| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.06.2014 | Is the Egyptian Government Finally Taking Action Against Sexual Harassment? | All photos by Ines Della Valle; Protesters gather outside the Cairo Opera House.
Whilst thousands of people gathered in Tahrir Square to celebrate the election and inauguration of new President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi earlier this month, numer... |
| 03.06.2014 | An E-Cig That Tells You How Much You’ve Increased Your Life Expectency With Every Puff | Forget for just a moment that e-cigarettes contain several of the same toxic substances in regular cigarettes but in higher quantities such as carbon monoxide, heavy metals and several substances used in antifreeze known to cause cancer. Sm... |
| 29.04.2014 | PolicyMic Closes $10M Series A Funding | PolicyMic, a NYC-based digital media firm, closed a $10m Series A funding.
The round was led by Netscape founder Jim Clark and WebMD with participation from previous investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lerer Ventures, Advancit Capital, R... |
| 17.04.2014 | People Actually Gave a Shit About This Year's Kiev Forum | In 2005, Vladimir Putin referred to the collapse of the Soviet Union as “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century”. Last week, at the Kiev Security Forum, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk repeated the infamous phrase —... |
| 17.04.2014 | People Actually Gave a Shit About This Year's Kiev Security Forum | Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk speaks at this year's Kyiv Security Forum (Image via)
In 2005, Vladimir Putin referred to the collapse of the Soviet Union as “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.” Last week, at t... |
| 11.04.2014 | Dropbox Promises Adding Condoleezza Rice To Its Board Won’t Change Its Privacy Views | After Dropbox announced the hiring of former U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, the Internet roiled with unrest: Could a former government official who defended warrantless wiretapping during the Bush ad... |
| 04.03.2014 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Events in Ukraine continue to dominate today’s national security conversations. The New York Times reports on Vladamir Putin’s first public remarks on the Crimean crisis, remarks that struck a defiant tone and insisted that Russian forces h... |
| 24.10.2013 | SA 100 2013: The Coolest People In New York Tech
Check out the 2012 Silicon Alley 100 list | Business Insider / Mike Nudelman
Yahoo's $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr really put New York tech on the map this year.
But over the past few years, New York City has become a tech hotspot. Scroll through this year's Silicon Alley 100 &g... |
| 16.10.2013 | PolicyMic Secures $3M |
NEW YORK, NY, Online news site, PolicyMic, has raised $3M in funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.
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| 15.10.2013 | PolicyMic Raises $3M, Betting That Millennials Want Substantive News And Commentary | How many younger readers really care about news and politics — as opposed to celebrity gossip, viral videos, and cat GIFs? Well, a site called PolicyMic is built around the proposition that readers under 35 are looking for something more su... |
| 02.10.2013 | ‘World’s most evil corporation’ Monsanto buys weather big data company for $930M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
It turns out Monsanto needs a little help with it... |
| 02.10.2013 | ‘World’s most evil corporation’ Monsanto buys weather big data company for $930M | It turns out Monsanto needs a little help with its mission to create genetically modified, chemically enhanced supercrops that are resistant to everything the planet could throw at them.
The Big Ag giant is purchasing big data company The C... |
| 25.09.2013 | Book Event on “Thank You For Your Service,” About Homecoming for Veterans | More than 2.5 million service members have served in Iraq or Afghanistan over the past 12 years of war. A number of terrific memoirs and histories have been written about their efforts in war. However, very little has been written so far ab... |
| 24.09.2013 | On California’s Bizarre Internet Eraser Law For Teenagers | California has passed a well-intentioned law allowing teens to scrub their youthful indiscretions from the Internet. Starting in 2015, any minor can request that a digital service provider delete pictures of themselves passed out drunk at a... |
| 21.08.2013 | Nope, the GOP Still Isn't Libertarian | Republican senator Ted Cruz speaking to a conference of social conservatives. When this guy is considered a leading figure in your party, you're a long way from libertarianism. Photo via Flickr user Gage Skidmore
If you’re bored with the po... |
| 25.07.2013 | How PolicyMic, A Startup With A Handful Of Employees, Gets 6 Million People To Read It Every Month | Duncan Wolfe
Jake Horowitz (L) and Chris Altchek (R) co-founded PolicyMic. In 2011, Chris Altchek left his job at Goldman Sachs. He created PolicyMic, a site that used Bleacher Report's model of hiring mostly-free contributors to produce co... |
| 25.07.2013 | How PolicyMic, A Startup With A Handful Of Employees, Gets 6 Million People To Read It Every Month | Duncan Wolfe
Jake Horowitz (L) and Chris Altchek (R) co-founded PolicyMic. In 2011, Chris Altchek left his job at Goldman Sachs. He created PolicyMic, a site that used Bleacher Report's model of hiring mostly-free contributors to produce co... |
| 25.07.2013 | What Edward Snowden Has Given Us | When Edward Snowden first revealed himself as the source of the NSA leaks, the Guardian released a short video interview with him in which he made the following confession: |
| 30.05.2013 | Groundfloor unveils 'Lending Club for real-estate' so you can get richer, faster (exclusive) | Groundfloor wants to take power away from banks and put it in the hands of the people.
The startup is building a peer-to-peer platform that gives regular people opportunities to invest in real estate projects. It is emerging out of stealth ... |
| 30.05.2013 | Groundfloor unveils 'Lending Club for real-estate' so you can get richer, faster (exclusive) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Groundfloor wants to take power away from banks a... |
| 03.05.2013 | What's Your Emergency Today? | (Photo via)
The world would be an emptier place without the state of Florida. America's penis is home to everything from face-eating bath salt zombies to women who molest manatees, through Hulk Hogan's sex tape and mothers who try to sell t... |
| 29.04.2013 | Docs’ pay up, moods shaky in 2012 | MassDevice.com On Call | MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Physicians in general continued to see increases in compensation in 2012, but frustration among practitioners appears to be growing, according to a Medscape survey of nearly 22,000 U.S. doctors.
Among 25 specialties sur... |
| 09.04.2013 | WikiLeaks To World: We’re Still Relevant — Really! | Three years after WikiLeaks shook up the international community by leaking more than 250,000 diplomatic cables, the organization is at it again. Yesterday, it unveiled 1.7 million documents from the era of Henry Kissinger in the form of a ... |
| 13.03.2013 | Catholic Church announces new Pope Francis on Twitter | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
We have a new pope and it seems that despite all ... |
| 06.03.2013 | Eric Holder On Domestic Drone Strikes: Eh, Could Happen | The questions about drones keep coming. Much of the focus has been on the legality of their use overseas, or else the manner in which domestic law enforcement uses them here at home. Glyn Moody even recently wrote about how the World Wildli... |
| 15.02.2013 | Is Kickstarter the New National Endowment For the Arts? | A big story that no one noticed: Last year, the crowd funding company Kickstarter distributed more money for the arts than the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). This isn’t surprising. We’re living in times where every dollar government... |
| 31.01.2013 | Hoover Task Force Short Essays #5, #6, and #7 | I've fallen behind in linking to the short essays being published by the Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security and Law. The latest come from Tod Lindberg, Amy Zegart, and Philip Bobbitt.
Lindberg's essay, entitled "Libya, ... |
| 19.12.2012 | Glenn Greenwald on Disparate Reactions to Newtown and to Children Killed in Drone Strikes | Glenn Greenwald has this lengthy and passionate piece on why Americans respond so differently to the killings in Newtown from the way they respond to the deaths of children killed in drone strikes. “There's just no denying that many of the ... |
| 29.11.2012 | Today’s Headlines and Commentary | As Ben mentioned, there has been a landslide of coverage about this GAO report, released yesterday by Senator Dianne Feinstein, on housing Guantanamo detainees in the United States. Here are Spencer Ackerman of Wired’s Danger Room, the Asso... |
| 29.10.2012 | The Year In SLAPPs: From The Oatmeal To Pink Slime | 2012 has been yet another year filled with meritless lawsuits filed solely to chill First Amendment free speech rights — so-called Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP). As websites relying on user-generated content contin... |
| 18.09.2012 | 15 YouTube Videos That Changed The World | “The Innocence of Muslims,” a trailer for an anti-Islamic film that has served as both an excuse and a spur for the latest round of unrest in the Middle East, is only the latest example of a longstanding YouTube tradition. The Google-owned ... |
| 01.08.2011 | Is Google Antitrust Investigation Simply A Repeat Of Wasteful Microsoft Antitrust Effort? | I haven’t written anything about the ongoing FTC investigation of Google, because the details are still a bit iffy, but Charlotte Kiang points us to a piece she wrote up comparing the investigation of Google to the similar antitrust legal f... |