ABC News President Obama endorsed same-sex marriage during an interview on Wednesday. WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday ended nearly two years of “evolving” on the issue of same-sex marriage by publicly endorsing it in a television interview, taking a definitive stand on one of the most contentious and politically charged social issues of the day. “At a certain point, I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married,” Mr. Obama told ABC News in an interview that came after the president faced mounting pressure to clarify his position. In an election that is all but certain to turn on the slowly recovering economy and its ... Continue reading →
Why Stodgy Intel Has Been Beating Google—And Will For Years To Come by Stephane Fitch May 09, 2012 Remember way back in the 1990s? The two most important computer nerds in America were Microsoft’s (MSFT) Bill Gates and Intel’s (INTC) Andy Grove. This was the era of the great rise of personal computing with formerly computer-less homes buying desktops and laptops galore. And if you owned shares in either company during that decade, you did extraordinarily well, as seen in this stock chart. MSFT data by YCharts Alas, the buzz has up and left these two companies. In the current era, investors are betting on all things Internet. And if there is a single stock that seems likely to capture everything the Internet promises to ... Continue reading →
Illustrations by Mat Maitland Ever since the financial crisis started, we’ve heard plenty from the 1 percent. We’ve heard them giving defensive testimony in Congressional hearings or issuing anodyne statements flanked by lawyers and image consultants. They typically repeat platitudes about investment, risk-taking and job creation with the veiled contempt that the nation doesn’t understand their contribution. You get the sense that they’re afraid to say what they really believe. What do the superrich say when the cameras aren’t there? By Jacob Goldstein and Dan Kedmey Illustrations by Mat Maitland With that in mind, I recently met Edward Conard on 57th Street and Madison Avenue, just outside his office at Bain Capital, the private-equity firm he helped build into a multibillion-dollar business by buying, fixing ... Continue reading →
If you're not getting dirty, you're not doing biz dev. We recently called out to the Hacker News crowd with a job opening for a non-hacker “hustler type.” We got a load of resumés, thank you. While we were pleased with the applicant pool, we were also surprised at the general attitude of many of the job seekers. Judging from the people who applied, it’s clear that startups have seized the zeitgeist that Wall Street once held with the youngish, smartish crowd, as a remarkable breadth of people now want to work at startups. Within the applications, we saw a lot of pithy clichés like “thinking big” and “building something special” and joining “an exciting company.” Applicants all seemed willing to read the latest Seth ... Continue reading →
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Victor Ortiz doesn't believe Floyd Mayweather deserves the welterweight title after a brutal sucker punch last Saturday -- telling TMZ, Money May isn't as good as he thinks he is.Victor came out swinging on TMZ Live today -- lambasting Floyd for for his unsportsmanlike knockout ... claiming, "If he's really as great as he thinks he is, take a step back. We can settle it as professional athletes."Ortiz adds, "This isn't the way something like this is supposed to end." The celebrity P.I. who was famously convicted on scores of wiretapping and conspiracy counts in 2008 has filed for divorce from his wife ... from inside prison.Anthony Pellicano's lawyer filed the documents last week -- citing irreconcilable differences.Anthony was hired by numerous Hollywood big wigs ... Continue reading →
