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New Media Disrupted: GigaOm Web Sites Suddenly Stop Publishing Posted by Tom Foremski – March 9, 2015 Above, at the recent Crunchies Awards, Om Malik (right) is told by Mike Arrington, founder of news site Techcrunch, that there’s far more money in investing in startups than there is in publishing. The management of GigaOm, the…
Hillary Clinton seems to be preparing to run for president, and the former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina may yet enter the race on the Republican side. Whoever wins the White House in 2016, today it seems easily possible that within the next decade, the U.S. will follow Britain, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, India, Israel, Thailand, Norway and dozens of…
Photo The House minority leader, Nancy Pelosi, organized a photo in January to highlight the swearing in of 65 House Democratic women to the 114th Congress. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times Fewer large companies are run by women than by men named John, a sure indicator that the glass ceiling remains firmly in place…
Last month I turned in my badge and my iPad at CFO.com, after a year plus slightly less than 6 months. A few days earlier, my then-girlfriend had been downsized from her company in a consolidation. So I’ve been spending some time thinking about the economics of work. The last decade has seen the rise…
William Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, delivered a speech on Wednesday morning that drove home just how dangerous an investment student loans are for American taxpayers. Speaking at a conference on student loan data, Dudley outlined the consequences of the unique way the U.S. government lends money to people for college. Government student loans…
Sweet Briar College, in Sweet Briar, Va., in an undated photograph. The all-women’s school plans to close in August. (Photo by Meridith De Avila Khan/Sweet Briar College) This story has been updated. For more than a century, Sweet Briar College has offered women a liberal arts education in a pastoral setting near Virginia’s Blue Ridge…
Razing Williamsburg Who pulled the plug on America’s hippest music scene? “Peak Brooklyn” is what they’re calling it: the ubiquitous saturation of Kings County-related prose blanketing the internet. Brooklyn has become a touchstone for comparison with places the world over, based on superficial qualities like the presence of busking musicians or so-called “artisanal” retailers. And…
Feb. 27, By Christian Murray Queens Borough President Melinda Katz has been a strong advocate for decking over the Sunnyside Yard for months—despite the cool reception it has received from western Queens leaders. Katz began advocating for developing the yards in September, when she announced that they have the “potential for extraordinary development.” Katz plays…
Timing is everything. And for Joe Moser the timing was bad. He graduated from the University of Iowa’s law school in 2011, one of the worst years to graduate from law school ever. He worked as a bartender in St. Louis, Missouri, while applying for jobs. It took about a year for him to land…
The free video-streaming upstart is starting to rival the larger site for traffic in some countries, but it isn’t necessarily doing anything illegal. Popcorn Time In January, Netflix, the online video streaming site, used its quarterly letter to shareholders to take aim at a rival. Not the premium-cable channel HBO, with which it’s locked in…