It is the worst outage to date for Gmail, a browser-based E-mail service that has been growing at 40 per cent a year and gaining on its bigger rivals, Yahoo mail and Microsoft 's Hotmail.
Analysts surveyed by Bloomberg predict 24 percent growth in third-quarter profit from a year earlier for S&P 500 companies, the fourth straight quarterly increase.
Our source also noted that in their contract, A.T. Kearney explicitly states that the base salary will not be increased until January 2013, which is approximately 1.5 years after starting fulltime.
The second sell-off happened last week, when Mr Semel warned investors at a conference hosted by Goldman Sachs that growth in online advertising was not quite what he had hoped.