For everything from family to computers…
At 23, Seth Priebatsch has a life that’s all about winning, and not much else.
Seth Priebatsch comes to his office door in bare feet and a wrinkled orange polo shirt. Even at 6 p.m. on a Saturday, this isn’t normal garb for the CEO of a company of 100 people. But Shoeless Seth isn’t your typical CEO. For one thing, he’s 23. For another, his formal title is Chief Ninja.
The company knew in 2010 that an app was grabbing users’ personal information.
Apple was warned as long ago as 2010 that the popular Gowalla location-sharing iPhone app was uploading users’ address books without alerting them, Technology Review has learned.
Oracle said it’s made MySQL 70 times faster than previous versions. The new MySQL Cluster 7.2 database can now do 1.05 billion reads per minute, according to Oracle’s benchmarks.
from Wired Top Stories
A nickel boost in the first-class stamp price to 50 cents is part of the U.S. Postal Service’s latest plan to stop bleeding red ink.
What the heck is wrong with our government?! Our own Congress, the civil servants that we select, can still make money based on inside trading while the rest can’t?! This is pure bogus at its finest!!
===========================================================
It should be a no-brainer: a popular bill with bipartisan support that bans insider trading by members of Congress.
It’s about time we started prosecuting these money-hungry corporations (I mean “people”, NOT!) to do better practices!
==================================================
Citigroup will pay $158 million to settle charges that its mortgage unit defrauded the Federal Housing Administration by inaccurately claiming that certain mortgages were eligible for government insurance, government officials announced Wednesday.
