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Theranos chief executive Elizabeth Holmes gestures as she speaks at a technology conference in October (Glenn Chapman/AFP/Getty Images) Theranos, the high-profile Silicon Valley company that promised to revolutionize blood testing, was warned by federal regulators this week that its Newark, Calif. laboratory has “deficient practices” that “pose immediate jeopardy to patient health and safety,” according…
Photo William Chick, who was fired from the Wounded Warrior Project in 2012 after a dispute with his supervisor. He said the charity swiftly fired anyone that leaders considered a “bad cultural fit.” Credit Tamir Kalifa for The New York Times JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In 2014, after 10 years of rapid growth, the Wounded Warrior…
Just when you think things can’t get sadder and stranger at Twitter…. Last night, news leaked to the New York Times and Re/Code that four major Twitter execs are leaving: Alex Roetter, Kevin Weil, Skip Schipper, and Katie Stanton The original positioning was that the departures were part of a house cleaning. That suggestion, though,…
Twitter Inc. named Leslie Berland chief marketing officer as it undergoes a major overhaul of its top ranks in an effort to reboot growth. Berland, 37, was previously senior vice president of digital partnerships at American Express Co. where she spent the past four years on an ad campaign that included a heavy presence on…
Twitter makes its money by showing ads to its users. But not all of its users: For the past few months, the social media company has stopped displaying ads, or has dramatically reduced the number of ads it displays, to a small group of some of its most prominent and active users. For those people, Twitter is an ad-free, or…
Height – 1536 | Width – 2048 Photo: Buck Ennis Scaffolds are ubiquitous in the city. One day in 2004, workmen arrived at the corner of West 123rd Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem to erect a sidewalk shed, one of those unsightly steel-and-wooden structures that pop up any time a building is under…
Below is the full text from Randall Rothenberg’s opening keynote at the 2016 IAB Annual Leadership Meeting On April 19, 1996, less than two years after AT&T commissioned and ran the Internet’s first banner advertisement, on the online magazine Hotwired, representatives from 35 companies met in New York and agreed to form the Internet Advertising…
I always imagined I would sooner die than retire. Not because I love work and hate scrapbooking. Just the opposite! But as an oldish member of the youngest working generation, my fantasies of environmental and economic collapse were, until recently, slightly more vivid than my sense of mortality. Now, the economy is back from the…
Al Jazeera America’s employees didn’t see it coming. They thought they had more time. The cable news channel was always a gamble. Everyone knew that — the anchors, the producers, the engineers. And in retrospect, the channel was probably doomed from the get-go. But the business plan called for seven to ten years of huge…
The “reductive seduction” is not malicious, but it can be reckless. For two reasons. First, it’s dangerous for the people whose problems you’ve mistakenly diagnosed as easily solvable. There is real fallout when well-intentioned people attempt to solve problems without acknowledging the underlying complexity. There are so many examples. As David Bornstein wrote in The…