Sara Blakely, founder of shapewear brand Spanx, has become the first female billionaire to join the Giving Pledge. She has vowed to give half her wealth to philanthropy. The Giving Pledge is a philanthropic effort launched three years ago by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates. Original post on globalpost.com Comments on reddit.com
Indirect estimates based on carbon dating point to intentional settlement by a large population. Original post on nature.com Comments on reddit.com
‘There was a point when we started praying for people to die,’ Libby Phelps Alvarez said. ‘I didn’t actually do that, but I was around when they did it.’ Original post on addictinginfo.org Comments on reddit.com
Give Michael Dell credit — he’s apparently willing to put his money where his mouth is. Unnamed sources have told Bloomberg that Dell, the founder of Dell Inc. (DELL), is planning to spend Original post on bgr.com Comments on reddit.com
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange says a film about his whistle-blowing website is propaganda designed to fan the flames of a war against Iran. Original post on news.com.au Comments on reddit.com
After three months in solitary confinement Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm will be released from custody. The prosecutor suspects Gottfrid of being involved in several hacking and fraud cases but he has yet to be charged in any of these cases. The Pirate Bay founder will now be transferred to a new prison which he will leave as a free man in five months if no new charges are brought against him. Original post on torrentfreak.com Comments on reddit.com
A year ago, it was ‘the fastest-growing company in the world’. Last week, the deals website’s founder barely survived a bid to throw him off the board, writes Dominic Rushe Original post on guardian.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
A shuttered plant, a small business loan and Americans’ growing taste for Greek-style yogurt combined to make 40-year-old Turkish immigrant Hamdi Ulukaya a billionaire. Original post on bloomberg.com Comments on reddit.com
A dispute over the Samsung family fortune is interfering with a commemoration for the group’s founder, as different family members trade accusations about the service. Original post on nytimes.com Comments on reddit.com
In late August Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm was arrested in Cambodia. After being held by authorities there he was swiftly deported to Sweden. Once in his homeland he was hit with charges connected to an alleged hacking offense but since then the news trail has gone largely cold. Speaking with Gottfrid’s mother Kristina, TorrentFreak has learned that her son is being kept in solitary confinement, locked up for 23 hours a day. But he is allowed to read and hopefully, very soon, that will include your letters. Original post on torrentfreak.com Comments on reddit.com
Exclusive: Government action could be needed to bring an end to a litany of patent lawsuits in the consumer technology market, such as those between Original post on metro.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Top Zetas drug cartel leader Heriberto Lazcano has apparently been killed in a firefight with marines in the northern border state of Coahuila, the Mexican navy said Monday. Original post on washingtonpost.com Comments on reddit.com
Gottfrid Svartholm will be kept in detention for at least two more weeks on suspicion of hacking into a Swedish IT company connected to the country’s tax authorities. According to Prosecutor Henry Olin the extended detention is needed Original post on torrentfreak.com Comments on reddit.com
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, speaking via a choppy video feed from his virtual house arrest in London, lashed out at U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday for supporting Original post on reuters.com Comments on reddit.com
Established technology companies increasingly are buying–and then shutting down–early stage start-ups, mostly to acquire their software-engineering talent. Original post on wsj.com Comments on reddit.com
In a move that’s set the blogging world alight, Sweden has pledged to give Cambodia $60 million for ‘democratic development’. Some think the timing of the deal – right on the heels of Pirate Bay co-founder Warg’s arrest – is no coincidence. Original post on rt.com Comments on reddit.com
President Barack Obama’s re-election will be better for businesses than a country led by Mitt Romney, Jim Sinegal, co-founder of Costco Wholesale Corp., said during a speech at the Democratic National Convention. Original post on bloomberg.com Comments on reddit.com
Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm has been arrested in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. Svartholm, known online by his nickname Anakata, was sentenced to one year in jail for his involvement in The Pirate Bay but has been missing for some time. Svartholm was wanted internationally but exact details as to why he was arrested have not yet been made public. Original post on torrentfreak.com Comments on reddit.com
In 2005, Alexis Ohanian started a little site called Reddit, which is now one of the most trafficked sites on the web. Today, he has more than fifty startups in his portfolio, including Evernote, Grubwithus, and Visual.ly, making him one of the most prominent investors and mentors in tech. Alexis is also the founder of Breadpig, a Original post on lifehacker.com Comments on reddit.com
When negotiating a sale, Instagram’s founders could have protected themselves from a decline in Faceook’s share value if they had used some common merger tools. Original post on nytimes.com Comments on reddit.com
NEW YORK — The definition of insider trading has gotten a workout at the Manhattan federal trial of a San Francisco hedge fund founder after he testified that information he elicits from public company executives about earnings or future prospects is legal as long as he is not told exact numbers. Original post on washingtonpost.com Comments on reddit.com
President Rafael Correa says Britain’s threats to remove Julian Assange are Original post on aljazeera.com Comments on reddit.com
Ecuador accuses the UK of threatening to enter its London embassy to arrest Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, as tensions lead to three arrests ahead of a decision on his political asylum request. Original post on bbc.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Best Buy may not be long for this world. The sad fact is that big box retailers are a dying… Original post on extremetech.com Comments on reddit.com
Kim Dotcom has dropped the biggest hint yet that his new Megabox project will launch this year. Original post on thenextweb.com Comments on reddit.com
LONDON (AP) — The secret-busting organization WikiLeaks says it’s been the victim of a sustained denial-of-service attack which has left its website sluggish or inaccessible for more than a week. In a statement released late Saturday the group said the assault intensified around the beginning of August and has since expanded to include attacks against affiliated sites. Denial-of-service attacks work by overwhelming websites with requests for information. WikiLeaks has said it’s been flooded with 10 gigabits per second of bogus traffic from thousands of different Internet addresses. Josh Corman, with online content delivery company Akamai, characterized that as Original post on huffingtonpost.com Comments on reddit.com
