Research pegs the total U.S. social media audience at 127 million.

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In America, 30% of teenagers send more than 100 texts a day.

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Fortune 500 companies now have 98 R&D facilities in China and 63 in India.

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YouTube is expected to generate as much as $700 million in revenue this year.

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Although the iPod is assembled in China, it accounts for only 2% of the wages involved in its manufacture, whereas America makes up around 70% in areas such as engineering, software and distribution.

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Over 80% of Intel's revenues come from outside of America.

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Some 45% of firms in the Fortune 500 were born in recessions.

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The median commute by car - at 24 minutes - is half the median commute by public transport.

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Some 800 million camera phones will be sold this year.

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In America, the number of advertising pages in magazines dropped by 26% between 2008 and 2009.

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Consumers in Britain bought 113 million physical music albums in 2009 and only 16 million digital ones.

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In most years since 1960 some 7 to 8% of driving-age Americans bought a car. In 2009, only 4% did.

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Printing and shipping to retailers represent only a tenth of a printed book's retail price.

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Volvo lost $1.3 billion and sold only 335,000 cars in 2009.

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At the end of 2008, there were 189 million mobile-broadband connections generating on average 175 megabytes of traffic per month. A year later the respective figures were 312 million and 273 megabytes - a growth of 158%.

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In 2009, Amazon sold 19% of printed books in North America compared with Barnes & Noble’s 17% and Borders’ 10%.

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China has 400 million internet users compared with America's 240 million and India's 80 million.

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America will account for just 27% of global consumption in 2010 against emerging markets' 34%, roughly the reverse of their shares 8 years ago.

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Around 20% of all online transactions now take place over so-called alternative payment systems - bypassing banks and credit cards.

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Before its takeover by Kraft, about 80% of Cadbury's business and over 85% of its employees were already outside Britain.

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Nearly 80 per cent of all health services in India are supplied by private firms and charities - a higher share than in any other big country.

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40% of IBM's profits are mainframe related.

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Around 15 to 20 % of gay men in America marry heterosexual women.

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BBC's website receives 20 million British visitors a month - a third of the UK population and around the same as the proportion of Americans who log on to Facebook.

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One in every 6 BMWs sold is a MINI.

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Only 5% of European companies created from scratch since 1980 have made it to the list of 1000 biggest EU companies by market capitalisation. The equivalent figure for America is 22%.

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Production ended two years ago, but an estimated 300 million Polaroid cameras are still functional and traded on websites such as eBay.

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The average French eats 25 kg of cheese per pear, second only to the Greeks.

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In 2008, about 285,000 book titles were printed on demand or in short runs — 132% more than in 2007 and for the first time more than in the conventional way.

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Modern Warfare 2, a videogame released in November 2010, is the fastest-selling game in history, selling 7 million copies worldwide on its first day.

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