Google Brings Its Interactive, 360-Degree “Spotlight Stories” To YouTube

From TechCrunch:


From TechCrunch:

Google is bringing its Spotlight Stories – immersive, 360-degree animated videos meant to introduce a new form of storytelling – to YouTube, the company announced this morning. The first story to arrive is a holiday film called “Special Delivery,” from Wallace and Gromit creators Aardman Animations. This movie will now be viewable on the YouTube app on many Android devices, allowing you to experience the interactive movie by moving your phone around to watch various scenes.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/22/google-brings-its-interactive-360-degree-spotlight-stories-to-youtube/

Women In Tech Predict Major Change In 2016

From Forbes:

A huge revolution is taking place in the technology industry, with women forming an increasing part of leadership and the entire tech workforce. Women see the change gaining momentum as we go into 2016.
I spoke to several leading women in technology to hear their perspectives on what comes next.
“ My hope for girls and women in tech in 2016 is that we continue to build and expand upon the current progress that has happened over the last three years ,” says Tracey Welson Rossman, founder of TechGirlz, a non-profit focused on getting more girls in technology studies through middle and high school.
Welson Rossman, who is also head of marketing at tech business Chariot Solutions, adds: “Having more companies, leaders, media, parents, teachers, girls and women understand the importance of training, teaching, encouraging and supporting girls and women in all aspects of innovation and technology will help move the needle faster and sooner.”
The Change Is Happening
Patience will be vital as the shift continues to a more gender-balanced tech classroom and tech workforce, she says. More and more women want to participate in the tech economy, given its multiple opportunities around coding, security, robotics, user experience and entepreneurship – evidenced in part by fast growth in annual events such as the Women in Tech Summit that takes place in several US cities.
A number of signs are looking particularly positive for 2016. Non-profit educational organization Girls Who Code has taught over 10,000 young women software coding skills and ensured over 20 large companies have pledged will share paid internships and other opportunities with its students.
Its founder, Reshma Saujani, tells me that the companies signing up to the ‘Hire Me’ pledge is “the surest sign yet that the sector is ready to close the gender gap in its workforce”.
At AT&T, one of the signatories to the pledge, executive director Stephanie Lynch-Habib says “the opportunity to improve results is driving greater interest” from girls and women to enter the industry.
“I hope and expect that 2016 will continue the amazing trajectory of women in technology coming to the forefront – helping to further chip away at the gender gap in the tech sector,” she adds. Positive forces driving the change “include grass-roots, girls-in-STEM initiatives, the amazing feats and examples of women tech leaders, and the proliferation of social media, mobile devices and now the Internet of Things.

http://www.forbes.com/sites#/sites/leoking/2015/12/18/women-in-tech-2016-predictions-alicia-syrett-jj-digeronimo-techgirlz-girlswhocode/?utm_campaign=ForbesWoman&utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=social&utm_channel=Technology&linkId=19702077

Google's Enterprise Value Quietly Surpasses Apple

From Zero Hedge:

since early 2014, "no brainer" Apple's Enterprise Value has fallen below that of its tech giant super-hero nemesis Alphabet (the company formerly known as Google). Since early July, Apple has lost a stunning $112 billion of 'value' while Alphabet has added over $150 billion. In September we asked "have we reached peak Apple?" it appears, for now, the answer is in.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-29/googles-enterprise-value-quietly-surpasses-apple

카톨릭 신자는 아니지만 평화방송의 두 프로그램을 즐겨 듣는데 수녀님이 진행하시는 기도의 오솔길과 신부님이 진행하시는 신부님, 신부님, 우리 신부님이란 프로그램이다.  기도의 오솔길에선는 중보기도를 요청하는 사연과 말씀기도를 수녀님께서 전해주시는데 이번 주 월요일에 말씀해 주신 고린도전서를 함께 나눕니다.  한국에 계신분들에게는 해피 성탄이고 외국에 계신 분들에게는 Have a wonderful Christmas.

"If I speak in the tongues of men or angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I prophesy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all to the poor and my body to hardship, but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, or boast, or is proud. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."
1 Corinthians13

Michael Hudson: The IMF Changes its Rules to Isolate China and Russia

From Naked Capitalism:

How the West is deploying the IMF to fight the nightmare scenario of US geopolitical strategists: foreign economic independence from the US.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/12/michael-hudson-the-imf-changes-its-rules-to-isolate-china-and-russia.html

한국경제 체력, 일본식 장기 불황 견뎌내지 못할 것

I would have to agree with a view from a thinktank of the ruling party.

조선일보로부터:

한국의 지금 경제 체력으로는 일본식 장기 불황이 닥쳤을 때 이를 견뎌 내지 못할 것이란 전망이 새누리당에서 나왔다. "일본의 '잃어버린 20년'을 따라갈 수 있다"는 얘기는 많은 전문가가 해 왔다. 이에 대해 집권 여당 싱크탱크에서 "그 가능성이 높을 뿐 아니라, 견뎌 내기도 어려울 것"이라고 한 것이다.

새누리당 여의도연구원은 17일 당 최고위원회에 이런 내용이 포함된 '한국 경제 긴급 진단' 보고서를 대외비로 전달했다.
 

1989년의 일본은 GDP(국내총생산) 세계 2위, 수출액 세계 3위, 출산율 1.54의 비교적 튼튼한 경제였는데, 우리나라는 GDP 13위(이하 2014년 기준), 수출 6위, 출산율 1.21로 더 허약하다는 것이다. 김종석 여의도연구원장은 "획기적인 구조 개혁 정책이 시급한 상황"이라고 보고했다.

http://media.daum.net/economic/all/newsview?newsid=20151218030629743

Fed Raises Benchmark Rate 25 Basis Points, Says 'Gradual' Instead of 'Measured'

From Jesse's cafe:

The distinction is that 'gradual' means as needed, or as seen to be necessary by the ongoing data.

'Measured' was meant to imply a steady 25 basis point at a time rate of increases to an objective which some thought to be 100 bp.

The Fed Funds target rate will be from 25 to 50 basis points, and the amount which the Fed pays to the Banks on excess reserves will be increased to 50 basis points.

In the second press release below, the NY Fed says that they have about $2 Trillion at the ready to back up the Fed's targets.

As suspected, the Fed raised, but it is very likely to be quite gradual, since the data does not fully support it despite all the verbage which has been put out there to justify it.

So to accentuate a very important point, this is not your father's interest rate tightening cycle.

The Fed is raising rates in order to 'end' ZIRP and to begin to provide themselves some maneuvering room out of the policy corner into which they had painted themselves in their thrashing within a credibility trap of lack of reform, top down stimulus, and thereby a continuing lack of broad, organic recovery which is apparent to all those who are not blinded by an ideological bias, a preoccupation with abstract and otherworldly models, and/or their paychecks.

http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.kr/2015/12/fed-raises-benchmark-rate-25-basis.html