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From Robert Hof’s review of Ken Auletta’s new book, Googled: The End of the World As We Know It Auletta describes how [Larry] Page couldn’t stop staring at his handheld device during a meeting between the founders and mogul Barry Diller. Diller told him to choose between it and their conversation. “I’ll do this,” Page [...]
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So it appears that Google has incorporated a bit of crowdsourcing into their earnings calls: Rather than take questions from analysts directly, Google has asked Wall Street’s finest to submit their questions through a service called Google Moderator, and is only responding to questions that receive the most votes from other analysts. The selected questions [...]
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TechCrunch has learned from sources that during Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s tenure on Apple’s board the two firms had an unwritten agreement not to poach talent from each other. To be clear, this unwritten agreement was that Google would not go after Apple employees, and vice versa. However, employees of both companies were free to [...]
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Fiction
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
Non-fiction
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value
The Numbers Game
Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
The Rational Optimist
The Quiet American
How Doctors Think
The Wisdom of Whores
Switch
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
