Strategy Analytics predicts that the next billion smartphone numbers will be reached in less than three years.
Nokia's march for the next billion--in customers and revenue--is requiring yet another dramatic reshaping of a company known for metamorphosis.
Each "path" will bestow wealth upon thousands of entrepreneurs and investors during the next decade: n Feeding the next billion.
The message was that the next billion internet users would be connected by Nokia, and the new Asha range of almost-smart phones would help make that happen.
The first billion smartphones in use worldwide took 16 years to reach, but we forecast the next billion to be achieved in less than three years, by 2015.
It took the company eight years to achieve one billion shipments, a milestone it crossed in February 2007, and a bit more than two years to deliver the next billion.
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In India, a lack of Internet access and an abundance of cell phone helped IBM realize that the next billion people would probably get a chance to access the world wide web if they could do it via a cell phone.
The next 3 billion poorest--most of them living in the rural regions of Asia--are stuck in 1820.
They are to continue talks on a new debt target for Greece, which has been a stumbling block for the release of the next 44 billion euros for the debt-strapped nation.
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That effort would reportedly involve partnerships with local companies, and an emphasis on delivering wireless access to residents outside major cities, where wired internet remains unavailable -- Google, and Eric Schmidt in particular, have repeatedly talked about reaching the next five billion people.
However, the company expects this trend to reverse in the future, with copper output projected to rise to 4.3 billion next year, from an estimated 3.6 billion pounds in 2012, with further gains in future years.
When somebody spends hundreds of millions of dollars to develop the next movie or a billion dollars to develop the next heart medicine, the innovation and the enterprise that went into that effort is protected as the law provides.
Windows Phone 7 could be the next multi-billion dollar business for Microsoft after Windows and Office.
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This year refiners and importers are required to blend 13.8 billion gallons of ethanol into the nation's gasoline, rising to 14.4 billion next year.
In the absence of the next, 8 billion euro loan from its European partners and the IMF, the Greek government will soon simply run out of money to pay public sector wages and pensions.
Builders are likely demolish about 4.9 billion square meters over the next 30 years, renovate 14 billion square meters, and add 14 billion square meters of new stock.
More than 5 billion people will connect to the Internet in the next 20 years -- 5 billion.
Next up for the billion-dollar business: overseas expansion, as longtime Spanx CEO Laurie Ann Goldman told Forbes in March.
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Now we have set our next target at a billion dollars.
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And the user bases for music and video streaming should reach the one billion mark within the next three to five years along with total mobile devices projected to reach eight billion by 2016 .
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Focusing on the next year, the company maintains that it'll increase net income to 10 billion yen in the next twelve months, with a focus on selling "the compelling nature" of its gaming hardware, as well as pushing its 3DS more in foreign markets.
Already he has been dropping hints about not being able to keep the outgoing government's pledge to cut income tax by FFr12.5 billion a year over the next four years, not to mention a planned cut of some FFr25 billion this year.
If there is a 1 billion Euro pipeline next year, the sales rate will be higher than now.
One truth is that the world's population will grow to a predicted 3 billion over the next 40 years.
But the fundamental driver straining supply will be the burgeoning demand of a global population tilting towards nine billion over the next three decades.
The elderly population is expected to swell by 200 million in the next decade to surpass one billion, and reach two billion by 2050.
The schemes' combined budget is to rise by 25% next year to 5.3 billion reais.
Skilling testified that he watched in disbelief as the company posted billion dollar losses the next quarter.
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This possibility will be discussed somewhere between a billion zillion and a zillion billion times over the next few months.
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According to a report in Exame, a business magazine, Anatel thinks the sector needs to invest 240 billion reais in the next decade.
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