Yahoo mail currently has 250 million global users, more than any other online
service (Live.com has 228 million and Gmail has 51 million users).
Digital sales of individual songs this year have risen 54% from a year earlier to 173.4 million, according to Nielsen SoundScan. But that’s nowhere near enough to offset the 20% decline from a year ago in CD sales to 81.5 million units. Overall, sales of all music — digital and physical — are down 10% this year. And even including sales of ringtones, subscription services and other “ancillary” goods, sales are still down 9%
Venture capitalists poured $844 million into Web 2.0 startups last year, according to Ernst & Young and Dow Jones VentureOne. That’s double the $406 million they invested in 2005, and up from the nadir of Web 2.0 investing in 2002, when they put in just $32 million.
VC Firm Number of Web 2.0 deals
Benchmark Capital 13
Draper Fisher Jurvetson 10
Sequoia Capital 9
Omidyar Network 8
Accel Partners 7
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