Economics
The $199 billion problem: Ten US companies that could devastate Silicon Valley
What’s the greater ticking time bomb: More than a hundred companies worth $1 billion each or ten companies worth $199 billion?
Are we now in a bear tech market?
For tech stocks it's the best of times, the worst of times.
Press Here: There are 76,000 millionaires and billionaires in Santa Clara and San Mateo alone
Meanwhile, some 30% of those populations are on some form of public assistance.
Good news! Startup employees get a tax break. But let’s not pretend anyone at a startup takes a paycut anymore
No one works for options anymore.
It may not be the biggest startup hub, but new data shows Chicago startups have some of the best returns
(Just in time for Pandoland!)
If you don’t cover startups, you don’t cover the real business of tech
Revisionist history only works if no journalists are there to record the truth.
The tech industry's faith is starting to look a lot like denial
Say this for Silicon Valley: The blithe resilience built up after decades of booms and busts is as strong as ever.
The only thing more riveting than watching Netflix is watching its stock price
"Up" for Netflix never involves anything resembling a straight line, but rather a line drawn by a hyperactive, sugar-fed child given a piece of chalk.
That didn't take long. Investors are already impatient with Dorsey
The work-in-progress status shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody who has been watching the company over the past year.
Code for America: We coded our way into this, now help us code our way out
Code For America helps governments learn from San Francisco, where black households have a median income of $29.5k vs $104.3k for white households.
Naked Capitalism: “We are in the business of making trouble”
Mark Ames talks to Yves Smith about covering stories too complex for most media, being a women in the male-dominated finance industry and on how Greece could have become a failed state.
Upstart adds $35 million to continue its millennial-focused, data driven loan platform
But will success help erase the stigma around the loans industry?
Ahead of its IPO, PayPal is the king of online payments. So why does it still control less than 1% of its market?
In 2002, eBay gobbled up PayPal. To show you how much the playing field has changed its since then, this Friday PayPal will be spitting out eBay.
John Dolan goes to Greece: An ant's-eye view of the crisis
"If I understood anything about money, I wouldn’t have been in this part of the world in the first place..."
