A
compendium of revealing stats and the key leading economic indicators and
business metrics based on today's Wall Street Journal article and
reports:
Democrats'
Rx? Generics: Generics accounted for 56% of all prescriptions
dispensed in 2005, according to IMS Health data, but less than 13.1% of
every dollar spent on prescription drugs. Generics cost, on average, 30%
to 80% less than their brand counterparts. Generic pharmaceutical products
are used to fill more than one billion prescriptions every year. U.S.
brand pharmaceutical sales for 2005: $229.5 billion. U.S. generic
pharmaceutical sales: $22.3 billion, according to IMS Health (via
Generic Pharmaceutical Association - GPhA)
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Social
Networks, which currently attract nearly 5%
of all web visits, are making a big leap to the cell phone. Frederick
Ghahramani, co-founder and director of AirG, which has been powering
social networking on mobile phones since 2000, said the wireless social
networking is becoming a mass market phenomenon and will soon rival the
popularity of social networking on the Internet.
Some
87% of online users in U.S. (128 million) have at one time used the
internet to carry out research on a scientific topic or concept, while 40
million Americans use the internet as their primary source of news and
information about science, according to 
By
the middle of 2006, Video-On-Demand (VoD) capable homes reached nearly
26.2 million in the U.S., accounting for 86% of the 30.4 million digital
cable homes, 
As
Americans conducted over 6 billion online searches in October, the top 10
search engines accounted for over 96.5% of these searches, according to 
