We've just had the revised productivity figures for the 1 st quarter for the US economy from the Labor Department. But by definition business software investment is spending on such that gets amortised over more than one year. And what's the big rise in business software this past decade? Which, by definition as it gets paid for on a monthly basis, isn't counted as business software investment. Something similar is happening with the US productivity numbers and the best specific example of this I've found is with Facebook's WhatsApp.

Source: Forbes June 05, 2017 17:03 UTC