March 08, 2009
March 06, 2009
My recent tirade against bailing out the hedge fund half of AIG makes much more sense when you consider who is actually getting all of the taxpayer largesse: Counter-parties of AIG, especially one Goldman Sachs. Some estimates have been in excess of $25 billion to GS. As AIG ran into the arms of the...
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Barry Ritholtz
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March 05, 2009
By Eric Goldman Dart v. Craigslist, Inc., 09-CV-1385 (N.D. Ill. complaint filed March 5, 2009) Dart, the Cook County, Illinois sheriff, has sued Craigslist in federal court for creating a "public nuisance" because its "Erotic Services" category facilitates prostitution. Unfortunately for Dart, this ...
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
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Eric
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March 04, 2009
I teach college classes on innovation, as well as speak regularly on the topic. And I am frequenty asked how to determine whether new products are sustaining innovations, or disruptive ones. In 2008, the most common product I was asked about was the iPhone. To me the answer was obvious. As a...
The Phoenix Principle
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Adam Hartung
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March 03, 2009
By Eric Goldman Finkel v. Facebook, Inc., 102578-09 (N.Y. Supreme Ct. complaint filed Feb. 24, 2009). A New York teenager has sued Facebook and four Facebook users (plus their parents) for allegedly defamatory content posted in a private Facebook group called "90 Cents Short of a Dollar." This case ...
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Eric
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February 17, 2009
I received a call from CNN news this morning asking for my sage insight into the issue that Facebook has changed its Terms of Service (ToS) to expand its ownership of data to include your first born. Well, I didn’t have any time this morning to know much about it so I was no good to Amanda o...
Marketing Conversation» Marketing Conversation - New Marketing and Social Media by Abraham Harrison LLC
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Chris Abraham
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February 15, 2009
Word reached me through the grapevine that Facebook has altered its terms of service (that legalese you don’t read when you sign up) to essentially grant itself a perpetual and all-encompassing right to use any content you upload to the site for all time, even when you delete your account: You...
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Martin
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Part I Running time 10:57 ~~~ Part II Running time 10:59 ~~~~ Bill Moyers Journal inteviews Simon Johnson of the Peterson Institute (February 13, 2009) BILL MOYERS: Welcome to the Journal. The battle is joined as they say — and here’s the headline that framed it: “High Noon: Geithner v...
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Barry Ritholtz
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February 12, 2009
From The Financial Times Almost half of all the complex credit products ever built out of slices of other securitised bonds have now defaulted, according to analysts, and the proportion rises to more than two-thirds among deals created at the peak of the cycle. The defaults have affected more than $...
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Toro
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February 11, 2009
Here’s Massachusetts Congressman Michael Capuano yelling at today’s Capitol Hill hearing with eight big bank CEOs, who demanded that Congress give them a second set of keys to the U.S. Mint (just to make it more convenient during the all-nighter printings, right?) He asks if their compan...
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Jim Newell
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