Buffoon Playing a Lute (Frans Hals)
(Source: centuriespast)
“Let’s not kid ourselves — the salary isn’t really about the money. It’s a corporate strategy, a move that speaks directly to shareholders. In some ways, it’s a show of faith in your product.” — Call it the “one-dollar club”
(Source: Wired)
Valentine’s cards from the Fed.
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This week’s international issue of TIME features Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti. Our interview with him appears in both the international and domestic editions, and an abridged version lives on TIME.com in this video: http://ti.me/yC1Jzk
(via timemagazine)
The Bee's Knees: Manhattan's "Ghost River," Minetta Brook -
“The brook, in the seventeenth century, had been a favorite fishing spot for the Lenape and the Dutch: “a clear swift brook abounding in trout.” By the early nineteenth century, it had disappeared from maps, buried beneath the streets, forgotten. Or perhaps not. There were stories floating…
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Apple Makes 75% of Mobile Phone Profits, With Only 9% of the Phones
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Apple almost has 100 billion cash
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Investors are already placing their bets on who the winners of the new Internet will be: Over the past five years Amazon’s shares, despite their recent fall, have risen 370%. Apple’s are up 438%. Google’s, meanwhile, have merely risen by 17% in all that time. It is still the early days of this long-term trend, but my hunch is that this gap in performance will widen over the coming year — and that Google’s long slow decline has already begun.
What makes Google’s predicament so serious is that it has little to do with technology and everything to do with business models. You can buy or copy technology, but changing a business model is about the hardest thing any company can do. Google’s business model, and nearly all its revenue and profits, depend on the Internet remaining open. When we search, Google pockets billions from advertising. If the old Internet is changing, Google’s original way of doing business loses value.
” — by Keith Woolcock (Facebook, Google, and the Future of the Online ‘Commons’)(Source: ayjay, via thisistheverge)
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