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Jon Stewart riffs on the Tim Cook-US Senate love fest
Have you seen Jon Stewart’s riff on Apple CEO Tim Cook’s appearance this week before Congress, a hearing that came in with a roar and went out with a round of whimpering by our elected and Apple-loving officials? If not, move your mouse immediately to view the clip at The Daily Show’s website. You’ll be glad yo ...
News flash: People upset with Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer — this time it’s photographers
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer certainly has people paying attention: moms, telecommuters, Tumblr-heads and the rest of the tech world, of course. Now, professional photographers. “Today, with cameras as pervasive as they are there’s no such thing really as professional photographers. … Certainly, there’s varying levels of skills ...
Yahoo buys another startup, hires another new exec
It’s not as big as Tumblr, at least not in value, but Yahoo has snapped up yet another small tech company – PlayerScale, a Belmont startup that makes software infrastructure for mobile games. No price was disclosed, and it’s a sure bet that Yahoo isn’t paying anywhere near the $1.1 billion in cash that it’s laying out for Tumblr ...
HP’s earnings draw mixed reaction from analysts
Wall Street on Thursday seemed conflicted about Hewlett-Packard, following the Palo Alto company’s earnings report yesterday, which beat analysts expectations but showed a continued decline in sales and profit. Here are a few examples from analysts’ notes to their clients: “Meg Whitman, in our view, has made impressi ...
Tesla Motors: From “loser” to Big Winner
In a presidential debate last fall, Republican candidate Mitt Romney famously called Tesla Motors (and other clean energy companies that got federal loans) a “loser.” Sarah Palin lumped Tesla in with struggling Fisker Automotive in a Facebook post in April. And Fox News has been highly critical of Tesla – until recen ...
Quoted: on the evolution and appeal of bitcoins
“The libertarians’ zeal took Bitcoin from nothing to something, and then you had people that were attracted by the anonymous nature, who mostly use it for online gambling. But the appeal of zero transaction costs is universal.” — Jeremy Liew, a partner with Menlo Park-based Lightspeed Venture Partners. With investor ...

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