A Hutchison majority-owned venture known as "3," with 520,000 global users, is now Europe's biggest provider of this much-touted enhancement of cellular beyond mere voice.
According to Statista, over 70% of the U.S. population uses social media, and the number of global users is expected to grow to over 2.95 billion by the year 2020.
More than 60% of Facebooks 110 million global users are outside the U.S, while 30% of MySpaces 117 million members are registered in other countries.
Grindr, with 5 million global users, was heartily beat out by China's gay geo-social app Blued, now with 15 million users, 12 million within China's borders.
"THE best possible birthday gift for Brazilian and global web users" is how Tim Berners-Lee, the British inventor of the world wide web, which turned 25 this month, described Brazil's "internet bill of rights" in an open letter on March 24th.
I can imagine the 65percentt of global Internet users is likely close to the truth, and suspect that percentage to increase for the foreseeable future.
The web is on the cusp of massive change: By 2020, the number of global internet users is expected to quadruple to 4 billion, and most of these new users will come online using multiple devices.
And as Mary Meeker, partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, emphasized last week in her latest Internet Trends report, the growth in the number of global internet users is flattening off at about 3bn and smartphone uptake is slowing too.
The global CDI vector for each user is reconstructed at the CU.
The following blocks toggle the global variables based on whether the user is pressing either of these arrows.
