Top 10 Bitcoin Merchant Sites
If you're involved in Bitcoin, you have no doubt been asked the question "So, who accepts bitcoin?" True, it is the quintessential chicken and egg paradox, but that is not unexpected for the world's first decentralized cryptocurrency lacking a political authority.
Audra McDonald Releases New Album, Appears In Nationally Televised Solo Concert
This month, Audra McDonald is releasing her fourth album, “Go Back Home,” her first solo disc in seven years, and starring in a televised concert, featuring selections from the album, on PBS’ Live from Lincoln Center.
New Research: Social Media Trends For Marketers In 2013 (Daily Deal Sites 80% Down?)
Social Media Examiner has just released its annual Social Media Marketing report. It reveals some interesting data about this year’s social media marketing trends. The entire report is available for download here, but I’d like to highlight some of the report’s most surprising and significant points. In a survey of 3,025 marketers, the study determined the following:
Why Google’s Display Ad Business Drew FTC Antitrust Probe
Just a few months after escaping an antitrust case on its search ads, Google is now the subject of a Federal Trade Commission probe of its display-ad business.
Ed O’Bannon Case Against NCAA Will Gain Herculean Steam If Tim Tebow, Johnny Manziel Join Lawsuit
In the immortal words of Ron Burgandy, "That escalated quickly."
Dear High School Graduate: Everything You’ve Been Told Is False
When I graduated from Omaha Creighton Prep High School back in 1977, my fellow grads and I entered a benign, forgiving, if U.S.-hegemonic, economic order where one could find paid work -- albeit of a blue collar variety -- just by completing high school. A world where even a C student was guaranteed some kind of white-collar employment just by earning a college degree; any kind of degree, with any kind of major, from a wide variety of public or private institutions.
Dear High School Graduate: Everything You’ve Been Told Is False
When I graduated from Omaha Creighton Prep High School back in 1977, my fellow grads and I entered a benign, forgiving, if U.S.-hegemonic, economic order where one could find paid work -- albeit of a blue collar variety -- just by completing high school. A world where even a C student was guaranteed some kind of white-collar employment just by earning a college degree; any kind of degree, with any kind of major, from a wide variety of public or private institutions.
Del Negro Firing: Decision Making Process
Los Angeles Clipper Head Coach Vinny Del Negro, who had the most successful tenure of any Coach in Clipper history, was fired this week by owner Donald Sterling. How does unparalleled success lead to termination? Was it the intervention of star players with the owner that led to his downfall?
After The Rapture: Life Science Copes With Tech Envy In The Valley
The challenges of bathing in the dazzling reflected glory of exalted technologists was front and center in DC this week, when Congress invited Apple CEO Tim Cook to testify about the company’s practice of “shielding billions of dollars overseas from U.S. taxes,” as Politico phrased it.