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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders this week assailed rival Hillary Clinton for taking large speaking fees from the financial industry since leaving the State Department. According to public disclosures, by giving just 12 speeches to Wall Street banks, private equity firms, and other financial corporations, Clinton made $2,935,000 from 2013 to 2015: Clinton’s most lucrative…
Jan. 19, 2016 7:00 a.m. ET Despite numerous warnings that the online advertising business is rife with fraud, marketers continue to waste billions–an estimated $7 billion, at least, this year–on buying online ads that people do not see, according to the Association of National Advertisers. The trade group and ad fraud detection firm White Ops…
Photo: Nasa By the end of February, Google will deploy at full scale its Accelerated Mobile Pages project by sending search results to amp-html pages. Because it integrates all monetization instruments —advertising, analytics and now subscription systems— Google’s AMP is likely to rally scores of publishers. Over 5000 developers registered to the Github repository of…
Why can’t you find The Greatest Publication Ever Made on any newsstand or web browser or TV network? Because people don’t want it. This is America, where journalism is a business like any other. This is not England. The government will not be raining down supplemental income to support quality journalism. Take that socialism elsewhere!…
FRESNO, Calif. — Harlan Elrich is a high school teacher in California, and that means he must pay about $970 a year to a labor union. He teaches math, and he said the system did not add up. “I get to choose what movie I want to go see,” Mr. Elrich said. “I get to…
The controversial “poor door” at a luxury Lincoln Square tower is finally open — and creating New York-style financial apartheid. Tenants who were chosen to live in one of the 55 low-income units in Extell’s ritzy 33-story building recently started trickling in through the poor door — and many are disturbed by the glaring disparities….
Last week, with little fanfare, the Graduate Center at the City University of New York did something very few private companies would ever do to protect its users’ privacy: it quietly began to purge its interlibrary loan records. “This policy change is motivated by the idea that libraries should not keep more information about their…
Photo: Diane Bondareff/AP Photo. A (formerly) pregnant woman in New York City has an Uber horror story that will definitely beat yours, no matter how long your driver listened to the Dave Matthews Band. Fortune reports that when David Lee’s wife went into labor last November, they ordered an Uber to take them and…
Begin: WordPress Article Content GoPro’s stock dropped 23.34% to 10.87 Wednesday afternoon after the company announced its Q4 was worse than expected. The stock was already trading at an all-time low. The stock briefly jumped to 11.20 before trading was halted. The company has a market cap of about $2 billion in after-hour values. This…
Alejandro Aravena of Chile, whose work is modest, practical, and exceptionally elegant, has been awarded the 2016 Pritzker Prize. Last year, the jury for the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the most celebrated award in architecture, selected the German architect Frei Otto, who was 89 when he got the good news. Otto died two weeks later and…