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Percentage of metro Atlanta’s population who own an Apple product: 26
Percentage of people nationwide who own an Apple product: 21.6
Atlanta’s rank on Forbes’ list of “Most Wired Cities,” out of 30: 2
Rank of Atlanta, out of 10, in a survey of cities with the most tech-savvy small businesses: 1
Atlanta’s rank on a list of the world’s top Twitter cities: 5
Approximate number of metro Atlanta businesses that participated in FourSquare Day on April 16: 45
Amount of stimulus funding, in dollars, awarded to help provide broadband access to North Georgia: 33.5 million
Percentage of Atlanta residents who can’t read on a fifth-grade level: 28
Percentage of Atlanta’s population currently living below the poverty line: 22
Sources: AJC, cbsnews.com, Foursquare Atlanta, Literacy Volunteers of Atlanta, National Center for Education Statistics