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18 Songs About How Record Labels Suck

1. Pink vs. L.A. Reid, “Don’t Let Me Get Me” View this image › tumblr.com LA told me, ‘You’ll be a pop star, All you have to change is everything you are.’ Tired of being compared to damn Britney Spears She’s so pretty, that just ain’t me. 2. GZA vs. All Labels Everywhere, “Labels” [youtube…

What Twitter’s Top 3 Executives Made In 2012

1. Dick Costolo, CEO: $11,505,740* View this image › Rick Wilking / Reuters $200,000 in salary, $8.4 million in stock awards, and $2.9 millions in option awards. *In August, his salary was taken down to $14,000. 2. Christopher Fry, Senior Vice President of Engineering: $10,339,513 View this image › Via twitter.com $145,513 in salary, a…

13 Super-Hot People Who Happen To Be CEOs

1. Co-founder and CEO of Snapchat, Evan Spiegel View this image › Steve Jennings/Stringer / Getty Images Age: 23Claim to fame: Founded Snapchat with partner Bobby Murphy after dropping out of college; recently rejected a $3 billion buyout offer from Facebook. Sexy superlative: The cool kid. 2. Founder of Tumblr, David Karp View this image…

How The Stock Market Became A War Zone

Last week, a single trading company you’ve never heard of, Knight Capital, managed to lose more than $10 million per minute trading stocks — $440 million in all, in the course of just one morning. That was the result of a trading algorithm gone horribly wrong. And data company Nanex has put together an amazing…

Do You Know How Big Alibaba Really Is?

1. After rising 38% to $93.89 a share, Alibaba is worth some $231.44 billion, making the Chinese e-commerce giant worth more than some of the biggest, best-known companies in the U.S.. Can you tell which ones? View this image › Lucas Jackson / Reuters Alibaba’s founder multibillion dollar man, Jack Ma. 1. Which is bigger?…

Twitter Is Going Public

View this image › Dick Costolo, chief executive officer of Twitter, sports the company’s logo on his shirt as he arrives at the annual Allen and Co. conference in Sun Valley, Idaho July 9, 2013. Rick Wilking / Reuters Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/businesspluginfeed/twitter-is-going-public

Redemption Day

View this image › Hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen, founder and chairman of SAC Capital Advisors. Steve Marcus / Reuters Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/businesspluginfeed/temp-title-1370269488176-arae

Examples Of Awkward Teambuilding

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Netflix CEO Makes Nasty Crack About His HBO Rival

View this image › Netflix Chairman and CEO Reed Hastings. AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File Netlfix Chief Executive Reed Hastings took a swipe at his HBO rival Richard Plepler during the streaming video service’s fourth quarter conference call Wednesday. Last week, in a live interview with Buzzfeed and CBS This Morning, Plepler acknowledged the practice of…