advertisement An executive at a Palo Alto software giant was charged Monday with four felony counts of burglary, after authorities said he allegedly made his own bar code stickers, switched the tags, and then bought boxes of LEGOs at Target stores for huge discounts. Thomas Langenbach, 47, who lists himself as the vice president at Palo Alto's SAP Labs Integration and Certification Center on his LinkedIn profile, is expected to be arraigned Tuesday in Santa Clara County Court . "This probably happens more often than you'd think," said Mountain View police spokeswoman Liz Wylie. "But this is the first time we've ever had a case like this." NBC Bay Area went to Langenbach's multimillion dollar San Carlos home on Monday, but no one answered the ... Continue reading →
Brian Harkin for The New York Times From left, Nicholas Thompson, Evan Ratliff and Jefferson Rabb of The Atavist. It sounds like the setup for a very old, stale joke. Three guys walked into a bar in Brooklyn to complain about the state of journalism ... except by the time these guys were done chatting and plotting, they had come up with an actual business. That business is The Atavist, which helps produce multimedia storytelling for digital devices. Last week I found out that the idea was appealing enough to have attracted $1 million of what will eventually be $1.5 million in seed money. But the real punch line? The backers include Eric E. Schmidt (of Google), Marc Andreessen (a founder of Netscape) and the ... Continue reading →
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