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Joseph B. White, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 17 at 12:55 pm PT
Tesla Motors Inc. just raised about $1 billion in new capital, riding a remarkable burst of investor exuberance. New Tesla shareholders will now get to see just how fast the auto business gobbles up money.
Look out Facebook! Hours spent participating per member dropping seriously. First really bad sign as seen by crappy MySpace years ago.
– Rupert Murdoch, still steamed about that whole MySpace thing, tweets a warning to Facebook
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Jessica E. Lessin and Miriam Jordan, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 17 at 3:41 am PT
Laurene Powell Jobs has taken on a public role, backing one of the most contentious causes in the U.S. today: immigration reform. And she is doing it using some of the tactics that her late husband, Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs, employed to great effect at the technology giant.
I came to realize that there was a real need to present business wisdom in a format that is more accessible to the younger generation. It was with this in mind that I spent a week in LA earlier this month recording Hardly Workin’, a seven song album of motivational business music targeted at people newly entering the workforce.
– Andrew Mason, in a personal blog post about what he’s been up to
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Evelyn M. Rusli, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 16 at 4:30 pm PT
Two weeks ago, new posters began appearing at the headquarters of Facebook Inc. The posters proclaimed: “Advertisers are users too*.” At the bottom of the page, in smaller font, was the phrase “*no srsly,” Internet shorthand for “no seriously.”
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Ian Sherr and Don Clark, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 16 at 3:04 pm PT
Intel Corp.’s new chief executive vowed Thursday to rapidly grow the company’s presence in the tablet and smartphone markets at a shareholder meeting that formalized a major management shift for the Silicon Valley chip giant.
