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Find the outlier! (via The Facebook Chart That Freaks Google Out - Peter Kafka - Social - AllThingsD)
Search engine startups are competing with Microsoft’s $700+ million a quarter investment on Bing (via Microsoft’s plan to stop Bing’s $1 billion bleeding - Sep. 20, 2011)
Today Fred Wilson writes:
We are crossing a huge chasm from an industrial society to an information society. And there is immense pain in that transformation.
Absolutely true. To have a measure of how painful that transformation will be, take a look at this table comparing employees and shareholders value.
Information age companies created 10x capital value (market cap) with 0.4x labor (number of employees) when compared to industrial age companies.
Very entertaining and insightful presentation by Roger McNamee (technology private equity guru and rock musician, Silver Lake and Elevation Partners founder)
(Source: fora.tv)
Largest companies by market cap: Exxon Mobile at $412 billion, Apple closing in at $348 billion, BHP Billiton $245 billion, Microsoft $232 billion, Royal Dutch Shell $227 billion.
Greece public debt €330 billion = $470 billion.
Apple profit per employee is 25% higher than Google’s and 70% higher than Microsoft’s (via Royal Pingdom: Apple staff raking in the cash: 9,528 profit per head)
Market cap of Apple, Microsoft, Google and Exxon Mobile since 2005.
