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• US IT spending to grow 5.4% in 2008
• 49% of US companies to cut IT budgets
• Private line services market to reach $40 bln in 2008
• 21% of CIOs expect their security budgets to increase
• Global IT spending to reach $3.4 trln in 2008
• Top Russian Internet advertisers: Ford, MTS, Megafon, GM, Vympelkom
• US small businesses to spend $280 bln on IT by 2012
• EAS market in the Czech Republic declined 4.5% YTY in 2007
• Worldwide remote branch spending to grow 6% to $24.2 bln by 2011
• Worldwide spending on Internet ads will total $65.2 bln in 2008
• Virtualization growth rising from 46% in 2007 to 54% in 2008
• Telecom spending to reach $923.91 bln in 2008
• Medium-sized business enterprise applications market will grow to $80.3 bln by the end of 2012
• The Brazilian IT market will grow to $24 bln
• Consumer spending to reach $234 bln by 2012
• Open source software to generate $4.83 bln by 2012
• 40% of global R&D spendingis done by the US
• 56% of North American and European enterprises consider Web 2.0 to be a priority in 2008
• Web 2.0 spending to reach $4.6 bln by 2013
• Global IT budgets to grow 3.3% in 2008, US IT budgets to grow 2.3%
• 75% of China’s online gaming market is virtual item sales
• US online ad spending to grow 23.4% in 2008
• $1.5 bln spent on telecom and IT in Pakistan in 2007
• 31% of medium US businesses use SaaS
• 33.5% of global patents filed by US companies in 2007
• Ad revenues will grow 3.6% in Europe and 3.7% in the US in 2008-2012
• $7.5 bln spent on renting DVDs in 2006
• Norwegian IT services market grew 7% in Q1-Q2 2007
• $3.8 bln worth of Windows point-of-sale terminals sold in 2007
• US direct marketing market reached $173.2 bln in 2007
• Albanian IT market reached nearly $44 mln in 2006
• 33.1% of marketers expect to increase their budgets in 2008
• 61% of Brits and 54% of Americans think the economy will get worse
• Swedish IT services market grew to 24.6 bln kronas in Q1-Q2 2007
• France SMBs spent $34 bln on IT and telecom in 2007
• SMB IT spending in ASEAN to reach $13.4 bln in 2008
• France SMB spent $34 bln on IT and telecom in 2007
• 23% of North American companies to cut IT spending in Q2 2008
• Singapore SMBs to spend $3 bln on IT in 2008
• Australian IT services market will grow to $15 bln by 2011
• 59% of Americans shop at least twice a week
• IT spending in Asia will increase to $32.77 bln by 2011
• Top ad buyers in Q1-Q3 2007
• Spending by dating sites in Q1-Q3 2007
• Ad spending by sectors in Q1-Q3 2007
• Western European IT spending to grow 4% in 2008
• IT market growth of 5% in 2008
• Where dating services spend money, Q1-Q3 2007
• Spending on direct mail to grow 40% in 2008
• SMB IT spending to grow 7% in 2008
• Consumer tech increases SMB productivity by 30-40%
• US software sales up 15% in 2007
• Asia/Pacific telecom services market was worth over $215 bln in 2007
• 81% of IT organizations pay attention to green-ness
• Only 27% of CIOs have enough people to work on the business needs
• 60.1% of marketers plan will increase marketing budgets in 2008
• 41% of Western European utilities to increase IT spending
• Middle East and North Africa ERP market up 33%
• UK SMB spending on managed security reached $42 mln in 2007
• Romanian IT market to grow by almost 11%
• 27% of Americans think the economy is good or excellent
• US telecom to spend $347.5 bln on IT in 2008
• 25% of young adults spent more on holiday shopping in 2007 than in 2006
• Radio stations to make $28.7 bln by 2016
• Gift cards market worth $14 bln, prepaid cards market worth $81 bln
• UK online sales up 269% on Christmas Day 2007
• Telecom operations support spending to reach $46 bln in 2008
• Gift card sales near $100 bln in 2007
• Only 16% of small businesses use blogs and podcasts
• US SMBs to spend $240 bln on infrastructure and applications
• Word of mouth marketing to attrach $1.35 bln in 2007
• US home-based businesses to spend $52 bln on IT and telecom
• Mexican SMBs to spend $13 bln on IT and communications in 2007
• Global IT market to grow 6% in 2008
• 2007 IT spending to reach $3.1 trillion
• IT spending to reach $730 bln in 2007
• EMEA IT operations market to grow at 8.1% a year
• EMEA IT services to grow to 225.4 bln euros by 2011
• Russian small and medium businesses to spend $5.4 bln on IT in 2007
• German SMBs to spend $7.3 bln on IT in 2007
• IT spending to exceed $2.2 trillion in 2007
• EMEA IT services market to generate 245 bln in 2011
• US business information spending to grow at 6.1% a year
• Chinese SMBs to spend $46 bln on IT by 2010
• Luxury spending up 6.6% in 2006
• Small and medium businesses in China to invest $28 bln into IT in 2007
• Home technical support to generate $1 bln by 2011
• Korean SMBs to spend $16.6 bln on IT in 2007
• Nanotechnology research and development took $12.4 bln in 2006
• Home networking services to generate $3.5 bln by 2011
• IT leasing and financing generated $70 bln in 2006
• IT industry accounts for 2% of carbon dioxide
• Asia-Pacific SMBs to spend $11.6 bln on IT in 2007
• US capex market spending on advanced trading tech to reach $1.3 bln by 2010
• CRM spending to generate $41.4 bln in 2010
• For 80% of IT decision makers business continuity is a priority for 2007
• Tech marketing budgets to grow 8% in 2007
• Japanese small and medium business IT spending reached $41 bln in 2006
• Banking industry IT spending to reach $241.2 bln in 2007
• IT spending to grow 5.4% in 2007
• Digital home health market to generate $2.1 bln by 2010
• 2006 IT spending reached $1.16 trillion
• SMBs to spend $2.44 bln on hosted software as a service and ERP/SCM in 2007
• 2007 spending on e-service and CRM to reach $565 mln in North America
• Master data management market grew 30% in 2006
• $278 bln will be spent on IT services by 2008
• Projected 2007 IT spending by industry
• Large organizations to increase IT spending by 2.8% in 2007
• Slovakian IT spending to rise 11% in 2006
• Chinese logistics IT market to grow at 15.9% a year
• Systems integration market up 4% in 2005
• IT spending to grow 5% in 2007
• 58% of Americans would be happy to receive a gift card for holidays
• $64.1 bln worth of semiconductors sold in Q3 2006
• Asia-Pacific IT spending to reach $52 bln in 2007
• Western European process manufacturers to increase IT spending by 5.9%
• Personal income up 0.5% in September 2006
• Romanian IT services market generated $200 mln in 2005
• Grocers to spend $9.8 bln on IT in 2006
• Media industry generated 1.3 trillion worldwide in 2005, 43% in North America
• US marketing spending to reach $615 bln in 2006
• IT services market to generate $628.8 bln by 2010
• Younger Americans ages 6 to 24 spend $200 bln a year
• Asia-Pacific processing services to grow at 8% a year
• Dual card graphics cards
• IT spending by US manufacturers to reach $166.6 bln in 2010
• IT marketing budgets to increase by 7.5% in 2006
• Saudi Arabia IT spending grew 6.4% in 2005
• Croatian IT services market up 32.8% in 2005
• IT spending in financial and healthcare market to exceed $2.2 trillion in 2006
• Polish IT services market up 32.5% in 2005
• EMEA IT services market to generate 229.9 bln euros in 2010
• Latin American SMBs to spend $14 bln on IT in 2009
• User spending on IT services to grow at 5.8% a year
• Indian SMBs to spend $500 mln on servers and networking in 2006
• $221.8 bln spent on luxury items in Q2 2006
• Financial services spending to generate $472.6 bln in 2006
• Value-added managed services in Asia-Pacific to grow 18.5% in 2006
• State healthcare and welfare programs to spend $7.6 bln on IT
• 40% of Americans say travel plans were impacted by high gas prices
• Asia-Pacific value-added managed services market to grow 18.5% in 2006
• Top 12 vendors accounted for 30.2% of Western European retail and wholesale IT
• IT services to generate $828.1 bln by 2010
• Czech IT services spending up 15.3% in 2005
• IT spending on electronic health records to reach $4.8 bln in 2015
• Slovakian IT services market up 22% in 2005
• IT spending by healthcare to grow at 7% a year
• Public sector IT spending in China to reach $6.5 bln in 2006
• Asia-Pacific manufacturing industry spent $15 bln on IT in 2005
• Asia-Pacific IT spending by manufacturing companies to reach $22 bln by 2010
• US and Canadian companies spend 2% of their revenues on IT
• 76% of US execs will increase IT spending
• IT spending to increase 6.9% in the next 12 months
• Business development budget of law firms grew 6.6% from 2004 to 2005
• 16% of Indian SMB channel partners classify themselves as ISVs
• Western European machine-to-machine communications market to reach $19.8 bln by 2010
• IT execs to increase spending by 2.9% in the next 12-18 months
• Asia-Pacific IT services to generate $48.37 bln by 2010
• North American IT spending to reach $40 bln by 2006
• Human resources generated $1.6 bln in 2005 in Western Europe
• IT consolidation market to grow at 6.5% a year
• Business consulting to grow at 3.9% a year
• Consumer prices up 0.4% in May 2006
• Consumer spending up 0.6% in April 2006
• 70% of Irish IT market is derived from government spending
• Western European IT services to grow at 5% a year
• 64% of Latin American governments plan to up their IT spending in 2006
• $27.4 bln of federal money spent on science and engineering research and development in 2004
• Global business support systems market up 5% in 2005
• IT spending in China to reach $142.3 bln in 2006
• Top IT services vendors earned $262 bln in 2005
• IT services to generate $760 bln by 2009
• IT spending to grow 7.5% in the next 12 months
• Small and medium business IT spending to grow 7.2% in 2006
• Government IT spending to grow 14% in Brazil
• Asia-Pacific IT spending to grow 8.7% in 2006
• Services spending to reach $663 bln in 2006
• Worldwide IT consulting market to grow at 5.2% a year
• Russian IT market reached $12 bln in 2005
• Consumer spending up 0.1% in February 2006
• 45% of US small businesses buy from Microsoft
• Global IT spending to grow by 6.3% in 2006
• IT marketing budgets to grow by 7% in 2006
• Average IT contract in Australia is $26.2 mln
• Nordic IT market up 6.6% in 2005
• 60% of IT execs see IT spending rising by 2009
• Local governments to spend $8.6 bln on wireless in 2010
• IT spending in Central and Eastern Europe to reach $40.5 bln by 2009
• 19% of IT managers said their IT purchasing budgets grew by 10% or more
• Western European Ethernet services market up 42% in 2005
• Average IT contract in Asia-Pacific is $18.9 mln
• 87% of employees know of company-preferred vendors, but only 38% consistently buy from them
• IT spending by insurance companies to reach $161 bln by 2009
• Retailers to spend $136 bln on IT by 2009
• IT services spending to grow to $759.8 bln by 2009
• Utilities to spend $115.9 bln on IT by 2009
• IT spending by banks to reach $243 bln by 2009
• IT spending by broadcasting and cable industries to reach $50.2 bln by 2009
• Western European IT spending by transport industry grew 3.2% in 2005
• IT spending by communications and media companies to grow at 5.6% a year

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