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Stanford University pulled its proposal to build an applied sciences campus in New York, the university announced today.
Stanford said it was "not in the best interests" of the university to move forward with the plan. The proposed campus would ... Read the rest of this entry »
Janet Robinson will be paid $4.5 million by the New York Times as a consultant next year now that she's no longer CEO.
Robinson made $4.3 million in 2010, so it looks like stepping down actually means a raise, at least compared to her 2010 salary.
Un... Read the rest of this entry »
This year, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong made a huge bet on local news, building out a network of 850 or so blogs under the Patch brand.
Part of that investment has been the staffing of a pretty large outside sales force, made up of 150 people.
We've been he... Read the rest of this entry »
On the heels of its $40 million round announced last week, design flash sales site Fab has launched a new LiveFeed feature. It looks an awful lot like Pinterest, the massive photo sharing virtual pinboard site.
It makes Fab's site even more social in... Read the rest of this entry »
SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) — You've heard of tech companies starting in a Silicon Valley garage. What about on a ship?
That's the idea being floated by a California startup that wants to dock a vessel off the coast to house foreign entrepreneurs wh... Read the rest of this entry »
Famed Silicon Valley venture capitalist and Google board member John Doerr doesn't get the old heave-ho very often.
But yesterday, a report from TechCrunch's Alexia Tsostis seemed to suggest that Doerr has been asked to stop attending Twitter board m... Read the rest of this entry »
From the outside, Twitter seems like its doing very well. It has 2,400 advertisers and 100 million active users, 50 million of whom send 250 million tweets every day. The company is worth $8 billion on secondary markets.
But on the inside, somet... Read the rest of this entry »
Zynga just reponded to the crazy scandal surrounding its game Words With Friends and Alec Baldwin.
It tweeted out this image with the hashtag #letalecplay after the whole fiasco went down.
Baldwin was ejected from an American Airlines flight aft... Read the rest of this entry »
This post originally appeared on Robert Scoble's Google+ page.
I've noticed that lately I'm treating startups much more critically.
Today I chewed into an entrepreneur who was pitching me a new thing that was sort of like Oink, or maybe it was Foursq... Read the rest of this entry »