Factualities for March 27, 2019

March 27, 2019

Believe these numerical wonders or not.

5.7 percent. Percentage increase in mental health problems when companies shift to performance based pay. Source: Academy of Management

9. Number of hours the US iGen generation spends in front of a screen. The Conversation

4.2 million. Number of Sony virtual reality headsets sold since 2016. Source: Bit Tech

90 percent. Percentage of Americans with pesticides in their blood. Source: The Nation

61 percent. Percentage of chief information officers who believe employees leak data maliciously. Source: Help Net Security

37 percent. Percentage of worldwide mobile traffic consumed by YouTube viewers. Source: Search Engine Journal

$479 million. Value of Microsoft’s Hololens deal with the Pentagon which MSFT employees want the company to cancel. Source: Market.us

<3 percent. Computing devices properly wiped before recycling. Source: Dark Reading

10.5 billion. Number of malware attacks in 2018. Source:IT Pro Portal

33 percent. Percentage of time that television ads play to an empty room. Source: Quartz

73 percent. Amount of activity a person’s second most used app receives. Source: Discover

$76,000. Amount a scammer earned through domain squatting. Source: Next Web

$3.2 million. Amount Google will “give” to the Asia Pacific Innovation Challenge. Source: Branding in Asia

$123 million. Amount Facebook and Google paid to a Lithuanian who submitted fake invoices to the companies. Source: ZDNet

$3.1 billion. Amount Uber paid for Careem on demand taxi service. Source: SFGate

Stephen E Arnold, March 27, 2019

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