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CEO ouster forces Barnes & Noble founder Leonard Riggio to postpone a retirement, scheduled for next month, while the company conducts a search for a new CEO | Crain’s New York Business

Bloomberg News9 years ago03 mins

inheritedlink: /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20160816/RETAIL_APPAREL/160819898/ceo-ouster-forces-barnes-noble-founder-leonard-riggio-to-postpone-a-retirement-scheduled-for-next-month-while-the-company-conducts-a-search-for-a-new-ceo&template=rwd& morning10: Barnes & Noble Inc. ousted Chief Executive Officer Ron Boire after less than a year on the job, saying he wasn’t a good fit for the organization and handing his duties over to founder Leonard Riggio and other executives. Riggio, 75, will postpone his retirement, which had been scheduled for next month,…

Meet the man with the hardest job at the Rio Olympics – The Washington Post

Adam Kilgore9 years ago016 mins

RIO DE JANEIRO — Mario Andrada paced through the Olympic press center Monday afternoon, explaining why he has no time to talk just now. “There is an expression we have in Brazil,” he said. “ ‘When you have a hard job, you kill a lion a day.’ I have two lions to kill.” This month, Andrada…

The #1 Reason Local Blogging Fails And How You Can Increase Website Conversions Alternatively | Marshall Adler | LinkedIn

Marshall Adler9 years ago01 mins

Hey there fans and followers, I wanted to shed some light on this topic of “local blogging” and why 97% of local businesses fail to increase conversions from it and I want to share my action plan for The #1 Reason Local Blogging Fails And How You Can Increase Website Conversions Alternatively | Marshall Adler…

Why Overwatch Players Hate Genji Now

Nathan Grayson9 years ago08 mins

Some relatively minor tweaks aside, Overwatch’s cyborg ninja dragon blender Genji hasn’t changed much since launch. Over the past few weeks, though, I’ve come across dozens of threads begging Blizzard to nerf Genji so hard he starts throwing rubber ducks instead of ninja stars. What happened? In hero-based games like Overwatch, there’s always a “nerf…

10 things you need to learn in design school if you’re tired of wasting your money — Dear Design Student

Mike Monteiro9 years ago022 mins

10 things you need to learn in design school if you’re tired of wasting your money I hope everyone had a good summer. It’s hard to believe it’s over, yet here we are. Still feeling the summer breeze of warm ocean wind. Still smelling the sunscreen, the taste of cotton candy, the mind still wandering…

The Era of The Share Count is Coming to an End | Inc.com

JAMES PARSONS9 years ago06 mins

In October of last year, Twitter made the hard decision to remove the tweet count data the way it was presented at the time, without replacing it. I would say they simply removed the API access, but that’s not strictly true, because there was no real API for that data. They announced the news in…

I, Twitter Bot – Science Friday

Christie Taylor9 years ago06 mins

As of 2014, Twitter estimated that as many as 23 million of its 271 million users were bots, or automated accounts taught by code to Tweet according to the desires of their creators. For example, you might see that one bot posts a photo from NASA’s Cassini mission every hour, while others recycle politicians’ old…

White Lives Matter protest staged outside Houston NAACP office

Steph Solis9 years ago04 mins

cxenseparse_start The Confederate flag was displayed at the White Lives Matter demonstration.(Photo: David Goldman, AP) It’s a stark image that caught some in Houston’s Third Ward off guard: Confederate battle flags waving outside of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s Office. Roughly 20 people showed up on Sunday, some with the red…

With 82% of Top News Sites Using These Ads, Are Come-Ons FTC-Compliant? – ChangeAdvertising.org

Rob Leathern9 years ago03 mins

ChangeAdvertising, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, conducted a study from August 14-18th that examined the top 50 news sites (list of sites based on this article from 2015 by the New York Times). Note: the only deviation from this list is that Forbes.com was added in place of NPR.org. It found, amongst other things, that: 41 of 50…

The Original Plan for Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four Sounds Completely Amazing

Katharine Trendacosta9 years ago03 mins

There are a lot of reasons the 2015 version of Fantastic Four failed. But one of them might have been cutting all of the elements of the original story idea’s massive and completely bonkers battles. Screen Crush has a long post-mortem on the movie, which includes an interview with Jeremy Slater, who wrote some initial…

Andrew Tate, charged with rape and trafficking in Romania, returns to the U.S.

As measles cases rise in the U.S., some adults may need a vaccine booster : Shots – Health News : NPR

Government Workers Cannot Be Fired for Their Political Views – The Atlantic

Birthright Citizenship Is a Sacred Guarantee – The Atlantic

Comic Book Publisher Drops Neil Gaiman Amid Sexual Misconduct Allegations – The New York Times

I Saw What New, Young Post-MAGA Trump Supporters Look Like

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CEO ouster forces Barnes & Noble founder Leonard Riggio to postpone a retirement, scheduled for next month, while the company conducts a search for a new CEO | Crain’s New York Business

Meet the man with the hardest job at the Rio Olympics – The Washington Post

The #1 Reason Local Blogging Fails And How You Can Increase Website Conversions Alternatively | Marshall Adler | LinkedIn

Why Overwatch Players Hate Genji Now

10 things you need to learn in design school if you’re tired of wasting your money — Dear Design Student

The Era of The Share Count is Coming to an End | Inc.com

White Lives Matter protest staged outside Houston NAACP office

With 82% of Top News Sites Using These Ads, Are Come-Ons FTC-Compliant? – ChangeAdvertising.org

The Original Plan for Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four Sounds Completely Amazing