5 facts about digital life – post #1
28Apr10

A series of short posts with the latest facts about our digital economy and lives. Use them for your presentations, blogs, homework or trivia nights.

668,000 dotcom sites are registered every month. Source: BBC News

For the week ending March 13th 2010, Facebook accounted for 7.1% of the America’s web traffic, compared with Google’s 7.0% – the first time Facebook has had a weekly lead. Source: The Economist

Apple has just 2.2 per cent of the world cell-phone market, but even that means it sold twenty-five million iPhones in 2009. Source: The New Yorker

By 2020 the internet will add $3.8 trillion (£2.5 trillion) to the global economy, exceeding the gross domestic product of Germany. Source: BBC News

BBC’s website receives 20 million British visitors a month – a third of the UK population and around the same as the proportion of Americans who log on to Facebook. Source: The Economist

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