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…
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13 Companies That Did Social Media Right This Year
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1. Taco Bell’s foray into Snapchat to announce the return of the Beefy Crunch Burrito View this image › TechCrunch / Via wordpress.com On April 30, Taco Bell asked users via Twitter to add the fast-food chain on Snapchat. It then sent a snap to fans announcing the reintroduction of the Beefy Crunch Burrito. 2.…
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Exclusive: CNBC Considering Suing Producer Who Left For Social Media Company
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View this image › Screen grab of a StockTwits stream. Via stocktwits.com Executives at business news cable network CNBC are threatening to file a breach of contract lawsuit against a producer who left to become chief executive of StockTwits, which describes itself as a real-time social network for investors and traders, according to two sources…
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What Twitter’s Top 3 Executives Made In 2012
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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…
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13 Super-Hot People Who Happen To Be CEOs
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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…
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How The Stock Market Became A War Zone
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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…
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The SEC Gave One Guy $14 Million And It Has $439 Million To Do It Again And Again
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The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the results of the second year of its whistleblower program, part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill, that lets the SEC anonymously pay individuals who come forward to the Commission and provide information that lead to a penalty greater than $1 million. This year, the SEC got 3,238 tips…
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Celebrate The Colorful Diversity Of The Last 100 Years Of Fed Chairmen
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To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Federal Reserve, we’re reposting this look at a century of diversity and inclusion in the leadership of America’s central bank. (12/23/2013) 2. Wednesday, Obama will nominate Janet Yellen to be chair of the Federal Reserve. This is the first time a woman has been nominated…
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The Remarkable Life Of The Dock Connector
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Proximity Of Store Locations Could Factor Into Potential Saks, Neiman-Marcus Deal
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Rumors are swirling this week about a potential tie-up of two high-end department stores: Neiman Marcus Group Inc. and Saks Inc. After the New York Post reported that Saks hired Goldman Sachs to help it explore strategic alternatives, including a possible sale of the company, Bloomberg News followed with a scoop saying that private-equity firm…
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Do You Know How Big Alibaba Really Is?
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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?…
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Descriptions Of Twitter From The Annals Of Urban Dictionary
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Here are a bunch of Urban Dictionary definitions from various points in Twitter’s history. Twitter has changed a lot in recent years — focusing more on conversations and the like lately — so keep that in mind as most of the top results on Urban Dictionary come from around 2009. A few from other times…
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Another AOL Property Is Set For A Major Revamp
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View this image › Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images AOL is planning a major revamp of one of its largest assets — and no, it’s not Patch. The company is looking to change the direction of the AOL.com homepage, which still attracts a surprising 7.4 million unique visitors daily. As part of the changes, which…
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Twitter Is Going Public
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Redemption Day
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Jamie Dimon’s Pay Raise After Tumultuous Year For JPMorgan Elicits Mixed Reactions
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View this image › Yuri Gripas / Reuters The board of JPMorgan announced Friday that it had awarded Chairman and Chief Executive Jamie Dimon a 74% raise, upping his salary to $20 million, despite repeated calls throughout the year for him to either step down or give up one of his titles, the bank’s first…
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What Went Wrong For Olive Garden And Red Lobster
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Keith Bedford / Reuters Keith Bedford / Reuters Not even the breadsticks, it appears, can save Olive Garden from financial turmoil. And its sister chain under parent company Darden Restaurants’ umbrella, Red Lobster, doesn’t appear to be faring much better. That’s why a hedge fund has launched an activist campaign to break up the…
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Examples Of Awkward Teambuilding
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View this image › scpevents.com View this image › spaceghetto.org View this image › summittraining.co.uk View this image › blogger.com View this image › businesscomputingworld.co.uk View this image › View this image › wordpress.com View this image › eclipseireland.com View this image › teambuildingvenue.co.za View this image › flickr.com View this image › flickr.com View…
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Netflix CEO Makes Nasty Crack About His HBO Rival
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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…
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Going Long On A Stock Is A Lot Like “The Notebook”
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1. So you find a desirable stock worthy of investment. View this image › Via goingtowonderlandbitch.tumblr.com 2. You pick the one that you think will outperform for a long time. View this image › Via jukie1989.tumblr.com 3. You buy shares of that stock or options and take a long position. View this image › Via…