Booting Up: Facebook’s Messy IPO Edition
(Photo: flickr.com/rubygoes) This is a little tl;dr, but the key piece of information is this: "In one of the biggest IPOs in history, in which a huge amount of stock was sold to small investors,...
View ArticleBooting Up: Shaking My Damn Head Edition
An important figure in the history of computing who also happened to be a woman. (flickr.com/misbehave) There we were, idly checking our Twitter feed over brunch, when out lept the lede for the Times'...
View ArticleBooting Up: The All Your Passwords Belong to Dwdm Edition
Wait, what wuz my password again? Unharmonious: 1.5 million passwords were stolen from the dating site eHarmony, reportedly by "dwdm," the same hacker who exposed 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords on...
View ArticleBooting Up: Once More It’s All Facebook, All the Time
(Photo: Facebook.com) LinkedIn finally copped to their password breach, but there are plenty of companies out there who just keep intrusions hushed up. [Reuters] Japanese mobile games are coming for...
View ArticleBooting Up: Comcast Just Bought Time Warner Cable But It’s Totally Not a...
Bye. (Facebook) Comcast is acquiring Time Warner Cable for the low, low price of a $45.2 billion all-stock transaction. [The Verge] Prominent supporters of LGBT rights helped get some Russian neo-Nazi...
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