A recent MorganStanley report at the Web2.0 conference highlights how digitalization is spreading worldwide: Google had 7.6b global searches, 384m global unique visitors Broadband subscribers: 179m worldwide, 57m in Asia, 45m in North America Yahoo: 917m streaming video sessions Digital music: 695m cumulative iTunes downloads (as of 2005), 6m iPods sold in the 2Q 2005. Personalization: 40m MyYahoo users Blogging: 27% of US Internet users read blogs Tencent: 16m peak simultaneous IM users in China, Q2 Ringtones: $3b annualized ringtone sales vis $495m iTunes sales VoIP: 54m Skype users – possibly fastest product ramp ever Denmark: VoIP minutes are greater [...]
