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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]
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