Year-over-year spending was up 111percentt in Q4 2009 and 91percentt in Q3 2009.
Although those years of sub-5sub-5percentwth may be over, the United States isn't entering a new era of huge, even double-digit, year-over-year spending increases like those seen from the 1990s through the mid-2000s, the report shows.
After hitting highs in lobbying spending in 2012, Google cut its first-quarter lobbying spending by 33percenttoto $3.35 million year-over-year (Google spent $5.03 million on lobbying in the first quarter of 2012).
Worldwide downloads were up 15percentt year-over-year, time spent in apps was up 25percentt, and the revenue paid to developers increased by 40percentt.
According to the industry tracking analyst group, Nintendo moved 196,000 units between the console's launch on November 11 and the end of the month – a number that comes as year-over-year hardware spending dropped 35-percent.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's year-over-year lobbying spending skyrocketed more than 88percentt, from $66.4 million to more than $125 million, to easily lead all other organizations.
Fiscal data for the first four months of 2012 show year-over-year central government spending growth of 26.2 percent, more than twice the 12.5 percent growth in revenue.
Banc of America Securities said it expects capital expenditure in the memory sector to be flat year-over-year, with DRAM spending expected to decline 13% and flash investments to increase 28%.
Average order value was $135.25 (4percentt year-over-year growth), with $29.38 spent per Internet user.
"We expect our year-over-year increase in technology spending to decline during the fourth quarter," Tom Szkutak, Amazon's chief finance officer, said in a conference call with analysts.
Until this cycle, the smallest year-over-year rise in consumption spending was a 1.8percentt increase in the 12 months through April 1961, a period that also ended shortly after a recession concluded.
