Advertisers are on track to spend $21.4 billion on the Internet in 2007, according to an eMarketer online ad spending report. By 2011 spending on advertisements online is estimated to hit $42 billion.
Brits Type 1.2 Billion Text Messages Per Week
In all of 1999, Brits sent one billion text messages on their mobile phones. Now, according to new numbers from the Mobile Data Association (MDA), they’re sending more than that per week.
Facebook Bubble Cult Pushes Value To $100 Billion
Put your coffee down, you’ll spit it. Facebook cheerleaders, from within what must be a social networking tunnel (or cave?), have transformed themselves into prostrate worshipers, transubstantiating reason to whatever the digital equivalent is of 72 virgins.
$10 Billion For Facebook Makes Some Sense
$10 billion is a lot of money, but some say that’s how much Facebook is worth. $15 billion is, of course, even more, and the social network’s value has also been connected to that figure. Believe it or not, this isn’t total lunacy.
Is Facebook Worth $10 Billion?
The latest rumors being reported that Microsoft might invest a 5 percent stake in Facebook worth up to $500 million that would give the social networking site a valuation of $10 billion the question becomes is Facebook really worth that much money?
Nuts Over Google, Man Sues For $5 Billion
I know a guy, lives out on the back roads in rural Kentucky, that was declared insane by the state of Ohio, and because of his education level, gets a nice disability check. He’s a funny, interesting, crazy guy. He doesn’t have anything to do with the man in Pennsylvania that’s suing Google for $5 billion; just made me think of him for some reason.
Local Online Advertising To Reach $7.8 Billion
The dollar gap between U.S. local online spending and total local media ad spending is large with $97 billion going to offline media such as yellow pages and newspapers. Only 2.9 percent of all local ad spending will go online in 2007, or $2.9 billion.
Small Business Online Spending To Top $70 Billion
The total online spending by small businesses is expected to reach $70 billion by the year 2012, up from $47 billion in 2006, according to JupiterResearch’s new report "US Online Small Business Market Category Forecast, 2007 to 2012."
Annual Revenue Surpasses $50 Billion for Microsoft
Microsoft has now announced revenue of $13.37 billion for the fourth quarter ending on the 30th of June 2007, that is a 13% increase over the same period of the prior year.
Online Advertising To Reach $35 Billion
U.S. online advertising spending will almost double by the year 2012, with search and display advertising accounting for most of the expenditures.