Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Out After Embellishing Résumé
Scott Thompson had only been Yahoo's CEO for four months, and now he's out. All because his résumé embellished his college degree.
Tech Millionaires Plagued By Very Difficult Rich-People Decisions
It is rough out there for tech executives. Positively awful, and the better off a plutocrat is, the worse things get. Or at least that's what I gather from some recent headlines in the wealthy business man's newspaper of choice, the Wall Street Journal.
Kids in the Hall's Death Comes to Town Will Make You Feel Wet as a Lake
The KitH miniseries Death Comes to Town has everything you'd expect from a primetime soap: death, sex, high tension, and trannies. If As The World Turns had taken a few tips from Scott Thompson they might not have been canceled.
Even eBay wishes PayPal weren't part of eBay now
PayPal's CEO is
talking up the company's business handling payments on websites other than eBay. Where have I heard this before? Oh yes: In April 2002, when I had coffee with Peter Thiel, then the CEO of PayPal as an independent concern. He talked up the prospects of growing PayPal's business on other websites. He…
PayPal closes the border
When Peter Thiel launched PayPal a decade ago, he had a vision of a global payments mechanism which would accelerate the withering-away of the nation-state. And then he sold it to eBay. eBay's latest failure to transform the international monetary system is quite literal; for almost two weeks, PayPal has had a bug…
