Internet technologies and applications have grown more rapidly than anyone could have envisioned even five years ago, opening up brand new frontiers of communication, collaboration and coordination between consumers, businesses and trading partners. The Web has quickly culminated into a myriad of highly sophisticated hardware and software applications that are enabling forward thinking companies to leverage the massive and ubiquitous public technology infrastructure of the Internet to create new value for their stakeholders.   Study Results   Executive Summary   Overview - Big Picture   The Internet Economy Indicators   Case Studies   Download the whole report in pdf   Q & A on the Internet Economy   Quotes				The Internet Economy grew 68 percent from the first quarter of 1998 to the first quarter of 1999 and now accounts for 2.3 million jobs, according to the University of Texas’ Center for Research in Electronic Commerce. These figures - the Internet Economy Revenues Indicator(tm) (IERI), the Internet Economy Jobs Indicator(tm) (IEJI) and the growth rate - are the principal findings of the second report on measuring the Internet Economy commissioned by Cisco Systems.   Key Findings