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Manager and interruptions

"DR. MINTZBERG: Yes, that comes out of my original doctoral thesis, but it’s held up throughout the years: Management is largely about interruption. But email—and especially BlackBerries in the pocket and all that—really makes it much worse."

Skype revenue per user

Interesting fact - Skype revenue from one user is $1.35. (Ebay posted $8.54 billion in revenue last year, to which Skype contributed a paltry $550 million. The basic service, calls over the internet to other Skype users, is free. Revenue comes from such up-charges as calls out to the normal telephone system, a rented telephone number so non-Skype members can call in and voicemail-to-text conversion)