Friday, January 20, 2006
Some Powerful Numbers…
byThe information below is from a cogent PowerPoint presentation that Mary Meeker from Morgan Stanley recently presented at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. It underscores the tremendous changes and rate of change that is happening with new media, technology and related fields of study. The complete presentation is here.
Some of the interesting facts in her presentation:
- In 1995 North America made up 66 percent of Internet users. By 2005, that number had dropped to 23 percent.
- Asia/Pacific now makes up the largest share of the Internet market at 36 percent. China has more Internet users under the age of 30 than anywhere else.
- There were 7.6 billion global searches on Google last year…up 74 percent over the previous year.
- There are 40 million users who have a personalized My Yahoo! page.
- The market cap of Google+Yahoo!+eBay+Yahoo! Japan was $2 billion prior to their 2000 IPOs. As of 11/11/05 their combined market cap was $262 billion.
- Google’s spending on their own infrastructure increased over 400 percent from 2003 to 2005 rising from $177 million to $797 million.
- We are now entering the most profound of all computing cycles: broadband and the mobile Internet.
- In 2005, there were one billion Internet users and two billion mobile phone subscribers.
- In 1970, the U.S. was responsible for 66 percent of the total global market value. By 2030, the U.S. will be home to only 27 percent of the total global market value.
- In the 2003-2004 academic year, the U.S. had 76,000 engineering graduates, India had 184,000 engineering graduates and China had 352,000 engineering graduates.
- In 2001, U.S. industry spent more on tort litigation ($205 billion) than on R&D ($184 billion).
- In just 28 months since its inception, Skype (free phone service over the Internet) has 61 million subscribers. Email is “free.” Is voice headed that way, too?
- Advertising is being completely redefined by the Internet, and, more specifically, by the large search engines.
- According to Morgan Stanley, “We believe the first ten years (1995-2005) of the commercial Internet were a warm up act for what is about to happen.”
