Android MBA: Android Rise to Success Tip of the Hat to Kayla Evans for enlightening us and supplying the content that follows (and follows… and follows… find a commercial large-format printer and output this at a scale that does it justice.) Credit: mbaonline.com/android/
So what happened with the Internet in 2011? How many email accounts were there in the world in 2011? How many websites? How much did the most expensive domain name cost? How many photos were hosted on Facebook? How many videos were viewed to YouTube? The website Royal Pingdom has posted answers to these questions … Continue reading »
“Republicans complaining about the households not paying enough who also want to cut taxes overall are asking the poor to subsidize a tax cut for the rich…” Here’s a fresh quote from the latest non-Romney front-runner in the GOP presidential race: “This dividing of America [between] 99-1,” Rick Santorum said this morning in New Hampshire, “It’s anybody that … Continue reading »
In the war of rhetoric that has developed in Washington as both sides blame each other for our economic mess, one argument has been repeated so often that many people now regard it as fact: ‘Rich people create the jobs.’ Specifically, entrepreneurs and investors, when incented by low taxes, build companies and create millions of … Continue reading »
Let your voice be heard: make couple selections in the poll below and tell us what kind of posts you like and would like to see more of on this blog,. If you don’t see a category that describes what you want to see here, use the space provided to enter your own personal response… … Continue reading »
One year at Princeton University: $37,000. One year at a New Jersey state prison: $44,000. Prison and college “are the two most divergent paths one can take in life,” Joseph Staten, an info-graphic researcher with Public Administration, says. Whereas one is a positive experience that increases lifetime earning potential, the other is a near dead end, which is why … Continue reading »
Yah, you read that right. As of today, Microsoft’s patent licensing agreements with Android manufacturers now cover more than half of all Android devices, thanks to the recent addition of Taiwan-based Compal. Compal is the tenth company to form an Android licensing deal with Microsoft, and it’s joining more well-known Android manufacturers like Samsung, HTC, and Acer. … Continue reading »
From an article by the New Yorker’s John Cassidy The latest poverty and income figures came out this week, and boy are they disturbing. It’s not so much the headline figures, which have been well covered in the Times and elsewhere: 46 million Americans living under the poverty line in 2010, the highest number since the Commerce Department started … Continue reading »
Business guru and famous super-rich person Warren Buffett made waves last month with an op-ed in The New York Times, “Stop Coddling the Super-Rich,” calling for higher taxes for him and other obscenely wealthy Americans. He argued that the nation’s very well-off are not sacrificing enough in these hard times and enjoying a tax rate much … Continue reading »
Check out the boss’s pay package in the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s annual executive compensation survey. Median total pay of chief executive officers in 2010 was flat after dropping the two previous years. Here are the 100 largest CEO pay packages among the public companies the StarTribune examined: See the list of 100 Highest Paid CEOs … Continue reading »
