A series of short posts with the latest facts about our digital economy and lives. Use them for your presentations, blogs, homework or trivia nights.

• Two-thirds of Chinese households with internet connections have bought an everyday item online in the past 6 months. Source: The Economist

• Five months after it was launched, users of Blippy – a Twitter-like service that broadcasts what people buy – share $1.5 million in transactions every week. Source: Washington Post

• The data management industry is estimated to be worth more than $100 billion and growing at almost 10% a year, roughly twice as fast as the software business as a whole. Source: The Economist

• Users share more than 25 billion pieces of information with Facebook each month. Source: Time

• Two-thirds of Chinese households with internet connections have bought an everyday item online in the past 6 months. Source: The Economist