The Digital Future study found very large differences between the online hours of heavy users and light users. Light users spent an average of 2.8 hours per week online, compared to heavy users who average 42 hours a week online.
Internet Non-Users: Reasons for Not Being Online? — The most common reason for not using the Internet was “no interest” or “not useful” — cited by 30 percent of all non-users — the first time that explanation has been the most-cited reason. In second place, and close behind “lack of interest,” is “no computer” or “no Internet connection. Source: ResourceShelf
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mobile advertising market is expected to rise to $16.2 billion in 2011 up from $1.5 billion in 2006
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the halal food market has exploded in the past decade and is now worth an estimated $632 billion annually, according to the Halal Journal, a Kuala Lumpur-based magazine. That is about 16% of the entire global food industry. Throw in the fast-growing Islam-friendly finance sector and the myriad other products and services — cosmetics, real estate, hotels, fashion, insurance — that comply with Islamic law and the teachings of the Koran, and the sector is worth well over $1 trillion a year.
The Islamic finance industry’s value is growing at around 15% a year, and could reach $4 trillion in five years, up from $500 billion today, according to a 2008 report from Moody’s Investors Service
Halal: Buying Muslim - TIME
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Nearly 70% of small businesses don’t have Web sites, says an annual survey by Verizon Communications. The USA’s 5.6 million small employers are the nation’s economic engine, producing a majority of new jobs and often leading the nation into economic recovery.
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Any idea what the ratio is between the Googles and Facebooks and other startups? Know how many companies fail every year in Silicon Valley? Anybody want to guess? Do you know what the ratio is? I’m sorry? Over a thousand to one. Now, one of the nice things about human nature is every one of you is going to be convinced that you’re going to be Google and Facebook. You have to be, right? I mean, that’s the passion of an entrepreneur. You have to be convinced. You know those other 999 companies? They were just idiots. I am much smarter than them because I have better idea and we’re cool.
Steve Blank
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More than one of every five American homes (20.2%) had only wireless telephones (also known as cellular telephones, cell phones, or mobile phones) during the second half of 2008, an increase of 2.7 percentage points since the first half of 2008.
Another Dying Industry - Land Telephone Lines.
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Of the 215,000 video channels on Kyte, nearly all are created by consumers, but only about 1,000 account for more than 90 percent of the mobile videos streamed via the service. And those 1,000 channels are invariably the work of professionals or the cell-phone videos of famous people such as musicians Lady Gaga (iTunes link) and Soulja Boy (iTunes link)
Less than 1% accounts for 90%
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YouTube, which reportedly loses $470 million a year, has to make money somehow, said Douglas MacMillan in BusinessWeek, and advertisers have been “squeamish” about hawking their products next to “unsavory, user-generated videos.” Hulu, with its roster of new shows, has been an advertising success—and that’s why studios are being stingier with YouTube.”
YouTube takes on Hulu - THE WEEK
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only 12 out of the 116 startups (approximately 10 percent) launched after Startup Weekends held from July 2007 to April 2009 can still be considered active, and 35 out of the bunch (approx. 30 percent) are currently offline. Most of the projects carry the ‘idle’ status, which means there have been no visible changes to the service for a certain period of time.
Analysis: How Far Do Projects Launched At Startup Weekends Travel? (Not Very Far)
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A middle-aged British woman and two Chinese companions on Saturday set off on an epic horse ride that will see them cross China, Central Asia and Europe; and arrive in London for the 2012 Olympics. Megan Lewis, a 60-year-old British pony breeder and head of the expedition, said the three-year trek from Beijing to London was a lifelong dream. But the former geography teacher, who is raising money for charity, admitted the more than 5,000-mile (8,200-kilometre) journey was as much a test of the horses as the riders. You know you’re going to get lameness and all sorts of things with the horses, that’s just part of what goes with it; she said. But we’ve got a couple of nice little horses and we’ve got support from everyone.
Trio depart Beijing on epic horse ride to London
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