:25

    Unique Japanese visitors to Yahoo properties : 41 million (August) Unique Japanese visitors to Google properties : 31 million (August) Search Engine market…

  • Gmail Vs. Yahoo Mail Vs. Hotmail Vs. AOL by: Anand

    December 25, 2007, 21:39

    Popularity of each of these mail accounts: Hotmail : 47 million unique visitors (April) AOL : 42.3 million unique visitors (April) Gmail : 90 million (approx.…

  • Google traffic growth in 2007 by: Anand

    December 22, 2007, 18:24

    The traffic is still as much growing as it had been all along. Overall growth has been 22.42 percent. Gainers iGoogle : 267.64% Book search : 54.66% Gmail :…

  • Is Advertising Gambling sites legal? by: Anand

    December 20, 2007, 19:51

    No. According to the Federal Wire Wager Act, unregulated commercial gambling is prohibited throughout United States. This has cost the Big 3 of internet to…

  • Ego-surfing : Growing like crazy by: Anand

    December 17, 2007, 11:22

    Ego Surfing: The act of searching your own name on Search Engines. This has almost doubled in five years. 22% of users 'googled' their own name back in 2002.…

  • Demographics of the Searchers by: Anand

    December 15, 2007, 14:00

    In US, 65 percent of all searches are done on Google; three times more than the searches made on Yahoo. Amongst these searches, the key demographics are Health…

  • What is Knol by: Anand

    December 15, 2007, 12:52

    Knol is Google's 'unit of knowledge'. It is the new tool introduced by Google to let users to write articles on subjects they are authoritative in. In other…

  • Search Engine market shares for the American market by: Anand

    December 11, 2007, 17:04

    For the month of October, the market shares (in percent terms) are as follows: Google (55%) Yahoo (19%) Microsoft (14%) AOL (4%) Ask (3%)

  • Which is the biggest email service? by: Anand

    December 6, 2007, 17:58

    Well, Google is not the leader in this one at least. The Comscore Media metrix for October shows Gmail jumped a 64% increase in userbase from the same time…

  • Is Google transparent and accountable? by: Anand

    December 5, 2007, 18:00

    According to the 2007 Global Accountability report: Google Net income: .25 billion Transparency : 0 percent Environmental and Social impact evaluation : 0…

  • What is Android? by: Anand

    November 12, 2007, 17:21

    Android is the new mobile platform that Google has announced. Google has recently launched the Android Software development kit that will allow developers to…

  • How much does Mozilla Firefox earn? by: Anand

    November 12, 2007, 08:34

    Mozilla foundation owns assets around million. In 2006, the revenues came to about million. Of this million, 85 percent has come from Google.…

  • What is the size limit for video uploads on YouTube? by: Anand

    November 10, 2007, 09:13

    It used to be less. But now YouTube allows upto 1GB (one gigabyte) long videos. How many videos can I upload at a time? Till now, it was just one. But now,…

  • Is Google Operating System for real? by: Anand

    November 3, 2007, 07:09

    Techcrunch reports spotting a Google PC at Wal-mart What makes it stand out, however, is GOS, a version of Linux specially made to run Google applications…

  • How fast is Google stock growing? by: Anand

    November 3, 2007, 07:04

    Google Stock price at the end of the first day of trading: 8.31 Time taken to rise from 0 to 0: 30 months Time taken to rise from 0 to 0: 5…

  • What is OpenSocial? by: Anand

    October 31, 2007, 20:27

    OpenSocial is an alliance of different network sites collaborated by Google to tackle the competition from Facebook. The API shall give developers access…

• internet  (196)
  • How Big Is The Internet? by: Anand Srinivasan

    November 18, 2010, 10:38

    Google has an overwhelming presence on the internet and it is very unlikely that any of us remains untouched by their service yet. Even if you do not use their…

  • Internet User Distribution Across Countries by: Anand Srinivasan

    August 6, 2010, 16:34

    What percent of the world's total internet users come from USA? or China, Japan or India for that matter? According to reports from Cisco, China and USA alone…

  • Worldwide Distribution Of High Speed Internet Connection (> 5Mbps) by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 27, 2010, 12:40

    Akamai has released its latest report detailing the state of internet broadband across the world. Not surprisingly, south east asia, especially Japan and South…

  • Average Website Traffic Statistics by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 7, 2010, 16:50

    If you own a website, you may well be convinced of the plain fact that your website cannot hide itself from Google. There are so many products like Adsense,…

  • Number Of Internet Users In Brazil by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 1, 2010, 08:29

    A recent report published by ComScore shows that internet users in Brazil - those who are less than 15 years old - constitute as much as 12% of the total…

  • Average Number Of Words In Search Query by: Anand Srinivasan

    June 29, 2010, 07:14

    In October last year, Hitwise had published a report that suggested that the maximum number of search engine queries were one-worded. And as it looked obvious…

  • Fastest Internet Speed In The World by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 26, 2010, 07:38

    Ookla, the company behind the popular ISP speed measurement tool, SpeedTest has introduced a broadband index that assimilates data from the over 1 million…

  • Time Spent On Social Networking Sites And Other Website Categories In UK by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 24, 2010, 06:42

    Nielsen's latest report for internet use in the United Kingdom shows that social networking comprises close to one-fourth of all user time spent online. For a…

  • Internet Usage In Mexico Statistics by: Anand Srinivasan

    May 7, 2010, 12:48

    Mexico has been one of the fastest growing countries in the world in terms of internet users. A recent report by ComScore concluded that the number of home and…

  • The Most Popular Instant Messaging Service by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 23, 2010, 16:42

    The first Instant messaging program was launched in 1993 - CU-SeeMe. Another popular IM Client called PowWow launched two years later. But it was not until AOL…

  • Free Skype-To-Skype Call Volume Statistics by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 21, 2010, 07:41

    If you thought Facebook, with its 400 million registered users was huge, then consider this : Skype has 560 million users and unlike on Facebook, these users…

  • Most Visited Websites At Work by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 20, 2010, 07:50

    Managed security company, Network Box has studied over 13 billion URLs visited by businesses in the first quarter of 2010. The results are not too surprising.…

  • Largest Print Media Websites In USA by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 19, 2010, 13:23

    Though media tycoons like Rupert Murdoch may lament the slow death of print media in the hands of their online counterpart, there is no gainsaying the fact…

  • Number Of Unique IP Addresses In The World by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 19, 2010, 08:01

    With an increasing number of desktop and mobile devices available to surf the internet from, the internet is seeing an amazing growth in terms of the number of…

  • Online Radio Audience Growth In USA by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 13, 2010, 17:54

    Online radio listeners in the US have grown from a mere 2% of the internet audience in 2001 to over 17% of the internet audience in 2010. That is approximately…

  • Number of Internet Users In USA by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 9, 2010, 05:07

    The internet penetration in the US will breach the 70% mark this year. In a recently published report, eMarketer studies the internet growth rate in US as well…

  • Most Searched Brands In The US by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 3, 2010, 04:06

    This is one stat that could be truly misleading. A recent study published by Hitwise looks into the most searched brands in the US and concludes that Facebook…

  • US Online Travel Booking Market by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 1, 2010, 06:09

    The online travel market is huge and in USA, this market is expected to cross the 0 billion mark in another couple of years. This is according to a recent…

  • Data Portability Via Third Party Login Marketshare by: Anand Srinivasan

    March 30, 2010, 04:02

    All the prominent websites out there including Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter and MySpace are out there with their data portability offerings that let users…

  • Statistics On Cybersquatting Cases  by: Anand Srinivasan

    March 26, 2010, 04:29

    In a recent release, the World Intellectual Property Organization published a stat on the number of internet cybersquatting cases dealt in the past one year.…

  • Online Dating Industry Statistics by: Anand Srinivasan

    March 25, 2010, 03:56

    The online dating industry is one of the biggest and most profitable online segments. Websites such as eHarmony and Match.com have between 15-20 million…

  • Google News vs. Facebook : Return Visitor Rate by: Anand Srinivasan

    March 23, 2010, 04:30

    The competition between Google and Facebook has been brewing up on a lot of fronts. Facebook is now bigger than Google in a few countries like Indonesia and…

  • World Internet Penetration By Geographic Region by: Anand

    March 20, 2010, 05:42

    The stats here may be a little outdated (noted in Sep 2009), but is nevertheless an interesting pointer. A study published by the MiniWatts group notes that…

  • Online News Readers Who Click On Ads by: Anand

    March 17, 2010, 06:12

    Do you read news online? Do you click on ads? If your answer to both these questions is Yes, then you could be among the one-fifth of news readers who actually…

  • Most Popular Online Properties For Local Shoppers by: Anand

    March 15, 2010, 05:10

    Local shoppers no longer have to rely on information about coupon, offers and reviews from the local advertisers on newspaper while shopping in their neighborho…

  • Top Country-Code TLD (ccTLD) By Number of Registered Domains by: Anand

    February 24, 2010, 05:51

    Internet research project Zooknic analyzed the country code top level domains (ccTLD) from various countries to rank the top ten ccTLD in terms of number of…

  • Sports Website Engagement Levels Among Indian Internet Users by: Anand

    February 24, 2010, 04:27

    Comscore is out with its study on the most popular sports websites among Indian Internet users. Without doubt, almost all the top websites are cricket-focused.…

  • Average American Internet Usage Time by: Anand

    February 19, 2010, 04:25

    Thanks to social networking websites such as Facebook, the time spent on internet has seen an overall increase over the past few months. For instance, the…

  • US Internet Penetration By Age by: Anand

    February 17, 2010, 05:45

    There are 221 million internet users in the United States as of 2010. The most internet savvy population is without doubt in the age group of 12-24. However,…

  • Worldwide Internet Users Growth by: Anand

    February 15, 2010, 05:14

    How has the number of internet users across the world increased in the past decade? Not surprisingly, the highest growth in internet usage between 2000 and…

  • Internet Penetration In South Africa by: Anand

    January 29, 2010, 05:26

    South Africa has for long been one of the underperformers when it came to internet penetration. That is finally changing as more companies are making the shift…

  • Search Engine Market Worldwide by: Anand

    January 23, 2010, 04:59

    Between December 2008 and December 2009, the search engine market grew 46% worldwide. The highest growth has come from Russia, Brazil and France. Here is the…

  • Total Number Of Domain Names by: Anand

    January 23, 2010, 04:08

    At the end of H1 2009, there were close to 184 million TLD (Top Level Domains). In the six months that have passed since then, another 3 million domain names…

  • Internet Usage By Tweens by: Anand

    January 12, 2010, 05:38

    Tweens (8-14) have never experienced life without mobile phones and internet and without doubt rely on it for a lot of things. A study conducted by Walt Disney…

  • Time Spent Online By Stay-At-Home Mums by: Anand

    January 12, 2010, 05:22

    Stay at home mums are increasingly visible on social networks and chat forums at the cost of child-care. A recent study conducted for a competition website…

  • Internet Penetration Among Rural And Suburban Americans by: Anand

    January 11, 2010, 05:36

    Pew Internet recently conducted a study to see the internet usage classified by the community type among Americans. What is interesting is that suburban…

  • Fastest Growing Industries 2000-2009 by: Gowri Naveen

    December 30, 2009, 05:25

    This past decade can well be dedicated to the growth in internet. How else can you explain the fact that four out of the top five industries to have grown the…

  • Importance of Page Load Time To Website Visitor by: Anand

    December 26, 2009, 05:20

    How long are you willing to wait on a page before deciding to abandon it? Here are the results of a survey commissioned by Akamai to study customer perception…

  • Average Time Spent Online Statistics by: Kasthuri VN

    December 24, 2009, 06:09

    How much time does an average adult internet user spend online? Harris Interactive has been measuring this for quite sometime now and here is how the time…

  • Most Popular News Websites in India by: Anand

    December 15, 2009, 05:50

    According to Comscore, nearly 16 million Indians accessed news online in the month of October 2009, which is a 37% growth from October 2008. The most surprising…

  • Online Radio Popularity in UK by: Anand

    December 12, 2009, 04:45

    There is a gradual increase in the popularity of online radio in UK. The spike has especially been boosted by online services such as Last.fm which is also…

  • Content Theft From Online Newspapers by: Kasthuri VN

    December 5, 2009, 06:07

    If you were wondering why Rupert Murdoch is so vehemently against allowing Google News to show his news, here's why. A study conducted by Fair Syndication…

  • How Long Are Search Key Terms by: Kasthuri VN

    November 28, 2009, 05:34

    Is finding relevant information on Google getting increasingly difficult? The trend of search terms getting longer continues as we see more and more long tail…

  • Portugal Internet Penetration and Usage by: Kasthuri VN

    November 25, 2009, 05:14

    A recent ComScore report elaborately talks about the internet usage scenario in Portugal. Here are a few snapshots Total Population of Portugal : 10…

  • Websites Referring Traffic To Newspaper Sites by: Anand

    November 25, 2009, 04:15

    News Corp has been vociferous in recent times about Google "stealing" their news content and are now planning to deindex from Google News and instead sign up…

  • Most Popular Online Brands by: Anand

    November 20, 2009, 04:08

    What brands do people love online. A survey was done by Forrester Research and every respondent was given an opportunity to mention two internet brands. And…

  • Internet Users Growth In Asia Pacific by: Anand

    November 17, 2009, 05:58

    There has been a double digit growth in Internet usage across most parts of Asia Pacific. This has propelled the number of unique visitors in the region up to…

  • Most Popular Internet Properties By Total Time Spent by: Anand

    November 7, 2009, 05:53

    One interesting (or not so interesting) part of statistics is that the numbers differ vastly based on who is measuring it. Recently, I had written here about…

  • IPv4 vs. IPv6 - Why A Migration To IPv6 Is Necessary by: Anand

    November 4, 2009, 04:21

    Of late, there has been a lot of talk about the need for companies to move to a new IPv6 in order to avoid the imminent running out of web addresses. Here is…

  • Wireless Internet Browsing Over Smartphones by: Anand

    October 30, 2009, 04:52

    Two years and several hundreds of thousands of smartphone sales later, the mobile internet revolution is finally beginning to kick off and the smartphones have…

  • Facebook Usage - A Perspective by: Anand

    October 23, 2009, 05:33

    It was recently announced that the 300 million users on Facebook spend close to 8 billion minutes per day on the site. What do you make of the 8 billion…

  • Largest Online News Websites Globally by: Anand

    October 20, 2009, 04:02

    Yahoo leads the pack in the list of the largest online news site in terms of the number of monthly uniques (for the month of September). Here are the top 15…

  • Online Coupons Usage Among US Internet Users By Income by: Anand

    October 15, 2009, 05:59

    The affluent are mad about online coupons; that much is clear from a new study by Harris Interactive on the usage of internet coupons among Internet users in…

  • American Internet Usage Statistics by: Anand

    October 15, 2009, 05:02

    Internet usage among Americans still trails TV viewership, but is still carving its own niche in terms of the number of websites visited and time spent online.…

  • Most Popular Online Activiites in Hong Kong by: Anand

    October 14, 2009, 06:24

    It is a world where Instant Messengers are still twice as popular as social networks for communication. Here are the top online activities in Hong Kong based…

  • Growth in Email vs. Social Network Usage by: Anand

    October 12, 2009, 05:37

    Decades after its introduction, email is still growing. However, email is no longer the quickest way to communicate thanks to the Twitters and Facebooks of…

  • Change in Online Ad Clicking Behavior by: Anand

    October 9, 2009, 07:27

    People are no longer the voracious online ads clickers they once were. People click only half many times as they used to two years back. But what is saving the…

  • Most Valuable Source Of Website Traffic by: Anand

    October 7, 2009, 05:02

    I'm sorry I really don't agree to what is given here. Makes for a good read though. Which of the websites bring in visitors that is most valuable? Chitika…

  • Most Popular Ways To Discover Content by: Anand

    October 6, 2009, 12:39

    Two websites I use the most when it comes to discovering new content online are Google and Wikipedia. It is so easy to directly jump to the 'What is' part of…

  • Internet Penetration in Canada Statistics by: Anand

    October 1, 2009, 07:06

    Internet penetration will grow by over 8 percentage points over the next five years in Canada as we witness a broadband boom. Here are the projected number of…

  • State of Internet in USA by: Anand

    September 30, 2009, 08:41

    FCC in a report on the broadband stimulus plan released some info that will reveal the state of internet in the United States. Here are a few stats from the…

  • Most Popular Websites For Breaking News by: Anand

    September 30, 2009, 07:33

    Where do you head to learn more about a breaking news? Here are the most popular websites for current events and live news updates, marked by unique visitors…

  • Market Share of Online Trading Websites by: Anand

    September 30, 2009, 07:26

    We recently saw Yahoo Finance leading the pack in the list of the most popular investment news websites. Where do the visitors head from there? Here is the top…

  • Most Popular Automotive Websites by: Anand

    September 30, 2009, 07:16

    This is not necessarily the best automotive websites around, but surely is the most popular in terms of the number of unique visitors each of these websites…

  • Most Popular URL Shortening Services on Twitter by: Anand

    September 29, 2009, 10:00

    It was only last week that MySpace enabled two-way syncing to update statuses between MySpace and Twitter, and the shotr links from MySpace are already the…

  • Popularity of MySpace in Online Videos Market by: Anand

    September 29, 2009, 08:51

    When it comes to online videos, there is none to beat Youtube. However, MySpace has nurtured its own small niche and has a loyal following of video viewers.…

  • How Big Is Youtube in Online Videos Market? by: Anand

    September 29, 2009, 08:42

    Youtube which contributes to 99% of all online videos served by Google along with Google Video has now crossed the 10 billion videos watched per month mark.…

  • Most Popular TV Websites on the Internet by: Anand

    September 29, 2009, 08:24

    More and more TV channels have started promoting their websites as well. Not only does it give them access to many more eyeballs, but is also an additional…

  • Most Visited Mobile Phone Websites in USA by: Anand

    September 29, 2009, 08:16

    Mocospace is among the most popular websites on the mobile phone with nearly 1 in 5 users accessing the site from mobile phones. Here are the top ten mobile…

  • Most Popular Community Based Organization Websites by: Anand

    September 26, 2009, 12:32

    A Hitwise report on the most popular community based organization websites in USA shows a good share of websites that are popular among the visitors. Here are…

  • Time's Most Useful Websites of 2009 by: Anand

    September 26, 2009, 08:40

    Time Magazine released a recent list of the Internet's most useful websites for 2009. I am surprised Delicious is still hanging in there. It no doubt, is…

  • Most Popular Portal Homepage in USA by: Anand

    September 25, 2009, 08:18

    When traffic to entire web properties can show the health of the website traffic, the visit to the homepages of portals show the brand recognition of these…

  • Most Popular Mobile Internet Websites in United Kingdom by: Anand

    September 25, 2009, 08:03

    Facebook has beaten Google for the top spot in the latest release of the most popular websites on the mobile internet in UK. Here is the top ten list 1.…

  • Most Popular Mobile Websites in USA by: Anand

    September 25, 2009, 08:00

    Google still rules the internet, wired or wireless. In the recent list of the most popular mobile internet websites in the USA, two of Google's properties rank…

  • Most Popular Mobile Internet Websites in India by: Anand

    September 25, 2009, 07:53

    The new list released by Opera for its browser mini reveals the most popular websites in India on the mobile phones. But yes, no surprises here for the most…

  • Most Popular TLD (Top Level Domain) Category by: Anand

    September 24, 2009, 09:32

    It is a nobrainer that .com is the most popular among all the top level domain names. But how popular are the other TLDs like .net, .info, .biz apart from the…

  • Total Number of Internet Domain Names - Q2 2009 by: Anand

    September 24, 2009, 09:24

    The number of domain names that had been increasing at a terrific pace over the past few years has now started to show stabilize. Total number of internet…

  • Importance of Internet to Professional Practice of Physicians by: Anand

    September 24, 2009, 08:53

    A slightly old report, but nevertheless important to know what percent of physicians actually think Internet is vital to their professional practice. There are…

  • How Frequent Do Users Tweet Or Check Updates? by: Anand

    September 22, 2009, 09:00

    With so many Twitter apps present now, you would expect lots and lots of people to be tweeting every move that they make. But hardly 27% of the people write…

  • Online Newspaper Readership in USA Statistics by: Anand

    September 19, 2009, 06:45

    In a month long study of the behavior of the American internet users to reading online newspapers, here are the results: Unique visitors : 70.3 million i.e.…

  • European Countries With Highest Internet Usage by: Anand

    September 19, 2009, 06:37

    Sweden and Netherlands are among the European countries with the highest internet usage (measured in terms of the percent of the population who access internet…

  • Average Time Spent on Popular Websites by: Anand

    September 18, 2009, 07:58

    For a moment, I wondered if I should make the topic as 'Average time wasted', then realized there is also a Google search engine and so it cannot be strictly…

  • Average Time Spent on Websites Based on Site-Category by: Anand

    September 18, 2009, 07:30

    Content websites seem to be the place where people hang out the most times. In a study of how time spend on the various websites have changed over the years…

  • Mobile Ad Engagement Among Indian Internet Users by: Anand

    September 14, 2009, 09:31

    This cannot be strictly taken as reflecting the behavior of all Indian Internet users. But a study of a small sample size of 205 college goers revealed the…

  • Number of Twitter Users in USA by: Anand

    September 14, 2009, 08:12

    The number of users on Twitter just keeps growing by the day. A new study predicts that the number of Twitter users from USA will cross the 25 million mark by…

  • Study of Internet Engagement Levels Based on Device Used by: Anand

    September 12, 2009, 08:15

    I've always loved browsing the web from my computer; and never really liked using the mobile phone for browsing. Most people using smartphones don't think so,…

  • Most Popular Way To Watch TV Online by: Anand

    September 10, 2009, 09:23

    Online TV viewership is seeing a terrific growth and more people are now choosing to watch TV online. Here are the most popular ways by which these viewers…

  • Growth In Viewership of Online TV by: Anand

    September 10, 2009, 09:19

    More and more people are choosing to watch TV online at their preferred timing and not the conventional 'appointment' way. Here are a few stats in this…

  • TinyURL vs. Bit.ly Traffic Statistics by: Anand

    September 9, 2009, 10:07

    Bit.ly has finally bit off the leadership from TinyURL in the URL shortening category. Here is a traffic comparison in terms of unique visitors from US on a…

  • Digg.com Traffic Growth Statistics by: Anand

    September 9, 2009, 09:59

    Is Digg.com finally reviving itself? One year back, they laid off 10% of the workforce in a struggle to achieve profitability. Here are a look at the growth…

  • Use of Blackberry For Internet Access by: Anand

    September 9, 2009, 09:25

    Blackberry is increasingly being used as the preferred mobile medium for accessing the web. Here are stats to corroborate the growth: 14% of all mobile web…

  • Growth of Wikia In Terms Of Unique Visitors by: Anand

    September 9, 2009, 09:08

    Wikia is a poorer cousin of Wikipedia in terms of website traffic, but should be adding more money to the treasury considering Wikia is a commercial venture.…

  • How Fast is Mobile Video Market Growing? by: Anand

    September 3, 2009, 09:34

    A survey of the broadband internet users (the main competition to mobile internet videos) reveals the following interesting information: 10% of broadband…

  • Growth of Yelp vs. CitySearch by: Anand

    September 3, 2009, 09:04

    Yelp seems to be growing while CitySearch has stopped doing so! Monthly Unique visitors (July 2009) Yelp : 8.6 million (80% YoY) CitySearch : 15.4 million (0%…

  • American Cities With Most Number of Public Wi-Fi Hotspots by: Anand

    September 1, 2009, 09:06

    USA leads the public Wi-Fi hotspots race by a huge margin. The country has 67,420 hotspots, more than double of the country that is second, China (28,678…

  • What Was The First Domain Name To Be Registered? by: Anand

    August 28, 2009, 06:36

    This is making a bit of news today because the first domain name to be ever registered has just changed its ownership. The domain name is Symbolics.com Registe…

  • Five Most Popular Youtube Videos Of All Time by: Anand

    August 27, 2009, 08:41

    Can you imagine that the most popular video on Youtube has been watched close to half a billion times! Here are the top five most popular Youtube videos of all…

  • Most Dangerous Celebrity Search Terms by: Anand

    August 25, 2009, 09:37

    Search for Jessica Biel and there is a 20% chance of you landing at a site which is loaded with trojans, viruses or spyware. Here is the newest list of the…

  • USA Mobile Internet Users Estimate by: Anand

    August 25, 2009, 09:05

    The number of American internet users who will access from the mobile phones is surging ahead and the rate of growth is also projected to increase over the…

  • Most Blocked Web Categories At Offices by: Anand

    August 22, 2009, 08:59

    Social media is the number one category when it comes to websites being blocked at office. Here are the most prominent sites and the percent companies having…

  • Largest Job Search Engines in US By Pageviews by: Anand

    August 22, 2009, 08:06

    The times of recession are good times for online job boards to get a lot of traffic on board. But what is to be seen is how much revenue can be made out of it…

  • US Household Drop in Offline Activities by: Anand

    August 20, 2009, 10:05

    The internet usage has grown, but that has been at the cost of other activities like watching TV or reading a magazine offline. Here's how the hours spent on…

  • Online Newspaper Readership Among US Internet Users by: Anand

    August 20, 2009, 08:42

    It is not readership that is affecting newspapers, it is the advertising. That much is clear with the new report on the online newspaper usage among American…

  • Most Used Websites in India by: Anand

    August 18, 2009, 10:04

    India loves Google. That's evident in this top ten list where 4 out of 10 are Google properties. Here is the top 10: 1. Google 2. Yahoo 3. Gmail 4. Orkut 5.…

  • Internet Usage in Indian Households by: Anand

    August 18, 2009, 09:55

    It is no news that the internet penetration in India is below abysmal. A Juxt Consult report only makes it look worse: Families using internet at home : 6.5…

  • Most Popular Malaysian Websites by: Anand

    August 18, 2009, 09:06

    The Googles and Facebooks are omnipresent. Ignoring them for the list of popular websites, here is the list of the most visited native sites in Malaysia: 1.…

  • Most Popular Website by Usage Time by: Anand

    August 17, 2009, 12:05

    The most popular website by uniques is commonly available. But how about usage time? Facebook clearly gets the edge being the social network that it is. A…

  • Broadband Internet Access in European Households by: Anand

    August 14, 2009, 08:57

    The internet penetration into European households has been on a steady rise. Here is the list of percent households with overall internet access in Europe. 200…

  • World's Most Popular Websites (By Unique Visitors) by: Anand

    August 5, 2009, 15:46

    There might not be too much of a surprise in this top 10 list. However it might heartening for a Facebook fan to see it climb to the fourth position in this…

  • Web 2.0 Awareness Among Indian Teenagers by: Anand

    August 2, 2009, 16:15

    A survey conducted by Tata Consultancy Services among 14000 kids in the 12 biggest cities of India shows the following interesting statistics: 93% of students…

  • How Fast is Internet Growing? by: Anand

    May 8, 2009, 15:11

    At what rate is the number of websites on the Internet growing? It has picked up terrific pace in the past couple of years. Here is the rate of growth since…

  • State of Internet in India by: Anand

    April 2, 2009, 15:01

    The following numbers are taken from the 'State of the Internet' report by Akamai technologies which can be downloaded here. It is India's ranking in terms of…

  • Most Popular Site Categories Among Singapore Internet Users by: Anand

    March 27, 2009, 16:40

    Singapore internet users spend more than 50 percent of their online time on social and entertainment websites. Here is a list of the most popular website…

  • Countries With Maximum Number of Internet Users by: Anand

    January 24, 2009, 14:23

    Internet population worldwide reached a landmark 1 billion figure this week. Here is the top fifteen nations in terms of the number of Internet users: 1.…

  • Growth Rate of Internet by: Anand

    January 19, 2009, 13:41

    At what rate is the Internet growing? According to a Chinese research, the internet doubles in size every 5.32 years.The study was conducted retrospectively…

  • Time Spent on Internet - User Engagement on Facebook Vs. Google by: Anand

    December 21, 2008, 14:48

    Facebook is increasingly engaging the users more compared to Google. Here are a few crunchies on what users on Facebook are upto: Average friends per user :…

  • Most Popular Top-Level-Domains (TLD) by: Anand

    December 8, 2008, 14:09

    We all know .com is the most popular TLD in the world. But you will be mistaken if you thought .net and .org follow .com in terms of popularity. Here are the…

  • Penetration of Mobile Internet in Africa by: Anand

    December 6, 2008, 15:16

    According to numbers released by Opera Mini, South Africa ranks sixth in the world and Egypt tenth with respect to the number of Opera Mini users. The growth…

  • Percent of American Internet Population Viewing Online Videos by: Anand

    November 22, 2008, 14:21

    Online videos are set to boom with the increasing of the internet population taking to viewing them. Here is a projection of the percent of internet population…

  • Internet Access among American Kids and Teenagers by: Anand

    November 14, 2008, 17:31

    A significantly huge percent of teens and nearly half the kids have access to Internet in the United States. Nearly 82% of teens (aged 12-17) shall use the…

  • How to Define an Internet Addict? by: Anand

    November 12, 2008, 18:41

    An Internet addict is officially considered a 'clinical disorder' by the Chinese Health Ministry. It depends on the number of hours an Internet user spends…

  • Popularity of Mobile Internet in China by: Anand

    November 10, 2008, 14:50

    Over 30 percent of China's net users access the internet from their mobile phones. Mobile Phone subscriber base in China : 616 million Number of Internet…

  • What If Internet Is No Longer Free? by: Anand

    November 3, 2008, 14:08

    If you were charged a month for all the present day free content on the web, which one would you be most willing to pay? A Rubicon Consulting research on…

  • Internet Usage in France by: Anand

    June 29, 2008, 12:42

    Here are some interesting statistics on the internet usage in France: Internet Penetration : 52% Number of households with Internet connection : 13.5 million…

  • Internet Penetration of the Top 10 Countries by: Anand

    June 26, 2008, 06:44

    In absolute numbers, India ranks fourth in the world when it comes to the number of Internet users. But in penetration terms, Indians lag way behind others at…

  • UK Free-to-view Online TV Revenues by: Anand

    May 30, 2008, 19:38

    The number of internet users in England is set to increase from the current 36.8 million to 42.8 million by 2012. The percent broadband connection is also set…

  • How Chinese View the Internet Censorship by: Anand

    May 19, 2008, 13:22

    The blogosphere has always been critical of the Chinese government's censorship of content online. Surprisingly, most Chinese surveyed are okay with the way…

  • Most Popular Websites in Japan by: Anand

    May 9, 2008, 08:58

    Here is a list of the most popular internet companies in Japan for the month of March 2008: 1. Yahoo 2. Google 3. Rakuten Inc. 4. Microsoft 5. FC2 Inc. 6. NTT…

  • World Internet Population for First Quarter 2008 by: Anand

    May 1, 2008, 10:37

    The recent study by Internet World Stats has come up with the number of internet users around the world as on March 31, 2008. This stands at 1,355,110,631.…

  • Country With The Most Web Users by: Anand

    April 26, 2008, 18:59

    China is now tied with United States for the top spot. The number of web users from both the countries now stands at 221 million. China's web user base has…

  • What Percentage of Internet Traffic is Video? by: Anand

    April 19, 2008, 10:43

    With the current Internet Infrastructure, the internet is expected to reach its full capacity by 2010. Today, videos account for 30 percent of internet…

  • Fastest Growing Websites in UK for February 2008 by: Anand

    March 25, 2008, 18:10

    This statistic is based on the most gains made by websites in terms of the number of unique visitors (in thousands) against the same numbers in January…

  • Worldwide Distribution of Internet Users by: Anand

    March 19, 2008, 17:36

    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…

  • What American Kids Do Online? by: Anand

    March 5, 2008, 18:49

    Debit cards come before Driving licenses. 13% of the kids shop online! Here is all that they did: Played Online games - 78.1% Homework - 34.2% Music -…

  • Top 10 Websites for US College Students by: Anand

    February 26, 2008, 18:07

    For the seventh straight quarter, Facebook continues to be the hottest spot for American college goers. Here is the top 10 list: Men 1. Facebook 2. ESPN 3.…

  • Online Buyer Penetration in Europe by: Anand

    February 20, 2008, 19:33

    The top European countries with high online buyer penetration are Denmark - 55% Holland - 55% Sweden - 53% UK - 53% Germany - 52% Finland - 48% France - 35%

  • How Many Internet Users In All? by: Anand

    February 19, 2008, 17:53

    There were totally 1319 million Internet users by the end of 2007. Compare this with the number of users at the end of 2000 - 361 million users. That is a…

  • Internet Penetration and Growth in UK by: Anand

    February 15, 2008, 18:18

    Over 60 percent of the English population logged onto the Internet in 2007. This percentage is steadily increasing over the years. In 2007, an average of 37…

  • How Many Websites Totally On the Worldwide Web? by: Anand

    February 9, 2008, 09:14

    The website growth started to pick up from 1995. In April 2000, there were around 15.6 million sites. By January 2008, this number has grown to 155.5 milion.…

  • What Does Your Kid Do Online? by: Anand

    February 5, 2008, 13:32

    A recent study shows that the gap between what the children do online and what their parents get to know is widening. A few excerpts from the study are - 30%…

  • How does Free Online Radio Last.FM Work? by: Anand

    January 24, 2008, 12:02

    Last.FM from CBS is supported by advertising. The service has access to over 3.5 million songs from four major labels and open to other independent labels…

  • Illegal Online Movie Downloads from College Campuses by: Anand

    January 24, 2008, 11:53

    A 2005 study by Motion Picture Association of America found that illegal downloading of movies online was an astounding 44 percent. Students from college…

  • Is Localization of Website Content Good? by: Anand

    January 23, 2008, 07:23

    Average number of languages for the top 10 global brands : 30 Only 37% of American websites do not provide content in other major languages Websites that…

  • Women's Best Friend in Medical Advice by: Anand

    January 23, 2008, 07:14

    Internet is seemingly a better place for women to seek health information than even family and friends. The percent of respondents seeking health information…

  • Internet Penetration in USA by: Anand

    January 18, 2008, 13:37

    Around a quarter of the American population still do not have access to internet. Broadband at home : 55 percent Dial up at home : 13 percent Broadband at…

  • Are Search Engines Trust-Worthy? by: Anand

    January 18, 2008, 13:18

    Do you think Google is trustworthy? More and more people have begun to distrust information provided by Search Engines. Only 51 percent of people in 2007 trust…

  • World's Largest Internet Market by Users by: Anand

    January 18, 2008, 13:10

    China is slated to overtake USA as the largest Internet market in terms of the number of users. The Chinese internet market rose to 53% to 210 million at the…

  • Asian American Internet Usage Figures by: Anand

    January 17, 2008, 12:55

    Number (in millions) of Asian Americans online: 2006 : 10.2 2007 : 10.9 2008 : 11.6 2009 : 12.3 2010 : 13 2011 : 13.7 A majority of Asian Americans are…

  • Is Mobile Internet Penetrating Well Enough? by: Anand

    January 16, 2008, 17:06

    You might think it is not pervasive enough, and study shows the same. Mobile Internet is still in the infancy stages. However, 40 percent of all mobile users…

  • Researching Health and Beauty Tips Online by: Anand

    January 16, 2008, 12:44

    Amongst the American consumer of Health and Beauty tips, over 63 percent research the product online before making the purchase. Owing to this, the ad spending…

  • Top 10 Websites by Page Views by: Anand

    January 15, 2008, 08:01

    The top 10 websites in terms of the page views for 2007: 1. MySpace 2. Yahoo 3. Google 4. Microsoft 5. Time Warner 6. Facebook 7. eBay 8. Craigslist 9.…

  • Most Popular Finance Website by: Anand

    January 13, 2008, 08:45

    According to the Comscore rating released for December: 1. AOL Finance - 13.5 million unique visitors 2. Yahoo - 13.2 million unique visitors 3. MSN Money -…

  • Slowest and Inaccessible Websites by: Anand

    January 13, 2008, 08:18

    Here is a list of 'slow and inaccessible' website rating by WatchMouse based on Site Performance Index (SPI). Lower the SPI, the better: Facebook - 6629 Vox -…

  • Internet Usage in Public Libraries by: Anand

    January 1, 2008, 14:30

    Public Libraries are  visited by over 53 percent of the Americans. Of these, the majority of the Generation Y (18 to 30 years) made use of the computer…

  • Internet and Cellphone Usage of American Population by: Anand

    December 28, 2007, 15:18

    38% Americans watch Television shows online 36% use Cellphones for entertainment purposes 45% are involved in creating Social web content 62% of millennials(13-…

  • Mobile Internet Population in Japan by: Anand

    December 28, 2007, 11:29

    90 percent of Japanese own a mobile handset. 40 percent of this population use mobile phones to surf internet. Population of Japanese using the Internet : 89.1…

  • Are Online Coupons popular over Newspaper Coupons by: Anand

    December 27, 2007, 18:35

    NO. The online coupon market is indeed growing, but at a very sluggish pace The number of visitors to online coupon websites in October 2006 : 19.1 million The…

  • US Presidential Hopefuls Campaign on the Internet by: Anand

    December 27, 2007, 10:47

    The following is the Ad-impressions that the online campaigning of the US Prez candidates generated through 2007 Romney 103.8 million John McCain 94.6…

  • Yahoo vs. Google in Japan by: Anand

    December 27, 2007, 10:25

    Unique Japanese visitors to Yahoo properties : 41 million (August) Unique Japanese visitors to Google properties : 31 million (August) Search Engine market…

  • Top Yahoo subsites in 2007 by: Anand

    December 26, 2007, 19:34

    Yahoo has around 1084 subsites. Among them the top subsites in popularity terms are Yahoo.com Yahoo Homepages Yahoo Mail Yahoo Search Yahoo US Mail Yahoo US…

  • What's most popular at Amazon this season? by: Anand

    December 26, 2007, 15:44

    62.5 items were ordered on Amazon every second on December 10. The best sellers at Amazon from November 15 to December 19 are Toys : Jakks EyeClops Bionic…

  • Gmail Vs. Yahoo Mail Vs. Hotmail Vs. AOL by: Anand

    December 25, 2007, 21:39

    Popularity of each of these mail accounts: Hotmail : 47 million unique visitors (April) AOL : 42.3 million unique visitors (April) Gmail : 90 million (approx.…

  • Watching TV Online vs. Real TV vs. Print media by: Anand

    December 25, 2007, 07:39

    The study shows Online TV works better for advertisers. and the producers alike 47% of the people feel more engaged with Online TV ads 25% of the people are…

  • Ask.com Growth Rate by: Anand

    December 24, 2007, 20:10

    From November 2006 to November 2007, the traffic on Ask.com has increased from 29.8 million visitors to 46 million visitors. This is after 0 million was…

  • Country With The Best Broadband Connectivity by: Anand

    December 24, 2007, 14:18

    Taiwan by all means. Except for Haucha village which is damaged due to Typhoon, the whole country has now access to high speed internet connectivity. Taiwan…

  • Are ecards still popular? by: Anand

    December 24, 2007, 07:56

    They are indeed gaining lot of popularity this festive season. Users at Hallmark send 300 million ecards every year. American Greetings had a 10 percent…

  • How Digg and Reddit fared in 2007 by: Anand

    December 23, 2007, 21:55

    Digg and Reddit are two most popular social news aggregation websites. Digg Received 11 million page views in November 2006 and this had increased by 318…

  • How AOL Netscape social voting system fared by: Anand

    December 23, 2007, 21:45

    Comscore reports a very dismal picture. Netscape.com was launched as a social voting alternative to Digg in mid 2006. Here is the traffic at different points…

  • How does internet censorship works? by: Anand

    December 23, 2007, 21:35

    Australia recently announced new censorship laws from Jan 20, 2008. If the content is for mature audiences, the website has to verify age of the viewers…

  • What does Mozilla do apart from Firefox? by: Anand

    December 23, 2007, 09:46

    You had always thought about it right? Well, till now, Mozilla owned two things: Firefox - browser Thunderbird - email Now, they are also adding a new web…

  • Web Customers most satisfied with Retail Firms by: Anand

    December 22, 2007, 10:48

    Retail firms topped the rankings for customer respect index, measured to see the customer service levels on the web. Overstock.com was ranked Number 1. Now why…

  • Fastest growing websites in France by: Anand

    December 21, 2007, 06:58

    Here is the list of the fastest growing websites in France for November. Social networking on top, as usual. Growth percent shown adjacent to the website…

  • Online advertising spending in Germany by: Anand

    December 21, 2007, 06:32

    The online ad spending in Germany is expected to grow at double digits till 2010. It grew 79% in 2006 and over 37% in 2007 (in € terms). Online ad spending…

  • Is Advertising Gambling sites legal? by: Anand

    December 20, 2007, 19:51

    No. According to the Federal Wire Wager Act, unregulated commercial gambling is prohibited throughout United States. This has cost the Big 3 of internet to…

  • Are internet users getting old in UK? by: Anand

    December 20, 2007, 07:23

    The UK internet population seems to be ageing. Under 25 year olds Percent share in 2006 : 29% Percent share in 2007 : 25% This is a relative drop of 16% Aged…

  • How many users prefer Internet to TV for watching videos? by: Anand

    December 20, 2007, 07:09

    An increasing number of them! 65 percent of American adults watch them online compared to just 42 percent same time last year. 42% of Youtube users are…

  • Top 25 Web celebrities for 2007 by: Anand

    December 19, 2007, 20:27

    The Forbes released its list of the celebrities on the web 1. Perez Hilton 2. Michael Arrington 3. Mark Frauenfelder 4. Seth Godin 5. Cory Doctorow 6.…

  • Ad spending: Europe vs. USA by: Anand

    December 18, 2007, 14:03

    Here is a head to head comparison of the European and American markets: 2006 Europe : €8 billion US : €12.8 billion Difference : €4.8 billion 2007 Europ…

  • Do you need a multi-lingual website? by: Anand

    December 18, 2007, 13:49

    The global study certainly thinks so. Nearly 50 percent of Web site decision makers worldwide translate their website content to another language in order to…

  • Digg for Sale by: Anand

    December 18, 2007, 13:37

    Digg might be looking to sell their social news website. Asking price: 0 million Investment Banker: Allen & Company

  • Ego-surfing : Growing like crazy by: Anand

    December 17, 2007, 11:22

    Ego Surfing: The act of searching your own name on Search Engines. This has almost doubled in five years. 22% of users 'googled' their own name back in 2002.…

  • Demographics of the Searchers by: Anand

    December 15, 2007, 14:00

    In US, 65 percent of all searches are done on Google; three times more than the searches made on Yahoo. Amongst these searches, the key demographics are Health…

  • How long do people surf internet at work? by: Anand

    December 15, 2007, 13:43

    A full workday every week on an average is spent surfing the internet! The time spent online for one full work-week : 7.8 hours This amounts to almost 31…

  • Top Consumer Packaged Goods websites by: Anand

    December 15, 2007, 13:21

    Food brands dominate this category. The top 5 consumer packaged goods websites in terms of unique visitors in the third quarter of 2007 are: Kraftfoods.com -…

  • Broadband market in Europe by: Anand

    December 7, 2007, 18:23

    Radicati group estimates that Current number of installed base lines : 92 million Estimated number of installed base lines by 2011 : 118 million Estimated…

  • Do employees waste time online at work? by: Anand

    December 6, 2007, 14:59

    What else would you say if I were to tell you that more than 25 percent of internet surfing at work is unrelated to work? So what do people do online apart…

  • Baby boomers Internet usage stats by: Anand

    December 5, 2007, 10:02

    Population of American baby boomers using internet in 2006: 58.2 million Estimated population of Baby boomers using internet in 2011: 68.3 million The…

  • Internet usage stats in India by: Anand

    December 4, 2007, 11:22

    Total number of internet users in India at present : 40 million Estimated number of internet users by 2010: 100 million Broadband users in India at present:…

  • Internet usage stats in Europe by: Anand

    December 4, 2007, 11:13

    Percentage households having access to internet: 54 percent (49% in 2006) Percentage of Broadband users: 42 percent Country with most online users: Netherlands…

  • Ad spend: Internet Vs. Radio Vs. Magazine by: Anand

    December 3, 2007, 14:41

    Internet ad spend is increasing. The spending on internet ads will surpass radio ads by 2008. It shall overtake Magazine ads by 2010. Share of internet in the…

  • US Presidential candidates' popularity on the web by: Anand

    December 3, 2007, 07:03

    October traffic to the campaign sites of the US Presidential candidates (in terms of unique visitors): HillaryClinton.com : 300,000 RonPaul2008.com :…

  • Internet penetration in South East Asia by: Anand

    December 3, 2007, 06:40

    Following is the internet penetration levels in some countries of South East Asia. The population of the country is in brackets. Vietnam : 20 percent (85…

  • Gay and Lesbian Internet population in US by: Anand

    November 9, 2007, 09:51

    The Gay, lesbian. Bisexual and Transgender market is grouped as "GLBT". GLBT market in US: 15 million Purchasing Power of GLBT: 0 billion American GLBT…

  • Population of online Hispanic Americans by: Anand

    November 2, 2007, 17:24

    eMarketer report on the population of Hispanic Americans: Number of Hispanic Americans online in 2006: 17.5 million Number of Hispanic Americans online in…

  • Are there casual games online? by: Anand

    October 31, 2007, 10:46

    Yes. It's a BIG market. Casual Games Association report states: Revenues generated in casual games per year: .5 Billion Growth rate of the casual games…

  • Internet penetration in Russia by: Anand

    October 28, 2007, 21:19

    Internet penetration in Russia is now getting to a level that has got the Kremlin wary of the cyberspace. Internet penetration among adults in 2002      …

• ISP  (47)
  • Share Of World Broadband Subscribers By Region by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 9, 2010, 16:19

    We are inching towards the 500 million broadband subscribers mark. The latest report from market research firm Point Topic shows that by the end of the first…

  • International Bandwidth Usage Statistics by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 29, 2010, 06:51

    International bandwidth usage has been growing at close to 60% year over year in the past 3 years. This explains the mammoth rise from consumption of close to…

  • Average Cost Of Broadband  by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 27, 2010, 12:27

    This may not be a very recent study. Published in October 2009, the ITIF Broadband rankings study looked into the average broadband speeds and cost in…

  • US Cities With Fastest Internet Speed by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 19, 2010, 07:37

    Few months back, a study published by SpeedMatters.org listed down the American states with the highest measured broadband connectivity speed. Now, in a…

  • Countries With Highest Technology Productivity by: Anand Srinivasan

    March 26, 2010, 05:10

    How equipped are the various countries to use their Information and Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructure to an economic advantage? In its recently…

  • Number of Broadband Subscribers Worldwide by: Anand

    February 6, 2010, 05:52

    Internet through fiber broadband cables is growing very fast and nearly 84% of the world's fiber broadband connections from Asia Pacific; predominantly from…

  • Countries With Highest Average Broadband Speed by: Anand

    January 18, 2010, 04:03

    Europe and East Asia are regions with the highest broadband speed. The state of internet report by Akamai puts the average global internet speed at 1.7 Mbps…

  • Internet Penetration in American Households by: Anand

    December 26, 2009, 04:24

    A recent study commissioned by FCC into the state of internet in USA show that there is a heavy disparity between the rural and urban areas when it comes to…

  • World Broadband Rankings By Usage by: Gowri Naveen

    December 25, 2009, 05:47

    Most of the broadband rankings published are with respect to either the penetration levels (subscriber count) or by speed. However, another important parameter…

  • US Broadband Subscribers Growth by: Gowri Naveen

    December 24, 2009, 04:27

    As Om Malik of GigaOm puts it, this past decade from 1999 to 2009 has been the Decade of broadband. The change in internet landscape since then has largely…

  • Broadband Stimulus Grants : Demand And Supply by: Anand

    December 14, 2009, 04:39

    The American government had instituted a broadband stimulus funding to bridge the digital divide between the haves and have-nots. But is the supply sufficient…

  • Broadband Penetration In European Households by: Kasthuri VN

    December 12, 2009, 05:52

    Here is a comprehensive list of broadband penetration as percentage of total households across Europe for 2009. The study about internet usage was conducted by…

  • Dial-Up Internet Households in US by: Anand

    December 8, 2009, 05:41

    Do dial-up internet connections still exist? Yes, they do and they are not going away anytime soon. The number of dial up connections out of total internet…

  • Impact of iPhone on Network Data Consumption by: Gowri Naveen

    November 20, 2009, 05:55

    An exclusive iPhone deal has been a double-edged sword for carriers like AT&T and O2. While the craze for iPhone meant that their customer base grew at a…

  • Average Household Broadband Data Consumption by: Anand

    October 21, 2009, 06:12

    Cisco recently studies 20 ISPs around the world to study the average internet consumption among the global households. The study shows some interesting…

  • Latest Market Share of Web Servers On Internet by: Anand

    October 19, 2009, 04:40

    In a study across the million busiest websites on the internet for the month of October 2009, here are the market share of the different web server developers …

  • Market Shares of Various Broadband Technologies by: Anand

    September 9, 2009, 09:53

    DSL has been king for quite sometime in the broadband market and continues to remain so. Here are the market shares of the various broadband infrastructure…

  • Growth of Home Networks in USA by: Anand

    September 3, 2009, 09:28

    Home networks are growing slow in the USA, but this can still be an opportunity. Here are some excerpts from a Forrester report: American Households with home…

  • Countries With Most Number of Public Wi-Fi Hotspots by: Anand

    September 1, 2009, 08:59

    There has been a 9% growth in the total number of wi-fi hotspots worldwide. Here are the top five countries in terms of the number of public Wi-Fi hotspots: 1.…

  • How Would You Use In-Flight Wi-Fi Broadband? by: Anand

    September 1, 2009, 08:42

    How desperate are you to access internet while on board? Will you skip your meal to have internet access? 71% would seemingly do so. Will you defer your travel…

  • States with the Slowest Internet Speeds in USA by: Anand

    August 26, 2009, 09:15

    Delaware is the American state with the fastest broadband speed which is almost twice the national average. But there are other states where broadband is not…

  • States with Fastest Broadband Internet Speed in USA by: Anand

    August 26, 2009, 09:05

    The average download speed in USA is 5.07 mbps; that's 28th when it comes to world rankings where the top spot is held by countries like South Korea, Japan,…

  • Wi-Fi Connectivity and Usage Study by: Anand

    August 24, 2009, 08:36

    Wi-Fi has now become indispensible in the lives of many people. Here is how often people connect to Wi-Fi networks from laptops: Very often : 42% Daily :…

  • Comcast Broadband Internet Connectivity Performance by: Anand

    August 14, 2009, 09:09

    The number of broadband internet connections set up by Comcast in the second quarter of 2009 more than halved in comparison to the corresponding number in…

  • Email Non-Delivery - Ranking by Email Service Provider by: Anand

    August 11, 2009, 16:26

    Email marketing is a medium with high ROI due to the volume of targets reached. However, there is also a lot of spill since a large number of messages conveyed…

  • Broadband Growth And Geographical Distribution Forecast by: Anand

    May 28, 2009, 15:16

    Broadband is set to penetrate higher into the developing countries that include India, China and Brazil. These countries are expected to boost the broadband…

  • 3G - Mobile Broadband Growth Projections by: Anand

    March 18, 2009, 14:38

    Mobile broadband which comprises of 3G technologies like W-CDMA, HSPA, CDMA 2000 and EVDO is on the rise to popularity and the number of connections is bound…

  • Broadband Penetration in Argentina by: Anand

    March 10, 2009, 14:28

    The broadband penetration in Argentina is booming and is expected to continue so for the next few years. Here is a projection of the broadband penetration in…

  • Top Ten Wired Cities in USA by: Anand

    January 24, 2009, 14:37

    Here is the Forbes' Top ten list of the American cities with the most internet connectivity: 1. Seattle 2. Atlanta 3. Washington DC 4. Orlando 5. Boston 6.…

  • Growth of Broadband Connectivity Worldwide by: Anand

    November 23, 2008, 06:47

    In 1998, there were 57,200 broadband subscribers worldwide. In ten years, this number has grown exponentially  to reach 400 million. The growth rate of…

  • Countries With Maximum Number of Fibre Broadband Connections by: Anand

    November 8, 2008, 15:03

    Fiber LAN connections are the most popular ways to connect to the Internet in the Orient. Here is the rank of the top ten countries with fibre broadband…

  • Which Country Has the Largest Number of Broadband Lines by: Anand

    October 10, 2008, 14:44

    China and USA were tied at 78 million broadband lines in the end of August. However, the rate of growth in USA has been slower than China. The number of new…

  • Internet Penetration and Broadband Access in France by: Anand

    May 6, 2008, 07:30

    The telecommunications market in France was deregulated in 2004 and the numbers have grown exponentially since then. In March 2007, 56.5 percent of the total…

  • Household Penetration of Top Ten Broadband Nations by: Anand

    May 5, 2008, 09:52

    The subscribers per household of the top ten countries in terms of broadband connectivity is listed below. Conspicuous by its absence is USA which is at number…

  • Top Broadband Speeds by US Providers by: Anand

    May 1, 2008, 11:08

    Broadband networks are accelerating at break-neck speeds. Here is a list of the top broadband speeds available in USA: 1. CableVision : Upto 50 Mbps (downstrea…

  • Worldwide Penetration of IPTV, VOIP and Broadband by: Anand

    April 12, 2008, 11:21

    Here are few numbers on the number of subscribers of IPTV, VOIP and Broadband: IPTV: 2007 - 12.5 million 2012 - 61.1 million VOIP: 2007 - 69.6 million 2012 -…

  • Household Broadband Deployment: Europe vs. USA by: Anand

    March 24, 2008, 17:53

    A recent study by the European commission puts US behind eight European countries when it comes to household broadband deployment. Denmark, Finland, Netherlands…

  • Internet Penetration in New Zealand by: Anand

    March 8, 2008, 11:51

    Broadband: Broadband grew at a rate of 28.6 percent in September 2006. By March 2007, this growth rate had become 18.5 percent. For the six months ending…

  • Broadband Connectivity in Ireland by: Anand

    March 5, 2008, 16:43

    In Ireland, it is still difficult to set up a broadband connection at home - a lot of phone calls and appointment scheduling at that. This explains the…

  • How Many People Affected By Undersea Internet Cable Cut? by: Anand

    February 7, 2008, 06:40

    Five cables have now been cut under sea in the middle east. The cumulative number of internet users to be affected by this cut is around 85 million. They are…

  • Broadband Internet Connectivity in UK by: Anand

    February 6, 2008, 18:12

    Here are a few facts about Broadband connections in UK: There are 15 million households with broadband in UK now The households contribute billion…

  • Countries making Best Use of Network Connectivity by: Anand

    January 31, 2008, 07:05

    "It is not about how much you have connected, but what you do with it" - This is the underlying fact of the study conducted to look into how the broadband and…

  • Frequency of American Home Internet Usage by: Anand

    January 25, 2008, 09:37

    American Broadband users surf the internet more regularly than their Dial up counterparts. BROADBAND Daily usage : 65% 3-5 times a week : 16% 1-2 times a week…

  • Country With The Best Broadband Connectivity by: Anand

    December 24, 2007, 14:18

    Taiwan by all means. Except for Haucha village which is damaged due to Typhoon, the whole country has now access to high speed internet connectivity. Taiwan…

  • Broadband market in Europe by: Anand

    December 7, 2007, 18:23

    Radicati group estimates that Current number of installed base lines : 92 million Estimated number of installed base lines by 2011 : 118 million Estimated…

  • DSL market in US by: Anand

    November 10, 2007, 08:57

    American Broadband market is slowing down. In fact, they are falling. Taking into account the four regional players alone - Embarq Citizens CenturyTel WindStre…

  • Earthlink third-quarter earnings. LOSS by: Anand

    October 27, 2007, 20:31

    How much did Earthlink post in revenues? The third quarter that ended September 30, 2007  resulted in revenues of 8.8 million. The operational loss was…

• Microsoft  (17)
  • Windows OS Edition : 32-Bit Vs. 64-Bit by: Anand Srinivasan

    July 12, 2010, 16:35

    The 64-bit editions of Windows Operating system have been made available to OEMs and computer buyers for over five years. However, up until now, the 32-but…

  • Search Engine Market Share Of Bing by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 12, 2010, 05:48

    When Bing was launched in the middle of last year, it was touted to be a "decision engine" - a tag that Microsoft sought to differentiate their website from…

  • Microsoft Impact On Washington Economy by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 10, 2010, 05:32

    Microsoft is the second largest private employer in the American state of Washington and its impact on the local economy cannot be underestimated. A recent…

  • Operating System Market Share by: Anand

    February 6, 2010, 04:54

    Microsoft continues to dominate the desktop and laptop operating system space with close to 92% market share for its Windows suite of operating system. Eight…

  • Microsoft Revenue From Windows Sale by: Anand

    January 30, 2010, 04:22

    Windows Operating System remains the most critical part of Microsoft's business despite the several new businesses Redmond has ventured into of late. Here are…

  • How Big Is Windows Live Hotmail by: Anand

    December 24, 2009, 05:06

    Microsoft acquired Hotmail from Sabeer Bhatia in 1997 and since then competition from the likes of Gmail and Yahoo Mail has meant the Hotmail is no longer as…

  • Razorfish Acquisition Details by: Anand

    August 12, 2009, 07:24

    Razorfish, the advertising agency that belonged to Microsoft has been acquired by Publicis Groupe. Here are the details regarding the deal: Value of the deal…

  • Internet Share of Operating Systems by: Anand

    December 4, 2008, 16:05

    Windows fell below the 90 percent mark for the very first time in October. Here is the share of the top three operating systems on the web: Windows :…

  • Online Ads Growth for Microsoft by: Anand

    January 25, 2008, 09:41

    Microsoft has made a 38 percent increase quarter-on-quarter in the latest update. Online Advertising revenue in the fourth quarter of 2006 : 3 million Onlin…

  • Most Popular Finance Website by: Anand

    January 13, 2008, 08:45

    According to the Comscore rating released for December: 1. AOL Finance - 13.5 million unique visitors 2. Yahoo - 13.2 million unique visitors 3. MSN Money -…

  • Market Share of Operating Systems by: Anand

    January 1, 2008, 21:42

    Here is the latest market share of the different Operating Systems Microsoft Windows XP : 76.97% Windows Vista : 10.43% MacIntel : 4.01% Mac OS : 3.28% Windows…

  • iTunes vs. Zune by: Anand

    December 28, 2007, 21:31

    This comparison is solely for the Christmas day 2007. Market share of visits to Zune increased by 392% compared to the previous day Market share of visits to…

  • Gmail Vs. Yahoo Mail Vs. Hotmail Vs. AOL by: Anand

    December 25, 2007, 21:39

    Popularity of each of these mail accounts: Hotmail : 47 million unique visitors (April) AOL : 42.3 million unique visitors (April) Gmail : 90 million (approx.…

  • Is Advertising Gambling sites legal? by: Anand

    December 20, 2007, 19:51

    No. According to the Federal Wire Wager Act, unregulated commercial gambling is prohibited throughout United States. This has cost the Big 3 of internet to…

  • Search Engine market shares for the American market by: Anand

    December 11, 2007, 17:04

    For the month of October, the market shares (in percent terms) are as follows: Google (55%) Yahoo (19%) Microsoft (14%) AOL (4%) Ask (3%)

  • Did Microsoft overvalue Facebook at billion by: Anand

    October 30, 2007, 06:28

    Looks like Google pushed MS to do so by engaging in a bid war though Google was uninterested in Facebook. Microsoft acquired 1.6 percent stake valuing Facebook…

  • Microsoft revenue for the first quarter by: Anand

    October 27, 2007, 21:02

    For the first quarter, Microsoft made revenue of .6 billion. Net income of Microsoft was .29 billion (@

    .45 per share). Microsoft Business Division…

• Milestones  (40)
  • List Of Oldest Domain Names (.COM) by: Anand

    February 24, 2010, 06:03

    The GK-inclined would probably know that Symbolics.com is the oldest registered domain name in the world. Here is the list of the 25 oldest .com websites in…

  • Facebook User Registrations Timeline by: Gowri Naveen

    December 3, 2009, 04:25

    Facebook has hit the 350 million users mark for its social network recently. The website started out in 2004 and while it took close to 4 years to get its…

  • How Many Tweets Have Been Served Till Date? by: Anand

    October 20, 2009, 04:14

    It's a milestone day for the social network Twitter. On November 12,2008 - Twitter crossed the 1 billion tweet mark By October 19, 2009 - Twitter had…

  • How Many Articles in English Wikipedia? by: Anand

    August 18, 2009, 09:26

    The English Wikipedia is the the largest section among the different languages on Wikipedia. It recently reached the milestone of the three millionth article. …

  • How Many Users Does LinkedIn Have? by: Anand

    August 12, 2009, 12:11

    LinkedIn has had a fantastic year. They have been profitable for two years straight. Number of registered users in June 2008 : 7.7 million Number of registered…

  • Netflix DVD Shipping by: Anand

    April 2, 2009, 17:02

    Netflix has been operational since 1999. It recently shipped the 2 billionth DVD to its customer. The DVD was of Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist. Netflix has…

  • Popularity of Online Banking in UK by: Anand

    May 1, 2008, 20:57

    Nearly one third of the online population in UK has taken to online banking. The number now stands at 10.9 million. The bank with the most online customers was…

  • Largest Hard Drives Manufacturer by: Anand

    April 24, 2008, 19:09

    In 30 years, SeaGate became the first manufacturer to ship One Billion hard drives. The first SeaGate hard drive made in 1979 could store 5 MB of data. Since…

  • How Many Articles Exist on Wikipedia? by: Anand

    March 30, 2008, 18:16

    Wikipedia reached a milestone 10 million articles recently. The article was a Hungarian article about a sixteenth century painter Nicholas Hilliard. English,…

  • 2007 Ad-Revenue Gains/Losses Among Media Companies by: Anand

    March 19, 2008, 15:28

    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 - .6…

  • Internet Market for Auto Insurance Policies by: Anand

    March 12, 2008, 19:21

    32 million online quotes for auto insurance were requested through 2007. This helped in the purchase of a record 2 million policies overall through the…

  • Firefox Reaches 500 Million Downloads by: Anand

    February 22, 2008, 18:33

    Firefox has now been downloaded 500,000,000 times. This is a milestone for the browser that now has a regular users base of over 150 million users. The site…

  • How Big is Netflix? by: Anand

    January 24, 2008, 12:06

    In the final quarter of 2007, Netflix added 451,000 new customers to its online DVD rental service Earned .8 million or 24 cents per share Now, Netflix…

  • How Many Play World of Warcraft by: Anand

    January 23, 2008, 14:16

    The game now has 10 million paying subscribers worldwide. This includes 5.5 million players in Asia, 2.5 million in the US and 2 million in Europe. The…

  • Political Web Ad Spending in 2008 by: Anand

    January 23, 2008, 07:42

    Around .5 million (5 percent of the total Presidential Campaign Spending) shall be spent in 2008 on the Internet. Another .1 million shall be spent by…

  • Top 10 Websites in Canada by: Anand

    January 22, 2008, 13:38

    The top ten websites in terms of the number of unique visitors from Canada for the month of December 2007 are: 1. Microsoft 2. Google 3. Yahoo 4. Facebook 5.…

  • Top 10 Gaining Categories for US Market in December by: Anand

    January 16, 2008, 12:33

    The top 10 categories that attracted the maximum traffic for the month of December: 1. Fragrances/Cosmetics 2. Consumer Goods 3. Jewelry/Luxury Goods/Accessori…

  • Userbase of Jango social jukebox by: Anand

    January 16, 2008, 11:30

    The site was launched in November and it has already reached one million users. The reach is made by way of providing embeddable widgets. Next in line is a…

  • Highest Perpetration of Spam by: Anand

    January 15, 2008, 17:34

    October 2007 marked the highest perpetration of spam emails. According to Commtouch, the Global Spam levels during this month reached an astounding 96 percent…

  • Christmas Shopping in UK and France by: Anand

    January 15, 2008, 08:27

    The period between September and October was taken as the base period for the study. Dec 3 - Dec 9 resulted in a 38 percent increase in shopping in UK and 45…

  • Top 10 Websites by Page Views by: Anand

    January 15, 2008, 08:01

    The top 10 websites in terms of the page views for 2007: 1. MySpace 2. Yahoo 3. Google 4. Microsoft 5. Time Warner 6. Facebook 7. eBay 8. Craigslist 9.…

  • PC World Top 25 Most Innovative Products for 2007 by: Anand

    December 28, 2007, 21:24

    The list of 25 products are 1. Google Gears 2. Apple iPhone 3. One Laptop per Child OLPC XO Notebook 4. Apple Time Machine, in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) 5.…

  • Netscape Navigator dead? by: Anand

    December 28, 2007, 20:48

    AOL that acquired Netscape in November 1998 shall stop development work on the Netscape Navigator browser from February 1, 2008. This shall mark the end of the…

  • Top Yahoo subsites in 2007 by: Anand

    December 26, 2007, 19:34

    Yahoo has around 1084 subsites. Among them the top subsites in popularity terms are Yahoo.com Yahoo Homepages Yahoo Mail Yahoo Search Yahoo US Mail Yahoo US…

  • What's most popular at Amazon this season? by: Anand

    December 26, 2007, 15:44

    62.5 items were ordered on Amazon every second on December 10. The best sellers at Amazon from November 15 to December 19 are Toys : Jakks EyeClops Bionic…

  • Ask.com Growth Rate by: Anand

    December 24, 2007, 20:10

    From November 2006 to November 2007, the traffic on Ask.com has increased from 29.8 million visitors to 46 million visitors. This is after 0 million was…

  • Country With The Best Broadband Connectivity by: Anand

    December 24, 2007, 14:18

    Taiwan by all means. Except for Haucha village which is damaged due to Typhoon, the whole country has now access to high speed internet connectivity. Taiwan…

  • Facebook vs. MySpace by: Anand

    December 24, 2007, 08:04

    Which of the two is doing better? Facebook Opened to all in September 2006. Traffic multiplied six times over since then. Current user base : 59 million Projec…

  • How Digg and Reddit fared in 2007 by: Anand

    December 23, 2007, 21:55

    Digg and Reddit are two most popular social news aggregation websites. Digg Received 11 million page views in November 2006 and this had increased by 318…

  • How AOL Netscape social voting system fared by: Anand

    December 23, 2007, 21:45

    Comscore reports a very dismal picture. Netscape.com was launched as a social voting alternative to Digg in mid 2006. Here is the traffic at different points…

  • Google traffic growth in 2007 by: Anand

    December 22, 2007, 18:24

    The traffic is still as much growing as it had been all along. Overall growth has been 22.42 percent. Gainers iGoogle : 267.64% Book search : 54.66% Gmail :…

  • Web Customers most satisfied with Retail Firms by: Anand

    December 22, 2007, 10:48

    Retail firms topped the rankings for customer respect index, measured to see the customer service levels on the web. Overstock.com was ranked Number 1. Now why…

  • Fastest growing websites in France by: Anand

    December 21, 2007, 06:58

    Here is the list of the fastest growing websites in France for November. Social networking on top, as usual. Growth percent shown adjacent to the website…

  • Revenue loss from Phishing - 2007 by: Anand

    December 19, 2007, 20:23

    That's a mammoth .2 Billion!! Number of victims in 2007 : 3.6 million Average loss per incident : 6 Most spoofed portals : Paypal and eBay

  • Top 10 Email Spam Lists for 2007 by: Anand

    December 19, 2007, 19:52

    As the American Presidential elections draw near, the number of spams related to politics is likely to increase. And that's for 2008. For 2007, here is the…

  • Ad spending: Europe vs. USA by: Anand

    December 18, 2007, 14:03

    Here is a head to head comparison of the European and American markets: 2006 Europe : €8 billion US : €12.8 billion Difference : €4.8 billion 2007 Europ…

  • Fastest Growing Internet Communications Service by: Anand

    December 11, 2007, 16:09

    Jaxtr claims it is the one in its recent press release. That means, Jaxtr is ahead of Skype, Hotmail and ICQ when it comes to growth rate. Six months ago,…

  • Subscriber numbers for leading news portals by: Anand

    December 10, 2007, 20:45

    The subscriber numbers are increasing in leaps and bounds NYTimes.com : 19.4 million readers (181 million pageviews) BusinessWeek.com : 4.4 million readers WSJ…

  • How much is spent on the Holiday season? by: Anand

    December 10, 2007, 15:08

    More than 18 percent from what was spent a year ago. Since November 1, the holiday spending on purchasing online has reached billion. The day with the…

  • Download figures for P2P site MiniNova by: Anand

    November 3, 2007, 06:58

    Mininova is a peer-to-peer BitTorrent site. It has reached a landmark 3 billion downloads. Daily visits to the site: 3 Million Daily downloads: 10 Million Min…

• Miscellaneous  (104)
  • World Mobile Market:By Subscribers, Data Revenue & Service Revenue by: Anand Srinivasan

    April 2, 2010, 05:23

    The growth in the global telecom market can be looked at from two angles : in terms of subscribers and in terms of revenues. Whereas the number of subscribers…

  • US Cities With Highest Number Of GPS Searches by: Anand

    March 12, 2010, 05:29

    According to a recent study by TeleNav, Walmart, Starbucks and Target are among the highest searched businesses on GPS in USA. The highest number of GPS…

  • Most Popular News Topics Online by: Anand

    March 1, 2010, 05:23

    According to a study by Pew Internet, 59% of the American population access their news from a combination of offline and online news sources with 2% of readers…

  • Most Popular Torrent And P2P File-Sharing Websites by: Anand

    February 24, 2010, 05:11

    Cloud Security firm Zscaler recently released its 'State of the Web' report for Q4 '09 which lists the top P2P file sharing websites in the world. One of the…

  • Digital Music Download Statistics In Germany by: Anand

    February 22, 2010, 05:59

    According to a new study by Bitkom, digital music downloads off the computer are estimated to have reached 51 million by the end of 2009. This is at an average…

  • Indian IT Services Market Growth by: Kasthuri VN

    December 28, 2009, 04:51

    The IT services market in India is projected to grow at a healthy CAGR over the next few years according to a study by SpringBoard research Indian IT…

  • Mobile Coupon Growth in North America by: Gowri Naveen

    December 10, 2009, 06:33

    Mobile coupons are a small speck of the overall coupon "industry" in US and Canada. But like it has already happened in Japan, mobile couponing is likely to…

  • Consumer Willingness To Pay For Online News by: Anand

    November 17, 2009, 04:01

    Rupert Murdoch must be thinking of shifting base to Italy. The media baron's obsession to get people to pay for online content is pretty well known and it now…

  • Most Popular Promotional Offers For Online Travel Websites by: Anand

    November 10, 2009, 05:19

    What kind of promotional offers do customers expect from the online travel agents websites? A little study by About.com revealed the following results (based…

  • US Mobile Phone Penetration Statistics by: Anand

    November 5, 2009, 05:36

    The American mobile phone penetration is inching towards the 80% mark which shall be attained in the next 4-5 years. Here is the number of mobile phone…

  • Correlation Between Email Address and Credit Score by: Anand

    October 19, 2009, 04:05

    These are seemingly unrelated entities, but a recent study of over 20,000 email addresses and the corresponding credit scores showed what is plausible - free…

  • Nokia 'Comes With Music' Active Users Statistics by: Anand

    October 17, 2009, 05:23

    Nokia's one year free unlimited subscription - 'Comes With Music' has not had too many takers. The whole month of July just saw 107,000 active users worldwide.…

  • Multiple Mobile Connection Among Indian Population by: Anand

    October 10, 2009, 06:23

    It sounds unbelievable to me that one-third of Urban Indians own more than one mobile connection. Is it simply the name the connection is purchased with or…

  • Average Tweet Frequency Among Twitter Users by: Anand

    October 6, 2009, 06:13

    If you need any parameter to realize how irrelevant Twitter is to the lives of most people, here is one. First of all, the study shows close to 75% of Twitter…

  • Distribution of Ad Spending Based on Medium by: Anand

    October 2, 2009, 06:42

    I really don't know whether you can trust these numbers, especially when internet is said to be only 8.2% of all ad spending, which seems a little too low.…

  • Most Popular Online Video Properties in Canada by: Anand

    October 1, 2009, 07:11

    No surprises for the top spot at all. As it is the world over, Youtube reigns supreme with being the only player with a respectable market share. There is a…

  • Biggest Challenges With Web Analytics Usage In Companies by: Anand

    September 24, 2009, 08:45

    Most companies use web analytics merely to look at how many page views are being clocked by their web campaigns. But serious internet marketers look at more…

  • Worth of White Spaces With Wireless Broadband on TV Airwaves by: Anand

    September 24, 2009, 08:08

    White Spaces are those section of TV airwaves that have hitherto remain unused by any of the TV channels. The FCC had recently approved the usage of these…

  • Twitter Usage While Driving,In Class, or During Religious Service by: Anand

    September 22, 2009, 08:41

    The ability to tweet from your mobile phone has meant that it is virtually accessible all times of the day and a lot many people tweet even while they are…

  • Most Popular Websites to Buy/Sell/Rent Cars in USA by: Anand

    September 17, 2009, 07:09

    Ranked by the number of visits in the month of August 2009, here are the top ten most visited automative classifieds websites in the USA. The marker share of…

  • Most Popular Travel Related Topics on the Internet by: Anand

    September 15, 2009, 08:13

    No matter you are a traveler who is curious to know what people research on before hitting on a vacation or a website guy who wants to know what's hot, here's…

  • Most Important Website Parameters for Mobile Internet Users by: Anand

    September 12, 2009, 08:22

    If you are a mobile phone website developer, what should you focus most on? Apparently, smartphone owners and feature phone owners have slightly different…

  • Most Popular Social Bookmarking Tools by: Anand

    September 12, 2009, 08:03

    There was Delicious, Reddit, Digg in the social bookmarking race. Now, they have all been relegated. This is such a finicky market. Here are the top ten social…

  • Employer Candidate Screening via Social Networks by: Anand

    September 10, 2009, 10:27

    How you behave on social networks can cost you a lucrative job if a new research study is to be believed. Here are some of the interesting outcomes from the…

  • Most Popular Government Websites in USA by: Anand

    September 9, 2009, 08:50

    81 million of the total 195.5 million internet users in USA visit a government website every month. Here are the top five departments and their websites that…

  • Hulu Vs. Pay TV Viewership Comparison by: Anand

    August 31, 2009, 08:26

    In July, 38 million people watched a video on Hulu. That's a tad more than the viewership on Time Warner cable. Here is the viewership comparison of Hulu…

  • Influence of Twitter on Movies' Box Office Performance by: Anand

    August 25, 2009, 08:28

    Your followers on Twitter can influence your decision on which movie to go in the evening, and supposedly this helped Inglourious Basterds improve its box…

  • ROI of SEO vs. SEM by: Anand

    August 25, 2009, 08:12

    Which has a higher pay off - Search Engine Optimization or Search Engine Marketing? The study needs to be comprehensive depending on how much you spend for…

  • Email/Mobile Coupon Market in US by: Anand

    August 20, 2009, 10:12

    A major percent (51%) of the American households rely on the Sunday newspapers to scout for discount coupons. But email and mobile coupons are growing in…

  • MySpace Music Growth Statistics by: Anand

    August 19, 2009, 10:49

    MySpace Music is one of the growing segments on MySpace. Here are a few little tidbits about the growth of the service since its launch in September 2008: Traf…

  • Fastest URL Shortening/Redirecting Services by: Anand

    August 19, 2009, 10:42

    When selecting URL shorteners, the speed of redirection to the main URL in question also becomes important. Here are the fastest URL shortners and the average…

  • US Newspaper Ad Revenues Estimation by: Anand

    August 18, 2009, 09:36

    Revenues from ad sales are likely to see a decline in the coming few years as printed newspapers fight for survival with their digital counterparts. 2006 :…

  • Most Effective Ways to Search Jobs by: Anand

    August 18, 2009, 08:35

    The job search market has changed dramatically with internet playing a huge role in the providing more effective ways to find a new job. Here is a ranking of…

  • Ringtone Sales Contribution to Mobile Music Market Revenues by: Anand

    August 15, 2009, 06:55

    Sale of ringtone is one the crucial contributors to all revenues from mobile music. Other major contributors include full-track downloads and ringback tones.…

  • What Percent of Tweets Are Spam/Conversations/Promotional? by: Anand

    August 13, 2009, 08:33

    Twitter is less as much about pointless babbling as it is about conversations. Here is a study to categorize tweets. The percent of spam looks smaller than…

  • URL Shortening Services Market Share by: Anand

    August 12, 2009, 12:55

    It was only in March that I had posted about market share of URL shortening services which was then led by TinyURL. Since then, Twitter changed to Bit.ly as…

  • Most Popular Names on Facebook by: Anand

    June 24, 2009, 17:10

    Facebook has more than 200 million users worldwide, and the most popular names on Facebook can be quite close to the most popular names worldwide. Mohammad is…

  • Most Popular Online Newspapers in Germany by: Anand

    June 24, 2009, 16:57

    Online newspapers in Germany attract close to 13 million readers on a monthly basis and they form close to one-third of the total German internet population.…

  • American Movies Box Office Revenue Statistics by: Anand

    June 3, 2009, 14:58

    There has not been any substantial increase in the box office revenues in the past decade in USA. Here are the American box office revenues from 1999 to 2008…

  • Market Share of Different URL Shortening Services by: Anand

    March 31, 2009, 15:06

    URL shortening services are essentially websites that provide you with a smaller URL that you may substitute for long URLs that are difficult to be passed in…

  • Most User Friendly Website in India by: Anand

    February 27, 2009, 17:38

    Quite a few prominent names missing from the survey of the "most popular" Indian websites. But among the websites considered for survey, here are the most user…

  • Recession Effect On Number Of Jobs Posted Online by: Anand

    February 16, 2009, 14:09

    There are 1.13 million lesser job requirements posted online in US for January 2009 compared to November 2008 taking the total number of job ads posted online…

  • Contribution of Search Engines to Online Travel Portal Traffic by: Anand

    February 16, 2009, 13:57

    A high 35.58% of traffic to online travel portals came from search engines. The leader among them was, not surprisingly, Google. Here is the contribution of…

  • Google Vs. Yahoo - Search Engine Market Share in UK by: Anand

    January 30, 2009, 17:38

    Yahoo's search engine market share in the United Kingdom has reached an all time low, also dipping its search ad revenues in the process. Google seems to be…

  • How Many SMS Sent on New Year's Day? by: Anand

    January 5, 2009, 14:11

    I do not have the numbers for all the top networks worldwide, but here are some numbers to chew: Telefónica O2 (UK) : 166 million Telia (Sweden) : 24…

  • Most Trusted Technology Companies in USA by: Anand

    December 21, 2008, 15:41

    eBay has won over AOL in the list of the most trusted companies for privacy in the US. Google was at number 10 in 2007, and is now off the top 20 list. Here…

  • Most Widely Read Online Newspaper in UK by: Anand

    May 14, 2008, 08:39

    The Sun was the most widely read online UK newspaper for the month of March 2008. Here is a list of the Top 10: 1. The Sun Online 2. Guardian.co.uk 3.…

  • What Percent of Mother's Day Shopping is Online? by: Anand

    May 9, 2008, 09:10

    Mother's day is two days away. And people are busy making purchases for gifting their moms. So, what percent of that is online? Malls - 28% Discount Stores -…

  • Top Ten Canadian Website Companies for March 2008 by: Anand

    May 6, 2008, 08:01

    The ranking takes all individual websites cumulatively under the banner of the parent company: 1. Google sites 2. Microsoft sites 3. Yahoo sites 4. Facebook 5.…

  • Interesting Facts About LinkedIn Users by: Anand

    May 1, 2008, 10:59

    LinkedIn.com is World's leading Social Network for Business Professionals. Here are a few interesting facts about the site: User base: 17 21 million Average…

  • Market Share of Web Servers Based On Active Sites by: Anand

    March 26, 2008, 18:09

    The study was conducted on 162,662,052 sites for the month of March 2008. The market share rankings are: 1. Apache : 49.38% 2. Microsoft : 35.20% 3. Google :…

  • Perceived Impact of American Recession on Consumer Tech Spending by: Anand

    March 20, 2008, 18:50

    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…

  • American Venture Capitalist Investments on Web 2.0 Companies in 2007 by: Anand

    March 20, 2008, 18:46

    The list of VC investments in web 2.0 companies region-wise for the year 2007: Bay Area : 72 deals worth 1 million (Including Facebook) New England : 20…

  • Top 5 Videos on Youtube by: Anand

    March 5, 2008, 19:07

    Here is the most recent list of the top 5 videos on Youtube: 1. CANSEI DE SER SEXY Music is My Hot Hot Sex 2. Evolution of Dance 3. Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend …

  • Europeans Spend on Technology and Their Technology Handicap by: Anand

    March 5, 2008, 17:51

    The combined worth of all the TVs, HiFis, speakers, video and DVD players, digital recorders and satellite boxes in their homes is estimated to be worth €362…

  • Share of Digital Music Among Music Sales by: Anand

    February 29, 2008, 19:53

    In USA, Digital Music now accounts of nearly 30 percent of the total sales in the music industry. In Europe, this share is around 20 percent. Sales from…

  • How Much Have Social Network Servers Failed in 2008 by: Anand

    February 28, 2008, 15:26

    It has only been two months into the new year. An early peek into the server downtimes at the various social networking websites: Bebo - 12 hours 28 minutes Wi…

  • Electronic Prescriptions to Save US Billion in Ten Years by: Anand

    February 21, 2008, 18:38

    Health expenses in US are increasing exponentially to reach 20 percent of all expenses made by 2018. That is, health expenses would constitute out of every…

  • Growth of Health-Related Websites on the Internet by: Anand

    February 20, 2008, 18:37

    Health related websites are growing by leaps and bounds. In 2005, There were 1047 sites reaching 0.3% of the internet population By January 2008, There are…

  • Hottest Dating Site in the Valentine Week by: Anand

    February 14, 2008, 17:19

    The traffic Year-on-Year for this past week prior to Valentine's day has increased by 26 percent. The top American dating website for this past week and their…

  • Presence of Online Pharma Marketing Opportunity by: Anand

    February 4, 2008, 17:12

    A significant population of the physician population has begun to engage in the online social media thus initiating a new marketing opportunity online for the…

  • Growth of Open Source Usage in Workplaces by: Anand

    February 2, 2008, 07:18

    Businesses have been using 94 different open source tools to do their jobs at reduced costs. The growth of open source usage at business work places has grown…

  • Growth of US Podcast Audience by: Anand

    February 1, 2008, 06:00

    The American Podcast audience grew by over 285% last year to 18.5 million listeners. This number shall continue its dramatic rise to reach 65 million listeners…

  • Are You Looking for an European Job? by: Anand

    January 30, 2008, 17:35

    In the last quarter of 2007, nearly 54 million Europeans visited a career related website. The top 5 websites to have been visited are 1. Monster 2. StepStone …

  • Readership of American Newspaper Websites by: Anand

    January 25, 2008, 13:34

    The online audience for the US Newspapers grew by over 6 percent in 2007. Traffic for US Newspaper websites in 2006 : 56.4 million Traffic for US Newspaper…

  • Top Facebook Applications by: Anand

    January 25, 2008, 09:45

    Entertainment seems to be the craze with the majority of Facebook users. The most popular Facebook apps are 1. Top Friends (Slide) 2. Movies (Flixster) 3.…