According to the report, the auto giant’s marketing executives “determined their paid ads had little impact on consumers.”
…$100 BN valuation….hmm…-Ed.
JPMorgan has $2 billion trading loss, reputation hit | Reuters
JPMorgan Chase & Co said on Thursday that it suffered a $2 billion trading loss from a failed hedging strategy, a disclosure that hit financial stocks and the reputation of the bank and its prominent CEO, Jamie Dimon.
Should Startups File for Patents? – Bloomberg
“The system we have now will eventually destroy innovation in Silicon Valley. Every patent is a micro law prohibiting innovation. We’ve gone from a model of companies competing with each other to create the best product to companies suing each other to prevent them from innovating.”
In Case of Emergency, Read This Now – Bloomberg
Whether you knew it or not, the U.S. is currently in a state of emergency, declared by President Bill Clinton and extended by his two successors. And in a state of emergency, as the courts generally concede, presidential authority is broader than it is in ordinary times.
Analysis: Delta deal raises ghosts that haunt refinery profits | Reuters
For Delta, which consumed roughly 250,000 bpd of jet fuel last year at a cost of 
$12 billion, analysts said the benefit of having a cheap supply of the fuel from Trainer could give it an advantage over rivals in the New York area, where it is expanding services.
An Insider’s Notes On The Shabby Death Of The Seattle SuperSonics
I usually arrived at work before most of the staff. On some days, I could wander across the office to get my coffee without seeing anyone. But strangely, that morning, the team’s communications guru, was already there. He pulled me aside. “Be prepared to have a terrible day,” he said. “I can’t tell you any more—you’ll know soon enough. But I’m telling you as a friend, this is going to be a really rough day.”
I went back to my desk trying to decipher what he meant. Soon, my phone rang. On the other end was a member of the operations team: “Jeremy, you need to do something for me. You need to grab the championship trophies. Polish them until they’re spotless and bring them to the Furtado Center [the team’s training facility]. I can’t tell you why, you just need to do it now.”
No-fly ‘glitch’ has toddler removed from plane – CNN.com
JetBlue Airways is apologizing for a “computer glitch” it blames for a family being told their 18-month-old daughter was on a government no-fly list.
Maria Bamford interview: A conversation about mental illness and stand-up comedy.
Bamford: No, no, it was my idea. I was terrified, because it was this motorcycle club in Duluth—a pretty low-key motorcycle club, because Minnesotans aren’t too rowdy, but I was scared. So I was like, “Dad, would you please open for me?” And my dad loves me, and so he worked out his bits.
Slate: It was all his own material.
Bamford: Yeah. I think it was about six to seven minutes. He bombed and then I bombed. It was a family affair.
Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz Challenges the Web to Take Down His Site | Site Reference – Internet Marketing Articles
According to Google’s original guidelines, it said…
“Can competitors harm ranking? There’s nothing a competitor can do to harm your ranking or have your site removed from our index. If you’re concerned about another site linking to yours, we suggest contacting the webmaster of the site in question. Google aggregates and organizes information published on the web; we don’t control the content of these pages.”
In November, Google changed its tune a little bit…
“Can competitors harm ranking? There’s ALMOST nothing a competitor can do to harm your ranking or have your site removed from our index. If you’re concerned about another site linking to yours, we suggest contacting the webmaster of the site in question. Google aggregates and organizes information published on the web; we don’t control the content of these pages.”
Did anyone catch the slight difference in this new entry? You don’t have to be a professional writer to see this one.
Then, on March 14th…
“Google works hard to prevent other webmasters from being able to harm your ranking or have your site removed from our index. If you’re concerned about another site linking to yours, we suggest contacting the webmaster of the site in question. Google aggregates and organizes information published on the web; we don’t control the content of these pages.”
Why Does Coffee Cause Bad Breath? | LifesLittleMysteries.com
We tend to smell like the food we eat and the liquids we drink — what we eat and drink is digested in our stomachs and intestines, and the chemicals in these foods and liquids are passed on throughout our bodies through our bloodstreams.
