Wal-Mart handles more than 1 million customer tranactions every hour.

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Over 8 million tablet computers are expected to be sold in 2010.

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The data management industry is estimated to be worth more than $100 billion and growing at almost 10% a year, roughly twice as fast as the software business as a whole.

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

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40% of IBM's profits are mainframe related.

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There are still 10,000 mainframes in use worldwide and sales of IBM mainframes have brought in about $ 3.5 billion a year, on average, in the past decade.

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52% of Silicon Valley start-ups were founded by immigrants, up from around a quarter ten years ago.

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Infosys, India's most celebrated IT company collects only 1.2% of its income from the domestic market.

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IBM sacked 122,000 people, a quarter of its workforce, between 1990 and 1995.

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In early 2000, Cisco's market capitilisation peaked at $550 billion, making it - briefly - the world's most valuable company.

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Since 2005 (and prior to taking over Sun), Oracle has spent $30 billion buying 50 firms including PeopleSoft, Siebel and BEA.

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