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IT Spending Will Jump 21% to $1.7 Trillion by 2013, IDC Says

Spending on information technology will rise about 3.3 percent a year to 2013 as emerging markets increase investments in software, consulting firm IDC said.

Total spending on IT in a sample of 52 countries will reach about $1.7 trillion in that year, from $1.41 trillion in 2009, with more than half the net increase coming from emerging markets, according to an IDC report published today. That rate of increase will be more than three times the expected rate of gross domestic product growth in the 52 countries studied, which account for almost all current IT spending, IDC said.

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