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Will Facebook Kill Instagram? No. It’s too good.
Let’s start off with pointing out the simple truth: Facebook likes to own the digital space. They don’t want people interfering there, and Mark Z. wants to be the one and only smartest, richest guy with the best idea. We don’t blame him. If we were coding geniuses we would be the same way (alas, ...
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Best Resources for Startups
We get alot of emails asking about great resources for startups. Why? Because our readers understand that we will search that information out and get it to them. So here it is! ...
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Uploading Images on Pinterest Can Get You Sued?
Pintrerest, one of the fastest growing sites in the social media world has created an interesting problem for users. While scouring the web, you found high quality images on the latest trends in gothic interior decoration that captured your aesthetic. You save them onto your computer and upload them on your Pinterest profile. It ...
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The Green Revolution Just Got Cool: Jesse Ash Brings the Environment to the Screen
Jesse Ash is no ordinary filmmaker. An affable, emerging artist in New York City, Jesse is unassuming about his talents. A recent Tisch graduate, Jesse showed his filmmaking prowess early on, having won awards and getting screened remarkably early in a promising career. He won a Webby award for his animated short “Magical Cure,” which ...
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Entrepreneurs & Contracts: the basics
Before you even start a company, or else plan on developing professional relationships with external agencies, prospective partners and employees, it is critical to understand the laws of contract. When there is a dispute, and often there is at least one during the development phase, all parties will look to the contract. As such, having a lawyer on ...
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Yahoo’s Conundrum
Yahoo, Inc., once a leading technology company heralded as the digital homeland that would capture the entire spectrum of your life, is now in the financial doldrums, unable to come up with an effective and viable strategy for growth or a sale. Yahoo’s troubles began much earlier than the infamous and very public ousting of ...
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Former Execs of Fannie and Freddie (Finally) Get Charged
In the first real set of real charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission, three former executives of Freddie Mac and three former Executives of Fannie Mae were targeted for securities fraud. The SEC filed securities fraud charges against former Freddie Mac executives, including CEO Daniel Mudd, Chief Risk Officer Enrico Dallavecchia, and Executive Vice ...
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Why Giants Fall: MF Global
In a hearing on Thursday the judge granted the motion to transfer cash accounts from the defunct MF Global to other brokerages. Cash only accounts worth $869 million will be transferred from MF Global and clients will receive sixty cents on the dollar, which amounts to approximately $520 million in cash. Forty percent of the ...
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Stop Piracy, or Innovation?
On November 16, 2011 Congress began review of The Protect IP Act (PIPA) is a U.S. Senate bill introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy and its House counterpart Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Since their introduction in May 2011, the bills have been met with severe backlash, with opposers calling them “innovation killers” and “patently unjust.” On the first day of hearings even Rep. ...
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Wall Street Reform: Can it Exist?
Federal Judge Jed Rakoff recently rejected the Citigroup settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to the tune of $285 million. The settlement would have allowed Citigroup to pay a fine without accepting responsibility for any wrongdoing. Judge Rakoff wrote, “In any case like this that touches on the transparency of the financial markets whose ...