Frequency Shows How Much Time You Spend in Your Apps. How Much Google And Other Tech Companies Spent On D.C. Lobbyists In One Cha. Tech companies shelled out over $61 million to influence America’s political leaders in 2013, with Google leading the pack at a handsome $14 million. From high-skilled immigration reform to regulation, tech companies have become increasingly forced to preempt limitations imposed by policymakers. The graph below is based on figures compiled by Consumer Watchdog from the House Clerks disclosure database. In some cases, lobbying is a much cheaper and more successful investment than dealing with fines and laws after the fact. Google avoided a massive antitrust fine from the Federal Trade Commission by gaining friends all over the nation’s capitol. In other cases, Google money could have been more productively spent on kale chips for their well-fed employees.
Despite years of multi-million dollar, star-studded campaigns, the entire tech sector has yet to get legislation passed for high-skilled immigrants. How Much Would A Big Mac Cost If McDonald's Workers Were Paid $15 Per Hour? Would you pay an extra 68 cents for a Big Mac? Photo: McDonald's. The plight of McDonald’s minimum-wage workers made headlines earlier this month when the burger chain published a much-maligned sample monthly budget, purportedly aimed at helping its staffers save money. In recent days, armchair prognosticators have taken their concerns to the internet, wondering on Twitter and in comments sections whether they’d be able to afford McDonald's McDonald's food if the company doubled its workers’ wages. Arnobio Morelix, a student at the University of Kansas School of Business , found himself asking the same question, so he did some financial modeling based on McDonald’s annual reports and data sets submitted to investors.
Morelix’s take: If McDonald’s workers were paid the $15 they’re demanding, the cost of a Big Mac would go up 68 cents, from its current price of $3.99 to $4.67. A Big Mac meal would cost $6.66 rather than $5.69, and the chain’s famous Dollar Menu would go for $1.17. Dr. Look At These Beautiful Women, Then See How Much Photoshop This Fashion Mag. Fashion magazines have become devices to make women feel terrible while also desiring to look like computer simulations. Who needs to look like an extra from "The Sims" when you have the beauty that reality gives us? Verily Magazine never uses Photoshop, and the results are way more gorgeous. So what do the pages of Verily look like? Click image to Zoom Jie (on the right) isn't a model.
She's actually a sales associate. Grace isn't either. Jodi is a writer. And Sara is a publicist, not a model. Their Photoshop policy: Well... This pretty much describes how I feel! Look At These Beautiful Women, Then See How Much Photoshop This Fashion Mag. Fashion magazines have become devices to make women feel terrible while also desiring to look like computer simulations. Who needs to look like an extra from "The Sims" when you have the beauty that reality gives us?
Verily Magazine never uses Photoshop, and the results are way more gorgeous. So what do the pages of Verily look like? Click image to Zoom Jie (on the right) isn't a model. Grace isn't either. Jodi is a writer. And Sara is a publicist, not a model. Their Photoshop policy: Well... This pretty much describes how I feel! Hulu faces privacy lawsuit for sharing too much of your inf. A lawsuit against Hulu, alleging that the video streaming company shared users' viewing histories with Facebook and a business analytics company in violation of U.S. law, will be allowed to move forward.
On Friday, San Francisco Federal Judge Laurel Beeler refused Hulu's request to have the case dismissed, ruling that Hulu viewers do not need to prove actual injury to continue their suit against the company. The case is based on an obscure 1988 law passed by Congress in the wake of former Solicitor General Robert Bork's failed 1987 supreme court nomination. The Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) was passed after a newspaper published Bork's rather innocuous video rental history. At the time, few objected to this law.
In its failed motion to have the case dismissed, Hulu argued the law "was not adopted to imposed multi-billion dollar liability on the transmission of anonymous data where no one suffers any actual injury," according to Reuters. H/T: The Wire | Photo by. Samsung Galaxy Note 3: So Much Phone, So Much Power [REVIEW] The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is the best Samsung phone I've ever used. It's big, it's powerful and it finally turns the S Pen — the small stylus that goes hand-in-hand with the Galaxy Note line — into something useful. It's even better than the Galaxy S4. To love the Galaxy Note 3, though, you need to get over it's plus-size screen. That's not too tall an order these days, as most notable phones these days have large displays. No, our hands haven't gotten bigger, but we're also more used to tablets and the advantages a bigger screen can offer.
At least with the Note 3, Samsung didn't get carried away. Although its 5.7-inch screen is larger than the 5.55-incher on last year's Galaxy Note II, the device's overall footprint is the same. Design Write The size may be similar to the previous model, but Samsung has really taken design to the next level. The stylus is improved, too. Notably (no pun intended), the Galaxy Note 3 is the first mainstream phone to sport the new USB 3.0 connector More Air. Connecting the dots: Facebook shows the world how much it knows about them. By Nathaniel Mott On July 8, 2013 You’ve gotta give Facebook credit for its relentless drive to harvest and exploit the data of its billion users. Facebook knows where you are, where you’re from, the places you Like, the people you know, and what you’re interested in — as soon as it makes its way to wearable computers it’ll probably know when you’re sleeping or awake, like a technologically twisted version of Santa Claus.
The company is making some of that data easier to discover with Graph Search, a social search tool that will begin rolling out to all US-based Facebook users today. Graph Search is advertised as a tool that will make it easier to discover your friends’ interests, the places they check-in to, their photos, and “friends of friends.” Put another way: Facebook has built a consumer-focused tool that highlights just how much information can be gleaned from seemingly worthless data. The current iteration of Graph Search relies on data knowingly provided by Facebook’s users. How To Feel So Much Better About How You Live Your Life In 11 Words.