There are currently over 800 million
web sites on the Internet.
(NEC Research Institute)
17 Million US Households were shopping
On-line in 1999, with sales of over 20 Billion. Today there
are over 40 Million US Households shopping On-line, and sales
are estimated to exceed 100 Billion dollars this year alone!
(NUA/Forrester Research)
Yahoo -->UP 83% in December……
MSN --> UP 67% in their final Quarter
Small businesses who use the Internet
have grown 46% faster than those that do not.
(American City Business Journals)
Cisco Systems Inc. is today the
world's largest Internet commerce site, selling more than $32
million in products every day!
(Cisco Systems, Inc.)
64 Million U.S. Adults are Regular
Internet Users and are going online every month.
(Mediamark Research, Inc.)
56 percent of U.S. companies will
sell their products online by 2003, up from 4 percent in 1998.
(NUA)
This summer, 82 percent of college
graduates will search for careers and employment information
online.
(NUA)
A survey of 30,000 consumers in
30 nations found that the U.S. not only has the fastest-growing
number of Internet users, but the largest proportion of e-commerce
consumers.
(Roper Starch Worldwide)
More than a million new jobs were
created by the U.S. high-tech industry since 1993.
(American Electronics Association)
Preliminary employment data show
that the U.S. high-tech industry employed 4.8 million workers
in 1998, making it one of the nation's largest industries.
(U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
In 1996, 7.4 million people worked
in high-tech jobs, earning an average salary of $46,000, more
than fifty percent more than the average wage of $28,000.
(U.S. Department of Commerce)
One in 6 people use the Internet
in North America and Europe.
(NUA)
The number of women using the Internet
worldwide will pass 96 million, or 45 percent of the world's
Internet users this year alone.
(Computer Economics)
In 1993, there were 26,000 domain
names in use. In 1999, there are 5 million web sites.
(U.S. Department of Commerce/Netcraft)
In 1993, 3 million people were connected
to the Internet. In 1999, 80 million Americans are connected
and approximately 200 million people worldwide. This year will
surpass 100 million Americans connected.
(U.S. Department of Commerce)
364 million PCs were in use in 1998.
(Computer Almanac Industry)
Forty-four percent of U.S. companies
are advertising online; 36% more say they will do so by the
end of the year. (Association of National
Advertisers)
80% of all people who see an ad
in the yellow pages that lists a web-address, will go to that
website!!
(NEC Research Institute)
There is currently $10,000.00 spent
every second in e-commerce transactions on the Internet today,
and that increases every day.
(U.S. Department of Commerce)
