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3. While Bieber sharing nude photos of himself is not a new thing, the large majority of his fans were very excited by the snap. The photo has had over 2 million likes. Of the 600,000 comments, the majority of fans declared their love for Bieber, used heart-eyed emojis, and/or asked him to “turn around”….
Charlie Hales, the mayor of Portland, Ore., was running a zoning hearing last December when he missed a call on his cell from David Plouffe, the campaign mastermind behind Barack Obama’s ascent. Although Hales had never met him, Plouffe left a voice mail that had an air of charming familiarity, reminiscing about the 2008 rally…
French taxi drivers overturned cars, burned tires and blocked access to airports and train stations in a second day of violent protest Thursday against competition from the ride-sharing service Uber. Hundreds of licensed cabbies, who say competition from the popular service is cutting into their income and threatening their jobs, converged on cities to stage…
Car service giant Uber Technologies told prospective investors it is generating $470 million in operating losses on $415 million in revenue, Bloomberg News reported late Monday, citing a company document. The document showing the large operating losses is being used to sell between $1 billion and $1.2 billion in convertible bonds but does not provide…
Farewell to Circa News It’s with great disappointment that we let you know that Circa News has been put on indefinite hiatus. Producing high-quality news can be a costly endeavor and without the capital necessary to support further production we are unable to continue. Our mission was always to create a news company where factual,…
More than a million people use Slack every day now. You do, probably. Hard to imagine you reading a story about enterprise software if it wasn’t a part of your working life. Then again, Slack has always been a little weird like that. A year and a half ago, no one had ever heard of…
Over the weekend, Taylor Swift took on the biggest company in the world — and won — in a battle that ultimately reveals how weak the position of Spotify and other streaming music companies really is as they are squeezed between superstar performers and giant platform companies. The background is Swift’s longstanding opposition to free…
As a card-carrying Apple fanboy, I often have a hard time keeping an objective journalistic head on my shoulders when faced with the company’s offerings. My home is a museum of iPods, iPhones, iPads and MacBooks. I may not have bought the Apple Watch — not yet, anyway — but I certainly admire the beauty…
The awesome (and scary) thing about being a writer is that you can always improve. It’s why people can sit on a draft for weeks — every time they take “one more look,” they can find a way to make it better. While it’s definitely a fun challenge to see how long you can keep…
Every day, 750,000 workers log into enterprise chat software Slack to communicate with colleagues. Todd Kennedy, a 37-year-old CTO at a software startup, also uses the service—to talk with his wife, Julie. The couple created a fake company name, “TheKennedys,” to sign up for the two-member Slack chat that has replaced iMessage for them as…