Facebook is now worth as much as $33.7bn based on secondary market transactions, giving the privately held company an implied valuation greater than the market capitalisations of publicly traded internet stalwarts such as Ebay and Yahoo. (more)
Katie Couric once described bloggers as journalists who gnaw at new information “like piranhas in a pool.” But increasingly, many bloggers are also secretly feeding on cash from political campaigns, in a form of partisan payola that erases the line between journalism and paid endorsement. (more)
A Hungarian teenager pulled out of an online deal in which she sold her virginity after the winning bidder – a British businessman – asked her to marry him. (more)
Republican California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman says she has no interest in a future run for the United States presidency. She says she is focused on helping recession wracked California climb out of its 12.3 percent unemployment rate. (more)
If money is the key ingredient to any winning political campaign, California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman has had a serious across-the-board advantage in the race to succeed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. (more)
(Reuters) – Republican Meg Whitman on Monday took the lead over Democrat Jerry Brown for the first time in a general election poll, four months before voters go to the polls to chose the next California governor. (more)
A crystal-studded glove that Michael Jackson wore during his 1984 Victory tour sold at an auction for $190,000. According to CBS, set of three 1954 chest x-rays of Marilyn Monroe sold for $45,000. Some fans will do just about anything to take a piece of their favorite celebrity home with them. Here’s a look at some of the more ridiculous celebrity items ever auctioned off: (more)
In 1998 Meg Whitman took a leap of faith and accepted a job as chief executive of eBay, then a small tech firm with 30 employees. The payoff was equity in the burgeoning company (more)
Tomorrow morning, Apple Inc. chief executive Steve Jobs is expected to unveil the next iteration of his company’s hot-selling iPhone at a gathering of Apple software developers in San Jose. (more)
California’s presumptive Democratic nominee for governor, Jerry Brown, badly trails the leading Republican candidates on the fund-raising front. Oddly enough, though, he appears well-situated for the general election. (more)
Jesse James either has a really poor sense of humor, is in desperate need of cash or both. Dude has been trying to sell the Red Baron replica airplane seen in the background of his now-infamous Nazi salute photo on eBay. (more)
AMHERST, N.H. –A high school teacher has been charged with stealing high-end calculators from his school and students. (more)
California’s GOP primary polls are moving back and forth so dramatically some observers might have whiplash. Any conventional wisdom about how the U.S. Senate and governor’s races will shape up should be tossed out the window until the real tally on June 8. Consider this: two weeks ago former Congressman Tom Campbell held a 11 percentage point lead over Carly Fiorina in the GOP governor’s primary. That lead has now incredibly evaporated into a 23 point deficit if SurveyUSA’s new poll results are accurate. (more)
The Orange County Flyers, an independent pro baseball team, is auctioning on eBay the right to be a team coach for a day. (more)
There are two reasons why Apple and Google are decimating Nokia, BlackBerry, Microsoft and Palm in the mobile business: price and applications. (more)
The elaborate foreplay of contemplating a run for high office gives pundits, cable-TV hosts, and even conceited bloggers (such as neoliberal, knee-jerk counter-intuitivist Mickey Kaus, eyeing Barbara Boxer’s Senate seat from California) the opportunity to preen their opinions even more and practice the false humility of pretending to answer a clamor that is mostly in their heads. Lou Dobbs, the former CNN heavyweight host who frittered away a rock-solid image with intemperate flare-ups and kooky talk about immigrant-borne diseases and Obama’s birth certificate, claimed he was being wooed by prominent nobodies to consider the presidency, then dialed down such speculation. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews toyed with our affections, hinting at a Senate run in Pennsylvania against Arlen Specter, though that fancy seems to have whiffed into smoke. The post–Eliot Spitzer, post–Hillary Clinton disarray in New York State encouraged a spate of alpha males to lace up their racing shoes for a possible sprint at the U.S. Senate seat held by Kirsten Gillibrand, whose freshman status and cream-puff cheeks give the impression of a soft target there for the taking. Up popped Harold Ford, a smooth operator whose knowledge of his adopted state seemed scanty but who knew the best places in town for power breakfasts and manicures. Although Ford served in Congress for his home state of Tennessee and lost a Senate bid after a racy, racist smear ad hinted he was a “playa” (“Call me,” winked a saucy blonde), he is probably more familiar to New Yorkers as a frequent guest on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and similar Socratic forums where his sensible, centrist moderation is catnip. Political pietists worship at the sacrificial altar of bipartisanship, prizing those who “reach across the aisle” even if no hand is reaching back. For many Democrats, however, “centrist” is a euphemism for sellout (see Joe Lieberman, consider his trespasses), and Ford’s slinky facility for slipping into and out of positions (opposition to gay marriage, for instance) made him too obvious a quick-change artist. He eventually heeded the roar of indifference from the public and scratched himself from contention, while insisting he could have beaten Gillibrand. (more)
I should say at the outset that I was a brutish brother at times growing up. The second eldest of five children, I made the lives of the other four—at some point—downright miserable. (more)
Megatrends represent major movements so powerful that the direction of change cannot be stopped. Federal laws can speed up or slow down megatrend forces. But, like dammed rivers megatrends will redirect themselves to achieve the inevitable result. Health care consumerism is such a force. (more)
On Tuesday, eBay plans to unveil a new classifieds site, called eBayClassifieds, to replace its old site, Kijiji, in the United States. It will also introduce two new mobile apps, one for listing and selling items for sale and another for posting or searching classifieds. A third app, for the iPad, will be released April 3. (more)
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