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How Reed Hastings’ Facebook Status Update Landed Netflix in SEC’s Crosshairs

Gust

The move came as a shock to many in the tech business community, in which we’ve become accustomed to real-time disclosure by company executives through social media. Was posting this fact to his Facebook page on July 3, 2012 sufficient to satisfy the Reg FD requirement that it be broad public disclosure ?

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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

March 13, 2012. While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004). Leader on Mar 5 2012. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future.

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IBM: Where Corporate Responsibility is Not a Trend, but a Lifestyle

Austin Startup

Let’s circle back to Latinitas’ first interaction with IBM, back to our start in 2002. In 2012, IBM graciously provided a $6,500 super server to connect our two program bases in Austin and El Paso. We have served thousands, explored topics that cover digital media to robotics to coding to maker culture.

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Neuromarketing Ethics: How Far Is Too Far?

ConversionXL

Decades later, in 2002, Dutch marketing professor Ale Smidts coined the term “neuromarketing.” In 2012, Facebook experimented on 700,000 users without their consent when analyzing mood states. Bernays believed that people could be influenced via crowd psychology and psychoanalysis. Questions persist: Who owns brain scans?

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Good Times Ahead for VC-backed Tech Companies?

Both Sides of the Table

The total number of M&A deals in the US this year is projected to be a paltry 225 transactions relative to more than 450 deals just 2 years ago, which was the norm between 2002-2007, varying only by around 3% per year. the people who buy companies) in Q2 of this year of technology & media companies.

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Bottoms Up Everyone: A New Economic Revolution Is Upon Us

YoungUpstarts

The US labor force gained over 10 million more working proprietors between 2000 and 2012—with over 21% of working Americans receiving at least part of their income through self-employment. Between 2002 and 2012, enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over a 1 million employees.

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10 of the Most Successful Investors of the Last 10 Years

The Startup Magazine

Zhitao runs Hangzhou Liaison Interactive, which is a Chinese technology-based company founded in July 2002. He founded an apparel company in 2012 and it has been quite successful. In 2018, Live Current Media bought it for $5 million. He invested in a new division in his company in 2009 and has expanded significantly since then.

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