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How many Online [Combien sommes-nous en ligne] |
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 As of the end of November 2000, we are 407.1million online worldwide. [Nua Survey - December]
The number of Internet users in the Asia Pacific region is expected to increase by 72 percent this year to 72 million, according to a new study. Nua Survey
Africa has more than 10 percent of the world's population but less than 1 percent of the world's Internet users. [Techserver - October 30]
As of the end of September 2000, we are 377.65 million online. [Nua Survey - October ]
Only 3.5 percent of the Croatian population use the Internet, while just 16 percent use computers, according to new research by EuropeMedia on Internet use in the country. [Nua Survey — September 14]
As of the end of June 2000, we are 332.73 million online worldwide. [Nua Survey - July]
Only 1 million or 2 million of 150 million Russians are online. [SiliconValley.com]
About one in six Japanese now use the Internet, a media research company said Monday, June 12. In addition, more than 14% of the nation's mobile phone owners use them to get online. (Techserver - June 12)
How many are we online? An educated guess by Nua survey: We are 304.36 million as of March 2000. (NUA Survey)
The number of Internet subscribers in Saudi Arabia has grown by more than 160 percent since the service was launched last year. There are around 100,000 subscribers and plans were underway to triple the number of subscribers this year. (SiliconValley.com - April 9)
How many online in Japan? The number of Internet users in Japan climbed 28% last year to 18.3 million a media research company said Tuesday. (Techserver - February 15)
How Many Online? as of January 2000, thenumber is 248.6 million. (Nua Survey )
China now has nearly nine million Internet users, up from two million a year ago. (NY Times - January 26)
E-Commerce [E-Commerce]
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Last year about 86 percent of orders filled by Web-based retailers arrived on time. (Statistics on Online Shopping — NY Times — December 7]
Americans spent $1.3 billion online during the week surrounding Thanksgiving, an increase of 140 percent over the same week in 1999, according to a survey released Tuesday by Goldman Sachs and
PC Data. (E-Commerce Times — December 6]
The average loss per person to fraudulent Internet schemes rose from US$310 in 1999 to $412 during the first nine months of 2000, the study found. [E-Commerce Times — November 18]
The number of Americans who bought travel online last year grew to 21 million, nearly doubling the Internet travel market for the second consecutive year, according to a survey by PhoCusWright, Inc. [CyberAtlas — November 16]
More than 57 million books were sold on the Internet in 1999, triple the number sold online in 1998. [Techserver - October 23 ]
E-tailers stand to lose up to $14.7 billion in sales this holiday season unless improvements are made in the overall online shopping experience, according to a new report by consulting firm Creative Good. [E-Commerce Times - October 17 ]
Forrester and Pricewaterhousecoopers predict online spending during the fourth quarter will exceed $10 billion -- doubling that of 1999. [Internet News — September 20]
Online shoppers will spend almost $20 billion this holiday season, according to a study released Tuesday by Gartner Group. [E-Commerce Times September 6]
U.S. Online Sales Hit $5.5 Billion in 2nd Quarter, The strongest growth was in autos, sporting goods and apparel, according to a Census Bureau report .[The Industry Standard August 31]
Commerce conducted over mobile phones in Western Europe is expected to rise to $37.7 billion in 2004 from $51.2 million this year as the number of subscribers and services soar, a research group said on Tuesday. [Yahoo News, August 29]
24 percent of online shoppers are extremely dissatisfied with their online encounters and are concerned about online security, shipping costs and timely delivery. According to Gartner Group-owned cPulse. [E-Commerce Times, August 18]
Ecommerce activity is expected to pull in earnings of USD132 billion worlldwide by the end of 2000 according to a study from ActivMedia Research. This figure is twice the amount reported for 1999, when online commerce was worth USD58 billion. [Nua Survey/Active Media Search, August ]
U.S. consumers spent an estimated $8.28 billion online in the second quarter of 2000. [Internet News - July 25]
A reported 89 percent of older Internet users have bought items online, according to research by Greenfield Online.Almost 9 out of 10 (93 percent) have used the Web for shopping. [E-Commerce Times - July 11]
The [1] US ranks as the world's friendliest e-commerce environment, followed by the Nordic countries [2] Swede, [3] Finland and [4] Norway, with the [5] The Netherlands rounding out the top five, said a recent study by Forrester Research. The remaining Top 10 online-commerce environments are the [6] UK, followed by [7] Canada, [8] Singapore, [9] Hong Kong, and [10] Switzerland. (WSJ - June 8)
On May 17, PricewaterhouseCoopers released a report predicting that 25 % of all Internet companies in Britain could exhaust their cash within six months. (NY Times - May 18)
About $16 billion -- worth of goods and services were bartered in 1999. (SF Chronicle - May 17)
Of 8.4 million users who made a car purchase after seeking information on the Internet, only two percent did so online, Cyber Dialogue reported. (Tipworld newsletter- April 14)
In only two years, the number of "e-commerce" mentions in consumer and business publications has climbed from 5,000 a month to almost 15,000 a month. (The Industry Standard - March 20)
On Barnesandnoble.com alone, more than 200,000 customers requested free copies of Stephan King's e-book "Riding the Bullet" in a 24-hour promotion. "We averaged 2.5 requests per second", said spokeswoman Lisa Lanspery. (News.com - March 15)
Shoppers spent an average of $312 per month online across 10 retail categories, compared with offline monthly spending of only $144 for the same items. (The Industry Standard - March 9)
According to a recent report, 28% of internet shopping efforts end in failure. (ZDNet March 7)
U.S. Releases First National Online Sales Figures: e-commerce retail sales topped $5.3 billion for the fourth quarter of 1999. (E-Commerce Times - March 4)
U.S. consumers spent an estimated $2.8 billion dollars online in January according to the first monthly measurement of e-commerce activity developed by the National Retail Federation and Forrester Research. (Tipworld newsletter - March 1)
Daily gross merchandise sales on eBay Germany average around $600,000 per day. according to Meg Whittmat a omputer show audience in Berlin. (Tipworld - February 25)
Per a Forrester Research Survey in July and August 1999, 7% of France's 26 million homes, around 1.8 million, were linked to the Net and only 2% bought anything. By contrast a third of French homes, 8.6 million, subscribe to Minitel which has offered them shopping and information services for the last 17 years. The service generates a turnover of 5.46 billion French francs ($834.9 million). (SiliconValley.com - February 21)
One study by Ernst & Young predicts that 29% of online shoppers -- 11.3 million Americans -- will make a Valentine's Day purchase online this year.. (E-Commerce Times - February 9)
Valentines' E-Commerce: Online sales in four categories -- apparel and lingerie, gifts and flowers, food and wine, and home and garden -- are expected to approach $650 million uring the last week in January and the first two weeks in February, according to BizRate.com. (The Industry Standard - Febraury 2)
NextCard, which bills itself as the creator of the "First True Internet Visa," Thursday released its January eCommerce Index, which measures the success of online merchants. The top 10 were
Amazon
AOL
Barnesandnoble.com
CDNow
Intuit
More.com
Buy.com
Earthlink
IEbay
Egghead.com
U.S. consumers spent $7 billion in 1999 on travel on the Internet up from $2.6 billion in 1998, according to e-travel research firm PhoCusWright Inc. It expects that figure to top $20 billion in 2001. (MSNBC - January 13)
Advertising [Publicité]
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The number of new companies advertising online has more than doubled since January -- growing by 157 percent over the past ten months, , according to AdRelevance, but AdZone Interactive found that some of the biggest Fortune 500 names are staying away from the Net. [Cyberatlas — November 20]
More than 7,000 new banner ads appear online every week, but the majority only run for an average of 3 weeks or less, according to AdRelevance. (CyberAtlas - August 28)
Online advertising is expected to reach $28 billion by 2005 compared to just $4.3 billion last year, a new study said. (NYTimes - June 19)
Advertisers spent $4.62 billion on Web marketing efforts last year according to a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, released Tuesday by the Internet Advertising Bureau. (Tipworld newsletter - April 17)
In the last few years, the percent of viewers of banner ads who actually click on them as dropped from 2 or 3 percent to 1/2 percent. (Techserver - March 26)
eMail marketing -- the internet's "killer app" -- will grow from 3% of total web advertising dollars in 1999 to 15% in 2003. (E-Marketer- March 6)
Advertising: U.S. Internet companies will spend 37% more on advertising goods and services this year than they'll earn from their own ads, a study by Mercer Management Consulting said. U.S.-based Internet companies will spend $7.4 billion in 2000 on advertising and earn $5.4 billion in sales from these ads, the study said. (Business Today - February 8)
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AOL [America Online]
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America Online said the worldwide membership of its online service has passed 25 million. [Tipworld - October 24]
AOL on Tuesday said its worldwide membership has surpassed 24 million. AOL said in a statement it has added nearly 6 million net new subscribers over the past year. [SiliconValley.com September 5]
America Online which plans to merge with Time Warner, said its core AOL service now has more than 21 million subscribers. who now average more than hour online daily per user.
America Online the largest consumer Internet access provider, has seen its growth explode from 5 million members. four years ago to 12 million in April 1998.
America Online Of the 21 million subscribers it now has, more than 3 million live outside the United States.
America Online also operates CompuServe its low-priced Internet service, with another 2 million members. (Tipworld newsletter February 2)
America Online agreed to pay 156.14 billion in stock for Time Warner. (WSJ - January 11, 2000)
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Philanthropy / [Philanthropie]
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According to PC Data Online, the Hunger Site has led the pack of nonprofits and donation websites for over six months, consistently garnering over two million unique users per month. [Wired — November 23]
The hungersite.com has been hugely popular, receiving more than 88 million visitors and donating more than 10'000 tons of food. [The Industry Standard - October 18 ]
Philanthropy Online: Recent research found that 12 million people said they responded to direct-mail solicitations, but 50 million responded to Internet pitches. Of those, 32 million took action, such as volunteering, and 16 million donated money. [Seattle Times - September 28]
Online Philanthropy is too new to gauge across the board, but it is growing substantially. In fiscal year 1998, The Red Cross, raised $170,000 on its Web site; in fiscal year 1998 (which ended July 1), that figure grew to $2.5 million. (Star Tribune - January 24)
Netaid, the foundation behind the world's biggest Internet concert, on Thursday announced $1.7 million in grants to 13 voluntary groups combating poverty in Africa and in Kosovo. (SiliconValley.com - January 27)
Demographics [Démographie]
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The percentage of European households using the Internet rose in the 15-nation bloc from 18 percent in March to 28 percent in October [SV.com — November 29]
Internet usage in the US has reached a plateau as consumers spend less time on the web, according to a PwC survey. The report shows that while more US consumers access the internet from home than in the other four countries surveyed, they spend an hour less per week on the net than a year ago. Financial Times - October 31]
The typical Internet user might not be as young as one might think, according to a report released Monday by Gartner Group. The average American who logs on is 41 years old with an average income of $ 65'000, married with 2.81 children and uses a PC at work. E-Commerce Times - October 31]
Internet Execs: 60 percent of the respondents were between the ages of 31 to 49. A mere 12 percent were under 30 years of age. [CyberAtlas - September 29]
Overall, the number of surfers on the Web who were 50 and older increased 60% between June 1999 and June 2000, compared with a 22% boost for all age groups. [ WSJ - September 25]
More than 2 million Europeans are now using the Internet to look for work, according to the latest figures released by Internet audience measurement company MMXI Europe.. [Nua Survey — September 15]
Adults 55 and older represent the fastest-growing group of US Internet users, according to IDC, which found the number of seniors will more than triple from 11.1 million in 1999 to 34.1 million in 2004 and they will account for 20 percent of all new users. [Cyberatlas August 29]
For the first time, women users of the Internet outnumbered men online, at least in the first quarter of 2000, making up just over 50.4% of all users, according to a survey to be released today by Media Metrix and Jupiter Communications. [NYTimes - August 9]
There are a half a million new users each month in Italy. [Nua Survey, August 1]
789 minutes: Average time spent online in May by US home Internet users. French surfers spent only 241 minutes. [Time, August 14, 2000]
For the first time, female Internet users outnumber males in the US but they continue to lag behind in other countries, according to new data from Nielsen NetRatings. [Nua Survey - July ]
One fifth of US Internet users are aged between 45 and 64 and more and more people in this age group are going online, according to Media Metrix. (Nua Survey - April 11)
More than 61% of home Internet users go online every day often several times a day - compared with 46.7% in mid-1997 and 57.3% at the end of 1998 per Strategis Group (USA Today - March 22)
The original AltaVista is already well known across Europe, with 15 million of its 54 millions users a month coming from European countries. (Internet News - February 25)
Women accounted for 49 percent of Internet users during the fourth quarter of 1999, up from 43 percent in the first quarter of 1998, according to AdRelevance. (Techserver - January 23)
Domain Names [Noms de domaines]
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Registrars.com. received 16 000 asian domain name registrations on Friday, the first day it offered this service.
WiPO has received more than 1,000 cases related to disputed domain names since its arbitration system began last year. Decisions were made in more than half of the cases, some 80 percent of which resulted in favor of the complainants. [Techserver, August 28]
The number of registered domain names in China has reached 48,000, with most of them in the
commercial category. [BBC, August 28]
According to domain name registration specialist Afterdomains, there is a new «.co.uk» domain registered every 20 seconds. [InternetNews.com, August 14]
More than 9 million dot-com domain names have been registered so far, and about 16 million altogether. (SiliconValley.com - June 12)
Did You Know... [ Fun Stats from NetworkSolutions - June 5 ]
Each customer purchases an average of 1.9 domain names
60% of domain names are purchased by first-time buyers; 40% by repeat buyers
The average domain length in 1999 was 11 characters
The average income of domain name purchasers is between $35,000-75,000
In 1999, Network Solutions' consumer base increased 6.5 times its original amount
With 10 million names registered at Network Solutions, «.com» accounts for 7.8 million names, «.net» accounts for 1.4 million names, «.org» accounts for 800,000. (Forbes - April 26)
At last count, about 98 percent of the words in Webster's English Dictionary had been registered as domain names. (Boston Herald- April 19)
According to NetworkSolutions, a new domain name is registered every 5 seconds (NetworkSolutions - April 2)
There are more than 10 000 domain names registered every day through about 110 official global registrars. According to ICANN, about 13.4 million .com / .org / .net domains are taken. (WSJ print edition - March 28 - page 27)
NIcolas Grauso, has registered 480 000 domain-names world-wide, in 7 seven languages, 60 000 in Italy. He has spent euro 25,5 million and insists he is no cybersquatter... (WSJ Europe Networking Feb. 28 - print edition - page 30).
Mp3audiobooks.com is bought for $ 8 million, breaking the previous record held by business.com which sold for $ 7.5 million in November 99. (Press release - February)
Internet address registrar Network Solutions Inc. said Wednesday it has added more than 5 million new Internet domain names in 1999 bringing its total number domain name registrations to 8.1 million. (SiliconValley.com - January 19)
Page Views [Pages Lues]
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Madonna's first British concert in seven years pulled in a world record Webcast audience of 9 million. [SV.com — November 28]
Traffic to e-tail sites is up 40 percent over last year according to Media Metrix with 35.2 million unique visitors. [Internet News — November 30]
Millions of Americans log on to follow elections : CNNestimated that 75 million web pages had been viewed Visitors to ABCNews had viewed more than 23 million web pages by Tuesday night. [The Guardian — November 9]
Media Metrix Inc. said Thursday that Napster's popular song-swap application soared to 6.7 million unique users in August 2000 from 1.1 million users in February 2000 and remains the fastest growing application it has ever tracked on the Web. [SiliconValley.com - October 5]
With no advertising, Fuckedcompany.com (FC) has attracted about 300,000 hits a day along with more than 300 daily message tips on failing companies. [LA Times, August 23]
Media Metrix estimated the total number of at-home Internet users in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the U.S. in June to be 117.6 million. The top five Web properties, and their audiences, were: [Tipworld newsletter, August 16]
AOL Network 75.2 million
Microsoft sites 68.2 million
Yahoo sites 60.8 million
Lycos 37.8 million
Excite At Home 29.8 million
More than 2 million computer users throughout the world saw some part of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Webcast broadcast live from Cannes. (SiliconValley.com - May 18)
A Net-only preview of "The Lord of the Rings" was downloaded almost 1.7 million times in the first 24 hours it was available. (Variety - April 11)
Traffic to financial services Web sites totaled 27 % of all Web use between December and February, AdRelevance, a division of Media Metrix (MMXI), reported Monday. (Tipworld newsletter - April 3)
Top 50 Sites of December 99 - UNIQUE VISITORS - (CyberAtllas - February 10
1. Yahoo.com 36,820,000
2. AOL.com 36,691,000
3. geocities.com 28,492,000
4. msn.com 26,746,000
5. lycos.com 21,251,000
6. angelfire.com 18,124,000
7. passport.com 17,991,000
8. netscape 17,629,000
9. microsoft.com 17,331,000
10. tripod.com 17,226,000
Education [Education]
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Nearly every public school in American has an Internet connection, with access jumping from a little over one-third of schools to 95 percent in just five years, the Education Department announced Wednesday. (Techserver - February 15)
Forecasts [Prévisions]
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Internet Usage will skyrocket to 766 million worldwide by 2005 with e-commerce revenues reaching $1.3 trillion by 2003. (The Industry Standard - February 7)
Employment [Emploi]
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Only 4 percent of people online have found a job through the Net, but 75 percent of surfers still job-hunt online. [The Industry Standard — September 11]
Net CEOs, tend to get $325,000 in cash and bonuses and about 9.4 percent of the company [The Industry Standard, August 22]
A recent study by Internetindicators has found that around 2.5 million people made a living directly from the internet in 1999. (Techserver - June 8)
American companies expect to create 1.6 million information technology jobs this year, an industry survey finds. (Techserver - April 9)
Executive Employment: Korn Ferry International is currently dealing with 3.3 million by the 800 dot-com positions worldwide out of a total of 7,50o posts, compared with 120 last year. The company predicts that the number will hit 1,500 out of a total of 10,000 positions next year . (FT - January 31)
Internet [Internet]
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The number of German-language far-right, hate Web sites more than doubled during the year 2000. rising from 330 in 1999 to 800 in 2000. (Nando News - January 14)
Lately the Economic and Social Research Council has been tracking a disturbing trend. The virtual online world itself is "disenchanting" millions of "ex-net surfers" around the world – 28 million in the US alone, 2 million in the UK according to the ESRC. People are fed up, and they're logging off. [The Industry Standard Europe — December 6]
The average U.S. software developer produced 6,220 lines of code per year -- about one line of finished code every 15 minutes on the job. [SV.com — December 6]
24% : single adults in the US who say they know someone who has found a romantic interest online. 5% : single adults in the US who say they have tried to find romance online (WSJ - Nov 14 - page 38)
Auction site eBay has 2,774 auctions containing the word "president" currently under way, many offering paraphernalia, such as "Bush Wins" newspapers. At one point, more than 400 papers with mistaken headlines were up for bid last week. (NY Times - November 14)
Kroll Associates says that, over the past six months, the firm carried out 70 "due diligence" background investigations of Internet executives and board members. About 39% — or 27 people — were found to have "problems," the firm says, compared with a 10% figure when dealing with mainstream "bricks and mortar" companies. Kroll says that the problems revealed in its worldwide investigation included: violations of Securities and Exchange Commission rules, insurance fraud, undisclosed bankruptcies, frauds committed overseas, and even links to organized crime. (USA Today)
The third annual poll showed for the first time that more than half of Internet users already shop online. Three ouf of four of them said they have done so in their pajamas. 10'000 tons of food. [The Industry Standard - October 18 ]
Survey highlights:
75% have gone shopping in their pajamas
41% have reconnected via the Internet after losing touch with a person
50% prefer to use use e-mail instead of the telephone to communicate with business associates
32% check their e-mail while on vacation, up from 24 percent last year
In their annual review of the World Wide Web, researchers at OCLC have determined that the Web now contains 7.1 million unique web sites, a 50 percent increase over the previous year's total of 4.7 million. [OCL - October 16 ]
Public web sites constitute 41 percent of the Web or about 2.9 million sites. Private sites comprise 21 percent of the Web or 1.5 million sites[. The remaining 2.7 million sites or bout 38 percent of the Web are provisional sites: their content is in an unfinished or transitory state (e.g., server default pages or "Site under construction" notices). [OCL - October 16 ]
Adult sites-those offering sexually explicit content-now constitute about 2 percent of the public Web, or 70,000 sites. The proportion of the public Web occupied by adult sites has remained unchanged since 1998. [OCL - October 16 ]
Office workers who while away their time at work trading shares, booking holidays or shopping online could cost businesses as much as $35m a year according to software snooper specialist, Surf Control. The survey found that 59%of office internet use is not work-related. [The Guardian - October 18 ]
One in ten office workers in Britain, the United States, Germany, Finland and Poland suffers from depression, anxiety, stress or burnout according to a study released this week by the International Labor Organization. [Wired - October 11]
The sale of pirated and counterfeit goods over the Internet is booming to the tune of $13 billion per year industry lobbyists said. [USA Today - October 9]
According to a new study by Vault.com, nearly 42 percent of your bosses spy on you to find out if you're surfing the Net on company time. [Newsbytes - September 25]
Law shielding companies from Y2K suits was invoked in only 18 cases. [Techserver — September 24]
A survey conducted by NOP Research found that nearly 80% of companies are publishing
out of date information on their websites. [BBC September 13]
More than 295 million people across 20 countries have Internet access from a home personal computer in Europe, Asia Pacific and North America, Nielsen/NetRatings said in its first global trends report on Web access, released Thursday. [SiliconValley.com September 7]
A survey carried out in Britain this summer found that more than 4 million seven to 16-year-olds were now using the Internet, while another 500,000 children had been upset or embarrassed by something they had found on the Intern revealed that almost. [CNN September 1]
In the first nationwide view of crime on the Internet, online auctions have emerged as the No. 1 source of fraud, according to the FBI. So far, FBI agents have referred about 4,000 cases to law-enforcement agencies. Almost half the complaints concerned online auctions, Products ordered but never received were the second most common complaint, followed by investment scams. [SiliconValley.com, August 28, 2000]
The "Internet economy" will employ more than 10 million in the United States and Europe by
2002 and generate $1.8 trillion in revenues, [Techserver, August 28, 2000]
789 minutes: Average time spent online in May by US home Internet users. French surfers spent only 241 minutes. [Time, August 14, 2000]
Per a study by Cyveillance, 2.1 billion unique, publicly available pages exist on the Internet. The study also found that the Internet is growing at an explosive rate of more than 7 million pages each day, indicating that it will double in size by early 2001. [Cyveillance - July 10 ]
There are an estimated 80 auction sites devoted to firearms and about 4000 sites that have gun sales [Computer News Daily -- June]
The U.S. online population recently dropped below 50 percent of the world's total for the first time, according to researchers at Angus Reid Group in Vancouver, British Columbia. [Nando News -- June 24]
The number of broken links are growing in line with the web - 12 months ago only 7% of links were broken now it is over 10%. (BBC - June 14)
Music – Washington, D.C.-based Pew Internet and American Life project estimates 13 million Americans, or 14 percent of Web users, have downloaded free music. (Pew Internet and American Life Project - June 8)
One in five adolescents and teens regularly socialize on the Net have encountered a stranger there who wanted ''cybersex,'' says a government -financed survey to be released today (USA Today - June 8)
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal -- named the richest businessman outside the U.S. -- says he pumped $1 billion into 15 U.S. companies including Amazon, eBay, Priceline, Doubleclick, McDonald's, Coke, and Pepsi. (Wired - May 16)
Last week Editor & Publisher reported that 148 out of the 150 top-sell
The number of complaints about Internet auctions filed with the Federal Trade Commission climbed to 10,700 in 1999 up from just 107 complaints in 1997. (WSJ - May 12)
At the Securities and Exchange Commission, between 200-300 complaints were received each day about possible securities fraud schemes on the Internet, Reno said. (SiliconValley.com - May 8)
English is still the leading language on the Internet with 155,000,000 users. (InternetStats - May 4)
On Saturday, more than 100,000 people on AOL participated in Elian-related chats. By Sunday evening, nearly 500,000 had taken one of AOL's instant polls, most of them approving of the federal action. Says Lewis: "We saw an unprecedented outpouring, and we saw it instantly." (USA Today - April 24)
About 67% of companies do some form of electronic monitoring according to a 1999 American Management Association survey. (USA Today - March 27)
Cyberattacks cost U.S. organizations $266 million last year more than double the average annual losses for the previous three ears, according to a newly published report. The study, released by the San Francisco-based Computer Security Institute (CSI) and the San Francisco FBI Computer Intrusion Squad, found that 90% of survey respondents detected some form of security breach last year. (Computer World - March 22))
The president of Drugstore.com told Congress 22 million people used the Internet to research health and medical information last year. Since opening in February of 1999, Drugstore.com has sold products to more than 695,000 customers.
A study commissioned by Intel estimated that 2.5 million Web cameras were sold in 1999, up from 350,000 in 1997. (Dallas News - March 16)
How many love letters online? Internet search engine Google, offers 350,000 Web pages about love letters. (USA Today - February 14)
Online at the office. Vault.com, a leading workplace Web site, polled more than 2,500 employees and employers and found:
37% of employees "constantly" surf the Web
90% of employees surf nonwork-related sites at least once a day
84% of employees send personal e-mails at least once a day
How the bosses feel:
82% of bosses tolerate a "reasonable" amount of Web surfing
86% of bosses tolerate at least some personal e-mail
31% of bosses monitor or restrict Internet and e-mail usage
Web exceeds 1 billion pages The World Wide Web has grown to more than a billion pages of unique information, according to a new study by Inktomi Corp. and the NEC Research Institute. That is an increase of 25% from the 800 million pages an tallied last summer. (USA Today - January 18)
The number of U.S. residential subscribers to high-speed Internet access services should grow to 3.3 million by the end of this year up from 1.4 million at the end of 1999 (SiliconValley.com - January 28)
Sex Online [Sex Onlne]
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A survey by NetValue, which measures internet activity, found that 3.6m people in Britain log on to adult websites. That's one in three. [BBC -- June 22]
A study of more than 400 U.S. and Australian participants in role-playing games and other interactive online features found 40 percent had had cyber-sex changes feigning an opposite sex persona at some point. (Washington University - May 22)
According to research firm Datamonitor ,adult content makes up 69 percent of the $1.4 billion (US$) market or paid online services in the U.S. and Western Europe. (E-Commerce Times - April 5)
Our research [`Sexual Addiction and Compulsion: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention] indicated that 20% of men and 12% use their work computer to access online sexual material - Dr. Al Cooper of the San Jose, California, Marital and Sexuality Centre. (SiliconValley.com - February 29)
Wireless Telephony [Téléphonie Mobile]
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In Western Europe alone, 57.3 billion messages will be sent by 82 million subscribers in 2001 according to market research firm IDC. That's up from 25 million subscribers and 11.9 billion messages sent last year. [Wired - October 31
GartnerGroup's Dataquest, estimates that more than 157 million people are using SMS as part of their wireless phone service in Europe, and that number will grow to more than 268 million by 2002. SMS users are currently sending as many as 9 billion messages per month. [Forbes - October 11]
According to the ABI study, the number of mobile voice users will grow from nearly 1 million users in 2001 to more than 56 million in North America by the end of 2005. [CyberAtlas - October 6]
Cahners In-Stat Group estimates the number of wireless messages sent per month will reach 244 billion by the end of 2004, up from 3 billion per month last year. [The NY Times — September 13]
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IDC expects Western mobile phone subscription to top 300 million in 2004 from 200 million this year. [Yahoo News, August 29]
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Commerce conducted over mobile phones in Western Europe is expected to rise to $37.7 billion in 2004 from $51.2 million this year as the number of subscribers and services soar, a research group said on Tuesday. [Yahoo News, August 29]
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YourMobile.com, a free service started four months ago, said users have already downloaded more than 13 million songs from the site and loaded them into more than 2 million portable phones. [LA Times, August 19]
The Youth Market represents an estimated one-in-four of all mobile telephone sales. (CBSMarketwatch - May 10)
Almost 80% of the US Internet population will access data from mobile phones in a year's time, up from the current figure of 3% This startling prediction is based on a new survey from Corechange, Inc and Cap Gemini USA.
Of the approximately 80 million cell phone owners in America, 85 percent use cell phones while they’re driving (ABCNews - April 17)
Nokia accounted for more than 30 percent of the 270 million handsets sold globally last year. It is a leader in digital mobile phone technology, and has supplied GSM equipment to some 80 operators in 40 countries. Headquartered in Finland, Nokia employs more than 55,000 people worldwide. (Techserver - April 3)
There are more than 300 million wireless phone users worldwide (70 million in US) and this number is expected to grow to over 1 billion users by 2002. according to a study conducted by Nokia. Nomura Research projects that by 2002., there will be more mobile handsets connected to the Internet than personal computers. (BeVocal)
The number of US mobile Internet service subscribers is predicted to soar from 1.8 million to 4 million by the end of 2000. (NUA Survey - March)
The number of cell phones used in Japan is expected to exceed the number of fixed-line telephones by the end of the month, officials said. The figures show more than 40% of Japanese are now using portable phones. (Techserver - March 9)
Of the 85 million wireless phones in use in the United States, 26% can access the Internet, but most aren't used for that. In fact, only 12% of people who own Web-accessible phones have great interest in surfing on them, according to a study by Peter D. Hart Research. (PCWorld - March 1)
Nokia, the world's biggest mobile phone handset maker sold 76.3 million phones worldwide in 1999. (Internet News - March 3)
Internet Votations [Votations Internet]
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17,000 Democrats in Arizona cast ballots via Internet in the first two days of a primary billed as the first binding online election. (NY Times - March 8)
E-Mail [Courriel]
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51 million people used e-mail during the season to make holiday plans; 30million people sent e-greeting cards to loved ones and friends; but only 22 million actually bought gifts on line, according to the Pew Internet Project.
As of June 2000, U.S. workers were receiving an average of 196 e-mails each day. [e-Company Now — December 4]
Net surfers are sending 10 billion e-mail messages a day and that number will more than triple in five years. [The Industry Standard — November 20]
The average online user wading through 2,052 e-mails this year, according to Jupiter Communications [Techserver - October 29 ]
The email marketing industry will be worth $ 4.5 billion by 2003, according to a report released last week by eMarketer. [Nua Survey - October 11 ]
A study commissioned by Andersen Consulting suggests that about 83 percent of American workers stayed in touch with the office via voice mail, e-mail, cellular phone or pager during vacation this summer in the U.S. [CNN September 1]
Overall, Americans get or send 204 messages daily while workers in the United Kingdom manage 191, trailed by 178 for German workers and 165 for the French. [WSJ - August 3]
At the end of last year, almost 570 million e-mail boxes existed worldwide.That's a drop in the bucket compared to the volume of U.S. e-mail messages which may reach 432 billion this year [The Industry Standard - July 17]
54 percent of American companies currently monitor employees’ Internet use and 38 percent save and review employees’ e-mail, according to a survey done this year by the American Management Association. [ABCNews - July 21]
The Small Business Administration estimates there are 23 million businesses in America. If just 1 percent decide to send their marketing message via e-mail just once a year, this would lead to an average 690 e-mail messages a day. (MSNBC - June 14)
IUsing email results in an overall productivity gain of $ 9000 per employee according to a new study from Ferris Research. (Nua Survey - May 26)
The average number of commercial e-mail messages that US online consumers receive per year will increase from 40 in 1999, to more than 1,600 in 2005. (CyberAtlas - May 9)
Gartner Group estimates that in general, 40% of email messages coming into businesses have "dirty" attachments. (NYTimes - May 5)
The number of e-mail accounts worldwide grew by 83% in 1999 a rate that, if it continues, will lift the count past telephone lines or television sets within just a few years, a study by Messaging Online has found. By the end of the year, the survey said, 569 million accounts were in use worldwide 40 percent of them in the US. "What has taken the telephone industry 125 years to do and what has taken television 50 years to do, e-mail will have done in 20 years," -- Messaging Online editor Eric Arnum (Newsbytes - April 4)
Forrester predicts that e-mail volumes will soon surpass the amount of junk mail delivered by the U.S. Post Office. By 2003 the number of marketing e-mails will equal the volume of direct mail forwarded by the U.S. Postal Service, and by 2004 the average household will receive nine pieces of marketing e-mail per day," Nail said.(E-Commerce Times - March 9)
E-Trading [Courtage En Ligne]
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Bank of America Corp sold $1 billion of bonds on Tuesday, in what its syndicate arm called the first sale of bank bonds that could be purchased entirely online. [SiliconValley.com — September 19]
Though they make up less than one-half of one percent of all online accounts, the most active day traders generate more than 76 percent of all online trades according to recent figures from Bear Stearns. (MSNBC - June 5)
E*Trade Group the Internet brokerage firm, said that it lost $23.2 million in its most recent quarter, reversing a profit in the comparable period of 1999, but the results beat forecasts. Its revenue more than doubled. (NY Times - April 12)
Silicon Valley [Silicon Valley]
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On average, Silicon Valley janitors are paid $8-9 an hour which translates into about $17,000 a year, with no benefits. (Wired - April 27)
Viruses [Les virus]
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Recent analysis by research firm Datamonitor estimated that at least $4 billion has been lost due to exposure to Melissa and Love Bug viruses. Additional research by Computer Economics calculates that the "Love Bug" alone is responsible for $8.7 billion in damage. (eMarketer - December 5)
eMarketer's analysis results in a potential loss of $351 million as the cost of viral attacks to
home users. (eMarketer - December 5)
1 in 10: The chance of a personal computer contracting a virus in a 12 month period. Five years ago it was 1 in 1'000. /Time Magazine, October 13, 2000 - page 28)
Virus infections have increased steadily from 10 per 10,000 computers in 1996 to l91 per 10,000 computers this year, according to the International Computer Security Association (ICSA) [CNN — October 31]
The number of corporations infected by viruses this year has risen by 20% with the pace of infections accelerating rapidly, according to a report issued Monday by anti-virus consulting firm ICSA.net. [USA Today - October 23]
— For a typical company, losses in productivity associated with viruses is rising, estimated to cost between $100,000 and $1 million per company annually.
— 40% of companies report data losses due to viruses, a 23% increase over 1999.
— Two-Thirds of companies experienced file problems stemming from incoming viruses, up from half of companies in 1999.
The damage wrought by the "I Love You" virus has already totaled nearly $100 million worldwide, and clones could push the figure over $1 billion by Monday morning. (Figures published in the E-Commerce Times - May 5)
The damage wrought by the "I Love You" virus and variants has already reached about $5 billion and could amount to $10 billion before the viruses could be eradicated, the U.S. firm Computer Economics said. (Figures published in the SiliconValley.com - May 8)
The cost of lost business for defensive actions against "I Love You" alone, could far outstrip costs attributed to previous attacks by viruses such as Melissa, which rang up a stinging $ 80 million price tag. (NYTimes - May 5)
Browsers [Les Navigateurs]
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More than 86 percent of all computers with a browser have Internet Explorer, a new study reveals. Netscape's once-dominant browser has slipped to an all-time low of just under 14 percent as of June 18. Wired- June 26)
Dotcom Hard Times/Good Times [La Net Economie]
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At least 210 internet companies went out of business in 2000, with electronic commerce companies accounting for more than half of failures, according to a new survey by Webmergers.com. Financial Times
Net businesses were forced to lay off a total of 28'243 employees
75% of shuttered dot coms were in B2C sector
80% of shutdowns involved e-commerce companies
At least 210 internet companies went out of business in 2000, with electronic commerce companies accounting for more than half of failures, according to a new survey by Webmergers.com. Financial Times
Challenger, Gray & Christmas, the Chicago-based firm which tracks employee movement in the Internet industry, said a record 129 CEO departures were announced in October -- a rate of nearly six per day.. [CyberAtlas - November 3]
Of the 274 firms that have announced layoffs since December, 44 companies have gone out of business [WSJ - October 23]
Of the nearly 50 companies that filed for IPOs in August several companies' names included the word "Wireless" "Communications," but there were 0 dot-com names in the bunch. [Forbes - The Forsaken Dot-Coms September 11]
The Internet economy will by 2002 employ more than 10 million people across a variety of industries in the United States and Europe according to a study released Monday by Chicago, Illinois-based Andersen Consulting. [E-Commerce Times August 29]
In its July report, Challenger noted that one out of five Internet companies that have cut employees since December has gone out of business and that 24 companies, or 20%, of 122 dot-com firms that cut staff in the past eight months have failed.
Total job cuts at Internet companies are of 11,785 since December. Retail-oriented Web companies had the most layoffs, accounting for one-third of all the job cuts in the survey. [The Industry Standard: «Dot-Com Job Losses Rise in August»]
E-Books [Les Livres Numériques]
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Analyst reports that estimated digital book sales could reach $3 billion a year by the end of 200ounting for 10 percent of total book revenues. [SiliconValley.com, August 28]
Music [Musique]
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A Forrester Research report predicts that record labels will lose $3.1 billion annually, in potential music sales by 2005 to piracy and that book publishers will lose $1.5 billion in the same period. [WSJ — September 18]
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