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SaksWorks Is Part WeWork, Part Department Store. Can It Work?

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It’s Time to Stop Paying for a VPN

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You’ve Never Heard of the Biggest Digital Media Company in America

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The Wisdom of the Crowd

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www.nytimes.com 5y ago

The Biggest Wave Surfed This Year

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www.wsj.com 5y ago

Bridgewater Loses Claims It Brought Against Ex-Employees Who Launched Hedge Fund

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www.wsj.com 5y ago

Why Colleges Won’t Use Their Endowments to Offset Student Tuition and Fees

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www.theregister.com 5y ago

Engineer admits he wiped 456 Cisco WebEx VMs from AWS after leaving the biz

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AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Braket

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www.streetinsider.com 5y ago

Tesla (TSLA) Announces a 5-for-1 Stock Split

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www.nytimes.com 5y ago

A Star Went Supernova in 1987. Where Is It Now?

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Florida Man Took Coronavirus Aid and Bought a Lamborghini, Officials Say

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www.nytimes.com 5y ago

Najib Razak, Malaysia’s Former Prime Minister, Found Guilty in Graft Trial

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Corporate Insiders Pocket $1B in Rush for Coronavirus Vaccine

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www.nytimes.com 5y ago

Large DNA Study Traces Violent History of American Slavery

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Goldman Sachs and Malaysia Agree to $3.9B Settlement over 1MDB Scandal

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www.nytimes.com 6y ago

In Hong Kong, a Proxy Battle over Internet Freedom Begins

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www.theverge.com 6y ago

Spanish soccer returns with computer-generated crowds, and it works

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www.nytimes.com 6y ago

A Single Session of Exercise Alters 9,815 Molecules in Our Blood

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www.nytimes.com 6y ago

‘Cruise Ships on Land’: As Las Vegas Reopens, a Test for Casinos

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Zuckerberg says employees moving out of Silicon Valley may face pay cuts

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arstechnica.com 6y ago

Google pledges not to make custom software for oil and gas extraction

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www.bloomberg.com 6y ago

Junk-Bond Sellers Desperate for Funding Swallow Yields over 10%

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Warren Buffett: Berkshire sold all its airline stocks because of the coronavirus

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www.marketwatch.com 6y ago

How ‘the single best trade of all time’ netted investor a $2.6 billion profit

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www.cnbc.com 6y ago

Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Microsoft

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www.washingtonpost.com 6y ago

Mark Zuckerberg: How data can aid the fight against Covid-19

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www.nytimes.com 6y ago

Coronavirus Ravages 7 Members of a Single Family, Killing 3

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www.nytimes.com 6y ago

Behind the Virus Report That Jarred the U.S. and the U.K. To Action

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www.bloomberg.com 6y ago

Coronavirus Can Live in Patients for Five Weeks After Contagion

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"Based on ... about 10,000 empirical scientific studies, the number of people who can survive on six hours of sleep or less without showing any impairment, rounded to a whole number ... is zero."

This statement made me think about reports of successful people wherein one supposed factor to their success was ability to "function" on less sleep (Marissa Mayer 4 hours, Jon Gruden 4 hours, Tom Ford 3 hours)

The streaming service also noted that it has “thought long and hard about how to handle content that is not hate content itself, but is principally made by artists or other creators who have demonstrated hateful conduct personally.”

So do platforms such as Netflix or Hulu have a responsibility to pull content created or backed by Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby? Do art museums pull pieces from artist who may have had reprehensible conduct?

- Raising additional money can extend the runway before having to go public. Back in 2016 CEO Butterfield said minimum year and a half before considering going public https://www.geekwire.com/2016/slack-ceo-going-public-window-...

More recently (Mar '17) he expressed "I've said publicly before that we are trying to run the company so that we're ready to go public, not because we are going to necessarily." https://www.axios.com/slack-ceo-stewart-butterfield-23186588...

So if the VC money is there for the taking, why not?

- Additional capital will add to the war chest to fend of competitors such as Microsoft Teams, HipChat and Google Hangouts Chat. With the deep pockets of Microsoft and Google, more cash can aid in innovation, R&D, marketing, etc.

- This goes way beyond the supply chain leaks that power Ming-Chi Kuo's analyst reports. Perhaps an Apple QA engineer or contractor? Disgruntled SWE? In any case leaker is in a world of hurt if Apple identifies him/her

- Wonder if 9 to 5 Mac and MacRumors get limited access from Apple now that they published these leaks. I'd say yes.

- "As best I've been able to ascertain, these builds were available to download by anyone, but they were obscured by long, unguessable URLs [web addresses]," wrote John Gruber, a blogger known for his coverage of Apple.

Microsoft OneDrive for Business is moving in that direction. Online collaboration of Office files, couple of clicks sharing and security controls that Enterprise IT departments love. I'd still say Dropbox is easier to use with a cleaner interface. However with so many Fortune 500 Enterprises already in bed with Microsoft, OneDrive for Business has a leg up.

We might get some solid clues when they file their S-1. However I'd venture to say international user growth both Consumer facing and Enterprise.

75% of Dropbox users are located outside the United States. They have invested heavily in expanding their PoPs and in Europe and Asia. https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/19/dropbox-announces-massive-...

The last few years Enterprise customers have been a major target.

https://www.recode.net/2014/3/20/11624780/dropbox-zeros-in-o...

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/16/dropboxs-latest-announceme...

Again S-1 should provide a peek at the rate of adoption. Anecdotally I can share reports of wavering between consumer and enterprise focus.

Housecleaning indeed, though some departures were voluntary. 8 top level execs and two board members so far. Link contains a visual of who has left the building, 2 incoming execs and vacant C Suite spots. https://www.recode.net/2017/6/14/15794816/uber-charge-leader...

I'm surprised Thuan Pham (CTO) survived the carnage since he was mentioned in Susan Fowler's post. As an aside my dark horse candidates for CEO or COO are Thomas Staggs former Disney COO and Susan Wojcicki (Current YouTube CEO)