By Ben Yu , Thiel Fellow. Harvard dropout. Sprayable, Stream, and writing a book at http://ashortprimer.com/. Ever since Nas Daily’s video came out about how I earned over $400,000 with less than $10,000 investing in Bitcoin and Ethereum, I’ve been getting hundreds of...
20 Uber employees are being fired as the result of a 4 month investigation into the company's toxic corporate culture. CEO Travis Kalanick is taking a leave of absence to "grow into the leader Uber deserves." Kalanick has always been a polarizing figure, and many of...
Paid ads on search engines and social networks account for a bigger share of e-retail traffic, Hitwise says. That Amazon.com Inc. dominated e-commerce during the recent holiday season will surprise few retailers. But Hitwise traffic data also reveals some less obvious...
Donald Trump's election taught politicians several valuable lessons but politicians aren't the only ones learning valuable lessons from Trump's stunning victory as advertising agencies have also been forced to admit that they have no idea how to market to the...
LinkedIn Job Postings Plunge, “by far the Worst Month since January 2009” by Wolf Richter The jobs data in the US has recently taken a nasty spill. Last week it was an ugly jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It could bounce off next month, and the...
Facebook has confirmed it has pulled its plans to build a demand-side platform (DSP) into its ad server and measurement platform Atlas. Facebook began testing out a buying platform within Atlas last year, allowing a small set of marketers to use the social...
Less than a day after the launch of iOS 9, Apple’s latest operating system, content blocking software is at the top of the app charts worldwide. In the UK, two content blockers have hit the top 20 paid apps, with Purify at number 11 and Peace at number 12. In the US,...
Twitter as we know it is over. While the early release of ugly revenue numbers sent the company’s stock spiraling Tuesday, the actual quarterly earnings report that followed that afternoon was even worse. Twitter is acquiring users more slowly, particularly on mobile....
Amazon Prime is a hit right now: Membership has been spiking over the last year, and members are spending more on average than regular customers, which is a huge plus for the online retail giant. That’s because they’re paying $99 a year to get free two-day shipping...
By Andrew Leonard It was a week of rage, nostalgia and despair on the Internet. Sure, you could say that about any week on the Internet. But last week delivered some prime material. Check out this gamer exploding in fury at the rumor that Google — “The King Midas of...