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END CLASS=”STORY-META__ONE” END CLASS=”STORY-META__TWO” END ID=”STORY-META” CLASS=”STORY-META HAS-BYLINE” Enlarge this image The Twitter symbol appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Richard Drew/AP hide caption toggle caption Richard Drew/AP The Twitter symbol appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock…
By Kerry Flynn2016-10-27 16:18:32 UTC Vine, as we know it, is over. Twitter announced on Thursday that it will shut down the Vine mobile app in the coming months. “Since 2013, millions of people have turned to Vine to laugh at loops and see creativity unfold. Today, we are sharing the news that in the…
Before he became a member of the PayPal Mafia or invested in Facebook, Silicon Valley billionaire and Donald Trump delegate Peter Thiel co-wrote a book called The Diversity Myth: Multiculturalism and Political Tolerance on Campus. Published in 1995, the book is notorious for its rigorous defense of a Stanford law student’s homophobic outbursts at a…
The divisions over Peter Thiel and his support for Donald Trump are deepening in Silicon Valley. Dismay over the billionaire venture capitalist’s stance on the Republican candidate has been showing up all across the technology landscape — from a startup founder saying he regrets taking a Trump backer’s money to a prominent diversity group refusing…
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New York Times has big plans for ‘Wirecutter’ after $30 M. acquisition if this is a ‘universal’ story then the story-tag will be ‘story’ By Peter Sterne 10/25/16 06:21 AM EDT A little less than a year ago, The New York Times began thinking about what it would be like if it did Consumer Reports-style…
Economies need competition to work. Almost all basic economic theories, including supply and demand itself, rely on the assumption that companies lower prices to undercut the competition whenever possible. If sellers can set whatever prices they like, that’s a monopoly. And as any good Econ 101 class will teach you, monopolies hold production below…
Low-volatility funds, one of the trendiest of market trends this year, have become a high-anxiety trade of late. Sample the FT’s top stories for a week You select the topic, we deliver the news. Select topicSelect topicTop StoriesBrexitUS Election 2016China slowdownMillennial EconomyMarch of the RobotPlunging oil priceGlobal TerrorTech disruptionAdvertisingConnected Cars Enter email address Invalid email…
April Miller says she loves to cook, but ever since the 32-year-old corporate accountant moved to New York City she’s struggled to find time to eat a sit-down meal, much less make one herself. Perpetually busy, she forgoes the weekly schlep to the grocery store to carve out precious time to prep her meals for the week. “Sometimes I…
storytext AT&T has never owned a news division before. Now, assuming its $85 billion deal to acquire Time Warner passes regulatory muster, it will take control of CNN, one of the world’s biggest news organizations. Journalists at the network, myself included, immediately had questions about how AT&T will approach its role as a steward of…