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Memo: Susan Lyne's Master Plan For AOL
Susan Lyne just sent her first memo to the AOL content team. She joined from Gilt Groupe, where she was co-chairperson and formerly, the CEO.Her plan is to think more about customers, less about...
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Now The 'Ain't Nobody Got Time' Lady Is A Startup Spokesperson
Remember Sweet Brown, the Oklahoma City woman who told a local TV-news station that she fled an apartment fire because she suffered from bronchitis and "ain't nobody got time for that"?The video became...
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Federated Media CEO Deanna Brown Is Out And Ad Visionary John Battelle Is...
It's been a rough year or two for Federated Media, an advertising company that helped many companies like Business Insider and TechCrunch get off the ground monetarily.Today, the company announced that...
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CHART OF THE DAY: Can iTunes Save Apple's Margins? (AAPL)
Apple's margins have been compressing, and it has investors worried.Can iTunes sales, specifically software sales made through iTunes, save the day?Asymco's Horace Dediu, who made the chart below,...
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Elon Musk Tried To Impress Bloomberg TV's Betty Liu By Playing Linkin Park...
Bloomberg TV's Betty Liu visited Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently to take a spin in the company's controversial Model S.Before they hit the road, Musk showed off his ride's sweet sound system, which he...
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ANDREW MASON OUT AS GROUPON CEO — STOCK SPIKES AFTER HOURS
It's happened.Andrew Mason is out as CEO of Groupon, according to a release from the company just now. In a separate email to employees, Mason bluntly states that he was fired.The stock is surging...
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Groupon CEO Andrew Mason's Honest, Charming Goodbye Memo: 'I Was Fired Today'...
Groupon just fired its CEO, Andrew Mason.Mason appears to have posted a farewell memo online.(This is for Groupon employees, but I'm posting it publicly since it will leak anyway)People of...
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Facebook Finally Acquired Microsoft Atlas To Take On Google
After a period of speculation, Facebook finally proved that the rumors were true and announced its acquisition of Microsoft's Atlas ad server on its blog today.While we don't know the exact price...
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Eric Lefkofsky, Groupon's New Interim Co-CEO, Has Some Cozy Deals With His...
Groupon's founder and executive chairman, Eric Lefkofsky, just took on the role of temporary co-CEO as the company searches for a replacement for Andrew Mason in the top job. Lefkofsky shares the role...
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Here's The Infamous Battletoads Level That Andrew Mason Mentioned In His...
Andrew Mason is out as CEO of Groupon.In his charming farewell letter to employees, he mentions Battletoads, a video game for the NES back in the day."If Groupon was Battletoads, it would be like I...
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THE GLORY DAYS: How Andrew Mason And Groupon Rose To Incredible Heights (GRPN)
Grouponfired Andrew Mason today. How did such a quirky person end up the CEO of a global company in the first place? We tell that story in here, in an excerpt from Business Insider's 2011 e-Book:...
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This Futuristic City Car Will Be Made With 3D Printing
Engineer Jim Kor wants to make a car that is efficient, affordable, simple, and safe, and that can be easily produced in small or large numbers.And he's doing it with 3D printing.The car he's developed...
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The Weird Things Andrew Mason Did As CEO Of Groupon (GRPN)
Andrew Masonis out as CEO of Groupon.With the company's stock price in long decline, it's hardly a surprise.But we'd like to take a look at Mason's weirder, more lighthearted side.Groupon established...
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A Video Conference Company Put Up A Billboard Just For Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer's new rule that Yahoo employees can no longer work from home has been the talk of tech blogs, mommy blogs, and everyone else who works for a living.Taking advantage of the hype, video...
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Now Amazon Veterans Are Running Groupon (GRPN, AMZN)
Now that Groupon has fired its CEO, Andrew Mason, the e-commerce company is largely in the hands of its current management team.And more than half of its management team previously worked at the...
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Groupon Employees Wanted Andrew Mason Fired, Too
One reason why Andrew Mason held onto his job as Groupon CEO for long, we were told, was that he had the support of employees—and ousting him would crush morale.That no longer seems to be the case,...
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What It Means When We Take Selfie Photos
Consider this: Instagram has 100 million active users.And the Facebook-owned photo-sharing service has, at last count, 109 million photos tagged, simply, "#me."By the numbers, if you're on Instagram...
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Zuckerberg Already Described How Facebook's Most Central Feature Is Going To...
Next Thursday, Facebook is holding an event at its Menlo Park headquarters to show a new version of its "News Feed."The News Feed is that center column of status updates, photo albums, and news stories...
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My Job Interview With Salesforce's Marc Benioff Was The Weirdest 7 Minutes Of...
If you find yourself lucky enough to be up for a top job at Salesforce.com, you might be whipped into CEO Marc Benioff's presence for a job interview.Prepare yourself for an odd experience, says Freddy...
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Illinois Tells Square To Stop Taking Payments
The state of Illinois has issued a cease-and-desist order to Square, the mobile-payments company.State regulators wrote in the order (PDF) that Square is "engaged in the business of transmitting money...
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