Image: CBS 60 Minutes The Federal government now has only $54 billion in cash in the bank. That’s $2 billion less than the net worth of Bill Gates, as frequent BI commenter @ComfortablySmug points out on Twitter. Ouch. People had been writing that the US’s cash balance had gotten so bad that it was...
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Um, John, we’re about to go broke. What say we call off the circus act and finally do something about it? Image: AP Photo/Harry Hamburg Maybe this news will wake up those irresponsible idiots in Washington. The United States only has $54 billion of cash left in the bank. That’s down from $100+ billion...
The Gillmor Gang — Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — covered the gamut between Google+ and well, Google+. The new social platform continues to delight and confound the early adopters in record numbers. @scobleizer remains optimistic that the search giant will roll out filtering features to cut down on the...
Oh, how embarrassing. Earlier this week, Elizabeth May, the leader of Canada’s Green Party, took to her Twitter account and declared war on Wi-Fi. To think I very nearly voted for these clowns in our recent election. Lesson for my American friends: just because you find all the major parties unpalatable doesn’t mean that...
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It’s official: the Obama administration managed to get an agreement with auto makers for 54.5 miles per gallon standard for cars and trucks by Model Year 2025. Hoo-rah. American’s have been driving inefficient gas-guzzling cars for years, and with rising gas prices (along with the weak economy) are really feeling the pinch at the...
With today’s smartphones being far more powerful than the games consoles of even just a few years ago, it’s little surprise that there’s a thriving scene of developers building software to reproduce the best of yesteryear’s gaming on that device in your pocket. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the open world of Android is the focus of...
Image: Esther Dyson Founders Fund, the VC firm whose highest-profile investment is Facebook, has published a manifesto of sorts, called “What Happened To The Future?” The content will be familiar to anyone who’s been following Founders Fund co-founder Peter Thiel: it complains that the rate of technological innovation is slowing, and that we need...
Image: Screenshot The scary story of Airbnb user EJ who says her apartment was ransacked by Airbnb renters, and then said that when she blogged her story the company tried to get her to shut up about it, is turning into a war of words. Now Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator, Airbnb investor...
The early days of the New York Internet scene were similar to the early days of the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century. The men and women who pioneered the Internet in the mid-late 90s lived in a time marked by freneticism, enthusiasm and rapid hiring. Innovation was celebrated and there was a real spirit...