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Sunday, January 12, 2014
This Famous Google Exec Quit His Job To Work In China — And He's Been Totally Blown Away By What He Found
For years, Hugo Barra was one of the most visible executives at Google. He was a product manager for its Android team. Every year at Google's biggest conference, Google I/O, Barra would show off Android's latest new features for the whole world. Then, in August of this year, Barra quit Google to work for a Chinese company. In December, he gave a talk in Paris about how utterly blown away he's been by that place.
This is Hugo Barra.
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Barra used to be a top executive in Google's Android division.
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In August he quit to go work for the "Steve Jobs of China," Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun.
After just two months in China, Barra spoke at the Le Web tech conference in Paris in December.
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Barra told his interviewer that he's totally blown away by the place. He said he had some charts to show why…
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He said the Chinese are incredibly educated with 8 million college grads per year — more than the US.
Hugo Barra
Hugo Barra
He said Chinese disposable income is growing like crazy. It tripled over the last 8 years.
Hugo Barra
Hugo Barra
He said China has at least 122 billionaires, second only to the US.
Hugo Barra
Barra said China has 600 million Internet users - with 50% growth in 3 years.
Hugo Barra
Hugo Barra
Hugo Barra
Barra talked about some of the huge recent huge IPOs on the Chinese stock market.
Hugo Barra
Hugo Barra
Barra talked about how Chinese Internet companies have massive user numbers. MAU stands for "monthly active users." QZone has 600 million!
Hugo Barra
Then Barra talked some specific Chinese companies. First he
mentioned Alibaba, which owns Taobao, a shopping site he said is twice
the size of eBay and Amazon combined.
Hugo Barra
Hugo Barra
Barra said that during a Chinese holiday called "Singles Day" Taobao
did more than twice the sales all US e-commerce companies did on Cyber
Monday.
Hugo Barra
Hugo Barra
He talked about JD, which does 3-hour delivery.
Hugo Barra
Hugo Barra
JD has an app you can use to see where your delivery guy is.
Hugo Barra
Hugo Barra
Alipay is like Paypal in the US, except it's much bigger and more useful. Barra says he uses to pay for his cabs.
Hugo Barra
Weibo is like Twitter, except bigger. Barra only ever had 6,000 Twitter followers. In two months, he has 200,000 Weibo followers.
Hugo Barra
Barra says he runs his entire social life through an app called WeChat. He uses it instead of the phone, email, or text messaging. WeChat also has an Instagram-like feature.
Hugo Barra
The "Uber of China" is an app called Didi. Except with it, you leave a voice message for the driver telling him where to pick you up and how much you'll pay.
Hugo Barra
Barra said MoMo is an app you use to talk to strangers who are nearby you. It's kind of a dating app. It has 100 million users.
Hugo Barra
There's no Google Play store in China (it's banned), so there are a bunch of third-party app stores instead.
Hugo Barra
Hugo Barra
One is called "91." It's a desktop app like iTunes. Big Chinese search engine Baidu bought it for $1 billion last year.
Hugo Barra
Hugo Barra
Barra says he loves China, and is trying to learn to speak the language. Here he is at his favorite dumplings place.
Hugo Barra
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/what-the-chinese-tech-industry-is-like-2014-1#ixzz2qCVjP7rs
A Google Programmer 'Blew Off' A $500,000 Salary At A Startup — Because He's Already Making $3 Million Every Year
| Thanks to all its money, Google is a big winner in the war for talent in Silicon Valley.
The latest evidence is a story we just heard from the founder of a large, successful enterprise startup. This founder told us that his startup tried to poach a "programmer" currently working at Google. The startup made the programmer what it thought was a big offer: a $500,000 salary. "He blew us off," said the founder. The programmer told the startup thanks for the offer, but Google was currently paying him $3 million per year in cash and restricted stock units. (Restricted stock units, or "RSUs," are as good as stock in that the programmer won't have to buy them to get them.) A compensation of $3 million per year, or even $500,000 per year, is
well above the Silicon Valley average for an engineer. Recruiter Scott
Purcell says the software engineers he's placing typically make a base salary of $165,000. The average base salary for a Google engineer is $128,000.But there are outliers besides our $3 million engineer. Twitter's senior vice president of engineer, Christopher Fry, earned $10.3 million last year. Google has an industry-wide reputation for getting — and keeping — the people it wants. It's pretty impressive, for example, that Google was able to remove Andy Rubin from the top of Android and still manage to keep him inside the company, working on robots. This is a credit to CEO Larry Page. He's made Google into a place where really bright people get to work on extremely ambitious, large-scale problems. Before he took over Google as CEO in 2011, the company was losing a lot of people to startups like Facebook and Twitter. Now, not so much. It is also a credit to the power of money, which Google has a lot of. Update: On Twitter, ex-Googler Hunter Walk (now a VC) warns other startups: "The *worst* way to recruit from Google is with money. For anyone really good, Google will outbid you. So you're left with the ones they don't want to retain." |
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Chevy Camaro ZL1 owner fights dealership that totaled his car Justin Hyde
By Justin Hyde 20 hours ago Motoramic
At 580 hp and a starting price of $55,000, the Chevy Camaro ZL1 ranks as the top dog of the Camaro lineup (at least until the Z/28 hits the track.) For Camaro enthusiasts like John Hooper, author of six books on the history of Camaros, it's a dream car — or at least was a dream car, until an employee at a Chevy dealership totaled his ZL1 on an unauthorized joyride. Nearly a month later, Hooper and the dealership have yet to agree on how much that particular top dog was worth. Something about Camaros seems to bring out the dark side of the dealer service department; recall the man who hid a voice recorder in the door pocket of his Camaro SS and caught mechanics doing burn-outs. According to Hooper's posts on the Camaro5 forum, he had taken his 2012 Camaro ZL1 to First State Chevy in Georgetown, Del., for warranty work on a paint issue. On Dec. 15, a Sunday, one of the dealer's employees took the keys from the closed dealership and went for a spin — that ended when the ZL1 sheared off a telephone pole. The next day, the dealership told Hooper about the incident, and by the end of that week, the car had been declared a total loss. Since then, Hooper and First State have been unable to reach an accord over how to replace the ZL1. To First State's credit, it immediately fired the employee who took the car and tried to pursue charges against him — but local officials said since the car was in the dealership's legal possession at the time of the crash, no crime was committed. Hooper's ZL1 had about 10,000 miles on it, and while First State has offered other used ZL1s as replacements, Hooper has said those cars were not worth as much as his example was pre-crash. Hooper told the Cape Gazette of Lewes, Del., today that while the dealership has given them a loaner to drive, they are still making payments on the ZL1 while it sits in a salvage yard. “We're losing sleep over this, time off from work, and this still isn't resolved,” Hooper told the paper. “This is so ethically and morally wrong it isn't funny.”
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Job Growth
2013 ends with weakest job growth in years
January 10, 2014: 8:46 AM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney)
Job growth slumped sharply in December, falling far short of expectations. The economy added only 74,000 jobs in December, according to the Department of Labor.
This was the weakest month for job growth since January 2011 and came as a huge surprise to economists, who were expecting an addition of 193,000 jobs.
Meanwhile, the unemployment rate fell to 6.7% in December, but the drop came mainly from workers leaving the labor force.
Are you unemployed? Share your story with CNNMoney's Annalyn Kurtz.
Only 62.8% of the adult population is participating in the labor market -- meaning they either have a job or are looking for one. That matches the lowest level since 1978.
In the job market's 2007 heyday, unemployment was under 5%, but in the two years that followed, the recession wiped out 8.7 million jobs. To this day, not all those jobs have returned.
More Omaha police fired in ‘caught on tape’ case
Just days after a federal lawsuit accused Omaha police of excessive force in a widely publicized (see video below) “caught on tape” tape case, two more officers have been fired bringing the total to six.
33rd and Seward, March21, 2013
“As I have previously stated, we did not carry ourselves in a manner representative of the Omaha Police Department in this incident,” said Police Chief Todd Schmaderer.
Last March 21 a routine parking problem near 33rd and Seward in North Omaha escalated into a must-see six minute recording.
The video—shot by a member of the public— shows a police officer (see video below) throwing a man to the ground and hitting him several times, while a dozen other officers storm a home across the street.
Johnson family
“A parking ticket turned into officers storming my house and me being thrown to the ground and put into a chokehold,” said Octavius Johnson.
“Pulling over twenty officers away from other parts of the city should sound an alarm for taxpayers,” says Amy Miller of the ACLU who filed the suit Monday.
But citing a national accreditation award issued to OPD in November, Schmaderer sees lessons learned.
“I am confident in saying the Omaha Police Department is a better department in the aftermath of this incident,” said the chief.
The first four firings came within a few weeks of the incident. One of those four has appealed his firing, a ruling is pending.
The last two officers are awaiting a pre-termination hearing.
Contact Joe Jordan at joe@nebraskawatchdog.org and listen to Joe every Monday morning at 7:40 on KFAB radio in Omaha.
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Man Jailed for Gmail Invite to Ex-Girlfriend
In what one expert on Internet privacy calls "a worst-case scenario," a
Massachusetts man was jailed for sending his ex-girlfriend (who had a
restraining order against him) an email invitation to join Google+.
But Thomas Gagnon contends he didn't send it; Google did, without his knowledge or consent.
When his ex-girlfriend received the invitation, according to the Salem News,
she went to the police, complaining Gagnon had violated the restraining
order by sending her the email. Police agreed and arrested him, the
News reported. He was jailed then released on $500 bail.
A hearing in the case has been set for Feb. 6. Gagnon's attorney, Neil
Hourihan, told the News his client has no idea how the invitation got
sent, since Gagnon insists he didn't send it.
Efforts by ABC News to contact Hourihan and Gagnon were not successful.
Attorney Bradley Shear of Bethesda, Md., an internationally recognized
expert on Internet privacy, told ABC News it's entirely possible Gagnon
is telling the truth -- that he did not intentionally or knowingly send
the invitation. "If he didn't send it -- if Google sent it without his
permission and he was jailed for it -- Google could be facing major
liability," Shear said.
Google did not respond to a request for comment by ABC News.
Google+ allows users to aggregate their email contacts into various
groups -- school classmates, say, or professional associates or old
flames. Moving a contact from one category to another, Shear explained,
can trigger Google to send, automatically, an email to the contact
inviting them to join Google+.
Shear pointed out a Google product forum from 2011 and 2012 titled
"Prevent automatic email invitations to Google+?" that contains a number
of angry complaints by Google+ users about the automatic invitation
feature.
One customer wrote: "As soon as I add an email to a circle, Google seems
to send an email automatically asking that person to join Google Plus.
Is there any way of turning this off? I don't want Google to send any
email on my behalf without my permission. At least I would expect some
sort of warning."
In response these complaints, a Google Community Manager calling herself
"Natalie" responded: "Thanks for your feedback. Right now the emails
that go out alert people of your activity on Google+, and more
importantly the sharing of content with them. We send them an email when
they aren't yet on Google+ so they know that you are out there in the
world [of] G+. They should only incur this email once."
But once was all it took to land Gagnon in jail.
Another Google+ user on the same forum demands to know: "Why was I not
warned this was going to occur[?] Why on earth do you presume to know
who I want to invite?"
Shear noted: "Google is going through every one of your contacts and
sending them an invitation, whether it's your doctor, your lawyer, your
mistress, or your ex-fiancee who's got a restraining order against you."
He called this, "a perfect example of what happens when a company oversteps its bounds."
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T-Mobile's John Legere
T-Mobile’s John Legere brilliantly transforms into a rebel CEO
The new John Legere doesn’t play by traditional CEO rules. (Steve Marcus/Reuters)
There’s a general protocol for what a chief executive of a
telecommunications company does when giving a speech at a major event:
Dress up, take the stage and deliver a professional, family-friendly
speech. Don’t use profanity. Don’t drink anything from an aluminum can.
CEOs from major companies have done just that at this week’s Consumer
Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Except for T-Mobile’s John Legere, who on Wednesday delivered a trademark speech. Here’s how the former Global Crossing chief exeutive is now winning attention:
On
the left, John Legere had a more formal appearance as CEO of Global
Crossing. At T-Mobile he’s ditched the suit for T-shirts, sneakers and
jeans. (File photos)
John Legere used to dress for the corporate board room. Now he’s shunning suits and wearing T-shirts and pink shoelaces. Legere looks more like a NASCAR driver than a CEO, constantly covered with a corporate logo. He mixes profanity into his speeches and skips boring jargon.
“He was much more staid and conservative [at Global Crossing], so it was something of a shock to see the ‘new John’ at T-Mobile,” Ovum analyst Jan Dawson told CNET. The “new John” is playing something of a character, and it’s working for his company, which added 4.4 million customers in 2013.
Legere holds a T-shirt referring to his stunt of crashing AT&T’s event. (Steve Marcus/Reuters)
On Wednesday, Legere proudly showed off a custom T-shirt that referred to his stunt of crashing AT&T’s CES event on Monday night. Yes, he crashed a competitor’s event. That’s not typical CEO behavior, but Legere doesn’t care. He’s a renegade looking to win over customers and make his rivals look old, boring and out of touch.
“We are going to redefine a stupid, arrogant, broken industry,” Legere said. He also called Sprint “a pile of spectrum waiting to be turned into a capability.” Legere has long taken shots at AT&T and Verizon.
3. Go big on social media.
Legere joined Twitter after taking the helm of T-Mobile and has amassed nearly 60,000 followers. He has tweeted over 2,300 times. The CEOs of AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Sprint aren’t even on Twitter. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has shown the value of a chief executive embracing social media and being the face of a company. Legere is following in those footsteps.
4. Embrace tattoos and piercings.
Legere reversed T-Mobile’s policy of not allowing its store employees to have tattoos and piercings. He’s slyly trying to win over young people, who are less likely to have their brand preferences set and might be willing to change networks.
5. Do more than talk. Make customers happy.
T-Mobile will now pay the early termination fees of customers switching to its services. T-Mobile has already eliminated two-year contracts. It was first to kill off the annoying voicemail instructions that play before you leave a message. T-Mobile ended international roaming charges that have been a thorn in the side of customers. The company even offers free data on tablets.
When you’re playing from behind you have nothing to lose. Legere has realized that. With this newfound freedom he’s redefining how a CEO can succeed. Having a outwardly serious presence isn’t a requirement for success. Don’t be surprised if more chief executives strategically follow in his footsteps.
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