For Armstrong and others like her, the act of e-parenting has become a lucrative industry: roughly 3.9 million US women blog about parenthood and many have no trouble courting advertisers, according to industry publication eMarketer.
According to an estimate from Jeff Pulver, an independent analyst of the Web-based voice communication industry, roughly 15 million people in the United States use voice communication over the Internet, compared with 5 million a year ago.
In fact, according to Strategies Unlimited, a market research firm in Mountain View, Calif., for the solar industry, roughly 40percentt, or $1.2 billion, of the $3 billion worldwide solar business last year came from rural markets like the Valley of a Thousand Hills.
In addition to those who work in the industry, "roughly 4,000 ancillary businesses benefit" from local production, says Katherine Oliver, commissioner of the mayor's film office, as the employees "eat in restaurants, buy props, go to a florist, go to Kinko's to copy scripts".
In a very hot industry–roughly 70% of its revenues come from booming wireless telephony Ericsson has stumbled.
The failure to take prescribed medicine, whether as part of a clinical trial or treatment regimen costs the U.S. healthcare industry roughly $378 billion dollars.
He got into the industry roughly ten years ago and has worked his way from the ground up to the supervisory position he now holds.
Britain refused to allow its partners to amend the EU treaty, demanding guarantees in a protocol protecting its financial services industry, roughly one-tenth of the country's economy.
Joe Griffin, Shannon's communications director, said in an email: "A majority of the donation funds from this industry (roughly $22,500) were donated toward a nonprofit to encourage the mentoring of our youth through the Speaker's Ball...
A recent statewide study by economic analysis firm TXP found that in 2011, arts and culture industries generated roughly $290.1 million in state sales tax revenue.
