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Sunday, September 16, 2012

A Great I-Am-No-Longer-With-Google Gesture From Mayer

Although she was known to use the iPhone also while at Google. The official pretext? I need to study the competition. Competition my _______.

Marissa Mayer Just Gave Every Yahoo Employee An iPhone 5

New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer just sent an email to all of Yahoo's full time and part time employees in the US, promising them a new Apple, Samsung, Nokia, or HTC smartphone..... "Yahoo! Smart Phones, Smart Fun!" .... Yahoo employees will have a choice of phones: iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC One X, HTC EVO 4G LTE, or Nokia Lumia 920. .... Yahoo is also going to pay its employees data and phone bills.... the idea is for Yahoo employees to use the phones that Yahoo users are using. .... The program will cost Yahoo a few million dollars .... a more informed and motivated workforce.

I think she also got some billions from the Alibaba sale. And she is flaunting it. Paying your employees' phone bills? Now that's original. I have not heard Google do that.

Bring It On

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Los Angeles Pride

The real Los Angeles.

The iPhone And The GDP

This is rather curious. Just one little thing, the i is a small letter even at the beginning of a sentence.

Wall Street Journal: IPhone 5 Sales Could Offer Big Boost to GDP

analysts expect Apple to sell about 8 million iPhone 5 units in the final three months of the year. If the phone sells for around $600, with about $200 of it counted as imported components, then $400 per phone would figure into the government’s measure of gross domestic product...... The new iPhone sales could boost GDP by $3.2 billion in the fourth quarter, or $12.8 billion at an annual rate. That is an increase of 0.33 percentage point in the annualized rate of GDP growth. It could be even higher, he says. Even a third of a percentage point would limit the downside risk to J.P. Morgan’s fourth-quarter growth projection of 2%. ..... forecasts for third-quarter GDP growth to 1.5% and the fourth quarter to 1.4%, both down seven-tenths of a percentage point, largely due to the effect of the drought on farm output. ..... The economy grew at a 2% pace in the first quarter of this year, then slowed to 1.7% in the second quarter. In the final three months of last year, the U.S. economy expanded at a 4.1% pace after a sharp slowdown earlier in the year.