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Began day by looking at cat videos and Reddit for two hours Also wasted time on eBay, Facebook and LinkedIn
It was nice work while it lasted. A software developer making six-figures was fired after his bosses learned [...] Even as retailers debate the efficacy of social-media marketing on Facebook and Twitter, they have no doubts about the power of a decades-old technology to drive sales. The killer app is called e-mail. Retailers as disparate as Williams-Sonoma Inc. (WSM) and Home Depot Inc. (HD) have become much better at tailoring e-mails to specific customers rather than the one-size-fits-all blasts that once dominated this type of marketing. Measured by sales per dollar spent, e-mail outperforms [...] Californian based eHarmony, one of the world’s most popular online dating websites has admitted the personal passwords of some of its customers were hacked and posted online. The company which has over 20 million registered users confirmed that passwords had been compromised but did not confirm the exact number, although some technological experts have put the figure at 1.5 million. ‘After investigating reports of compromised passwords, we have found that a small [...] 6.5 million encrypted LinkedIn passwords have leaked, reports Norwegian IT site Dagens IT (found via The Next Web). The passwords were shared via a Russian hacker site, and security researcher Per Thorsheim confirms that the leak is legit. LinkedIn hasn’t offered any statement on the incident at the time of this writing, but we would strongly suggest changing your password. Click here to learn how to change your LinkedIn password > Click here to check if your password has been hacked [...] AFP – LinkedIn acknowledges password breach The professional social network LinkedIn said Wednesday some of its members’ passwords were stolen after reports said more than 6.4 million accounts were breached. “We can confirm that some of the passwords that were compromised correspond to LinkedIn accounts. We are continuing to investigate this situation,” LinkedIn director Vicente Silveira said in a blog post. Silveira said passwords on the compromised accounts were no longer valid, and [...] Ryan Devereaux The gathering outside the Westfield Marriott hotel in Chantilly included Ron Paul supporters, Occupy veterans, members of the 9/11 truth movement and Oath Keepers, a Tea Party-affiliated group comprised of military and law enforcement officers. Carrying signs with messages such as “Humanity is winning” and “Warning to secret societies: you are pissing off American patriots. We have machine guns also,” the 200 or so protesters could only [...] It’s hard to overstate how big a disaster the Facebook IPO has been for NASDAQ, one of the United States’ two big stock exchanges.
People often forget that the NASDAQ and New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) are private companies, just like the companies that list on them. As such, the exchanges compete fiercely for “clients”—which in this case are public companies looking for a place to list their stocks. 15 years ago, in [...] While Friending and Tweeting may still be the most common actions among the social media savvy, Pinning is becoming more and more popular as well. Pinterest, the picture-sharing program that allows users to essentially create ‘vision boards’ of their favorite things, is now the third most popular social network based on visits from American users. In place after Facebook and Twitter, Pinterest had 104,415,903 unique visits last month alone. Presidential Pinterest: Mr Obama’s [...] He has famously lambasted the value of a university education and has even offered students cash to drop out. But now PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel is doing the unthinkable: he’s teaching a class at one of the country’s top educational institutions. Thiel, who has invested bundles of cash in startup companies in Silicon Valley, will teach ‘Computer Science 183: Startup’ at Stanford University. Yet students should not be fooled that this is his [...] Image: NASDAQ From FT:
Short sellers have targeted Groupon in the days after its initial public offering, as they did social network LinkedIn after its debut earlier this year. The online coupon seller sold shares last week and saw them jump 31 per cent from their $20 IPO price in the first day of trading.
The shares were still 21 per cent higher by Thursday. But, when it first became possible to short the shares this [...] Image: Wikipedia Shawn DeCelle, a former bank agent, admitted he stole a meat slicer, bowls, chairs, steamer trays and a bunch of other stuff from a foreclosed bed and breakfast in upstate New York, AP reported. [via WSJ]
DeCelle, 44, stole the items from Marie’s Dream House in West Kill, Greene County, which was under foreclosure, AP reported. Although it sounds ridiculous, it’s some pretty serious stuff. Those items were technically the property of his former [...] (Reuters) – Swiss bank UBS said a trader had lost it around $2 billion in unauthorized deals, and police in London arrested 31-year old Kweku Adoboli in connection with the case. Adoboli — a director of exchange traded funds and “Delta 1″ working in the bank’s London office, according to his profile on networking site LinkedIn — was arrested on suspicion of fraud, sources told Reuters. “I can [...] Zynga Inc., a company that sells imaginary tractors and other make-believe goods in online games, plans to raise some very real money from public investors. After weeks of speculation, the San Francisco start-up—maker of “FarmVille,” “CityVille” and other games played on Facebook’s website—on Friday filed for an initial public offering in a deal that could value it as high as $20 billion, said people familiar [...] (Credit: CBS) CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto. In a sign of increasing pessimism about the direction of the U.S. economy, roughly four in ten Americans now believes it is in permanent decline, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll. The percentage that sees the economy as in permanent decline has increased [...] By Brett Arends, MarketWatch
BOSTON (MarketWatch) — It‘s cost $600 billion of your money. And it was supposed to rescue the economy. But has Ben Bernanke’s huge financial stimulus package, known as “Quantitative Easing 2,” actually worked as planned?
QE2 is being wound down in the next few weeks. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has said it has left the economy “moving in the right direction.” But an analysis [...] Less than one week after LinkedIn’s blockbuster debut, Wall Street is gearing up for the initial public offering of yet another multibillion-dollar Internet start-up. Yandex, one of Russia’s largest Web companies, will price its offering at $25 a share, well above expectations, according to a person briefed on the deal who was not permitted to discuss the offering. The Moscow-based company, which is set to go [...] BOSTON (MarketWatch) — It‘s cost $600 billion of your money. And it was supposed to rescue the economy. But has Ben Bernanke’s huge financial stimulus package, known as “Quantitative Easing 2,” actually worked as planned? QE2 is being wound down in the next few weeks. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has said it has left the economy “moving in the right direction.” But an analysis of the real numbers [...] LinkedIn Corp., the largest professional-networking website, more than doubled in the first day of trading after its initial public offering. The stock surged as much as $47.99 to $92.99 and traded at $83.32 at 10:05 a.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. The Mountain View, California-based company sold 7.84 million shares at $45 each, according to a statement released yesterday. The company had raised the proposed range for the share [...] LinkedIn Prices IPO At $32 To $35 Per Share; Expects $146.6M In Net Proceeds From Offering After disclosing its intention to list its IPO on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol LNKD, LinkedIn has released a new filing with the SEC that shows that it is pricing its IPO between $32.00 and $35.00 per share. LinkedIn filed its initial S-1 in January, with the total offering amount of $175 [...] I graduated with a B.S. in Physics in December of 2009. I had lost my part-time job in January of 2009 that I was using to supplement my student loans that I was using to support myself during college. After graduating I could not find a job. Since I was only employed part-time I didn’t qualify for unemployment insurance. I sent out over 200 resumes, attended job fairs, trade shows, [...] From Reuters: LinkedIn, the Internet social network for professionals, launched a service on Thursday that creates a customized online newspaper from articles being shared by the network’s more than 90 million members and by users of Twitter. The new service, called LinkedIn Today, displays excerpts of the most popular articles in various industries, in a move that the company hopes will spur users to interact [...] |
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