<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/055a9785-f74d-46b8-b5c1-744bba05d9f4/E7937B31-FCE1-424D-84C5-073B5BADEA08/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.techcrunch.com/page/5/" href="http://www.techcrunch.com/page/5/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.techcrunch.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techcrunch.com/page/5/"><DIV class="excerpt_header snap_nopreview"><A title="Microsoft Sells 30 Millionth Xbox 360, Grows LIVE Community To 20 Million" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/05/28/xbox-360-sales-top-30-million-with-20-million-live-subscribers/">Microsoft Sells 30 Millionth Xbox 360, Grows LIVE Community To 20 Million</A></DIV> <DIV class="excerpt_subheader snap_nopreview"> <DIV class="excerpt_subheader_right"><A rel="nofollow" href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/05/28/xbox-360-sales-top-30-million-with-20-million-live-subscribers/#comments">38 Comments</A></DIV> <DIV class="excerpt_subheader_left"> by <A title="Posts by Robin Wauters" href="http://www.techcrunch.com/author/robin/" rel="nofollow">Robin Wauters</A> on May 28, 2009 </DIV> </DIV> <DIV class="entry"> <P><A href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/05/28/xbox-360-sales-top-30-million-with-20-million-live-subscribers/" rel="nofollow"><IMG width="186" height="200" src="http://cache0.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/cp_1243518039_xbox-186x200.jpg" /></A><A href="http://microsoft.com">Microsoft</A> just announced sales of <A href="http://www.xbox.com/en-US/">Xbox 360</A> consoles have passed the 30 million mark globally, up 28 percent over last year, which it claims is the highest percentage growth in hardware sales of any console so far in 2009. In addition, the Xbox LIVE community has grown to over 20 million users, coming from 26 countries.</p> <P>And these users spend money, too. In a press release touting the sales numbers, Microsoft claims U.S. consumers alone have spent <EM>$14.5 billion</EM> across all categories on Xbox 360 at retail, and consumers worldwide have downloaded close to 1 billion pieces of gaming and entertainment content from Xbox LIVE Marketplace to date.</P></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E7937B31-FCE1-424D-84C5-073B5BADEA08/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

New from the makers of Clipmarks:  Amplify.com - Don't just share the news...Amplify it!