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Jim Breyer, Facebook's First Big Investor, Will Be Leaving The Board
Accel Partners' Jim Breyer will be leaving Facebook's Board of Directors, according to an SEC filing. AllThingsD's Mike Isaac was first to the news.According to the filing, Breyer told Facebook he...
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Here's The Boston Magazine Cover Everyone's Talking About
Twitter is buzzing about the cover of next month's Boston Magazine (shown below).Writer Seth Mnookin, who teaches at MIT and did a hell of a job covering the bombings, calls it an "absolute...
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Elon Musk Gave $50,000 To Speed Up Work On LA's Worst Highway
Like many California residents, Elon Musk hates driving on Interstate 405 at rush hour.Unlike them, he contributed $50,000 to an advocacy group working to improve the freeway, the LA Times...
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10 Pages On Reddit That Everyone Should Read
Reddit is awesome.The self-titled "front page of the internet" is loaded with communities of people sharing links and communicating with each other about nearly any topic you can imagine.The site is...
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Mark Zuckerberg Made $2.3 Billion Last Year (FB)
Facebook just released its first proxy form to the SEC today. In it, we get a look at how much the company's top executives were paid last year. COO Sheryl Sandberg received $26.2 million in total,...
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ROBERT SCOBLE: I Just Wore Google's Glasses For 2 Weeks And I'm Never Taking...
Tech guru Robert Scoble just "demoed" Google's computerized glasses, Google Glass, for two weeks. His thoughts are below.This week I gave five speeches while wearing it.I passed through airports four...
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People Are Willing To Pay $600,000 To Grab A Cup Of Coffee With Apple CEO Tim...
Earlier this month, Charity Buzz started an auction for a chance to have coffee with Apple CEO Tim Cook at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.The coffee is valued at $50,000, but the 86 people...
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The 30 Most Important Women Under 30 In Tech
Women are (relatively) few and far between in the tech industry.They make up less than 10% of venture capitalists, and they leave the industry at twice the rate of men, according to a recent study by...
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Mark Zuckerberg's Political Group Is Trashing Obama And Obamacare And...
If you want to get a feel for how American politics really works, as opposed to the way they tell you it works, look no further than what's going on behind the scenes at the new political action group...
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Verizon Might Have To Pay North Of $120 Billion For The Rest Of Verizon Wireless
LONDON (Reuters) - Six major Vodafone investors said $100 billion was not enough for the British company's stake in its U.S. joint venture with Verizon Communications, and urged the latter to come up...
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Apple Has A Solution For Those Who Couldn't Get Tickets To Its Biggest Event...
Tickets to Apple's huge annual developer conference, WWDC, sold out in a record two minutes when they went on sale this week.Now, Apple is acknowledging the sellout, Matthew Panzarino of The Next Web...
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The Samsung Galaxy S4 Has The Best Smartphone Camera
For most people, there are only three phones you should consider buying right now: The Samsung Galaxy S4, the HTC One, or the iPhone 5.All three are great phones.And all three make a big deal out of...
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8 Things That Anonymous, The Hacker 'Terrorist' Group, Has Done For Good
It's easy to think of the hacking group Anonymous as a group of punk troublemakers, raising hell online.Some have even debated whether their extra-legal protests should be labeled terrorist acts.But...
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What We Learned From 9 People Who Died Because Of Texting
It was normal for people to drive drunk and not bother to wear a seatbelt 50 years ago.Eventually, everyone realized how bad of an idea this was and now driving drunk and not wearing a seatbelt are...
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We Ask New Employees To Take A Two-Week Paid Vacation On Their First Day
Vacations have always been hard for me. It’s a weird thing to say, but it’s true. They just don’t come naturally to me.I remember when I was in business school, all of my classmates were taking these...
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Mark Zuckerberg Joins The $1 Salary Club
Facebook confirmed in a filing that Mark Zuckerberg, the social network’s founder and CEO, is taking a $1 salary this year and foregoing any bonuses, as well.But he’s not exactly taking a vow of...
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The Future Of Advertising Is Facial Recognition
If Rana el Kaliouby has her way, you will never have to channel surf again. Affectiva, the company that el Kaliouby founded with MIT colleague Rosalind Picard, develops technology that reads minute...
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In The Apple-Samsung Fight, The ‘Arms Dealers’ Win
Growing competition in the smartphone market has taken the shine off Apple's stock. But the stocks of the "arms dealers"—those companies providing the communications chips to the handset industry—have...
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Fear Of Failure Is Keeping Australia's Startup Scene From Exploding
ABOUT four years ago Michael Fox and two former law-school friends sniffed around for an unfilled market niche. Shoes of Prey was the result.Old-fashioned shoemakers in shops are disappearing in...
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Meet The CEO Who Lived In A Taco Bell Parking Lot And Now Runs A Cool New...
AnyPerk CEO Taro Fukuyama made a major decision in August 2011.He and his co-founders decided to leave Japan to seek investment for their dating startup, Mieple. Their first stop: Silicon Valley."I...
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