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- US ad market to grow 4.2% in 2008
- Total US measured advertising spending is projected to increase 4.2% in 2008, according to TNS Media Intelligence. Measured expenditures are forecast to grow by 3.6% in the first half of 2008 followed by a gain of 4.7% in the second half. by site admin
- Tags: Advertisement, site admin
- Blog posts 2008-01-21
- 2007 digital album sales in the US
- Nielsen SoundScan published the data on 2007 digital album sales. Digital album sales by company 2007 2006 UMG 22.98% 27.35% BMG 9.06% 10.25% SONY 13.80% 13.75% ...
- Tags: Nielsen SoundScan, Album Sale, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, site admin
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- Asia Pacific SOA market to grow at 40% a year
- Asia Pacific SOA market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 40% from 2006 to 2010. Research & Markets estimates the region’s 2007 SOA market amounts to $810 mln, with a compound annual growth rate CAGR of 40%, which will bring the market to $2.2 bln by 2010. by...
- Tags: Compound Annual Growth Rate, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Investment, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, site admin
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- 60% of Americans break New Year resolutions in 3 months
- According to ConAgra Foods, 90% of adults want to lead more balanced lives in the New Year; however, only 21% think it’s achievable. What’s more, an estimated 60% of Americans who make New Year’s resolutions break them within three months. by site admin
- Tags: Resolution, site admin
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- Music market shares in US in 2007
- Nielsen Soundscan published its findings on music label market shares, according to 2007 sales. Album sales market shares Total albums Current albums Catalog albums 2007 2006 2007 2006 2007 2006 UMG 31.90%...
- Tags: Nielsen SoundScan, Album, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, site admin
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- 17 mln IPTV subscribers in China by 2011
- China did not see large-scale IPTV deployments in 2007. Nevertheless, IPTV could still have a promising future with estimated subscribers exceeding 17 mln by 2011, iSuppli says. by site admin
- Tags: China, IP Television, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, site admin
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- IM attacks: 45% on MSN Messenger, 20% on Yahoo! IM, 19% on AIM
- faceTime says 19% of threats were reported on the AOL Instant Messenger network, 45% on MSN Messenger, 20% on Yahoo! Instant Messenger and 15% on all other IM networks including Jabber-based IM private networks. Attacks on these private networks have more than doubled in share since 2003, rising from seven%...
- Tags: MSN, AOL Instant Messenger, Network, MSN Messenger, IM, Yahoo! Inc., Attack, faceTime, Instant Messaging, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Security, Internet, Online Communications, site admin
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- 60% of business correspondence has grammar or spelling errors
- 60% of all business correspondence still gets sent containing one or more grammar or spelling errors, according to WhiteSmoke. 32% of writers are failing to use all the words needed for a grammatically correct sentence. 28% of mistakes relate to punctuation, that is, knowing when to use a period, comma...
- Tags: Grammar, site admin
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- Online backup services to generate $715 mln by 2011
- IDC estimates revenue for online backup services market to reach $715 mln by 2011, representing a 33.3% compound annual growth CAGR between 2006 and 2011. More than 50% of spending in this market will be in North America in earlier years, with other regions gaining share through 2011. YTY growth...
- Tags: Backups, site admin
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- 86 companies went IPO in 2007, raised $10.3 bln
- 31 venture-backed companies raised over $3 bln in IPOs in Q4 2007, the highest quarterly volume in 7 years, according to the National Venture Capital Association. For 2007 totals, a total of 86 companies went public for $10.3 bln, compared to 57 companies for $5.1 bln in 2006. by site...
- Tags: IPO, Financial Planning, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, site admin
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Digital catalog sales up 64% in 2007, deep catalog up 63%
- Sales of digital music was up in 2007 compared to 2006, but sales of digital catalog music outpaced the rest of the categories, growing 64% in 2007. Album sales in 2007 Overall Albums 2007 2006 Growth Current 306.4 ...
- Tags: Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, site admin
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- 90% of US cable operators offer HDTV
- The increasing competitiveness of the US pay-TV market continues to drive cable TV operators in the United States to invest in their networks and roll out new services, reports In-Stat. For example, an impressive 90% of US cable TV systems now offer HD video service. This is one of the...
- Tags: Cable Television, HDTV, Cable, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, site admin
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Outsourcing to grow 8.1% in 2008
- The global outsourcing market continues to grow at a steady pace, with a forecast growth rate of 8.1% in 2008. Publicly reported IT outsourcing ITO and business process outsourcing BPO contract values decreased overall by 50% in 2007, Gartner reports. Indian providers are growing approximately 40% annually in the US...
- Tags: Outsourcing, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), It Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, site admin
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- E-mail marketing spending to reach $2.1 bln by 2012
- JupiterResearch projects that e-mail marketing spending will grow from $1.2 bln in 2007 to $2.1 bln in 2012. Spending on retention e-mail will more than double during that period and account for over half of total e-mail marketing spending in 2012. by site admin
- Tags: Email Marketing, E-mail, Marketing Research, Online Communications, Marketing, site admin
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
- 45% of US Internet users are creating and sharing content
- 45% of survey respondents are developing Web sites, photo albums, blogs and music online to share with friends, family, peers and total strangers, Deloitte & Touche reports. 36% of all respondents stating that they view their cell phone as an entertainment device â€" a rise from 24% in Deloitte’s previous...
- Tags: Advertisement, Deloitte LLP, Entertainment, Internet, Internet User, Marketing, Marketing Research, site admin, Survey
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
- 2007 US music sales by genre
- Music sales of all genres fell in 2007, when compared to 2006 data. Rap was hit particularly hard with 30% drop between 2006 and 2007, with New Age music being the best of the worst with just 5.9% drop. 2007 music sales by genre Genre ...
- Tags: Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, site admin
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
- 1.2 bln HDMI-enabled devices by 2010
- Over 229 mln devices incorporating HDMI are expected to ship in 2008, with an installed base of nearly 1.2 bln HDMI-enabled devices projected by 2010, according to In-Stat. More than 750 consumer electronics CE and personal computer PC manufacturers have adopted the HDMI specification, up from 574 adopters in 2007....
- Tags: HDMI, site admin
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
- Personal robots to generate $15 bln by 2015
- ABI Research forecasts that personal robotics market will be worth $15 bln by 2015. The entertainment robotics market saw blips like the low-cost Furby in the late 90’s and the expensive AIBO in the early 2000’s, and is now dominated by WowWee, but the emerging Ugobe (with its Pleo pet...
- Tags: Robotics, Robots, Emerging Technologies, site admin
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
- Consumer electronics sales to grow 6.1% in 2008
- The consumer electronics industry is projected to post a healthy 6.1% increase in revenues in 2008, according to Consumer Electronics Association. Overall shipment revenues are forecast to top $171 bln in 2008, yielding a growth rate of 6.1%. CEA also released its estimate of final shipment revenues for 2007, which...
- Tags: Consumer Electronics Association, Consumer Electronics Industry, Shipment Revenue, Gaming Category, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Home Entertainment, Microsoft Windows CE, Games, Consumer Electronics, Sales, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, site admin
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
- Music sales volume in the US in 2007
- Nielsen SoundScan published its findings on 2007 US music sales. US total music sales in 2007 Total music sales Overall album sales Units 2007 2006 Growth 2007 2006 Growth 1,369 1,198 14%...
- Tags: Music Sale, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, site admin
- Blog posts 2008-01-06
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