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IT
spending for the Asia/Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) region's Small-,
Medium-, and Medium-Large-Sized Businesses is predicted to exceed US$52
billion in 2007, registering a double-digit growth of 10% over 2006, according
to IDC.
Continue reading... "IT Spending in Asia Pacific SMB to Hit $60 billion" »
European
firms now spend 32% of their telecom and networking budgets on mobility, according
to Forrester Research.
Today, more than 70% of enterprises are using some type of mobile application. A third of businesses say that setting mobile and wireless strategy and policy is a priority in 2006; for another 16%, it’s a critical priority.
Continue reading... "More Than Third Of Telecom And Networking Budgets Spent On Mobility" »
The
average American household takes one less shopping trip per month today
versus five years ago, as the average number of shopping trips to all
outlets has decreased from about 15 trips per month in 2001 to 14 trips
per month today, according
to IRI.
Why is trip mission important? For example, adding one $2 item per quick trip would drive an incremental $6 billion in supermarket sales.
Here
are some quick data nuggets from the quarterly State
of the Blogosphere report for rd quarter by Technorati's
Dave Sifry:
Technorati is currently tracking over 57 million blogs, with nearly 3 million blogs created monthly or about 100,000 new blogs being created daily during third quarter.
Continue reading... "Blogosphere is More Than 57 Million Blogs and Counting, says Technorati" »
Worldwide sales of camera phones will
account for 48% of total worldwide mobile phone sales in 2006, growing to
81% by 2010, according
to new forecasts from Gartner Inc. Worldwide sales of camera phones,
which have almost tripled since 2004, will reach 460 million in 2006, an
increase of 43% from 2005 and expected to hit 1 billion camera phone sales
in 2010. By 2010, Gartner predicts that
Western Europe will equal Japan’s penetration levels to reach 93.6%
followed very closely by North America at 93.4%.
Continue reading... "Nearly 81% of Worldwide Mobile Phones Will Have a Camera by 2010" »
Tourism
in New York City is a $24
billion industry which generates more than $5 billion in city, state
and federal tax revenues and $13
billion in wages across over 300,000 travel and tourism jobs. In 2005,
New York City welcomed over 42 million visitors and NYC & Company
expects that number to climb to well over 43 million in 2006.
Continue reading... "The $24 billion New York City Tourism Targets 50 million Visitors by 2015" »
Microsoft
is pushes the social side of music with its upcoming Zune
music player in an estimated $100 million marketing launch blitz.
"The key feature they have to sell on Zune is the wireless
connection. Right now that's their unique differentiator," said NPD
analyst Stephen Baker, writes
AdAge..Continue reading... "Zune Takes Social in $5.6B Market Against iPod" »
A compendium of revealing stats and the key leading economic indicators and business metrics based on today's Wall Street Journal article and reports:
Forecasters
See Holiday Gains Measly and Big: Forecasters are more divided than
usual over this holiday retail sales, with predicted gains ranging from a
2.5% hiccup to a gangbusters 7.5% advance and each percentage point
represents billions of dollars in sales. Depending on who is counting and
how they do the tallying, shoppers are expected to spend anywhere from
about $250 billion to $786.6 billion this holiday season. Retailers count
on holiday sales for as much as 40% of their annual sales and half their
annual profit. ComScore estimates nontravel online purchases will total
$24 billion this year, up 25% over last year.
Continue reading... "WSJ By The Numbers - Top 10 for Nov.06" »
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