#25billion

[launchpadmd-blog]

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has given over $25 billion on incentive for the adoption of EHRs since 2011. 

[technologyclist]

iTunes store reaches new landmark, announces 25 billion songs sold - published on: Technology Companies List

Ever bought a track from iTunes? Well, turns out, if you did you’re in good company, with Apple revealing that over 25 billion songs in total have been purchased from the store. Wondering what song was the record breaker? That’d be Monkey Drums (Goksel Vancin Remix) by Chase Buch. No? Us neither. Said song was bought by one lucky German, Phillip Lüpke, snagging the music

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iTunes store reaches new landmark, announces 25 billion songs sold

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iTunes store reaches new landmark, announces 25 billion songs sold

[giraffeicorn]

Is it just me? Or does the 25 billion countdown keep changing? It said on the apple website it reached 25 Billion then I look at my phone and its 24,997,867,238 and then refresh the apple website again and its back down to 24,999,986,390 wtfffff?

[isaacnaor]

Is $25Billion Really Too Much for Groupon?

Given that smartphone penetration in the US is approaching 50%, people are looking at connected devices instead of print & TV as their primary source of news and mobile users are navigating over 12B miles each year using Google Maps, even a blind man can see that mobile devices are a fundamental part of peoples' lives and they're here to stay. Simultaneously marketing has dynamically shifted with this trend and mobile ad networks like AdMob have benefitted as they've been valued and acquired for close to $1B -- but twenty-five billion dollars is a lot of money! When Google tried to acquire Groupon for $6B this past December and its three co-founders turned-down the offer, most analysts thought they completely lost their marbles! I mean, seriously, the technology powering Groupon isn't remarkably sophisticated and the barrier to entry into daily-deals isn't that high. Surprisingly, Groupon's daily-deal business generated $750M in 2010 and is expected to generate $3-4B during 2011, in-spite of its Super Bowl spot which bombed and cost Groupon $3M just to air. But that's not the only trick up Groupon's sleeve. The company's executive management realized daily-deals are both Groupon's strength and weakness, especially considering many businesses aren't even profitable from the offers they run through Groupon. Enter Groupon Now, a new app which promises to change the way we shop and dine by bringing real-time location-based offers to smartphone owners, while also enabling for businesses to promote and sell their perishable inventory, all through two core-functions --"I'm Hungry" and "I'm Bored". The new app is slated to launch in April and will directly compete with Google Offers and the hot-off-the-press AmEx-Foursquare joint venture. Groupon has the advantage of pre-purchase capability which will allow for anyone with a Groupon account to buy the offer before they enter a business, which aids dramatically in the redemption conundrum Foursquare so cleverly solved in its joint-venture with AmEx. In this showdown of reach and relevance, Google has the upper-hand with 150M mobile users (that have already downloaded and use the integrated Google Maps app on their phones to navigate to businesses and POI's), Groupon comes in second with over 70M recipients of its daily-deals and Foursquare comes-in third with a reach of over 6M users internationally (as of January, 2011). Considering the aforementioned, do you still think a market valuation of $25B for Groupon is too high? Written by Isaac Naor on March 17, 2011 at 6:44pm PDT