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Digital shopkeepers: In the G20 countries, the internet economy will grow at more than 10% annually for the next five years. And by 2016 reach $4.2 trillion, or 5.3% of GDP compared to 2010’s $2.3 trillion and 4.1% of GDP.
—The Economist, April 2012
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100,000: Number of people who signed up within 24 hours to use Breakup Notifier, an app that e-mails you when someone you are interested in changes their relationship status on Facebook to “single.”
—TIME