Actually, that's not what happened. In fact the Congress has been implementing more wind subsidies because the market has been shrinking otherwise. What happened to wind market was a combination of two things: back in 2008 debt markets and natural gas prices collapsed almost simultaneously. Debt markets have recovered, but natural gas prices have not. Today it's much cheaper to build natural gas power plants than it is to develop wind farms. Really, though, Pickens should've seen it coming 2 years ago (and privately he did - he's been trying to sell all those GE turbines for a while now).

You can buy the RadioTime app for something like $4 that will give you most of your local radio stations and almost any streaming station from around the world.

Sorry for replying to my own post; the revenue growth in question is actually around 25% year over year as can be gleaned from the financials released by Skype.

Dear Slashdot (and TechCrunch for that matter), please don't switch to financial analysis just yet. The statement "But a big portion of that was from interest income." is both misleading (why focus on this portion of the financial statement as opposed to the operational part?) and incorrect (net financial result is actually a loss of about $4.3M). Additionally, when you say that "this isn't exactly a new business", that implies that there is lack of growth and the 3% return on revenue is somewhat indicative of future potential, while in the very next sentence you show that there was over 50% growth in revenue.

You're absolutely correct! Planned economies are far more efficient at enslaving their people and slave trade.

If what you're saying were true, then the markets would've never recovered. The facts show otherwise, though: the markets recovered within 10 minutes of the glitch.

What makes you think that high frequency trading made it worse? If anything, HFTs are the reason the markets recovered so quickly.

Should've been insightful, actually.