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IDC: 40 Percent of World Population Will Be Online By 2015

We have spotted some stats on how one third of the world is now online - we spotted this today:

"Worldwide, the total number of Internet user will grow from 2 billion in 2010 to 2.7 billion in 2015, when 40 percent of the world's population will have access to its resources, while global business to consumer (B2C) ecommerce spending will grow from $708 billion in 2010 to $1,285 billion in 2015 at a CAGR of 12.7 percent, IDC researchers noted."

Statistics Source: CIO Insight

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