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Yahoo’s renewed search deal with Microsoft is even more laissez-faire than it looks at first glance. A filing from the internet pioneer reveals that either company can call it quits from October 1st onward — all they have to do is send a breakup letter and sit tight for four months. There’s no sign that…
In many cities around the world—New York, San Francisco, London—most people find the rent to be unaffordable. Buying is out of the question. Perhaps that is because your city’s housing stock is now just another fungible financial instrument, like pork bellies. You, the middle class resident of a major urban area, may have complained at…
It is not even enough for a Tesla model-S. Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, earned $35,360 in 2014, 49 per cent below the pay package he received a year earlier as he eschewed any bonuses and stock option awards, according to a filing with US securities regulators on Wednesday. Mr Musk, who earned…
American Apparel’s former chief financial officer allegedly schemed to oust founder Dov Charney last year as part of a plan to sell the company, a former senior manager claimed in a new lawsuit against the company this week. The complaint, filed in Los Angeles on Monday, accuses former chief financial officer John Luttrell of mismanaging…
Gold’s traditional role as a store of wealth has been usurped by contemporary art and apartments in cities such as New York and London, according to Laurence D. Fink, head of the world’s biggest asset manager. “Historically gold was a great instrument for storing of wealth,” the chairman of BlackRock Inc. said at a conference…
paging_filterThe Wall Street Journal will roll out its new website on April 21, marking the paper’s first online redesign in seven years, and it will launch a news application for the Apple Watch when the device becomes available on April 24. The long-awaited overhaul will refurbish wsj.com’s outdated, text-heavy look with cleaner navigation, sharper graphics…
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article start Google is changing its search algorithm Tuesday to favor sites that look good on smartphones, a move some are calling “mobilegeddon” because of its impact on website operators. The new formula will give a boost in Google’s “organic” search results to sites that are designed to look good on smartphones, while penalizing those…
HBO If you were planning to watch Darth Sansa and Whisperfinger’s creepy love grow in Videology’s back room tonight, you’re out of luck—HBO’s banned the Williamsburg bar from doing live screenings of Game Of Thrones, all in the name of anti-piracy. Videology, which also screens Mad Men on Sundays, has been showing Game of Thrones…
An internal review by BuzzFeed last week found three instances when editors deleted posts after an advertiser or employees from the company’s business side complained about their content, according to a memo sent to staff members on Saturday by the news and entertainment website’s editor in chief. The three deleted posts — out of more…