The Sage Group paid CEO Steve Kelly about $2.3 million for the year ended September 30, according to the remuneration section of the company's 2015 annual report. That was for Kelly's first year running the software company. He started in November. Those numbers include salary, benefits, bonus and pension. The reports for remuneration in the United Kingdom do not lump in the value of stock and option grants as is the practice in this country.

Air New Zealand has named Avi Golan, VP of Intuit's Small Business Group, to the role of chief digital officer. His hiring was reported in New Zealand business publications last week. Golan had served in the Intuit job since November 2013. His LinkedIn profile described the position as leading "the platform strategy to grow the QuickBooks ecosystem ..."

Ninety percent of world's data has been created in the last year and I think I'm getting it via my email system. ... Someone asked me if I liked cat videos. I said, "No, and I don't think their little paws can handle the controls on the cameras." ... In response to the overreaction to gluten in food, I am preparing a cookbook that celebrates gluten-infused food. ... I was explaining the plot of Verdi's opera, "La Traviata", in which Alfredo is in love with Violetta, a courtesan.