Forget Snapchat and WhatsApp for a second – Kik is the dark horse of the Internet (via Pando Daily) By Hamish McKenzie On November 29, 2013Facebook and Google were both said to be trying to buy WhatsApp. Japan’s Line is […]
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The Privatization of Snowden’s Secrets: Glenn Greenwald responds
The Privatization of Snowden’s Secrets: Glenn Greenwald responds (via Pando Daily) By Paul Carr On December 1, 2013This morning, Glenn Greenwald published a lengthy response to Mark Ames’ investigation, published here on Pando, into Greenwald’s “privatization” of Edward Snowden’s NSA […]
Keeping Secrets: Pierre Omidyar, Glenn Greenwald and the privatization of Snowden’s leaks
Keeping Secrets: Pierre Omidyar, Glenn Greenwald and the privatization of Snowden’s leaks (via Pando Daily) By Mark Ames On November 27, 2013Who “owns” the NSA secrets leaked by Edward Snowden to reporters Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras? Given that eBay […]
Bitcoin, you have a China problem – Pando Daily
Bitcoin, you have a China problem (via Pando Daily) By Michael Carney On November 26, 2013By all metrics and accounts, bitcoin’s popularity is exploding across the People’s Republic of China. It now boasts the world’s most active bitcoin exchange, BTC […]
Why Snapchat is screwed – Pando Daily
Why Snapchat is screwed (via Pando Daily) By Shane Snow On November 25, 2013(This post originally appeared on LinkedIn Influencers. Follow Shane Snow.) Last week, Business Insider chief Henry Blodget wrote a post titled, “EXCLUSIVE: How Snapchat Plans To Make Money.” With a juicy […]
Is David Sacks the Marissa Mayer of Microsoft?
Is David Sacks the Marissa Mayer of Microsoft? (via Pando Daily) By Sarah Lacy On November 22, 2013 We’re verging on peak-Jason Calacanis today, I realize. But I wanted to highlight one interesting nugget that was buried in our two […]
Google’s latest transparency report shows just how opaque the relationship between tech companies and the government has become
Google’s latest transparency report shows just how opaque the relationship between tech companies and the government has become (via Pando Daily) By Nathaniel Mott On November 14, 2013Google today released its latest transparency report detailing the number and nature of […]
Hedge Funds Beat The Market By Avoiding It
Hedge funds beat the market by avoiding it (via Pando Daily) By Michael Jones On November 13, 2013The IPO market of the 2000s is different from that of the 1990s in one surprising and unexpected way: Successful tech companies are […]
Too lazy to start a real startup? Play “Hipster CEO” instead
Too lazy to start a real startup? Play “Hipster CEO” instead (via Pando Daily) By Erin Griffith On November 12, 2013For a brief period in the 90s, if you wanted a pet without having to care for a real live […]
Fraud at this Chinese bitcoin exchange cost clients $4.1M. Here’s why the broader market barely noticed
Fraud at this Chinese bitcoin exchange cost clients $4.1M. Here’s why the broader market barely noticed (via Pando Daily) By Michael Carney On November 11, 2013Bitcoin has come a long way in the last year, but it’s still the wild […]