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...billion videos at YouTube last month. Investors assumed that any medium with such a large number of users has to become a huge business. Millions and millions of users must be worth something. They can't be worth nothing. That couldn't be possible. (See pictures of the meteoric rise of YouTube...
...search marketing which has made Google one of the fastest growing large companies in America. Several Wall St. analysts have commented that Google's search revenue's rate of increase flattened out in January and February. Since the consensus among experts who cover the company is that revenue will rise 11% in the first quarter, a flat quarter would be devastating...
Many scientists believe we're simply diagnosing autism differently now - both overdiagnosing it in kids who don't have it and spotting it better in kids who do. That makes it look like the condition is on the rise when it's not. All you have to do is find a schoolteacher or principal and ask them that question. They would say they've never seen so much ADHD, autism, OCD as in the past. I think we're overdiagnosing it by maybe 1%. Now you look around and there are five shadows - kids with disabilities - in every class...
...dramatic rise in applications for jobs at the Central Intelligence Agency—which traditionally recruits heavily from the College—has seen no such spike from Harvard undergraduates. The Agency has for many years been actively using Harvard, as well as other colleges and universities nationwide, as a recruitment base. The CIA received over 120,000 applications in 2008, but for 2009 this figure has soared by approximately 50 percent, said CIA spokesperson Marie E. Harf. According to Robin Mount, the interim director of Office of Career Services at Harvard, the response from Harvard students has not changed...
...Things will bounce back, but we are a long way away from that.” Kirwan said that at the start of Governor Deval Patrick’s term, the deficit stood at $1.3 billion. She estimated that within a few fiscal years, this amount would rise to approximately $3.5 billion. The Massachusetts state budget, according to the speakers, is very reliant on capital gains tax revenue, which has decreased due to the recession. “It’s a perfect storm. We have a loss of tax revenue, and an increased need for spending...