Looking forward to 2012, Flurry expects breaking the one-billion-download-barrier per week will become a common occurrence.
The site crossed the one-billion-stream mark in less than two years and is up to 80 million monthly views.
There are other Duke family trusts for them as well, but chances are pretty good that the one-billion dollar figure is over-stated.
Thus, if everyone on the planet each randomly filled out a bracket, the odds would be over one-billion-to-1 of any person having a perfect bracket.
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Successive presidents or their officials have visited China, accompanied by business delegations eager to sell more to the one-billion-plus Chinese, and have tried to persuade the Chinese to sign contracts and make trade concessions.
Over the next decade, the impact of women on the global economy -- as producers, entrepreneurs, employees and consumers -- will be at least as significant as that of China's or India's one-billion-plus populations, if not greater.
In a video to support a global campaign to end violence against women - One Billion Rising - she said the abuse had been by "a man my parents trusted".
One multi-billion dollar pension I advise has a policy stating that investing in any financial product managed by the financial advisory firm it relies upon for independent, objective advice is prohibited.
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He owns now owns roughly one-fifth of one percent of the billion-dollar building.
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Robert Metcalfe, who three decades ago invented Ethernet, the first great electronic protocol for computer networks, foresees a "gigalapse"--a blackout spanning one billion person-hours.
These distant encounters produce revenue--sponsors are attracted by the potential TV viewing audience of one billion--but little passion.
Angry Birds has reached the one billion-download milestone that all game-makers ache to reach.
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Koch Industries became a major producer of the chemical in 2005, after it bought Georgia-Pacific, the paper and wood-products company, for twenty-one billion dollars.
This year, the world is expected to burn through some thirty-one billion barrels of oil, over 3.5 billion tons of coal, and one hundred trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
In 1962, EMI signed the Beatles - now estimated to have sold more than one billion records worldwide - and the group's back catalogue is arguably its biggest asset.
Jerome Svigals, a California-based card technology consultant, predicts that Asia will own at least a third of the more than one billion chip-based cards he believes will be in circulation by 2000.
It's already attracted one and three-quarter billion dollars of investment, says manager of the park Gin Ray(ph).
There are one-quarter of a billion mobile devices in the world that have an active Shazam app on them right now.
How on earth does one deploy a billion-dollar fund these days?
The shadow home secretary said it was a scandal no-one has been arrested for the "multi-billion pound" Libor inter-bank lending rate fraud.
If one can convince a court that a billion-dollar product incorporating hundreds of patents infringes only one of his, he can get an injunction to stop it being sold.
Steven Udvar-Hazy made a multi-billion-dollar fortune founding and running one airplane leasing company.
The government offered a one-off 5.8 billion rand to subsidise the tolls for private users and exempt minibus taxis entirely.
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What's unusual is that China is taking a stake in Blackstone and not in one of its many multi-billion buyout or alternative funds.
The Java-2 based application server could handle as many as one billion hits per day when only Java-basedbrowsers were accessing the server.
From a practical point of view, it will be as if we are simply adding one person to the organizational hierarchy, except that one person will just happen to be a billion-dollar company that could buy and sell each and every one of you like you were office furniture.
On top of that, we also treat about one billion gallons of non-potable wastewater a day.
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The Saudi Arabia government spends heavy investment in education with One Billion SR for e-education projects.
The one billion milestone means e-file has delivered real services to taxpayers, including faster refunds and more accurate tax returns.
Today, one-and-a-half billion people on earth have no access to electricity at all, and a billion more have limited access.
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