Marissa Meyer, Google CEO moved to Yahoo

Last working at Google, Marissa Mayer served as Vice President of Local, Maps, and Location Services, and now she has decided to move to a big thing as Yahoo Chief Executive Officer (CEO). At the age of 37 years, her achievement is extraordinary.

Graduates of the faculty of computer science at Stanford University is joining Google in 1999 as Google's first female engineer and employees of the 20 th overall. Over the past 13 years working at Google, Marissa has held many important positions and has launched around 100 products and Google new features.


Prestigious award has been achieved. Marissa several times in the list of 50 Most Powerful Women in Business , Fortune magazine version, and even became the youngest woman in the list.

Dropbox Cloud Computing

Dropbox Inc. following the online file-sharing site euphoria that started booming a year ago (05/04). Company's online file sharing has become a hot property inSilicon Valley and managed to raise additional capital worth 250 million dollars and reached 4 billion dollars in market value. In fact, the company also managed to attract investment from the world celebrities like Bono, U2 lead singer .
With the current valuation Dropbox equivalent to a company that has reached multibillion dollar revenue as Expedia Inc. and Cablevision Systems.

Through the promotion of a majority of just a word of mouth alone Dropbox has managed to filter out 50 million users for its software. Dropbox software can be used to store and retrieve a variety of photos, documents and videos from sites that are connected with their gadgets.
Dropbox is currently trying to maintain the growth momentum and prove to its investors that its business continuity experience. The company currently consistsof 100 workers were moved to a size of 87.000 square-foot office in SanFrancisco. Dropbox begin launching its action to recruit employees fromFacebook Inc. in February.

Currently Dropbox is also beginning to develop partnerships with gadget manufacturers and application developers to allow for their services grow more rapidly in the gadget smartphones and tablets, as well as television. Dropbox is also trying to attract a premium user from the business sector, where the line hast o meet the competition of the Box Inc..

At the same time Dropbox have to face competition from other technology giants such as Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp. Inc. and Amazon. Google also has been rumored to be launching its own storage services 'cloud' property, called Drive.

BMW X1 goes on sale in the U.S.

German car manufacturer, BMW will sell BMW X1 compact crossover models in the United States this fall.

BMW North America will bring BMW X1 to the United States with some refreshment. The vehicle was first present three years ago in the European market. BMW X1 to be launched in the New York auto show on Wednesday.

BMW will provide X1 three models, sDrive28i rear-wheel drive and X1 xDrive28i four-wheel drive with twin-turbo 2.0-liter inline four-cylinder that produces 240 hp.

There is also AWD version X1 xDrive35i with the twin-turbo 3.0-liter V-6 that produces 300 hp.

BMW X1 goes on sale in Europe in 2009. Previously, BMW U.S. delayed BMW X1 sales in the United States because of unfavorable exchange rates and high demand for vehicles in Europe.

U.S. BMW executives also did not want tiny BMW X1 snuff market sales of the redesigned BMW X3 on sale in the United States last year.

BMW X1 will compete with Land Rover Evoque and two models that have not been released in the United States, Audi Q3 and Mercedes-Benz vehicle of the MFA, short for Mercedes Front-wheel-drive Architecture

GOOGLE INC Build New Data Centers in Taiwan

Google Inc. is building new data centers in Taiwan to meet the rapidly growing online demand in Asia. This data center is the third data center in Asia after Hong Kong and Singapore.

Three data centers worth U.S. $ 700 million investment that will provide faster access for users and more reliable access to various Google products.

Giant internet search , Google, said the Taiwan facility was built in the west of Changhua. The plan, a data center in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore as well, can run in 2013.

Google president of Asia-Pacific said Daniel Alegre infrastructure investments are intended to help companies meet the enormous potential of Internet use in Asia.

"Many new Internet users coming online every day here in Asia than anywhere else in the world. They are looking for information and entertainment, new business opportunities, and better ways to connect with friends and family," he said, Wednesday, April 4, 2012.

Google's three data centers in Asia will join the six data centers in the U.S. and two in Europe. The data center is a secure facility with thousands of computers that store and serve large amounts of information.

Google touted the new data center is environmentally friendly, in part through the use of nighttime cooling and thermal energy storage system that cools water at night.

"During the day when Taiwan is heating up, especially in summer, and the more expensive to produce, we will distribute chilled water throughout the facility to keep cool," Google said in a statement

Herb Kelleher: Start With Your Employees

An entrepreneurs definitely should know that he should give best serve to their customers and employees. But a Herbert D Kelleher might not just know. He was really serious about undergoing it. Now Herb known as the former CEO and co-founder of Southwest Airlines, the low-cost carrier based in the United States.

Apparently, he started his career not in business but become a lawyer. Herbt ook his law degree from Wesleyan, New York University. After graduation, he had to apply his knowledge to become legal practitioners in the East Coast and eventually moved to Texas with the intent to open a law firm there.

In 1967, he turned direction. Together with one of his clients, Herb founded Southwest Airlines. It took five years and he was often faced with the tortuous litigation from competitors to get Southwest out of court and fly in June 1971.Herb's vision when founding an carrier is removing some unneeded services and using secondary airports to offer cheap flight prices in the industry at that time.

Starbucks Will Expand Their Business in China

The world's largest coffee shop franchise, Starbucks Corp., will increase their investments in China within three years. They will boost business in the downstream sector by increasing the outlet three times than current amount.

According to Director of Starbucks China and the Asia-Pacific, John Culver, it will build more than 1,500 stores in 70 cities in China in 2015. Starbucks currently has 500 stores located in 48 cities. "We will explore small towns that have potential high growth," he said in an interview with Bloomberg, Monday, April 2, 2012.

The expansion of sales network, according to Culver, taken to encourage Starbucks development outside the United States. The shops were also designed to catch China's high demand opportunities for coffee.

Euromonitor International data shows, the demand for coffee in China will jump 55 percent, from 2.9 billion yuan (U.S. $ 460.9 million) last year to 4.5 billion yuan(U.S. $ 714 million) in 2015. "This growth will occur not only in big cities, but also to the second tier cities and beyond," he said.

Future Israeli Drone More Deadly

One year after Israel was surprised because of the loss of pilots and jet fighter due to Syrian missiles in the 1973 war, David Harari, an electrical engineer, has pioneered a program Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (drone / UAV) in Israel Aviation Industry.

He proposed the existence of an unmanned aircraft to monitor security. Several years later, Harari and his team rolled out Scout, UAVs with weights 200 pounds that can roam up to 3,000 meters. The drone launched its first operation in the1982 Lebanon War.

The plane was sending troops motion picture and allow Israel to achieve air superiority first to neutralize anti-aircraft batteries Syria. The event also makes Israel military become the first UAV operator's in the world.

Shenzhen - Wuhan Fast Train Began to Operate

Fast trains that connect Shenzhen, Changsha and Wuhan began operating on Sunday (4/1). By the operation of the fast train, travel time to just four hours than ever before, said the China train operator in Guangzhou.

During these time people who travel by train from Shenzhen must through two provincial capital, Hunan and Hubei and transit in the South Guangzhou Station .

The management of local railways will operate ten trains "G10" depart from Shenzhen to Wuhan, and ten trains "G60" from Shenzhen to Changsha. During this time, the local railway operates 28 fast trains between Shenzhen-Guangzhou with the number of passengers on average 20,000 people per day.

Iran Threat Trigger Oil Price Strengthens

Oil prices climbed to nearly $ 100 per barrel as Iran again threatened to block shipments of crude oil from the Persian Gulf. The threat followed a decision of the European Union to stop (embargo) of crude oil imports from Iran.

Previously, the EU has given preliminary approval to impose a ban on imports of Iranian crude oil. The move aims to cut Tehran's main source of income as well as pressure Iran to stop its nuclear program.

However, considering the economic crisis that was sweeping Europe since two years ago, Europe agreed to postpone the full implementation of Iran's oil embargo until July 1.

Meanwhile Yen pullback , Potentially Hit Sterling Again

In trading GBP / JPY Asian session today (12-01) Japanese Yen monitored fell against Sterling and in the range of 117.71. Pressure on Yen against Sterling pair was observed decreased with the indication that showed decreased Japan's economic performance.

Ministry of Finance reported that the current account in November 2011 showed a drop in surplus. In the current account surplus valued at approximately 0:48 trillion yen, while in October 2011 reached a surplus of 0.52 trillion Yen.

China Inflation Slow Down to 4.1%

China's inflation decrease slightly in December. This gives room for this country to re-stimulate their economy that began to slow.

This affected food prices increased sharply, where political conditions make prices become sensitive.
Reporting from the Associated Press, Thursday (01/12/2012), overall, consumer prices increase 4.1 percent, but recorded down 4.2 percent from the previous month. But still above the government's target of four percent for this year.

While the inflation of food prices increase to 9.1 percent from the previous year of 8.8 percent. Inflation rate that could clear the way for Beijing to lower interest rates or take other steps to stimulate economic growth tends to slow down. But China's leaders feel surges of food costs become barrier.

U.S. Stock Market Making Record

Stock markets in the United States set records for 5 months at the close of trading yesterday. The Dow Jones and S & P 500 closed strengthened each 69.78 points or 11.38 and 0.56 points, or 0.89 percent.

The same thing happens on the NASDAQ index that rise 25.94 points, or 0.97 percent to 2702.50.

"Investors are still focused on European conditions, but their attention is not as big in November 2011," said Head of NYSE floor operations for Meridian Equity Partners in New York, told Reuters on Wednesday, January 11, 2012.

Euro collapsed to Lowest Positions Since September 2010

On Monday the euro exchange rate against the U.S. dollar reached disappear into the lowest position since September of 2010 (01/09). The euro bounced against the dollar and the yen weakened after stock markets in Asia have been hit slowly due to weakening of the opening of Wall Street at the end of trading last week. Fears of a worsening crisis in Europe again controlled the market sentiment.

Concerns about the condition of Europe higher after Hungary's credit rating downgraded to junk level. Although not a member of the euro area, this decrease is still an impact on the performance of the currency.

10 World's Largest Gold Owners

The gold owners are very happy with the increase in investment yield of gold, while investment in other sectors eroded by the storm of the European crisis and also the uncertainty that surrounds the world economy.

Currently the world's largest gold holder still dominated by central banks, international organizations and governments with a total estimated at 16.5% of total world gold or as much as 30,700 tons. The amount is taken from the monthly reports the World Gold Council (WGC), which is a key market development agency gold industry.

So, who are the world's largest gold owners?

Strengthening of U.S. Dollar & European Crisis 'Threatens' Oil

Oil prices trade lower on Friday (6 / 1), but the sentiment of U.S. dollar strengthening and fears of European crisis presents new pressures in the middle of the potential disruption of crude supplies from the Middle East.

Brent oil prices still strengthened with rises of more than 4% and U.S. crude oil rose more than 2% during this week, sparked by the Iranian threat to close the oil-shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz, in retaliation for sanctions by the United States and ban on exports of crude oil to Europe.

In Friday trading, U.S. oil prices fell 25 cents to U.S. $ 101.56 per barrel and Brent crude oil futures ended to the level of U.S. $ 113.07 per barrel, this figure is slightly strengthened than last week's trading Friday at U.S. $ 112.45.

Wall Street strengthened in the first week of 2012

Stocks on Wall Street strengthened in the first week of this year. Although the emergence of reports that the United States unemployment rate recorded the lowest in three years.

Based on the data, quoted from Reuters on Saturday (7 / 1), Dow Jones index rose 1.2%, S & P 500 rose 1.6%, and Nasdaq rose 2.7% during this week. This increase was underpinned by growth in each sector of the stock.

At the close of trading on Friday (6 / 1) local time Dow Jones fell 55.78 points (0.45%) to 12359.92, S & P 500 lost 3.25 points (0.25%) to 1277.81 and Nasdaq Composite rose 4.36 points (0.16%) to 2674.22.

Inhibiting rate of Gold Price in 2012

As a safe-haven asset, gold also hard commodity and sensitive to macroeconomic news. This factor could disrupt gold rally in 2012.

Besides safe haven, gold is a hard commodity category. Gold including in the three risky worlds of investment products such as stocks and currencies. Therefore, under certain conditions, gold provides a considerable advantage but the risk is too high.

Gold prices are affected by fundamental news such as GDP (Gross Domestic Product), inflation, unemployment, consumer confidence index and market rumors. "That factors, which could be inhibiting gold rally in 2012,”

Gold in Asia Down to U.S. $ 1.597/Troy Ons

Gold futures trade lower on Wednesday (4 / 1) in Asia after having strengthened during the week.

Gold for February delivery fell 0.35 to U.S. $ 1,597 per troy ounce on the electronic trading through Comex New York Mercantile Exchange. In trading Tuesday in New York, gold closed at U.S. $ 1600.50 per troy ounce. Quoted from marketwatch.com.

While U.S. oil prices rose in thin in Asia tsrade session on Wednesday (4 / 1) with positive U.S. data despite the political tensions in the Gulf is still there. U.S. light sweet crude oil rose 12 cents to U.S. $ 103.08 per barrel.

While Asian stocks mixed moves like Hang Seng index fell 0.7%, the Nikkei rose 1.2%, Shanghai index fell 1%, ASX index rose 2.1%, Kospi index fell 0.4%, STI index rose 0, 4%.