Internet gambling in the US and Europe will generate annual net earnings of $10.2 billion by 2002 (Datamonitor Europe) ... The number of US online stock trades per day jumped 32 percent in the fourth quarter of 1998, then jumped 49 percent more in the first quarter of 1999 (US Bancorp Piper Jaffray) ... Seven percent of US Internet users say they've suffered some form of online credit card fraud (Louis Harris and Associates) ... Only 19 percent of Italians have ever used the Net; more than half of Swedes have (Euroquest; BMRB International) ... Twenty-five percent of US households were online in fall 1998, compared to 7 percent of German homes (Roper Starch Worldwide) ... Forty-one percent of 13- to 19-year-olds in the US access the Net at least once a month; worldwide that figure is 14 percent (Roper Starch Worldwide) ... The number of Net users under age 18 will reach 77 million worldwide by 2005 (Computer Economics) ... By 2002, 24.2 million US Net users will be banking online, up from 6.9 million at the end of last year (Cyber Dialogue) ... Banner ads will account for only 26 percent of Web ad sales by 2002; sponsorships, 58 percent (eMarketer)
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