Revenue from online content will reach €8.3 billion by 2010 in Europe, a growth of over 400% in five years, says a new study for the European Commission. For the most advanced sectors, online content will represent a significant share of total revenue: about 20% for music and 33% for video games.
The worldwide mobile phone market reached a new milestone at the close of 2006, with more than one billion units shipped worldwide over the year. According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped a total of 1.019 billion units in 2006, or 22.5% more than the 832.8 million units they shipped in 2005.
The Conference Board announced today that the U.S. leading index increased 0.3 percent, the coincident index increased 0.2 percent and the lagging index increased 0.9 percent in December.
CareerBuilder.com today announced the results of a national consumer employment survey conducted by Harris Interactive that reveals nearly four out of five U.S. workers (84 percent) are not currently in their dream job.
The New York Stock Exchange, a subsidiary of NYSE Group, Inc. announced that all immediately eligible NYSE listed-securities are now trading on Phase III of the Hybrid Market platform. This marks the completion of Phase III. Phase IV of the NYSE’s Hybrid Market implementation plan will commence on Jan. 25, 2007.
As of mid-January, short interest in 2,744 NASDAQ Global MarketSM securities totaled 6,736,950,189 shares compared with 6,777,076,690 shares in 2,742 Global Market issues for the month of December.
Russia's railways are playing an active role in the development of Russia's growing exports of oil to China and are proceeding with the first stage of the project with a total capital investment of around 13 billion roubles. The project envisages an annual increase of oil exports between the two countries.
Up to the end of December 2005, the total assets of China's city commercial banks had topped RMB 2.04 trillion, increased by 19.4%; the total liabilities was RMB 1.95 trillion, up 18.6%. In 2005, China's city commercial banks explored and innovated on displacement and operations by encircling the assets and removing the historical burden, which made great progress.
With a history of over 20 years, the Chinese environmental protection industry is developing along with the environmental protection course. In the 1980s, the environmental pollution grew worse under the rapid growth of the national economy, so measures were taken to control the pollution, and then the environmental protection industry experienced a further development.
