Articles on various topics and their links, all contributed by Arnold Woodworth our VP

Google ad revenue surpasses all of print media

The graph tells a more important story.

http://investing.covestor.com/2012/11/google-ad-revenue-surpasses-all-of-print-media

Google Rakes In More Ad Dollars Than U.S. Print Media

http://www.statista.com/topics/1001/google/chart/709/google-s-ad-revenue-since-2004/

http://www.naa.org/Trends-and-Numbers/Advertising-Expenditures/Quarterly-All-Categories.aspx

1991 - 2011 Magazine Advertising Pages

Notice that the decline from 2007 to 2009 was vastly worse than from 2000 to 2001.

http://www.magazine.org/insights-resources/research-publications/trends-data/magazine-industry-facts-data/1991-2011-magazine

Amazon's free-shipping policies extend to 1,000-pound items

Example:  a 1,509-pound safe.

"We charge customers around $700 to ship this safe, but when they buy it through Amazon they get it shipped for free," says Pasquale Murena

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-elephant-in-amazons-mail-room-2012-11-28

Microsoft has Failed

The death spiral for Microsoft is in full effect, and management is speeding it up.

http://semiaccurate.com/2012/11/14/microsoft-has-failed/