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June 9, 2014
How Governors Ball Got Wireless Payments Working--In The Middle Of The New York Harbor
Mobile payments have finally made their way Stateside.
This story contains interviews with Yoni Reisman, partner at Founders Entertainment, and Bunky Dunn, account manager at TOURtech.
June 6, 2014
CIA Joins Twitter: "We Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny That This Is Our First Tweet"
In its first hour, the CIA's premiere tweet has been retweeted more than 50,000 times.
The Central Intelligence Agency made its Twitter debut Friday with a cheeky tweet that has been shared more than 50,000 times in its first hour.
Yahoo To Discontinue Flickr Logins Via Google And Facebook
Yahoo plans to discontinue third-party logins to all its services eventually.
Photo-hosting site Flickr--one of Yahoo's most valuable assets--will phase out the ability to log in with Facebook and Google accounts on June 30. Flickr users will be required to create a Yahoo account to continue accessing Flickr.
With $1.2 Billion Raised, Uber's Valuation Skyrockets To $17 Billion
About a year ago, the ridesharing startup was valued at $3.5 billion.
As widely speculated, Uber confirmed Friday that it has raised $1.2 billion, skyrocketing its valuation to $17 billion. The new round makes Uber one of the most highly valued venture-backed startups, and it expects an additional $200 million in financing from strategic investors. About a year ago, the ridesharing startup was valued at $3.5 billion.
4 Questions You Should Ask About the Jobs Recovery
Six years after the Great Recession, we're finally back to (drumroll, please): Exactly where we started.
Six years after the Great Recession, we're finally back to (drumroll, please): Exactly where we started.
There were 138.4 million jobs in 2008, when the economy first hit the doldrums. Thanks to the 217,000 nonfarm payroll jobs U.S. employers added in May, 138.5 million Americans are now employed. Too bad there are now an additional 7 million U.S. workers in the labor pool.
"Part Of My Agreement Is No Ugly Pictures Posted": The Rise Of Social Media Pre-Nups
One couple has agreed to pony up $50,000 for each violation.
It's time to have the talk.
Take A Wild Ride Through The World Of Sports With SportsNation's Rube Goldberg Machine
ESPN's SportsNation celebrates its two millionth Facebook fan with an elaborate, sports-themed chain-reaction device.
Once upon a time, brick-and-mortar companies used to celebrate their millionth customer with a barrage of balloons as they walked through the door, or so TV commercials would have us believe. But in this social-media era, the bar has been raised for celebrating milestones. Earlier this week, domino artist Hevesh5 feted his 200,000 YouTube subscribers with a mesmerizing 22,000-domino setup, and now ESPN's SportsNation has posted video of an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine honoring its 2,000,000 Facebook fans.
Head Of San Francisco Cab Company Predicts Lyft And Uber Will Put The Industry Out Of Business Soon
The city's taxi sector is already writing its own obituary. While it struggles to catch up to the innovations of upstarts, some are already acknowledging it may be too little, too late.
In some cities, ridesharing services like Lyft, Sidecar, and Uber are just starting to take hold. But in San Francisco, they're already clobbering the taxi industry. The president of DeSoto Cab Co., one of the biggest cab companies in the city, said in a recent interview that he would be surprised if San Francisco's cab industry survives another 18 months.
Behind The Burt's Bees Logo: Meet The Unlikely Beekeeper Who Became The Face Of A Global Brand
In the Maine backwoods, a loner with no TV or hot water heater lives mostly in obscurity, even as his face is plastered on beauty products sold around the world.
You could be forgiven for thinking that the picture of the bearded man found on all Burt's Bees product is just that--an illustration designed to humanize the company. But Burt Shavitz is a real man, and he's the subject of a new documentary that delves into the life of a curmudgeonly beekeeper and former photographer who improbably became the face of a global brand.
Wear This Fence From The Prison That Held Nelson Mandela
Charmaine Taylor's jewelry collection is styled out of a wire fence from Robben Island Prison, which for 18 years housed Nelson Mandela.
The 10-foot-high wire fence that once surrounded the infamous prison on Robben Island, off the coast of Cape Town, has a second life as jewelry. The prison is where Nelson Mandela spent 18 of the 27 years he served behind bars before Apartheid collapsed. Though the prison gates were opened in 1994, it wasn't until 2009 that the eyesore of a fence itself was torn down. It was destined for the scrap metal heap--until a visiting artist, Chris Swift, intervened, and took pieces of the fence to display in art installations.
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