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Iqbal Mohammed
is Head of Innovation & Strategy at a digital innovation agency serving the DACH and wider European markets. He is the winner of the
WPP Atticus Award for Best Original Published Writing in Marketing & Communication
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He blogs about
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Global military expenditure rose by 4% in 2008 to a record $1.46 trillion.
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Almost 60% of all the increase in world output that occurred in 2000-08 happened in developing countries; half of it took place in the BRICs alone.
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Netflix signed up 25% more customers in the past year.
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The relative value of a Mars Bar to a small car - which costs about 20,000 Mars Bars - has remained the same for the past 70 years.
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There were 49,024 airports in the world, as of 2007.
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90% of UK homes have digital TV.
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Europeans place about 40% of all online wagers.
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Shareware, software which requires payments to function properly, only elicits money from 1% of downloaders.
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Only 7% of British children go to private schools, but they account for more than 40% of the intake at Oxford and Cambridge.
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Every year, over 100,000 more Americans leave California than enter it.
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Sony made ¥30 billion ($299 million) on film and television in the year that ended in March 2009, but it lost ¥168 billion on electronics.
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About 2/5th of LinkedIn's members are female.
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Texas is home to more Fortune 500 companies than any other American state - 64 compared with California's 51 and New York's 56.
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In 1970, Wall Street attracted 5% of Harvard male graduates; by 1990, the proportion was 15%.
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Fully 43 million Americans, almost 2/3rd of them women, flick through a copy of 'People' magazine each week.
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Only 11% of bosses at big American firms received their undergraduate degrees from an Ivy League college.
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In India, domestic savings amounted to almost 28% of GDP in the year to March 2008.
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Companies around the world spent $459 billion on advertising in 2008.
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American teenagers sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the 4th quarter of 2008 — almost 80 messages a day.
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The average Twitter user has 126 followers.
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Internet and mobile accounted for 12% of global ad spending in 2008.
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Car and truck airconditioners account for about 5% of annual US motor fuel consumption.
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In 2008, exports from China accounted for only 34% of GDP.
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Airbus delivered a record 483 planes in 2008.
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Energy use per person has remained largely flat over the past 30 years in California, but it has increased by 50% for the rest of America.
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The Lions Club International may be the most global offline business network with over 1.3 million members in more than 200 countries.
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Corporate email archives are growing by 40% a year.
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Venture capitalists invested roughly $300 million in car-related companies in 2008, up from $8 million in 2003.
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In the first quarter of 2009 in America, 20,251 companies filed for bankruptcy - a 52% jump from the same period last year.
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Between 1977 and 2005, 5% of American jobs were destroyed each year - as firms closed, cut back or were taken over by new ones created by start-ups.
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Credit card write-offs in America in 2008 totalled $61 billion.
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