03-19-2008, 11:33 AM
Quote: Web 2.0 investment may be peaking in the United States despite an 88 percent increase in money investment in 2007 over 2006.
Even though venture capitalists threw a record US$1.34 billion into 178 Web 2.0-related deals in 2007, the Dow Jones data reveals that the number of deals has finally slowed after several years of rip-roaring activity.
In 2007, the number of Web 2.0 deals rose to 178, up from 143 deals in 2006 -- only a 25 percent increase. While 25 percent is hefty on its own, it's a decrease compared with the period from 2002 to 2006, when the number of Web 2.0 deals had doubled every year...
full article: http://ecommercetimes.com/story/Web-20-a...62188.html