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Marketing
to children is no longer about hawking toys, sweets and cereal in between
the cartoons. Children are now influencing purchasing decisions for
grown-up items such as cars and holidays, and firms are responding
accordingly (Economist article).
Continue reading... "Trillion-dollar kids; Parents Have Ceded Control" »
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Next Big Thing: VC Deal Flow |
| BitTorrent (Online file-sharing company): $20 million |
| Travelguru (Indian online travel portal): $15 million |
| Horizon Wimba (online education software): $10 million |
| Syndero (online marketing company): $7 million |
| iSkoot (mobile internet solutions): $6.2 million |
| OpenSpan (application integration software): $8 million |
| OnMeta (entertainment search engine): $2 million |
| First Coverage (institutional investment sw): $5 million |
| NextHop Technologies (Networking software ): $4.8 million |
As
of August 2006, some 72 million Americans (i.e. 51% of adult internet
users have taken virtual tours of another location online, up from 45% in
2004, according to
Pew Internet & American Life Project. On a typical day, more
than 5 million people are taking virtual tours in cyberspace, up from
roughly 2 in 2004.
Continue reading... "Virtual Space is the Place: Daily Over 5 million Take Virtual Tours Online" »
Some
12% of internet users, or roughly 17 million adults, say they have
downloaded a podcast so they can listen to it or view it at a later time,
according to a recent survey by the Pew Internet & American Life
Project.
Continue reading... "Podcasts Proliferate: 12% of Internet Users Download Podcasts" »
| Tue 11/28 | Durable Orders (Oct): down 8.3% |
| Tue 11/28 | Consumer Conf. (Nov): down 2.2 |
| Tue 11/28 | Existing Home Sales (Oct): up 0.5% |
| Wed 11/29 | GDP (Q3 Prel.): Revised Up to 2.2% |
| Wed 11/29 | Chained Inflation (Q3): 2.1% |
| Wed 11/29 | New Home Sales (Oct): Fell 3.2% |
| Thu 11/30 | Jobless Claims (wk. 11/25): up 34,000 |
| Thu 11/30 | Personal Income (Oct): up 0.4% |
| Thu 11/30 | Personal Spending (Oct): up 0.2% |
| Thu 11/30 | Chicago PMI (Nov): Fell to 49.9% |
| Thu 11/30 | Help-Wanted Index (Oct): up 1 point |
| Fri 12/1 | ISM Index (Nov): fell to 49.5% |
| Fri 12/1 | Construction Spending (Oct): fell 1% |
Overall, the number of PCs sold rose 23% during this holiday period so far, compared to 36% unit growth during the same period last year.
A
record total of 1,347 chief executives at U.S. companies, including 113 in
November, departed in the first 11 months of this year, compared with the
previous record level 1,322 CEO departures in all of 2005, according
to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
Continue reading... "U.S. CEO Departures Hit Record in 2006; Options Backdating Claims 54" »
Worldwide
external disk storage systems revenues in the third quarter of 2006 grew
9.9% from a year ago to $4.3 billion, according
to IDC. For the quarter, the total disk storage systems market
grew to $6.2 billion, up 7.9% from the prior year's quarter. For the first
time, total disk storage systems capacity shipped was 783 petabytes, an
increase of 50.2% from a year ago quarter.
Continue reading... "IDC: 783 petabytes of Disk Storage Shipped in 3Q, a 50% Jump YoY" »
In
calendar year 2007, deployments of Windows Vista are projected to hit 90
million units, according
to IDC. Through 2010, IDC forecasts Windows client operating environments
to experience a 2005-2010 CAGR of 8.2%.
Overall construction spending in U.S. fell 1% in October to $1.178
billion, the sharpest fall in more than five years (since September 2001),
according to
latest data from the Commerce Department.
Continue reading... "U.S. Construction Spending Falls Sharpest Since Sep. 2001" »
Economic
activity in the manufacturing sector failed to grow in November for the
first time following 41 consecutive months of growth, while the overall
economy grew for the 61st consecutive month, say the nation's supply
executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM
Report On Business.
Continue reading... "U.S. Manufacturing Activity Declined to Lowest Level in 42 months" »
Nokia expects the number of handset users in
China to rise 11% to more than 500
million in 2007 and will add another 160 million users from next year
until 2010, taking the total to 660 million. China has 449 million cell
phone users as of October, more than the populations of Japan and the U.S.
combined.
WSJ
ran an editorial
highlighting the copyright issues with Google Search, the bread and butter
of the American tech icon of the early 21st century. The report questions
if Google's practice of downloading and reproducing books, articles,
photographs and other creative materials without approval of the copyright
owners is legal.
Continue reading... "Google Search: $1 trillion Copyright" »
World-class
information technology (IT) organizations spend 7% more than typical
companies, according
to 2006 Enterprise Book of Numbers™ research from The Hackett
Group. Hackett's research found that world-class IT organizations
now spend $9,024 per end user while typical companies spend 7% less,
or $8,485. World-class IT organizations are also investing 17% more
on technology-enabled solutions than typical companies.
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