San Francisco magazine says all the heat surrounding Bitcoin has attracted the kind of unsavory schemers you might have once found on the trading room floor. But they're not just trying to manipulate the Bitcoin market. Their plan of attack relies on the frantic hype surrounding new varieties of "altcoins," like say Dogecoin:
Historically, introducing your internet-based company to a new audience via Super Bowl airtime hasn't always worked so well. But maybe Squarespace will wind up on the E*Trade side of things, rather than Lifeminders.com and the rest of the corpses.
The boy king of NASDAQ has earned $3.4 billion dollars for himself this year alone, Bloomberg, reports, owing mostly to Facebook buoyant stock prices.. It's barely February.
Dell is rumored to be laying off more than 15,000 employees, or about 15 percent of its staff, this week because of reduced demands for PCs. Never have the words "management has every conference room booked" sounded so ominous.
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Makers began as a documentary about the history of women's equality developed by AOL and PBS, but seems to have morphed into a brand of its own. Next week, Makers is hosting a three-day conference where Sheryl Sandberg, Eric Schmidt, Tim Armstrong, and others plan to "reset the agenda for women in the workplace in the 21st century."
Every year, a chosen cadre of investors, high profile tech luminaries, and startup folk get together at the SV Angel Summit. A tipster tells us this year's confidential confab is happening today, with an off-the-record cocktail party and mayoral meet-and-greet this evening. Such fun! Let's look at the guest list.
Just because Bitcoin is the future doesn't mean its true believers don't respect tradition
Last week, Medium editor Arikia Millikan published a bizarre essay about an “important war correspondent” who gave her a “red-blooded introduction to journalism” by drinking with her, seducing her, maybe sleeping with her, and telling her all of his secrets—including marital infidelity and a suicide attempt involving a shotgun. It’s supposedly a story of how “Tom Random,” the name she gives her famous mentor, exploited Millikan’s naiveté. Turns out that most or all of it is horseshit, and its author won’t say what—if anything—actually happened.
Foursquare just struck a $15 million, non-exclusive licensing deal with Microsoft to "work Foursquare's data into its products." Now if Foursquare could just get the other apps that use its data, like Instagram, to start paying, it would be in stay in business.
Hey there, I'm glad we're watching CNBC together. Don't those Silicon Valley entrepreneurs look awful young? Especially that main one ringing the NASDAQ bell, with the spiky hair and shifty eyes?
This morning, the world woke up to two "humbled" letters from two chief executives: Satya Nadella and Mark Zuckerberg. But you didn't need to read their words that closely because the CEOs proceeded to repeat them—almost verbatim—on camera not long after.
New @Medium office is spacious enough to make this feasible: "Can I move in to save rent and not be caught?" pic.twitter.com/q6RKGXwgI7
— Adam Debreczeni (@heyadam) February 4, 2014
A pending lawsuit
Buried in AOL's summary of its 2014 employee benefits was a tweak to its retirement policy that the Washington Post says will "make 401(k)s worse for everyone." AOL must agree because an article about the bad corporate precedent was removed from the front page of the Huffington Post yesterday, although not from the website entirely.
A random Verizon customer service rep admitted that the telecom giant has been using its recent net neutrality victory to limit bandwidth to Netflix and Amazon AWS services. Verizon corporate denies it: "We treat all traffic equally."
When we first read over superstar tech capitalist Tim Draper's "Six Californias" plan to make
