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Worldwide semiconductor revenue will decline by nearly 20% in 2009 to $199.2 billion, market research firm In-Stat says. The "Military Construction" heading in the 2009 Stimulus Bill provides $100 million "for energy conservation and alternative energy projects". In the fourth quarter of 2008 alone, the average personal computer's selling price dropped 14.3%, according to IDC. So far in 2009, only 6 out of roughly 400 M&A global technology transactions have had values of $100 million or greater, according to America's Growth Capital. In the latest 12-month reporting period, 697 new products were introduced from active licenses stemming from academic research, and 553 new start-up companies were formed Venture capitalists put $7.7 billion into 1,033 deals, a decrease of 7 percent from the second quarter of 2008 69% of Americans connected to the web use some kind of “cloud service”, including web-based e-mail or online data storage Argentina has only 11 secure Internet servers per 1million people, while in the OECD countries that figure is over 400 the global market for videoconferencing endpoints was $1.1 billion in 2007, and will grow to $3.9 billion in 2014 According to Nokia, annual worldwide sales of mobile handsets are expected to reach $1.24 billion this year In 2007, IDC reported that global businesses would spend more than $20 billion on power and cooling systems for data centers, and that data center-related energy costs are expected to grow to $60 billion by 2009 Around 52 million consumers globally will adopt new mobile technologies by 2011. This will drive the physical mobile payments market to $11.5 billion by the same year IT management software industry grew by 12% in 2007 over 2006; in 2008, the market is expected to grow by 19%; the market size in 2008 will be $18.6 billion Cellular VoIP revenues are projected to surpass those of fixed-line VoIP by 2012, generating some $25.9 billion in the U.S. and Europe In 2007 the U.S. e-learning market was $17.5 billion and the global market is predicted to reach $52.6 billion by 2010