Not sure if this is “Aviation News,” but FlightAware was profiled in Network World this month:
networkworld.com/news/2006/0 … rvers.html
“FlightAware’s business is soaring. In the year since its launch, the company that tracks private and commercial air traffic in the United States has been serving up about half a million requests a day, with demand doubling every few weeks.” – more on pages one and two.