Hey Mickey, You’re So Fine: Meet the Man Who Landed Silicon Valley’s Hottest Funding Deal in Pinterest

The $1.5 billion valuation can still blow your mind.

Exclusive: Japan’s Rakuten Wins the Heart of Pinterest in $100M Funding Race With $1.5B Valuation

The largest e-commerce site in Japan is about to get pinned by Ben Silbermann in massive funding round.
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Place Your Bets: Will Loeb Drop Another Bomb on Yahoo at Vegas Confab Later Today?

There are pretty good odds, but it’s a gamble for the activist investor to find a way to top his last act.
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Olympus Coverup Spooks Investors

Olympus Corp.’s admission that it hid investment losses raised as many questions as it answered: not just about the full extent of the scandal, but even about the viability of the 92-year-old company.

AsiaD Adventures: Walt and Kara in Seoul (Video)

Walt and Kara take in the digital sights in Seoul, including starring on Samsung’s video wall.
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Seven Questions for Salesforce.com's Parker Harris

Salesforce.com’s EVP for Technology talks about Chatter.com, the whole Super Bowl thing, and the company’s priorities in mobile devices.

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NEC's New Remote Control: The Human Arm

Many stressed workers and maybe even one or two looking for marriage partners, pound the well-trod circuit around Toyko’s Imperial Palace Gardens each day with earphones funneling music to match the mood. But as any jogger can tell you, reaching for the portable music player to press pause, or fast forward to the next track mid-stride can be tricky, or even embarrassingly uncool.

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The DoCoMo-Baccarat Phone: Smart in Another Way

In Japan’s mobile phone market, as in many other countries, Apple Inc.’s iPhone and rival smartphones based on Google Inc.’s Android platform are undoubtedly the hottest commodities right now. Still, Japanese mobile carriers haven’t forgotten about those who are looking for a different kind of style and glamour when choosing new handsets.

Gilt City Leaves the Masses to Groupon, Skims the Cream Off the Top

As Groupon and LivingSocial scramble for first-mover advantage and launch in as many as eight new markets a day, Gilt City is taking a different approach to the group-buying market.

HP CEO to Oracle: Here’s Looking at You, Kid–Suntory Time!

The process servers Oracle’s hired to track down former SAP Chief Leo Apotheker can take a few days off. Apotheker, who’s just begun his new gig as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, is far beyond their 100-mile reach.

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