Planet Business

Compiled by LAURA SLATTERY

68: The number of A380 superjumbos currently in service that will be checked for wing cracks in a new safety directive. A cracked Qantas A380 suffered serious engine failure in 2010.

5:The number of executives who have resigned from tech firm Yahoo so far this year, after chairman Roy Bostock and three others followed co-founder Jerry Yang out the door.

STATUS UPDATE

Goldman equality:Lloyd Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, has become the first major business leader in the US to join a media campaign in support of same-sex marriage, outlawed in 40 out of 50 US states.

Sitcom deal:US television network CBS has ordered a pilot of Friend Me, a comedy about two friends who start working for online discount sharer Groupon. But will they take up its esoteric offers?

No more sharing: BSkyB has told its Twitter-frequenting journalists to stick to tweets about stories or beats to which they have been assigned and not to retweet the tweets of people who don't work for Sky News.

SHOPTALK

Amazon might be “going Apple” – that is to say, rumours have resurfaced that it is going to grace the streets with its presence in a bricks-and-mortar-and-acrylic-shelves kind of way. Maybe it will add a trademark smell like Lush, go dark like Hollister, or go desperate like HMV.

One way Amazon’s whispered store opening in Seattle would not be like HMV is that it would likely shun stocking token physical DVDs, CDs and games. Instead, it is expected to focus on flogging its much-cherished e-reader hardware, Kindle, related paraphernalia and the odd Amazon Exclusive book title.

Last week, Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos warned investors that Amazon may lose money in the current quarter as it continues to pour cash into Kindle.

Dictionary corner: Grexit

A “Grexit”, or indeed the Grexit, is a contraction coined by Citi economists Willem Buiter and Ebrahim Rahbari for “Greek exit”. It is a term readers may, for example, find used in a sentence alongside the words “from the euro zone” and “increasingly likely”. The Citi economists have now raised their estimate of the likelihood of a Grexit to 50 per cent over the next 18 months. Before, it was only a 25-30 per cent possibility.

The implications of Grexit for the rest of the euro zone and world economy would be “negative, but moderate”. Or, indeed, as European commissioner Neelie Kroes told Dutch newspaper Volksrant this week, “When one member, leaves it doesn’t mean ‘man overboard’.”

"It's odd to claim that buyers are fooled into thinking they buy an Apple product if they get the Samsung device. You dont buy consumer electronics like you would buy butter in a supermarket, youre much more attentive.- Deputy Presiding Judge Ulrike Pastohr ruling in a patent dispute between the two companues.