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  Ken Yeung

  

  6 days ago

  How mercenary hackers sway litigation battles

  Reuters - By RAPHAEL SATTER and CHRISTOPHER BING

  A trove of thousands of emails uncovered by Reuters reveals Indian cyber mercenaries hacking parties involved in lawsuits around the world – showing how hired spies have become the secret weapon of litigants seeking an edge.

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  Ken Yeung

  

  Nextdoor’s Quest to Beat Toxic Content and Make Money

  Bloomberg CityLab - Sarah Holder, Fola Akinnibi

  It was the height of the pandemic, and San Leandro’s Nextdoor pages were buzzing. “Arm and train yourselves,” one resident posted on the …

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  Ken Yeung

  

  Kevin Rose is going to the moon

  Business Insider - Melia Russell and April Joyner

  Kevin Rose jolts awake in the middle of the night in Portland, Oregon. He can't sleep, his mind turning over an idea like a Rubik's cube. He grabs his phone off the nightstand and jots down the idea so he doesn't forget in the morning. Then he opens Twitter and posts, "3:30am here, just woke up …

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  Ken Yeung

  

  Peter Thiel helped build big tech. Now he wants to tear it all down.

  The Washington Post - By Elizabeth Dwoskin

  On a summer morning in 2019, Rep. Matt Gaetz was having breakfast at the Los Angeles mansion of billionaire investor Peter Thiel, who would become one of the Republican Party’s biggest donors. At the time, Thiel was locked in a to-be-or-not-to-be debate over whether to leave the board of Facebook. …

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  Ken Yeung

  

  ‘Wallets and eyeballs’: how eBay turned the internet into a marketplace

  The Guardian - Ben Tarnoff

  One weekend in September 1995, a software engineer made a website. It wasn’t his first. At 28, Pierre Omidyar had followed the standard accelerated trajectory of Silicon Valley: he had learned to code in seventh grade, and was on track to becoming a millionaire before the age of 30, after having …

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  Ken Yeung

  

  An ex-Mormon tech CEO partied nonstop and pushed antisemitic conspiracy theories. Silicon Slopes stood by and watched.

  Business Insider - Meghan Morris

  hen Dave Bateman stepped onstage during his company's annual sales kickoff in January 2018, his employees expected a rousing speech about the year ahead. Instead, Bateman, the CEO of Entrata, ranted about his recently finalized divorce from his wife of 17 years, the mother of his three children. The …