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Nick Denton

  • Financial Journalist, Freelance
  • Director, Dialog Engineers
As seen in: The Wall Street Journal, Kotaku, Lifehacker, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Editor & Publisher, Cele|bitchy, Associations Now, LetsRecycle.com
I was once Valleywag, bane of the oligarchs. Now I trade securities as well as tech information. I have skin in the game.
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Teen-Loving Epstein's Own Client

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By Nick Denton
| gawker.com
17.08K Jeffrey Epstein, the financier who this week begins a jail term for soliciting prostitution, is an enigma. The standard question: how could the 55-year-old have been so obsessed by the teenaged girls who gave him erotic massages that he'd jeopardize the lifestyle of a billionaire and the status that attached to friendships with former president Bill Clinton and others? (Answer: entitled men do stupid things.) But more intriguing is the origin of his seeming wealth.
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Valleywag: Benioff a petty tyrant

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By Nick Denton
| gawker.com
So, finally, the bottom of the story of the Wall Street Journal's clash with web billionaire Marc Benioff. And it gets uglier. Pui-Wing Tam, the Journal reporter who was investigating the Salesforce.com CEO's Hawaii getaway, was indeed detained, both by Benioff's construction crew and the police. Benioff told the police that she was a stalker. The detention may have been illegal.
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‘Negligent’ metals firm loses vehicles licence

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By Elizabeth Slow, Nick Denton
| LetsRecycle.com Verified
A West Midlands-based scrap metal firm has had its restricted goods vehicles operator’s licence revoked, after failing to make sure its vehicles had safety inspections. B Shakespeare & Co Ltd, based in Brierley Hill, had its licence revoked as of 1 September following a public inquiry on 23 July in Birmingham. A restricted licence allows an operator to carry its own goods, but not other people’s goods. The licence has been revoked for eight of the company’s vehicles.
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