Google exec says perks don’t matter, but offers free food, ping-pong tables and volleyball anyway.
"If you’re thinking of acquiring a company and want to keep it a secret, tell everyone in the company, let them all in on the truth. Say, “Listen, if this gets out, we’ll probably lose the deal, so we’re all in this together.” People are getting more sophisticated. The only way to deal is by being honest and open and truthful."
— Biz Stone in Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone to Advise M.B.A. Students at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business - WSJ.com
As of press time, 9,016 people answered “yes” to this question. 26,668 said “no.”
On one side, those content producers who choose to stay on the free-and-open web will be forced into making more and more ethically dubious decisions to stay profitable. Out will go professional writers and church-and-state separation of content and commerce; in will come more Groupon-style “reader offers”, affiliate links behind every keyword and an Idiocracy of dumber and dumber linkbait.
All the while, Ms. Deng hasn’t neglected the business of minding Mr. Murdoch, who has undergone the kind of change in appearance often associated with a man’s marrying a new and much-younger wife.
Mr. Murdoch for decades preferred establishment addresses such as New York’s Upper East Side and Bel Air in Los Angeles. But after remarrying, he and Ms. Deng set up residence in Manhattan’s trendy downtown SoHo district, a few blocks from the apartment of Mr. Murdoch’s son, Lachlan. Known for his British-style double-breasted business suits, the elder Mr. Murdoch suddenly started sporting black turtlenecks on some social occasions. News Corp. executives say that sometimes he even forgoes a tie at the office, which was once unthinkable. He told Vanity Fair that he is pumping iron with a personal trainer at 6 a.m. and downing a morning concoction of fruit and soy protein.
Call him Rue.
We live in the much vaunted Age of Information. Courtesy of the Internet, we seem to have immediate access to anything that anyone could ever want to know. … In effect, we are living within the nimbus of an informational Gresham’s law in which trivial information pushes out significant information, but it is also an ideational Gresham’s law in which information, trivial or not, pushes out ideas.
Internet Killed the Philosopher
$32 million settlement, an average of $1,846 per employee involved. (I wasn’t in the ESOP.) Not exactly a big payday for journalists that rode the leveraged buyout into the concrete.
The unspoken comparisons of Baidu to the early days of Google are staggering.
