Numbers We Learned from Google I/O

Gmail has 425 million users, 5 million businesses use Google Apps and 1 million NFC-enabled Android devices are shipped each week.

By Barbara E. Hernandez

| Friday, Jun 29, 2012 | Updated 5:57 PM PDT

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A Nexus 7 tablet is shown at the Google Developers Conference as developer Brad McManus tries out the new device on June 27, 2012 in San Francisco, California. The new Nexus 7 is Google's first tablet, utilizing a 7-inch screen, a Tegra 3 quad-core processor, and will launch next month for $199 running on the latest Android Jelly Bean OS. (Photo by Mathew Sumner/Getty Images)

We learned a lot from Google I/O, including numbers that Google released during the three-day developers conference.

Here's a rundown on the numbers:

425 million use Gmail
5 million businesses use Google Apps
66 of the Top 100 universities in the country also use Google Apps
1 million near-field communications enabled Android devices are shipped each week
400 million Android devices now have NFC
10 million use Google Drive

So what does all that mean? It means that Google is schooling us all on its business acumen before its second quarter earnings call next month. This ain't no Facebook IPO, the numbers seem to say, we have lots of profits.

That's accurate, especially since first quarter results showed the search titan almost $11 billion in the black with revenues rising 24 percent year-over-year.

But we should be paying attention to some of the numbers more than others, especially the NFC ones, because they seem to indicate the future of mobile is about your smartphone becoming your wallet. That's a lot of power for either Android or Apple to have.