Online Video and Other Web Services Drive $70 billion Telecom Infrastructure Spending
As Internet users embrace
Internet phone services and online video, North American telecom companies
are projected to spend $70 billion on new infrastructure to meet voice and
data Internet traffic demand around the globe, up 67% from their 2003
total, according to industry tracker Infonetics Research.

The US online dating market will reach $932 million in 2011,
according to a latest report from JupiterResearch. The number of paying
customers to U.S. dating sites
has stayed steady at around 5% of Internet users in the five years of
the annual survey by JupiterResearch.