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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. Annual report (“ 10-K “) including audited financial statements with full footnotes and extensive disclosure about the company.

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Opting-out of Face Recognition at Airports

Austin Startup

The legal authority to collect biometrics from US citizens is a bit vague but nobody really seems to be that upset about it yet. The program authorizes airports to collect biometric information on foreign nationals, but not on US citizens (who do not have or need visas to be in the country legally). What is Biometric Exit?

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? The Past (1985-2002). Listening to young people talk about social networking as a new phenomenon is a bit like hearing people talk about a remake of a famous song from my youth as though it was the original version. cheap accessible digital hardware].

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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.” Lieberman studied the brain activity of people who watched public-service announcements about the importance of wearing sunscreen. The subjects were then asked how likely they were to use it. A week later, it was time for measurement.

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

Agile VC

How To Think About The Future. 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). So if the claims themselves are pretty lame, how about the timing of Yahoo!’s

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Bottoms Up Everyone: A New Economic Revolution Is Upon Us

YoungUpstarts

It’s a massive shift in the way we think about commerce, one that is made possible thanks to platform businesses — the online marketplaces, small business cloud-based companies and crowdfunding sites out there. As a percentage of total US employment, proprietors have steadily increased every year since 2000.

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The Magic of the Irish – Dublin’s Resurgence on the Global Tech Scene

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Between 1995-2002 I visited often – especially since I founded my first company there. My trip was scheduled around the annual Web Summit and the f.ounders conference, both of which have become the hottest must-attend event in Europe and rivaling any great conference in the US. The first year I felt Ok about saying no.

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