service (Live.com has 228 million and Gmail has 51 million users).
Digital sales of individual songs this year have risen 54% from a year earlier to 173.4 million, according to Nielsen SoundScan. But that's nowhere near enough to offset the 20% decline from a year ago in CD sales to 81.5 million units. Overall, sales of all music -- digital and physical -- are down 10% this year. And even including sales of ringtones, subscription services and other "ancillary" goods, sales are still down 9%
Venture capitalists poured $844 million into Web 2.0 startups last year, according to Ernst & Young and Dow Jones VentureOne. That's double the $406 million they invested in 2005, and up from the nadir of Web 2.0 investing in 2002, when they put in just $32 million.
VC Firm Number of Web 2.0 deals
Benchmark Capital 13
Draper Fisher Jurvetson 10
Sequoia Capital 9
Omidyar Network 8
Accel Partners 7
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