David Carr
Business Columnist, New York Times
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David Carr, Media Equation column, blogs @ Decoder, covers pop culture at NYTimes. Tweets hi-low, news, whatnot. Author: Night of the Gun. amzn.to/lhYAP5
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MakerBot Sells to Stratasys for $403M — Plus $201M for Earn-Outs — as 3-D Printing Market Explodes -\dthin.gs/143LKXh @karaswisher
MakerBot Sells to Stratasys for $403M - Plus $201M for Earn-Outs - as 3-D Printing Market Explodes
allthingsd.com — The 3-D printing business just saw its first big deal, with the sale of MakerBot to Stratasys for $403 million in stock, with an additional $201 million in performance-based earn-outs. Stratasys is a larger industrial 3-D printing company, while MakerBot has pioneered the desktop 3-D printing, selling more than 22,000 3-D printers since it was founded in 2009, including the MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer.
We bristle at the scent of whistle-blowers for atavistic reasons: reut.rs/11NgKZK @jackshafer on Snowden
Snowden versus the dragons
blogs.reuters.com — One measure of our culture's disdain for whistle-blowers like Edward Snowden can be culled from the pages of a thesaurus. Beyond "source" and "leaker," few neutral antonyms exist to describe people who divulge alleged wrongdoing by the government or other organizations to the press, while negative antonyms abound-spy, double-agent, rat, snitch, informer, fink, double-crosser, canary, stoolie, squealer, turncoat, betrayer, traitor and so on.
>@buzzzfeedben on Michael Hastings: He wrote stories that would otherwise have gone unwritten. bit.ly/11KnnLs
Statement On Michael Hastings
buzzfeed.com — BuzzFeed is saddened to report that Michael Hastings died in a car accident early this morning in Los Angeles. Ben Smith, BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief, said in a statement:We are shocked and devastated by the news that Michael Hastings is gone.
RT @cbloggy: @PeteJamison did @carr2n just discover the Internet? "news no longer needs the permission of traditional gatekeepers to break …
RT @GraemeMcRanor: "Once you start getting in jams, you develop a halo of flies. The cops smell fear or, more likely, the taint of the lose…
If New Yorkers who banned from talking smack about their coworkers, the streets of the city would go silent.
@mathewi I always get that wrong. please change your name. (insert wan smilicon here). meanwhile, fixed.
rt/cx The NSA story isn’t “journalistic malfeasance” — it’s a story that is evolving in real time — @mathewi bit.ly/16cAsBr
The NSA story isn’t “journalistic malfeasance” - it’s a story that is evolving in real time
paidcontent.org — There have been a host of critical responses to the recent stories from the Guardian and Washington Post about the NSA and its massive phone-data and internet surveillance programs, and many of them have taken aim at the reporting involved in those stories - which some allege has been shoddy and incomplete.
>@erikwemple on snowden. "no wonder that the powers that be are freaked out about this guy." wapo.st/11ujcEJ
Edward Snowden is a coward? No, he’s a media visionary
washingtonpost.com — If Edward Snowden had a PR firm, it would have been in crisis mode over the weekend. Dick Cheney called him a "traitor" for his allegedly national security-harming disclosures. Bob Schieffer called him a "narcissistic young man who has decided he is smarter than the rest of us."Sign up to discover more journalists who cover Business and Finance, Opinion and Editorial and more.
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