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CEOville
I thought of myself as C.E.O. at every company I was at. Not many companies are set up so people low in the hierarchy can challenge everything like a C.E.O.
– Zynga CEO Mark Pincus, explaining to the New York Times’ Andrew Goldman why he got fired so often
Twitter Got Hacked. Expect More Companies to Follow.
This isn’t over.
Twitter Hacked; 250,000 User Accounts Potentially Compromised
A security breach in the microblogging service could have exposed the Twitter user account data of a quarter of a million people.
Lot18 Sours on Flash Sales, Lays Off 25 as It Shifts to Wine Subscriptions
The online wine seller hopes the two moves will bring it to profitability.
I, Editor
There’s value in being divorced from your friends … I’d rather see what’s on the front of the New York Times.
– Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera on the value of human editing and curation
Columbia University Names Sree Sreenivasan Its First Chief Digital Officer
But everyone will still know him as just plain Sree.
The Failures and Fallacies of Mike Daisey’s Apple Attack and the Media
Now we have to start the conversation about Apple and Foxconn and workers’ rights all over again, this time with real, verifiable facts at our command. Is that so much to ask?
News Byte
“Most People Would Be Disturbed if They Saw Where Their iPhone Comes From”
This according to a former Apple executive who tells the New York Times that the working conditions at the company’s overseas manufacturing partners are still sorely lacking. And while there have been improvements since Apple began auditing factories, there’s a lot more that can be done. Said another former Apple exec, “We’ve known about labor abuses in some factories for four years, and they’re still going on. Why? Because the system works for us. Suppliers would change everything tomorrow if Apple told them they didn’t have another choice.”Speeding Up the Wire
AP chides reporters for tweeting about Occupy news before the news hits the wire bit.ly/rTpLzE So shouldn’t the wire speed up?!
– The New York Times’ (and former Facebook and Twitter product guy) Brian Stelter, in response to an email by Associated Press managing editor Lou Ferrara, reprimanding reporters for breaking news on Twitter before it hit the wire
Former DoubleClick Execs Create Groupon Competitor, But It's Not Exactly A Clone
Think there’s already too many Groupon clones? Think again. Group Commerce, which is coming out of stealth today, has the pedigree and the funding to be a viable contender. What’s more, it is coming out of the gate running with four major publishing partners already signed up on its publisher platform.