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Dotcom Bust Kim Dotcom, the charismatic internet entrepreneur behind the Megaupload file-sharing service, is a step closer to being extradited to the U.S. on copyright infringement and money laundering charges. He lost his case at the New Zealand Court of Appeal today, leaving him with one more...

Love this quote! His biography by William Byron is worth reading.

"Skills trump passion in the quest for a work you love" - Cal Newport

California high court: Yelp can’t be ordered to remove posts Online review site Yelp.com cannot be ordered to remove posts against a San Francisco law firm that a judge determined were defamatory, a divided California Supreme Court ruled Monday in a closely watched case that internet companies...

Business Dan Loeb planning major shakeup at Campbell’s Soup By Josh Kosman and Carleton English July 2, 2018 | 8:37pm Modal Trigger Shutterstock Activist investor Dan Loeb is cooking up a plan to shake things up at Campbell Soup Co., The Post has learned. Loeb’s Third Point hedge fund is in...

Current economic conditions a key factor in assessing progress By Jacob Poushter Fifty years ago, the world was a very different place. The United States and its allies were locked in a Cold War with the Soviet Union, personal computers and mobile phones were the stuff of science fiction, and...

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“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.” - James Oppenheim

Fake News Facebook is reportedly buying a British natural-language processing company called Bloomsbury AI in order to help it fight fake news, among other things. According to TechCrunch, the deal is worth up to $30 million. The startup's research chief, Sebastian Riedel, is apparently a big...

Gmail Controversy It's not just Facebook that's getting negative attention for sharing its users' data with third parties. A new report notes that, although Google promised a year ago to stop scanning Gmail users' inboxes for marketing keywords, the company still lets "hundreds of outside...

SBA Administrator McMahon says small business options improving One person who is decidedly optimistic about the American small business economy is Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Linda McMahon, who built several businesses before becoming the head of the SBA. (Small Business...

"Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it’s an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without any thought of protecting yourself." — Joan Miró

Alphabet invests in Lime's electric scooter service You didn't think Silicon Valley's biggest names would stand on the sidelines while the electric scooter trend continued to grow, did you? Financial Times sources have learned that Alphabet has invested directly in scooter service Lime as part...

“Boldly walk into tomorrow with a purpose and a vision for a better world.” - Henry Leo Bolduc

Facebook Data You will no doubt be astonished to hear that Facebook continues to share data about friends of its users with dozens of companies, despite previously saying it no longer did so. According to a document it submitted to Congress, Facebook is still sharing such information with 61...

"We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are" - Anais Nin

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” ― Mark Twain

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” ― André Gide, Autumn Leaves

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall...