Skype Boasts 25 Million Concurrent Users

SkypeIn advance of its upcoming IPO, Skype recently announced some usage numbers that are sure to whet the appetites of potential inventors and numbers geeks alike. In addition to the impressive milestone of 25 million concurrent users using the service at the same time, consider these equally impressive Skype numbers:

  • In 2009, Skype users consumed 113 billion Skype-to-Skype minutes for voice, video and text messaging
  • For the first six months of 2010, about 40% of Skype’s minutes were used for video
  • In sum, Skype boasts more than 500 million users
  • Revenue in 2009 was @ $600 million
  • Company was valued at $2.75 billion when it was sold last September by eBay to a group of investors

Skype filed with the SEC this year for an IPO that experts say will raise as much as $100 million or more and make the VOIP giant one of the largest publicly traded internet companies.

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Top 25 Facebook Games

The sheer number of game players on Facebook is simply astounding, and the overall preference for casual games shows where the real opportunities lie in the online games market. Farmville now boasts 69 million players, roughly larger than the population of France. Here is the list.

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19% of Internet Users Now Use Status Updates

You may lament the fact that your neighbor can broadcast to the world regular updates on the status his irritable bowel syndrome, but according to a remarkable new piece of data from Pew Research, 19% of internet users now read or post these updates regardless of their irritability. There are many good stats and charts in the new report, called Twitter and Status Updating, Fall 2009.

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Facebook to Team with Nielsen on Ad Measurement

Fighting the growing perception in advertising circles that social network advertising doesn’t work, Facebook is set to announce a partnership with ratings giant Nielson tomorrow called “Brand Lift.” The new partnership will poll and measure Facebook users on ads they see on the social network, and provide advertisers with much needed ROI analysis.

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A Facebook Friend In Need Is A Paid Friend Indeed

If you’re looking to instantly jumpstart your Facebook or Twitter friend list, you can go about it the hard way, or just whip out the wallet and buy friends wholesale over at uSocial. A thousand Facebook friends go for much less than buying a drink for each of them, so all aboard the Fake Friend Express.

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