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24 November 2013

24 November 2013, 03:06

Artisanal venture capitalists

Earlier this month, Kevin Gibbon hashed over his startup's public relations plan with his lead venture capital firm in a meeting that took place at about 3 mph. The co-founder of Shyp discussed the strategy along the sidewalks of South of Market with Homebrew partner Hunter Walk...

22 November 2013, 23:29

Randall Kline keeps it simple

For the past 30 years, Randall Kline has been busy shepherding a small jazz concert series into a full-blown cultural institution. With the January opening of the SFJazz Center in the Hayes Valley neighborhood of San Francisco...

22 November 2013, 23:27

Dreamforce winds down with focus on health

Agus called for a transformation of our health care system, switching the field's focus from disease treatment to preventive and personalized care. Collecting and analyzing information about proteins in blood...

21 November 2013, 13:08

H.E.L.P., the Charity Awards Grants

H.E.L.P., the Charity announced that for its latest grant period, which ended October 15th, 2013, it issued 50 awards of grants totaling $15,280.20. This brings the total awards of grants since H.E.L.P....

21 November 2013, 01:48

'Call of Duty: Ghosts': Upgrades, Squad mode score

18 November 2013, 22:06

Has Anything changed re: Lee Harvey Oswald

Has anything changed in the last 30 years? Below is my Wall Street Journal essay on November 22, 1983.
Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?
(Wall Street Journal, 11/22/1983)

The endless tangle of questions about bullets...

18 November 2013, 05:23

Salesforce summit reinforces message: Share it

A-list execs, product pitches, schmooze opportunities and bands a little past their prime. They'll hear from Haiti's prime minister about how they can donate time and money to aid the country in its recovery from the catastrophic earthquake in 2010.

15 November 2013, 06:45

Wired editor Scott Dadich's taste aged to perfection

Wired editor Scott Dadich's taste aged to perfection When Wired magazine Editor in Chief Scott Dadich drinks Scotch, he has it out of tumblers with hand-painted 24-carat gold inlay images of spacecraft and fighter jets from the '70s.

14 November 2013, 20:00

Mission Creep at the TSA and the Case for Privatization

In the 12 years since the creation of the TSA it has become clear that the federal takeover of airport security was a mistake. Cato scholar Chris Edwards writes in an upcoming paper that TSA operations...

14 November 2013, 02:25

Top-selling video games often get best reviews

The independent film "Blue Is the Warmest Color" would be approaching the $1 billion mark worldwide. [...] Fast & Furious 6" grossed a modest $5.5 million opening weekend - overlooked next to the runaway success of the art house film "Before Midnight." It's a bit of a generalization...

13 November 2013, 03:05

Airbnb Open: Show & tell

Airbnb unveiled new versions of its mobile apps and a series of additional features Tuesday morning during an event for hundreds of hosts in the sleek and expansive lobby of the company's new headquarters.

12 November 2013, 11:56

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10 November 2013, 04:13

Privacy firms boom in wake of surveillance scandal

[...] surveys have found the unremitting surveillance scandal could take billion-dollar bites out of businesses whose stock-in-trade is user information - which is to say, much of the online economy today.

08 November 2013, 07:25