5:53 PM
The IRS is evaluating if the free food that Google, Facebook, and other high tech companies should be considered a *taxable* fringe benefit. Other lawyers argue that meals can avoid tax status if they are "noncompensatory" and are for the "convenience of the employer". Google has more than 120 cafes world-wide serving 50,000 meals per day...a valuation of $8 to $10 per meal could result in $5k/year extra tax for employees!
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/04/wsj-.html
Nitric oxide (NO) is a gas that has many functions in healthy cells...but also appears to help some cancer cells survive chemo. Research found that cancer cells may be weakened by cutting off their supply of NO. It is interesting that one common chemotherapy drug *increases* NO levels in breast and colon cancers, so the chemo drug itself may help the cancer survive chemo:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/04/study-reveals-how-melanoma-evades-chemotherapy
Study found that women who take aspirin on a regular basis reduce their risk of skin cancer (melanoma). The longer women have been taking aspirin daily, the lower their risk of skin cancer:
http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2013/march/tang.html
Apple and Yahoo are in talks to use Yahoo services more in the iPhone and iPad. Apple already preloads Yahoo weather and finance apps and uses Yahoo data for Siri, but they are looking to expand this relationship. Yahoo would love to provide search data to Apple and Apple would love to move away from Google...but Google is already under contract for iOS search and Microsoft's Bing search engine actually provides the results for Yahoo so I would think Microsoft would have to be cut into an Apple/Yahoo deal:
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/report-apple-yahoo-talks-deeper-ios-integration/2013-04-10
Dish now has a record $10 bil in cash on hand, giving them more money than any U.S. TV or phone provider. Dish already had over $6 bil on hand when they sold $2.3 bil in debt...so they obviously have HUGE plans that need more than $7 bil:
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-04-09/dish-deals-made-possible-by-exxon-like-cash-real-m-and-a
Last year it was said that Microsoft would be bringing Office for iOS and Android in 2013...but now that date has apparently slipped and Office will only be on Windows Phone until October 2014 (or Microsoft could slip in schedule again and push Android and iOS to 2015:
http://www.zdnet.com/microsofts-office-for-ios-android-not-until-fall-2014-7000013819/
Stanford is an example of how Universities are being increasingly selective in admitting freshman--in 2010, 7.2% of high school seniors who applied were accepted--that dropped to 7.1% in 2011, 6.6% in 2012, and a record low 5.69% in 2013. Stanford accepted just 2,210 students out of 38,828 applicants. Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Princeton also admitted record low rates of 5.8%, 6.72%, 6.89%, and 7.29%, respectively:
http://www.stanforddaily.com/2013/03/31/class-of-2017-admit-rate-marks-record-low/
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2013/04/wsj-.html
Nitric oxide (NO) is a gas that has many functions in healthy cells...but also appears to help some cancer cells survive chemo. Research found that cancer cells may be weakened by cutting off their supply of NO. It is interesting that one common chemotherapy drug *increases* NO levels in breast and colon cancers, so the chemo drug itself may help the cancer survive chemo:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/04/study-reveals-how-melanoma-evades-chemotherapy
Study found that women who take aspirin on a regular basis reduce their risk of skin cancer (melanoma). The longer women have been taking aspirin daily, the lower their risk of skin cancer:
http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2013/march/tang.html
Apple and Yahoo are in talks to use Yahoo services more in the iPhone and iPad. Apple already preloads Yahoo weather and finance apps and uses Yahoo data for Siri, but they are looking to expand this relationship. Yahoo would love to provide search data to Apple and Apple would love to move away from Google...but Google is already under contract for iOS search and Microsoft's Bing search engine actually provides the results for Yahoo so I would think Microsoft would have to be cut into an Apple/Yahoo deal:
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/report-apple-yahoo-talks-deeper-ios-integration/2013-04-10
Dish now has a record $10 bil in cash on hand, giving them more money than any U.S. TV or phone provider. Dish already had over $6 bil on hand when they sold $2.3 bil in debt...so they obviously have HUGE plans that need more than $7 bil:
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-04-09/dish-deals-made-possible-by-exxon-like-cash-real-m-and-a
Last year it was said that Microsoft would be bringing Office for iOS and Android in 2013...but now that date has apparently slipped and Office will only be on Windows Phone until October 2014 (or Microsoft could slip in schedule again and push Android and iOS to 2015:
http://www.zdnet.com/microsofts-office-for-ios-android-not-until-fall-2014-7000013819/
Stanford is an example of how Universities are being increasingly selective in admitting freshman--in 2010, 7.2% of high school seniors who applied were accepted--that dropped to 7.1% in 2011, 6.6% in 2012, and a record low 5.69% in 2013. Stanford accepted just 2,210 students out of 38,828 applicants. Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Princeton also admitted record low rates of 5.8%, 6.72%, 6.89%, and 7.29%, respectively:
http://www.stanforddaily.com/2013/03/31/class-of-2017-admit-rate-marks-record-low/