These days, while the online population has changed drastically, it remains a fairly elite group.
The IDC reckons that China's online population will be 33 million by the end of 2004, some 35% of the region's wired population.
Meanwhile, that Internet growth rolls on: Even though its online population is more than 338 million, three-quarters of the country has yet to use the Internet.
Yet immediate returns are minuscule, given Asia's low online population.
Looking back to 1996, it is encouraging that the educational, age and gender profile of the online population is approaching that of the U.S. More distressing is the lack of change in the income profile.
With the online population shifting towards mobile devices, Facebook needs to have a strong presence that they can monetize and control, with unfettered access to the user that cannot be taken away or restricted by another company.
Russia has over a third of its population online, and this share of the population is rapidly expanding.
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The Which? monthly tracker involves researchers interviewing a cross-section of the population online.
Like the OLPC laptop, the decTOP's innovations come out of a drive to bring computers and the Internet to rural Africa and Asia: Data Evolution acquired the machine's hardware from Advanced Micro Devices, whose "50x15" program seeks to take 50% of the world's population online by 2015.
Like the OLPC laptop, the decTOP's innovations come out of a drive to bring computers and the Internet to rural Africa and Asia: Data Evolution acquired the machine's hardware from Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ), whose "50x15" program seeks to take 50% of the world's population online by 2015.
It is rolling out here where there is wealth of online map resources and a population quite savvy in the use of online maps.
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Politics, entertainment, sex, mass media, crime and commerce are being reshaped by a population as online as it is offline.
More than 70% of Beijing's population were online last year, compared to 24.2% of people in Guizhou, the poorest province in China.
She identified two big social trends that have led to a greater reliance on online dating: an aging population, and women around the world entering the workforce, marrying later, divorcing more, moving from place to place.
Not only is it exciting to be in a room full of intelligent and digitally savvy women, but also from a corporate perspective it is a great opportunity to engage with and learn about the ever growing population of influential females online.
Answer: Typically, the segments of the population who aren't online 24-7--and who, as it happens, are often much less well-off.
" He nevertheless discerns a problem for adMart: Hong Kong's size - "Any online e-commerce focusing only on a population like Hong Kong is going to be in for a real disappointment.
The researchers conducted a third experiment online to test the effects in a more diverse population.
China has the world's biggest population of Internet users, with 564 million people online at the end of 2012, according to an industry group, the China Internet Network Information Center.
The 53% of the US population that uses the net spends more than 25 hours online a month at home and more than 74 hours on the net at work.
According to marketingcharts.com, baby boomers are just 44% of the population, but control 70% of disposable income, spend money online, and dominate in nearly all consumer product goods categories.
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Experts said there has been an uptick in demand for warehouse space since the recession, as online retailers and fuel-conscious companies generally look to store their products near major population centers.
This is a critical success factor when managing and leading major transformational changes that include rapid growth in third-world countries, and in the global population, as well as a huge increase in the number of people connecting online around the world.
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Two years ago the rules were changed to allow shy entrants more privacy by letting them apply online, amid fears potential beauty queens on the island - which has an estimated total population of about 1, 600 - had become "a bit self conscious".
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While Nevada is on the fast track to allowing Internet poker within its borders, some industry players question whether the state's population of about 2.6 million is big enough to support a thriving online-poker sector, even if the state moves ahead with its plan.
For example, the model of social brainstorming, also referred to as ideagoras or idea management, you create an open online system to involve all the people that you may like to draw from a specific target population, provide some topics to structure discussion and then allow them to debate, rate and rank the best ideas.
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Her point is not just to be proud that women purchase more shoes or book more restaurants online than men, but rather to point to the business reality that women are the dominant purchasing population.
According to Downtown Cincinnati Inc's annual report, the downtown residential population increased 12% in 2011 from a year earlier to 13, 000 residents as more housing came online, most notably at the first building of the Banks, where 300 rental units boasted a 98% occupancy upon officially opening.
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