Obama talks about daughter's growth spurt

As Politico's 'Click' blog rightly pointed out, this is one very good way to get yourself the "not cool, Dad" comment from your children. Above is a video [via Politico] with the president talking about his daughter's growth at a fundraiser in Kansas. 

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Facebook feeling like an older company as Zuckerberg admits that growth has slowed

Although Facebook may have had some fairly daunting issues involving privacy and its public image (not to mention a film about the company's founder that reportedly makes him look like an asshole) no one had really expected that the company will have slowed by any considerable measure in growth.

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of the company has said that the company's rapid growth is almost over, and that the company has slowed in terms of growth.

This isn't necessarily bad, however; Facebook is on track to reach what is perhaps over one billion dollars in revenue next year.

Perhaps the company will have to work on its public image, which, as of late, may have been something of a turn-off to potential users.

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China set to overtake USA in manufacturing

The US remained, by a small margin, the world's largest manufacturer last year. But this year, as the FT has reported, that crown is set to be lost to China - well, as if we didn't see that coming.

Last year, the US created 19.9 per cent of world manufacturing output, compared with 18.6 per cent for China, with the US staying ahead despite a steep fall in factory production due to the global recession.

That the US is still top comes as a surprise, since in 2008 – before the slump of the past two years took hold – IHS predicted it would lose pole position in 2009.

However, a relatively resilient US performance kept China in second place, says IHS, which predicts that faster growth in China will deny the US the top spot next year.

Read the Financial Times article 

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