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With
the new Democratic Congress promising to lower
health care costs, generic drug makers take on
brand-name rivals
to level the playing field, reports
AP. Here are some key metrics and stats
on the generic drugs market:
Continue reading... "$22B US Generic Drugs Industry by the Numbers" »
U.S. sales of gas-electric hybrid vehicles rose 28%
to 254,545 in 2006, but the rate of growth is starting to slow,
according to a report by R.L. Polk &
Co. Hybrids accounted for about 1.5% of U.S. vehicle sales last
year. Toyota Prius led the
segment with 42.8% of new registrations.
National
Association for Business Economics survey of 47 top forecasters predicted
that the overall US economy will grow by 2.7% this year, the slowest
annual increase in the gross domestic product since a 1.6% rise in 2002,
on a greater restraint from a worse-than-expected slump in housing
market.
Continue reading... "US Economy Will Grow at the Slowest Pace in 5 Years in 2007" »
U.S.
retail e-commerce sales for the fourth quarter of 2006 jumped 24.6% from
the same period in 2005 to $29.3 billion, according
to the Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce. This is a 6.3%
increase from the third quarter of 2006. E-commerce sales in the fourth
quarter of 2006 accounted for 3.0% of total sales.
The
median pre-money valuation of U.S. venture-backed companies reached $18.5
million in 2006, compared to $15 million in 2005, according to VentureOne
data. This is the highest median valuation since the peak of $25.1 million
in 2000.
The cost to employers in lost productivity
from March Madness excitement over the NCAA men’s college basketball championship
tournament could surpass $1.2 billion over the course of the 19-day event that begins March
15, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas survey.
Continue reading... "March Madness: 23 million Fans and $1.2 billion Lost Productivity" »
The
average U.S. 12th-grader reading score in 2006 was the lowest since 1992,
while less than one-quarter (23 percent) of 12th-graders scored at or
above the Proficient level in the 2005 National Assessment of
Educational Progress (NAEP), according
to The Nation’s Report Card.
Continue reading... "12th-Graders Math Proficiency Falls; Reading Skills Lowest Since 1992: Study" »
Worldwide
computer server shipments increased 8.9% to 8.2 million units in 2006,
while worldwide server revenue was up just 2% to $52.7 billion last year, according
to Gartner. Mainframes with 3.9% jump had the strongest revenue growth of
any segment for the year.
In
January 2007, Google share of online search in US jumped 0.2% to 47.5%,
according to comScore Networks qSearch analysis of activity across
competitive search engines in the US. Yahoo! Sites lost 0.4%
share to finish second with 28.1% of U.S. searches.
Continue reading... "Top 5 Search Engines in January; Searches Up 26% YoY to 6.6 billion" »
Charitable
contributions to higher education grew 9.4% to a record $28 billion in the
last academic year, according
to a report by the Council for Aid to Education. Contributions to
Stanford University rose 50% to top $911.6 million, the largest amount
ever raised by a U.S. university in a year, according to the report.
The
recent Burst Media study found that 79.0% respondents will use the
Internet to plan their upcoming personal travel. In
2007, for the first time, online travel bookings will account for over
half (54%) of all U.S. travel bookings (nearly $70 billion), according
to PhoCusWright.
Continue reading... "Nearly 80% Americans Use Internet to Plan Travel: Burst Study" »
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Annual compliance spending for all North American companies is expected to grow 8.5% this year to $29.9 billion from $27.3 billion in 2006, according to a study by AMR Research. |
Consumer
prices rose by 0.2% in January, compared to a 0.4% rise in December, according
to the Labor Department. Core inflation, which excludes volatile energy
and food components, rose by 0.3% in January, the largest one-month gain
in seven months.
Continue reading... "Economic Indicators: CPI Rose 0.2%; Leading Economic Indicators Up 0.1%" »
U.S.
health care costs are set to double over the next 10 years to $4.1
trillion annually, or 1 dollar of every 5 dollars spent, according to a
study by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, published today in
the Web edition of the journal Health Affairs.
China
Mobile, the world's largest wireless phone carrier by users, with more
customers than the total U.S. population, added a record 4.86 million
subscribers in January, taking its total to 306.1 million users. China
Mobile stock surged 83% last year.
Consumer
spending on Internet downloads of movies and TV shows will surpass $4
billion in 2011, up from just $111 million in 2006, according
to a report by Adams Media Research. Total PC/TV Internet video
market, including ad spending, is expected to top $5.8 billion by 2011.
Continue reading... "Internet Movies and TV Shows Market to Top $5.8 Billion By 2011" »
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