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[{"type":"text","content":"\nLatest numbers showcase COVID-19’s impact on digitization and the proliferation of data.\n\n SILICON SLOPES, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nPlease replace the graphic with the accompanying corrected graphic.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200811005135/en/Domo Releases Eighth Annual “Data Never Sleeps” Infographic (Graphic: Business Wire)\n\nThe release reads:\n\n\nDOMO RELEASES EIGHTH ANNUAL “DATA NEVER SLEEPS” INFOGRAPHIC\n\n\nLatest numbers showcase COVID-19’s impact on digitization and the proliferation of data.\n\n\nToday, Domo (Nasdaq: DOMO) released its eighth annual “Data Never Sleeps” infographic, a revealing look at online user behavior through the data generated and consumed every minute across high-traffic platforms and popular applications such as Zoom, TikTok, Skype, Netflix and more.\n\n\nThis year’s edition illustrates an intensified impact to data consumption in the digital world led in part by the outbreak of COVID-19. Under quarantine and widespread closures of brick-and-mortar offices, stores, banks, gyms and restaurants, society has largely moved online. The numbers show that we’ve become more dependent on apps to work from home, video chat to socialize, mobile delivery services for goods, and video streaming for entertainment.\n\n\nHowever, the amount of data being created and shared was steadily increasing even before COVID-19 took hold, suggesting that these trends are here to stay and the amount of data available will only continue to grow. According to April 2020 reports, 59% of the world’s population has access to the internet, with 4.57 billion active users—nearly a 3% increase from January 2019. Of those people, 4.2 billion are active on mobile and 3.81 billion use social media.\n\n\nSome highlights from “Data Never Sleeps 8.0” include:\n\n\nThe future of work is at home - for now. COVID-19 has opened the door to a bigger remote workforce. Pre-quarantine, roughly 15% of Americans worked from home. Now, it’s estimated that the number has risen to 50%—a boon for collaboration platforms like Microsoft Teams that has an average of 52,083 users connecting per minute. Video conferencing company Zoom has experienced a particularly sharp increase in users. Their daily app sessions exploded from just more than two million in February to...