STEVE SCHWARZMAN: Blackstone 'Didn't Even Look At Dell' And This Is Not The...
Billionaire private equity tycoon Steve Schwarzman, the CEO of Blackstone, spoke with Bloomberg TV's Erik Schatzker at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland covering a gamut of topics from...
View ArticleThe Nexus 4 Is Back In Stock At T-Mobile (GOOG)
Google's flagship Nexus 4 phone is the best smartphone you can't buy. Since its launch in November of last year, Google has struggled to keep the phone in stock.Today, T-Mobile has some Nexus 4s in...
View ArticleDying 23-Year-Old Raised Money To Have Herself Frozen After Death
A 23-year-old woman who recently died from brain cancer might get a second chance at life.Before Kim Suozzi died this month, she wrote on her blog that her last wish was to be cryogenically preserved,...
View ArticleThe Head Of A Government Agency Just Blew Me Off To Meet With Marissa Mayer
Well, this is amusing.At about 2:25pm Swiss time today, I surrendered my hard-won chair in one of the World Economic Forum conference lounges and headed upstairs to a suite of discreet meeting...
View ArticleQuantcast Shows Pinterest Traffic Tanking, But ComScore Says Its Up Huge*
Judging by this Quantcast chart, spotted by New York startup guy Drew Breunig, Pinterest appears to be losing momentum.The problem is, Quantcast is very accurate when it directly measures sites, but...
View ArticleMore Than 20 Women Are Suing A Texas 'Revenge Porn' Site And GoDaddy
As "revenge porn" sites grow in popularity, women who say they've been exploited are starting to fight back.In Texas, at least 23 women have filed a class-action lawsuit against Texxxan.com and its...
View ArticleThis Woman Went From Child Soldier To Tech CEO
Ping Fu hasn't had the most traditional path to entrepreneurialism.When Fu was only eight years old, Mao Zedong's Red Guards took her from her home, forcing her to be a child soldier.Fu had to work in...
View ArticleHere's Facebook's Official Policy For Punishing Ad Clients Who Don't Do As...
Last September, we reported that Facebook sometimes appears to play favorites with its advertising clients, rewarding those it favors and informally punishing those who fall from grace.Turns out we...
View ArticleThis App Makes Note Taking As Simple As Writing A Tweet
The build-in note-taking app on your iPhone is pretty boring, only recently gaining the ability to sync your notes over the Web to your Mac.It's not nearly as robust as other apps like Evernote.But...
View ArticleBII REPORT: How Location-Based Data Is Transforming The Entire Mobile Industry
The possibilities for location-based services on mobile go beyond consumer-facing apps like FourSquare and Shopkick.With over 770 million GPS-enabled smartphones, location data has begun to permeate...
View ArticleSiri Was Supposed To Be On Android Phones Before Apple Took It Over (AAPL, GOOG)
Siri's origins aren't what you might expect. Huffington Post's Bianca Bosker wrote up an extensive origin story full of interesting nuggets.Siri was originally a project spun out from a $150 million...
View ArticleThis Is A Pretty Incredible Chart Depicting Samsung's Rise (SSNLF, NOK)
Fortune has an excellent story about the rise of Samsung, which has really thrived building Android phones.It includes this chart. Look at how Samsung eats up share from Nokia and RIM.Please follow SAI...
View ArticleGambling-With-Made-Up-Currency Site Profits $500,000+ In Just Six Months
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View ArticleThe 10 Hedge Funds With The Biggest Stakes In Apple (AAPL)
Tech giant Apple posted disappointed earnings results yesterday and missed analysts' expectations pretty much across the board. The stock, which has been a hedge fund favorite for quite some time, was...
View ArticleEarly Pinterest Investors Will Soon Be Rich, Thanks To SV Angel's $30 Million...
UPDATE: SV Angel's David Lee tells us his firm will not be buying stock from early employees, depite TechCrunch's earlier report, which has now been "clarified." Smart move by SV Angel. EARLIER:...
View ArticleThis Startup Forbids Meetings On Wednesdays
Task management startup Asana has a pretty strict "No Meeting Wednesday" policy.That's because it wants to give its employees ample time to work on projects without any disruptions.Asana co-founder...
View ArticleNokia CEO Slams Android (NOK, MSFT, GOOG)
Nokia's CEO Stephen Elopopened the possibility of making an Android phone a few weeks ago in an interview with Spanish newspaper El Pais.Today, he's changing his tune.Elop addressed Android on Nokia's...
View ArticleFive Big Questions For Michael Dell And Silver Lake (DELL)
Michael Dell is in talks with private equity firm Silver Lake to take his company, Dell, private.We spoke with a source familiar with these kinds of deals, and he gave us 5 big question to think...
View Article10 Apps That Changed How We Think About Shopping (SBUX, AAPL, AMZN, EBAY, TGT)
There was a time when e-commerce and bricks-and-mortar stores existed in separate worlds. Then came high-speed wireless and powerful smartphones, and the retailing world has never been the same.In the...
View ArticleDon't Miss The Last Chance To Enter The Webby Awards
Digital media leaders ranging from the curiously bizarre Tumblr "Kim Jong Il Looking at Things" to the ever-hilarious The Onion and Internet powerhouses Google and The New York Times agree that being...
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