With college students spending less time hitting the books than their ‘60s counterparts, but earning higher grades, the question begs to be asked whether a college education is getting easier, the standards are getting lower or technology is increasing the efficiency of today’s students?
Apple stores provide an elegant experience for everybody. The store itself is very inviting and is flooded with employees waiting to help. The minimalist look showcases high class/value to the curious customer. This kind of experience is even mimicked by the Microsoft Store. Check out this awesome infographic that illustrates how profitable the Apple stores are. Enjoy!
A Chart is one the most useful and attractive way of displaying information or instructions (mostly numerical) to people.Charts and graphs are attractive because they are mostly designed with colorful and eye catching bars,lines or slices.In recent years you can also see many 3D graphs and chart examples to make them more.
ccording to Nielsen’s latest “Music 360” report, 48% of consumers in the U.S. still see radio as the dominant way to discover new music. For almost two-thirds of U.S. teenagers, however, Google’s YouTube is now a more important source of music than radio (54%), iTunes (53%) and CDs (50%).
Despite the growing popularity of Internet music services among teens, about a third of them still bought a CD in the last year and among all respondents, 55% said physical CDs are still a very or fairly good value.
““While younger listeners opt for technologically advanced methods , traditional methods of discovery like radio and word-of-mouth continue to be strong drivers,” said Nielsen SVP David Bakula in a canned statement today. “With so many ways to purchase, consume and discover great new music, it’s no wonder that the consumer continues to access and enjoy music in greater numbers.”
Is social media about connecting or simply a collective case of narcissism infecting our culture? Here are some stats gathered by the folks at PsychologyDegree.net to help you decide.
The 2012 Olympics in London generated 150 million tweets and Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt ran away with a big share of them, according to Twitter.
The social network, assessing the 16-day event, found that Bolt’s 200m and 100m races prompted the most chatter during the Games. The former netted more than 80,000 tweets per minute while the former generated more than 74,000 TPMs as they’re known in Twitter’s headquarters.
YouTube has been around since 2005 and its popularity has rapidly grown over the years. For many of us, YouTube is our first choice when wanting to upload videos to the web and to watch ones created by others. So it is no surprise that 829,000 videos are uploaded and 2 billion views happen each day.
Discover more interesting facts and figures, from this infographic, about our favorite video watching site, YouTube.
Hedge fund manager James Altucher recently wrote about how multitasking can kill you. Neuroscience shows that our brains simply weren’t created for it. Yet many people continue to live hyper-connected lives, essentially creating 24/7 workweeks — no matter how unhealthy it is.
This excellent infographic by OnlineUniversities.com shows how acutely information overload affects productivity:
They say that New York is the Big Apple, but according to the statistics shown below, it looks like the computer and device company is the Biggest Apple in the basket.
Apple should be its own country. In the Democratic Republic of Apple, citizens bound by the love of their groovy devices will work, play and communicate without rancor. Just imagine happy people living together in harmony.
Facebook, the social networking giant, released the latest breakdown of what they consider to be fake users at thefirst quarterly earnings report as a public company. This is the numbers breakdown:
4.8% duplicate accounts
2.4% user-misclassified
1.5% undesirable accounts
Total: 8.7% or about 83 million fake users
