Daily Archives: August 7, 2012

Starbucks Just Invested $25 Million In Square, With Howard Schultz Joining The Board (SBUX)

August 7, 2012
Starbucks Just Invested $25 Million In Square, With Howard Schultz Joining The Board (SBUX)

AP See Also Check Out The Unusual Structure That Lets Square CEO Jack Dorsey Cash Out His Shares The Price of Square’s Shares Have Jumped 90% In A Year Twitter Cofounder Jack Dorsey Is Now A Billionaire Starbucks, the giant coffee seller, just invested $25 million in Square, the San Francisco-based payments startup. In...

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Starbucks teams up with Square, will accept Pay with Square

August 7, 2012

Square, the San Francisco-based mobile payments company co-founded by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, has signed a wide-ranging agreement with coffee chain Starbucks and as part of this agreement, Starbucks will be able to accept payments from Square’s Pay with Square application. As part of this new deal, Square will also process Starbucks’ U.S. credit card and...

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Bill Clinton hearts energy efficiency, Ivanpah & tattoos (who knew)

August 7, 2012
Bill Clinton hearts energy efficiency, Ivanpah & tattoos (who knew)

President Bill Clinton is a total energy geek. In an hour long talk and QA session at the National Clean Energy Summit on Tuesday, Clinton gushed about visiting a nearby solar farm that morning, praised energy efficiency and solar technology, and rattled off energy prices in international regions like a seasoned power exec. Clinton...

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12 Excellent Examples Of How Apple Product Placements Rule Hollywood (AAPL)

August 7, 2012
12 Excellent Examples Of How Apple Product Placements Rule Hollywood (AAPL)

Jack Donaghy does not use an Android. See Also These Are The 50 Sexiest Advertising Executives Alive Domino’s Debuts New Logo In New Zealand QUIZ: Can You Match The Brand With Its Jingle? Last week, Apple revealed one of its biggest marketing secrets in federal court: The company relies heavily on free product placement...

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Apple puts 24-hour suspension on phone based resets of Apple ID passwords, in response to recent hack

August 7, 2012

After experiencing a gigantic daisy-chained hack, Mat Honan has been letting us know exactly what happened, how it happened and what the companies involved are doing to make sure it doesn’t happen to anyone else. Apple has stepped up and is putting a 24-hour ban on calling Apple support to change your Apple ID...

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Patent troll Intellectual Ventures seeks “VP of Global Good”

August 7, 2012

It’s like Darth Vader doing some charity work as he completes the Death Star. Intellectual Ventures, which is shaking down hundreds of companies with spurious patent lawsuits, now plans to use some of the money it squeezes from the tech industry to do some good. In a new job posting, Intellectual Ventures is looking...

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Oracle To Google: Which Bloggers Did You Pay Off? (ORCL, GOOG)

August 7, 2012
Oracle To Google: Which Bloggers Did You Pay Off? (ORCL, GOOG)

AP See Also Judge Orders Google, Oracle To Confess If They Paid Off Bloggers To Write About Their Lawsuit Remember When Oracle Sued Google For $6 Billion? Here’s The End Result … Judge Orders Oracle, Google, Not To Be Deadbeats And To Pay This Guy After the judge presiding over the Oracle/Google lawsuit issued...

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Can’t get enough of those epic quotes from Y Combinator’s Paul Graham? You’re in luck

August 7, 2012
Can’t get enough of those epic quotes from Y Combinator’s Paul Graham? You’re in luck

For young entrepreneurs that have gone through a class of Y Combinator companies, quoting its co-founder Paul Graham is as natural as breathing air. But what if you’ve run out of “PG” quotes? You’re in luck, thanks to the site ChangeMakrs. These are the same folks that have brought you the wonderful Steve Jobs...

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Pick Up The Phone! Enterprise Startup Qualtrics Gongs Employees If They Don’t Answer Customer Calls

August 7, 2012
Pick Up The Phone! Enterprise Startup Qualtrics Gongs Employees If They Don’t Answer Customer Calls

Daniel Goodman / Business Insider Bang a gong. Get some support on. We sat down for dinner recently with Ryan and Jared Smith, the brothers behind Qualtrics, an enterprise software company in Provo, Utah. Because it’s based outside Silicon Valley and hadn’t taken any outside funding until it accepted $70 million in financing from...

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Facebook VP Of Engineering Mike Schroepfer On Moving From Coding To Management [TCTV]

August 7, 2012
Facebook VP Of Engineering Mike Schroepfer On Moving From Coding To Management [TCTV]

As they get older, lots of software engineers dread the seemingly inevitable move from being a programmer to being a manager. After all, if your true passion is writing code, taking on the responsibilities of managing other people may be a bit more lucrative, but it will obviously take away the time you can...

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