3 posts and columns on Don Quixote

Winklevii: How Can We Miss You If You Won't Go Away? (Plus the Full Court Ruling)

in News on April 11, 2011 at 11:27 am PT

It seems Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the Don Quixote twins of the digital age, have tilted at yet another legal windmill unsuccessfully. So now, after losing another court challenge to overturn a previous court challenge, they’ll have to settle for $65 million. Actually, $100 million, which is how much shares in Facebook have appreciated since the pair and also Divya Narendra settled with the social networking giant.

Déjà Vu: Facebook's Questionable Stock Hijinks Feels Like Winklevii 2.0

in News on January 4, 2011 at 11:00 am PT

CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s clear intent to keep the lid on Facebook tight–with no disclosure about the details of the financial performance and other pertinent information a public offering would require be disclosed–is clearly becoming a nettlesome issue for the company. But while that effort at preserving secrecy by staying private has resulted in little more than cute media guessing games about a possible IPO until now, the social networking giant’s most recent machinations are too clever by a half.

Happy 1-Year Birthday for AllThingsD.com

in News on April 28, 2008 at 3:59 am PT

If we were an actual baby, AllThingsD.com would be just about to walk by now. Hopefully, we have done better than that over the past year and we hope to do even more in the year ahead, attempting to give readers the very best tech news and analysis married with the high standards The Wall Street Journal is known for. At the same time, we have also tried to also capture the excitement and energy of the blogosphere, in what has been an entrepreneurial effort within a major media company.