One of Gmail’s biggest bragging points is that it offers an ever-increasing amount of storage. It’s a new year, though, and the times, they are a-changing (with apologies to Bob Dylan for that line). Gmail’s storage capacity appears to have leveled off at 2800 megabytes.
Google Near Top Of “Hot Growth” List
Google qualifies as one of the top hot growth tech companies of 2006, according to Business Week; the search engine company placed fourth on a list of 50. Two of its biggest competitors – Microsoft and Yahoo – also made the cut, but they were numbers 42 and 49, respectively.
eShopping Index Shows Growth All Around
Tis the season for metrics. The companies that keep tabs on the Internet have released a flurry of statistics over the past couple of weeks, all of them with the same conclusion: e-commerce is growing still. Nielsen//NetRatings’ Holiday eShopping index put on a few pounds, expanding by 20 percent year-over-year.
Will Skype’s Pricing Put Its Growth On Hold?
Skype, an Internet communications company, is now offering U.S. and Canadian customers a paid annual subscription service that will allow registered users to make unlimited to any phones located within the U.S. or Canada.
Online Ad Growth Higher in Great Britain than US
The New York Times has a lengthy article on the growth of online advertising in Great Britain, and how it’s outpacing the U.S. In fact, online advertising in Britain is growing by 40% and is expected to account for 14% of all advertising spend – more than twice the percentage in the United States.
Entrepreneurial Growth Opportunity
Only 13% of owners and managers read blogs relating to their business and fewer than one in ten maintain blogs for their business (7%).
YouTube Has Huge One-Week Growth Spurt
It’s no secret anymore that YouTube is a gangbuster of an online property. Though not surprising, it is still enough to set one back on his heels to learn that traffic to the online video-sharing site spiked 75 percent in one week.
Sonasoft Experiences Record Growth
Business is booming for Sonasoft, a San Jose-based company specializing in backup, recovery, and replication software. According to the latest press release, both revenue and customer installations grew by 200 percent in the first half of 2006.
India Sees Big Growth From Small Net Players
Indian small and medium businesses (SMBs) are set to dump a ton of cash into upgrading their Internet infrastructure this year, according to a study by New York-based AMI-Partners. The study predicts SMBs in the country will invest up to US $1.2 billion for this initiative, or about one-sixth of global IT spending at $7.7 billion.
Microsoft Sees Dynamic Revenue Growth
The fiscal third quarter for Microsoft finished with a 13 percent increase in revenue, as the company saw 21 percent revenue growth in Microsoft Business Solutions, which oversees the Dynamics line of business applications.