1 hr ago | Cult of Mac Blog
How Laurene Powell Jobs Keeps The Jobs Family Philanthropy Under Wraps
Steve Jobs received a lot of criticism for not giving away more of the cash he made from Apple and his other ventures, but thanks to wife Laurene Powell Jobs, the Jobs family contributes more than you might think.
6 hrs ago | The Huffington Post
Robert Reich: Why Democrats Can't Be Trusted to Control Wall Street
Who needs Republicans when Wall Street has the Democrats? With the help of congressional Democrats, the Street is rolling back financial reforms enacted after its near meltdown.
10 hrs ago | Business Journal
WordPress.com's Automattic feeds $50 million in stock to hungry Tiger
Tiger Global Management has bought $50 million worth of sharees in a secondary transaction from stockholders of Automattic, the San Francisco company behind the WordPress web site publishing platform.
14 hrs ago | DNAInfo.com
City's Tech Firms Strike North to Times Square and Beyond
Yahoo announced Monday that it was moving its New York headquarters to the former New York Times building in Times Square.
14 hrs ago | Hollywood Reporter
How Robert Evans Really Got His Paramount Job
Far from the tale he tells in his memoir, the legendary producer and executive owed his ascent to super lawyer Greg Bautzer, "who knew everyone." Robert Evans' unlikely rise to head of production at Paramount Pictures in 1966 has become the stuff of Hollywood legend.
14 hrs ago | WebProNews
Snapple Founder Dies; Leonard Marsh Was 80
According to a New York Times obituary , Marsh died on Tuesday, March 21 at his home in Long Island, New York.
16 hrs ago | TheCelebrityCafe
'Little Miss Sunshine' musical opening Off Broadway in October
A musical version of the Oscar winning comedy Little Miss Sunshine is set to open Off Broadway in October thanks to the Second Stage Theater.
18 hrs ago | Crosscut.com
Big Data's booming. Big Results aren't.
We've seen huge advances in our ability to generate, collect and store data. But not much happens to all that info once it's in the database.
21 hrs ago | Sacramento Bee Newspaper
Apple's original model bringing astronomical prices
Jason Henry New York Times The Apple-1 that Steve Wozniak built and Steve Jobs marketed, seen here in a museum, has sold for as much as $640,000. More than a decade ago, at a vintage computer fair in Silicon Valley, Dag Spicer had an opportunity to buy an original Apple-1 for $2,000. He passed.
Press Digest-New York Times business news - May 24
The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
The face of Coles' "feed your family" advertising campaign is hosting American reality show Top Chef Masters, in-between doing the rounds of global food expos and top-rating TV.
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
NYT Columnist Joe Nocera laughably calls Tim Cook a liar
As we reported previously, Tim Cook and two other Apple executives appeared before Congress earlier this week to discuss Apple's tax practices.
Obama announces new policies on drone program in counterterrorism speech
One day after his administration publicly acknowledged that the U.S. drone program had killed 4 U.S. citizens, one of whom was specifically targeted, President Obama is scheduled to deliver a 2:00 PM ET speech at the National Defense University on the future of the program and U.S. counterterrorism policy more generally.
Peter Leggeria, Peter Orlovsky, and Spain Rodriguez lay out a copy of the "East Village Other" . When the great poet Lucille Clifton died, the New York Times said that she was a member of a group of Buffalo black intellectuals.
Never-before-seen Pearl S. Buck novel will be released this fall
A never-before-published book by writer Pearl S. Buck will be released after being discovered in a storage unit.
New York rep says "a lot of hypocrisy" in Oklahoma tornado relief
Now King is finding it hard to believe Inhofe can support money for tornado relief after the storm that devastated Moore, Oklahoma.
Yahoo shifting office to NYT's former home
Flying the flag: Yahoo, which has signed a long-term lease for the 9th through 12th floors in the 15-storey building, is joining two other tech tenants there.
BCCC Alum to Address Graduating Class
James Bennett, an award-winning illustrator and graduate graduate of Bucks County Community College, will address the 2013 graduating class at commencement on Thursday.
West Point Army sergeant accused of taping female cadets in showers
An Army sergeant at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point has been accused of videotaping female cadets in the shower, a defense official said on Wednesday, the latest in a series of sex-related incidents that has rocked the military.
Fox and Furious Friends Wanted DOJ to Prosecute the New York Times
Throughout the tenure of George W. Bush, many of us to the left of center warned that unchecked presidential power was putting Americans' civil liberties in jeopardy.