U.S. e-commerce sales grew 19% in 2007, the Commerce Department says
U.S. e-commerce sales grew 19% in 2007 to $136.4 billion, while overall retail sales grew by only 4%, the U.S. Commerce Department reports. In the fourth quarter, e-commerce sales totaled $36.2 billion, 18% more than the same quarter in 2006, while total retail sales increased 4.7%.
E-commerce accounted for 3.4% of all U.S. retail sales in 2007, up from 2.9% in 2006, the Commerce Department estimates. However, the Commerce Department retail sales figure includes many sales that are not likely to occur online—such as restaurant, convenience store, gasoline and heating fuel receipts. Excluding such sales, Internet Retailer estimates about 6% of U.S. retail sales occur online.
The Commerce Department figures are adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes.
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Online shoppers increase by 40% worldwide in two years, Nielsen says.
875 million consumers worldwide have made purchases on the web, up 40% from 627 million two years ago, according to the Nielsen Global Online Survey. 85% of Internet users have made at least one online purchase.
“The Internet is no longer a niche technology – it is mass media and an utterly integral part of modern life. Almost no aspect of life remains untouched by online media. As our lives become more fractured and cluttered, it isn’t surprising that consumers turn to the unrivalled convenience of the Internet when it comes to researching and buying products,” said Jonathon Carson, President, International, Nielsen Online.
Nielsen polled 26,312 internet users in 48 markets in October and November.
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More sites plan to add web 2.0 features in 2008…
Scene 7, a subsidiary of Adobe Systems, Inc., reports that 93% of site operators surveyed plan to add zoom, spin, rich internet features and other web 2.0 features to their websites in 2008. Alternate views, user ratings and reviews, and video top the list of planned enhancements.
Of the 347 site operators who responded to the survey, 32% said that they currently offered zoom, 29% alternative views, 25% microsites, 23% video, 22% interactive catalogs and circulars, 21% personalization features such as My Account and Profile, and 21% blogs…..
Global Services Survey picks the best 100 service providers
Global Services magazine, a respected asian outsourcing magazine just released its 100 best IT service providers survey. In its fourth year, the survey is intended to help Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and business heads of major outsourcers identify reliable, innovative and tech saavy partners.
Identifying companies from 17 different countries, 43 companies were from the United States and 29 were headquartered in India. The balance of the companies were from China, Malaysia, Russia, Brazil and Mexico.
The survey looked at ten different categories including IT application services, infrastructure, finance and accounting outsourcing, human resources outsourcing and contract centers. Of the top companies in each of the ten categories, four were from the United States, four from India, one from Mexico and one from China.
India is the main hub for global delivery with 57 percent of the employees engaged in delivery centers in India, followed by 18 percent in the United States.
What does this mean? It means that India is a very large player in the global outsourcing industry with its influence growing. I will post the survey when it is released next month.
While SecureNext is not yet on the list, I can say that it is one of our goals to be a category leader in this survey. I look forward to seeing your comments.
As we prepare to celebrate our 5th anniversary
We are preparing to celebrate our 5th anniversary which is commencing on Feb 19th, 2008. When I say celebration it does not mean we are going on party or taking some holidays 
2006 – 2007 was a good year which helped us moving to new facility which gave us quality working environment, adding more new clients, standardizing salary structures, introducing more processes, checking quality and expanding to other markets. Even though we had some attrition rates with the team, it was very less comparing to previous years, but these happens in every company from small to big. So we can call the previous year a good one.
We have lots planned for 2008, in our anniversary function we are looking forward to beta release of Indiashines.com . 
India shines will be portal 100% dedicated for Indian community around the world. We hope you all remember we are the pioneers to launch first Indian based search engine byindia 2 years before, with Indiashines.com we are trying to emulate the same success and make use of the opportunity we missed previously.
More announcements to follow….
Thank you
Saran
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