In 2009, Facebook’s traffic grew by 66% and Twitter’s by 47%.

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

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Apple recently announced that its App Store now offers 225,000 apps which collectively have been downloaded 5 billion times.

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BP doled out $10 billion in dividends in 2009.

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The Nike+ system, one of the first personal speedometers, has been used by more than 2.5 million runners since its release in 2006.

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Five months after it was launched, users of Blippy - a Twitter-like service that broadcasts what people buy - share $1.5 million in transactions every week.

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With 48 billion unique images, Facebook houses the world's largest photo collection.

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Facebook users are adding photos at a rate of nearly 1 billion unique images a week.

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70% of Facebook's users are from outside the US.

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Users share more than 25 billion pieces of information with Facebook each month.

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Facebook flashed more than 176 billion banner ads at users in the first three months of this year — more than any other site.

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Just a month after launching Open Graph, Facebook is quickly approaching the point where it will process 100 million unique clicks of a Like button each day.

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More than 1 in 4 people who browse the Internet not only have a Facebook account but have returned to the site within the past 30 days.

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Sony's films earned $1.5 billion at the American box office in 2009 but made a record $2.1 billion outside the country.

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Despite its current woes, Toyota reported a net income of $1.2 billion for the first quarter of 2010.

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Hulu streamed more than 1 billion videos in December 2009.

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The share of new Harvard graduates entering finance or consulting, which in 2007 reached 47%, plunged to a mere 20% in 2009.

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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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