The economic crisis affected almost all sectors in 2008, as consumers shifted from spending to saving, and as in business, the safe niche and exception is the Internet, which still offers opportunities to bank data make money, as global consumption of this technology increased last year.
In 2008, the number of Internet users worldwide reached 1.5 billion users and, according to a survey conducted by eBussiness, this figure could grow to 2.2 billion in 2013.
However, the most interesting fact is that the regional distribution could also change in the next five years, with Asia increasing its share from 38% to 43%, to the detriment of users in Europe and North America, which will decline in proportion but not in number.
Europe, which makes up a quarter of the global market, concentrates half of its users in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain and Italy, but this proportion will change as penetration in emerging countries in the East increases in the coming years.