The launches increased staff numbers from 93 to 117, with those classified as "digital" jumping from 18 to 40.
The digital jumping hour and minute display is operated by a hand-wound movement incorporating a constant-force jump system that consumes a minimum of energy regardless of the winding tension.
So get ready to travel back to the early days of digital and jump forward to imagine the web in 2096.
The Economist is far from the only publishing company whose senior executives fret about Flipboard and its rivals eating their lunch, while business development and digital teams jump at the chance to partner with such apps.
Companies were advised to unload the baggage of hard assets, like factories or oilfields, which hold you back in the digital long jump, and concentrate on buzz and brand.
As more digital pioneers jump on the bandwagon, it will be interesting to see who wins in the arms race for voice-to-voice conversations.
Digital revenues jumped 47.5% to £14.9m.
Sales of digital singles jumped 65percentt last year, to about 582 million units.
The total value of all bitcoins in circulation hit a record high above $14bn£11bnbn) on Thursday, as the web-based digital currency jumped 5% to its highest levels in three years after more than doubling in price this year.
Mr. Levin and Mr. Schroeder are following the same path as two prominent members of Microsoft's growing research division, Butler Lampson and Charles Thacker, both of whom worked at the Xerox research center and then Digital before jumping to Microsoft, which is based in Redmond, Wash.
