WSJ By The Numbers - Top 10 for Oct.18
Yahoo
Faces Pressure From Rivals In Its Search for Online Ad Dollars: Unique
U.S. users of MySpace site climbed 170% in September from a year earlier,
while Google's users rose 25%, according to research firm NetRatings Inc.
Yahoo's users rose only 6%, though it remains the top U.S. brand on the
Web in terms of users, with its 106 million users in September.
MySpace had 47 million users, while Google had 99 million. eMarketer predicts Google will command 25% of U.S. online-ad revenue this year, compared with 18% for Yahoo. Both had a roughly 19% market share last year, according to the research firm.
| Chicago Merc to Buy Board of Trade: Last year almost 10 billion derivatives contracts, including futures, were bought or sold on the world's exchanges -- in a business that barely existed 20 years ago. Trading has grown by an average of almost 18% a year between 2002 and 2005, according to the World Federation of Exchanges. | 10
Bil. Derivatives |
| Chicago Exchanges Combine Thunder: Chicago Mercantile Exchange's planned $8 billion purchase of CBOT would pair two exchanges that are leaders in global trading of futures and options, with combined average daily trading volume of nine million contracts, or about $4.2 trillion in notional value. The two exchanges employ just 2,200. | $4.2T Daily Futures and Options |
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Motorola's Profit Declines 45%, Hurt by Weak Handset Sales: Motorola's cellular-phone business continues to hum along on the strength of its Razr line as it increased its global market share to 22.4% from 22.1% in the second quarter. The company fell 1.3 million handsets short of its goal of shipping 55 million units in the quarter. |
22.4% Cell Phone Share |
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IBM Net Climbs Amid Rebound In Services Unit: Revenue from IBM Global Services business rose 3% to $12 billion, more than 50% of the total 3rd quarter revenue of $22.62 billion. IBM signed $10.5 billion in new services contracts in the 3rd quarter and has a backlog of $109 billion. |
$109B Services backlog |
| Dow Jones to Take Full Control Of Factiva, Buying Reuters Stake: Dow Jones is taking full control of Factiva, an information-database business, buying out its partner Reuters Group for about $160 million. Factiva has 1.6 million paying subscribers and provides information from more than 10,000 different sources, with about 750 employees. | 1.6M Factiva subs |
| Wrapped Up in India Textiles: Demand for Indian linen, T-shirts and towels is brisk and is expected to continue climbing, analysts have said. Overseas, exports surged 22% to $17 billion in the year ended March 31, helped by the end of quotas on textile exports to the U.S. and European Union last year. | $17B Indian Textiles |
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