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.
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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
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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 almost has 100 billion cash
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Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
‘Stay hungry, stay foolish’
Is This The Future of Touchscreen Tech? New Video Will Blow Your Mind
Last year’s video, which followed the same family, brought in over 17 million hits on YouTube and left many in awe of Corning’s interpretation of what’s possible with photovoltaic glass, LCD TV glass, architectural display and surface glass, among others.
However, many left comments on YouTube asking which technology is actually possible with today’s resources and pricing. This time around, though, new technologies and applications are highlighted, such as glass tablets, multitouch-enabled desks, solar panels, augmented reality, electronic medical records and anti-microbial medical equipment.
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.
