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Google doesn't sell software or hardware or content. It sells you -- or, slightly more precisely, its ability to understand your habits and deliver your attention to particular advertisers. And because of this, I am just a touch nervous about installing Chrome, its new browser soft ...
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What's wrong with the industry is this: These days, it's just too cheap to start new companies ...
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As I see it, the summer solstice has passed not just for us, but for Google too. Three reasons why ...
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Great moves most certainly are not found, or disproven, by crunching numbers ...
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Bob Rice, this week's Playa, has had many careers. He was an attorney with the U.S. Justice Dept., a partner at law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy, a CEO of tech startup and now runs merchant bank Tangent Capital, which he founded in 205 ...
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I want to finish by answering a few of the questions that some of you posted earlier ...
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I'm a self-educated guy. I certainly have less official business schooling than anyone who has ever written anything for Portfolio ...
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My brand is based on making the news interesting, relatable, and funny ...
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My politics only influence my business in the sense that I run it the way I expect conservative politicians to run our government ...
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Television host and conservative pundit Glenn Beck challenges everything from politics to political correctness on his hour-long CNN Headline News show ...
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We don't hire jerks. This may seem obvious that working in an organization with good people gets better results, but you'd be surprised by some of the people the modeling industry attract ...
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If you're like most of the people I meet, you probably imagine beautiful models, exotic travel, time spent with the most creative and innovative people in the fashion and beauty worlds ...
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Critics have mocked his language of change as being nothing more than soaring rhetoric but he regularly charts a course that eschews the orthodoxy of either party ...
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When people say to me that "newspapers are dead, they just don't know it yet," I wonder if the industry has simply failed to find a new business model ...
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Christie Hefner has had to face challenges from rivals as disparate as YouTube and the lad mags while expanding the Playboy empire into e-commerce and international markets ...
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Harvey Weinstein talks about grappling with the changing viewing habits of moviegoers ...
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Harvey Weinstein says that even as a devoted Clinton supporter, he'll be rallying his friends and working to raise money for Obama ...
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Harvey Weinstein says he may have run from his first Broadway show, but now he's rushing toward underappreciated live theater with some big names ...
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There have been a number of recent articles accusing me of not focusing on films like I did when I was running Miramax. It's simply not the case. During a summer of hyped-comic book heroes, independent film as a whole hasn't received the attention its due ...
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