China's Online Shopping will outrank Japan's Online Shopping in 2010

A MasterCard survey was released showing that China will now replace Japan as the largest online shopping market in the Asia region in 2010. China will have roughly 480 million online shoppers and spend upwards of 1.4 trillion dollars (USD). India is also ready to overtake Japan as well.

Percentage wise, this will take China from 49.9 to 58.6 percent of the total online shopping population in the region. That's quite an increase.

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US on top for Global Technology Innovation

I read a survey that said that the US is still on top for Global Technology Innovation. The survey was taken by 400 Venture Capitalists world wide. That seems like an interesting group to survey, since they see more of the "up and coming" innovations, but it may have been better to include some participants from other areas to get a broader view into "Tech Innovation".

So, if you are a US Based Entrepreneur with a great idea, this could be good news for you. These results may have help improved your chances of getting funded, since all of the Venture Capitalists world wide will be looking unload/invest their money here.

Survey Results - 52% of Dads prefer electronics gifts

I read today about a Circuit City survey that came out (just in time for Father's Day). The national survey showed that 52 percent of dads prefer an electronics gift.

Additional results from the Circuit City survey:

30 percent of dads rated portable DVD players as "very important" for a
family road trip (25 percent rated built-in DVD as "very important")
27 percent of dads rated laptop computer as "very important" for the
road trip
24 percent rated an MP3 player "very important" for the trip
23 percent rated handheld games "very important" for the trip
20 percent said upgraded car stereo would be "very important" for the trip

My response to that is "Duh". Maybe the next survey will tell us that 96% of Men prefer sex over work.