sports market size in north america to exceed $70 billion by 2018

How much is the north american sports market worth. This chart takes behind the scenes on media rights, sponsorship details and break up of sports revenue 

North American Sports market in 2015 was worth $63 billion and is expected to exceed $70 billion by 2018, while 2016 sports market will be a $65 billion giant monster. Out of this  gate revenues and media rights account for around 60% of the total revenues followed by sponsorships and merchandising , 

healthcare, technology and real estate sectors saw the bigger merger deals in 2015

The three sectors which saw the biggest deal making including mergers in the year 2015

connected devices mapped across the world

chart A 
The first chart shows the number of  connected devices mapped across the world .The bright orange color represents the highest number of connected devices, while the lighter colors signify lesser number of connected devices. Connected devices can be either a mobile, smartphone, tablet, laptop, handheld,music player or any device which can be connected to the world wide web

Chart B
The above chart shows global the number of shipped global connected devices from  2010 onwards and  the number been projected -2016.Red color stand for the number of smartphones,yellow stands for laptops and blue represents tablets

how much does an ounce of marijuana cost on the deep web

how much one ounce of marijuana costs

The chart shows the cost of per ounce of marijuana on the dark web.  Across 72 marketplace listings for marijuana   in the deep web shows  the cost to be within $50 . Across 36 websites shows  one ounce of marijuana to be within  $50 to $99.
across 198 websites one ounce of marijuana costs between $150 to $199 . while 372 links shows it to cost between $200 to $249.Meanwhile 11 marketplace links show marijuana costs  to be within a range of $400 to $449.

why retail is an indicator of economic prosperity: retail jobs vs other industry

The UNITED STATES   have 3,793,621 retail establishments across the entire country.The below data from NRF showed on the form of a chart, shows where retail stands as compared to other industry in job creation in US

RETAIL INDUSTRY JOB CREATION AND ECONOMIC INDICATOR

Retail supports 1 in 4 American jobs

It’s not just about the jobs directly in retail. The industry supports nearly 5 million logistics jobs; 4 million management and administration jobs,. 2 million health care and service jobs; 2 million finance, insurance and real estate jobs; and 800,000 technology jobs.According to NRF economic prosperity and retail have a linear relationship 

comparing click to open email by devices :mobile vs desktop vs PC

While mobile click-to-open (CTO) rates dipped slightly  in Q3 (to 13.7%), they remained up from the year-earlier period (12.1%) and continue to close the gap with desktop CTO rates, per Yesmail’s latest quarterly report.  mobile email  revenues also grew 2015 by 9.9% year-over-year, with smartphones accounting for 56.6% of mobile revenue, up from 41.6% a year earlier

Apple devices continue to dominate revenues derived from mobile email, accounting for 77% share this past quarter. The iPhone comprised 34% share of orders (up from 23% during Q3 2014), taking share from the iPad, which accounted for 43% of orders (down from 58% during the year-earlier period).

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