Forty-four percent of U.S. companies are selling online; 36% more say they will do so by the end of the year. (Association of National Advertisers)

Small businesses who use the Internet have grown 46% faster than those that do not. (American City Business Journals)

A survey of 30,000 consumers in 30 nations by found that the U.S. not only has the fastest-growing number of Internet users, but the largest proportion of E-commerce consumers. (Roper Starch Worldwide)

The number of women using the Internet worldwide will pass 96 million, or 45 percent of the world's Internet users in 2001. (Computer Economics)

 There are over 80 million users of the internet currently and by 2002 expected usages is to exceed 300 million.

Number of pages on the Web: 800 million.(NEC Research Institute)

64 Million U.S. Adults Regular Internet Users Mediamark Research Inc. has released data which suggests that there are 64.2 million adults going online in the U.S. every month.

10 million households across the US will be transformed by the introduction of networking capacity to their homes by the year 2003.

17 million US households will be shopping online by the end of this year, with online retail sales expected to top USD20.2 billion, according to Forrester Research

Estimated percentage of online orders from women for the 1999 holiday season: 50

Reported approximate number of stock options received by William Shatner for advertising for priceline.com: 100,000

Estimated percentage of US small businesses with web sites: 37
(as of dec 1999)

Sale price of the domain name name "business.com", in millions of dollars: 7.5

Estimated number of Internet users in China, in millions: 4

Percentage of adults in the UK who use the Internet: 27