Groupon Off: The Juiciest Bits from Business Insider’s Massive Groupon Story
Groupon, Groupon, Groupon: Everyone's talking about the original daily deals company in the leadup to their public debut on the markets. Everyone has a theory about what their company is and isn't;...
View ArticleHype Man Henry Blodget Is At It Again, Profiling Mark Zuckerberg in New York...
This week's cover story for New York magazine is a rather defensive profile of Mark "Watch Out My IPO Pop" Zuckerberg that seems designed to convince readers that Zuck having 57 percent of Facebook...
View ArticleBooting Up: Long Live Yahoogle Edition
(Photo: Top News) Marissa Mayer is reportedly getting straight to work Googlifying Yahoo. She officially made the food in the Valley HQ free again, much to the delight of the company's starving...
View ArticleThe Rise and Fall of New York Founders on Vanity Fair’s ‘New Establishment’ List
(Photo: Vanity Fair) Annie Leibovitz's Silicon Alley photo shoot has finally made its way into print, as part of Vanity Fair’s annual "New Establishment" list. As we'd hoped, the magazine opted to pose...
View ArticleRumor Roundup: Apple Aggressively Recruits Devs to Fix Maps, Jake Lodwick’s...
It's a gloomy, rainy Friday in New York, but we're about to serve you a piping hot bowl of gossip. Bon appetit! Map-maker, Map-maker, Build Me a Map! If Tim Cook's mea culpa wasn't enough to...
View ArticleWhy Yes, Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Would Love to Talk About Rumors of His...
No fair distracting us with cattitude. (Photo: Vanity Fair) Late last night, Twitter tongues wagged as to whether Groupon's goofy CEO Andrew Mason would actually show up for his scheduled appearance at...
View ArticleSmiling Andrew Mason Tells Henry Blodget That Contrary to Reports, Groupon...
Mason (screen grab). What's a young CEO to do amid rumors that he may soon be relieved of his duties? Hunker down and lobby privately for an extended tenure? Or sit for a public interview on the...
View Article10gen Founder Dwight Merriman Ditches CEO Title to Become the Chairman Who Codes
(Photo: AlleyCorp) A little more than a year ago, Betabeat reported that despite his lofty role as chairman and chief executive officer of 10gen, the company behind the MongoDB database language,...
View ArticleBusiness Insider Might Not Make a Mint, But Henry Blodget Is a Hell of a Hype...
YO. (Photo: TechCrunch ) File this one under 'second acts in American lives': This week, Business Insider honcho Henry Blodget gets the New Yorker treatment (subscription only, you cheap bastards),...
View ArticleJeff Bezos Invests in Business Insider to Fund More Henry Blodget Crotch Shots
(Photo: AlanLevenson.com) In a stunning gesture of support for exclusive airplane journalism, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is leading a $5 million round in Business Insider, the web property helmed by Henry...
View ArticleBooting Up: The Wall Street Journal Has Discovered Weird Twitter
(Photo: Twitter) Members of Congress know as little about what the NSA's up to as American citizens do. [The Guardian] Here, have some unsolicited advice about how to solve the tech talent shortage...
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