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Within hours of Netflix Inc. announcing that it had adopted a “poison pill” measure to block a hostile takeover, activist investor Carl Icahn responded with a broadside calling the move “an example of poor corporate governance.”
via L.A. Times – Entertainment News http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-ct-icahn-questions-netflix-poison-pill-20121105,0,830985.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fentertainment+%28Entertainment+News%29
This is not exactly the story we want to hear again after Sandy or on Election Day.According to the Wall Street Journal, Yoselyn Ortegas, the 50-year-old nanny charged with the first- and second-
via Runnin' Scared http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/11/accused_ues_nan.php
Businessman murdered in China reported on Bo Xilai.
The campaign seemed grotesquely bloated and all-pervasive, at the same time, miniaturized and ephemeral.
via POLITICO – TOP Stories http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83379.html
Katie, look out behind you! After escaping her marriage to Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes has been publicly showing us that she’s just a normal…
via NY Post: Page Six http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/holmes_scientology_stop_xcol2LZ7tXRuQo5OEGaBoK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Page%20Six
It’s getting to a point where before you can claim the tumblr name for a brilliant website, meme, or app idea, the online hive mind has already beaten you to it. Instacane is the story of Hurricane Sandy, as told through Instagram photos. It’s pretty mesmerizing; I’ve been clicking refresh every minute to find out the latest. Internet, what will you think of next?
via Jezebel http://jezebel.com/5955670/instacane-brings-us-amaro-and-x+pro-tinged-photos-of-frankenstorm
Nearly half of registered voters still back capital punishment, but the margin has shrunk to 3 percentage points. Voters also favor easing the three-strikes law.
via L.A. Times – California | Local News http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-poll-death-penalty-20121026,0,7370020.story?track=rss
Defends Bain Capital for the first time
Remember earlier this month, when Apple lost its appeal in the U.K. against Samsung for a High Court ruling earlier this year? Well, on the bottom of the home page of Apple’s U.K. website is a little linky that says “Samsung/Apple judgment.” Click on that and up comes a linguistic masterclass in how to say sorry without, um, saying, er, sorry.
The letter, which will be visible on the site for a month, starts off with the usual legal guff. And the next para is a direct quotation from the judge’s rulings. The iPad, it surmises, is a “cool design.” And then, onto the third, talking about Samsung’s products. They, apparently, “are not cool.” Then there’s more legalese, with a zinger in the final paragraph. We may have lost this one, to paraphrase Apple, but go to Germany, because that’s where Samsung were found guilty of gadget plagiarism. SO THERE. (Samsung are probably too busy celebrating record profits to care.)
Perhaps this is how they should have done it.
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Mark Thompson faces a contract battle at the Times, and questions over the BBC’s Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal. By Daniel Gross and Michael Moynihan.
via The Daily Beast – Latest Articles http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/26/mark-thompson-new-york-times-latest-ceo-faces-rocky-start.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29