Ironically as well, the shale gas revolution led by Chesapeake and others is helping to improve a technology which had traditionally been somewhat limited and slow to improve.
While that is expected to slow in the second half, somewhat, Spanish bank BBVA raised their forecast for Mexican GDP growth to 3.7 percent this year, with unemployment falling to 5.1 percent.
That's a transition Microsoft has been signaling for years with its slow accumulation of online entertainment apps, and one that seems somewhat natural given that entertainment apps are already more popular than online gaming on the Xbox 360.