Ripe Apple

Apple blows past analysts’ first-quarter expectations.

$1 billion
First-quarter net income.

$7.1 billion

First-quarter sales.

50 percent

Gain in iPod sales.

78 percent
Increase in profit from a year ago.

SOURCE: Apple

Cleantech VC Investment Drops in 4Q

VC funding dropped, quarter on quarter, but yearly figures grew.

34 percent

Drop in quarter over quarter VC cleantech funding.

78 percent

Increase in yearly figures over 2005.

$502 million

Invested in Q4 2005.

$613 million

North American cleantech deals, Q4, 2006.

$933 million

Cleantech deals in North America, Q3.

SOURCE: Cleantech Venture Network

The Digital, Musical Cannibal

Online music purchases cannibalize CD sales.

10 percent

Of global music sales are sales of digital music online and on mobile phones.

89 percent

Increase of single music track downloads in 2006.

$745 million

Music download subscriptions in 2011. But that won’t compensate for lost CD sales.

Source: Jupiter Research, Red Herring, Federation of the Phonographic Industry