Last spring, Page and Co. retired iGoogle, Google Mini and other services as part of a 'spring cleaning' initiative to help it better focus its efforts, and another clean-up round has just begun.
The offers of sex-for-cash with which The Economist's correspondent and most other male visiting journalists were bombarded (for all the official efforts at a clean-up) during John Paul's visit do not spring solely from the fact that Cuba is poor, foreigners rich and dollars worth having.
Smart grid company Silver Spring Networks, which set the terms of its IPO earlier this week, is the latest clean-tech company aiming to provide a jolt to the industry.
The clean-energy glut was predictable, given the tendency of snow to melt in the spring and given whopping increases in the region's wind-generating capacity.