The New Labor Market
From mid-2009 through the end of 2010, output per hour at U.S. nonfarm businesses rose 5.2% as companies found ways to squeeze more from their existing workers. Hourly wages, adjusted for inflation, rose only 0.3%, according to the Labor Department. In other words, companies shared only 6% of productivity gains with their workers. That compares to 58% since records began in 1947.
(Wall Street Journal)

Mobile Rocks
Driven primarily by Facebook, social networking is the fastest-growing mobile content category in the US: Nearly 58 million mobile subscribers accessed a social networking site at least monthly via mobile device as of December 2010, up 56% from the previous year. The top five fastest growing mobile categories in the US (total audience; Dec 2010 vs Dec 2009):
Social networking, 56%
Classifieds, 55%
Online Retail, 53%
General reference, 47%
Maps, 46%
(comScore MobiLens)

The Influence Index
Social-networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, can provide some basic information about the breadth of a person's brand. Here are the top five people along with index number, as reported by Time:
Barack Obama - 7,740,557
Lady Gaga - 6,697,752
Ashton Kutcher - 6,390,600
Taylor Swift - 5,608,398
Oprah Winfrey - 2,907,504
(Silver/Time)

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