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  • An Old-Media Empire, Axel Springer Reboots for the…

    An Old-Media Empire, Axel Springer Reboots for the Digital Age » BERLIN — When Mathias Döpfner, chief executive of Axel Springer, and a handful of his top managers first set their sights on the United States three years ago, it was… more ›

  • Pedro Matos “Number One” // #boxinglisboa // #boxe…

    Pedro Matos “Number One” // #boxinglisboa // #boxe // #Portugal // #Lisboa // trailer do filme já disponível no nosso site // #desporto // #culturaurbana // by boxinglisboa more ›

  • #Ask Sundar: Google CEO Sundar Pichai, live in…

    #Ask Sundar: Google CEO Sundar Pichai, live in conversation at Delhi University http://youtu.be/MwAOeUmkT-U more ›

  • Pedro Matos “Number One” – trailer…

    Pedro Matos “Number One” – trailer http://youtu.be/RvNFTpHxu1E more ›

  • 2016 Google Tracker: Everything Google is working…

    2016 Google Tracker: Everything Google is working on for the new year » It’s that time of the year again—welcome to the Google Tracker! This is a bi-annual series where we recap every ongoing project (that we know about, at… more ›

  • The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic

    The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic » Walter Pitts was used to being bullied. He’d been born into a tough family in Prohibition-era Detroit, where his father, a boiler-maker, had no trouble raising his fists to… more ›

  • The AWS IPO

    The AWS IPO » One of the technology industry’s biggest and most important IPOs occurred late last month, with a valuation of $25.6 billion dollars. That’s more than Google, which IPO’d at a valuation of $24. more ›

  • El Chapo Speaks

    El Chapo Speaks » Disclosure: Some names have had
 to be changed, locations not named, and an understanding was brokered with the subject that this piece would be submitted for the subject’s approval before publication. The subject did not ask… more ›

  • The Mogul of the Middle

    The Mogul of the Middle » Adam Fogelson, the chairman of Hollywood’s newest studio, listened to a pitch for a film called “Unmanned” with an encouraging smile. Hollywood pitches are jolly, elaborately courteous affairs. more ›

  • The rise and fall of Sony

    The rise and fall of Sony » Here is a Japanese fairy tale for Christmas. An allegory of insight, opportunism and a fall from favour. It is 1945. more ›