Email is often considered as a powerful communication tool in daily life of an internet user. Every person using internet will have an email account and reports show that 92% of internet users use email services offered by different companies that include Yahoo mail, hot mail and gmail etc.
In United States, 58% of individuals start their online activities by opening email, 11% sign in to Facebook and 20% search for information in search engines. It is determined that popular activity of 38.5% mobile internet users is email.
Even to access either Facebook or a twitter, user needs personal email account. Out of various email services providers, Microsoft outlook is the most popular email client and it has the market share of 1/3 of all email providers.
Over 53% of individuals prefer email for better and effective communication and emails can be even used for task management. In the year 2011, the number of corporate accounts are 730 million and by 2014, it is expected that the corporate accounts may raise by 36% that makes a total count of 991 million.