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Yahoo! tracked 1.6m online users for 8 weeks and found that 90% made offline purchases with advertisers.
Is Facebook worth twice what Yahoo is worth? - ...ifindkarma...
Facebook Cofounder Dustin Moskovitz Backs California Pot Legalization While Facebook Blocks Pot Campaign Ads
UPDATE: Napster founder Sean Parker, the first president of Facebook, has kicked in $100,000 to back marijuana legalization in California, according to Sasha Horwitz, a spokesperson for Proposition 19. Parker's contribution follows a $50,000 donation from cofounder Dustin Moskovitz. While Facebook's cofounders are backing the initiative, Facebook the company is blocking ads from Just Say Now, an organization backing the same proposition.
Money and Finance
It’s the time of year when a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of deductions and write-offs. One select group of Americans, though, has a more pressing tax-season task on its mind: preserving a lucrative loophole in the I.R.S. code.
Private equity : The New Yorker
Web visionaries
The State of the Internet Operating System - O'Reilly Radar
I've been talking for years about " the internet operating system ", but I realized I've never written an extended post to define what I think it is, where it is going, and the choices we face. This is that missing post.
HP/Mark Hurd
John Lilly, the well-regarded CEO of Mozilla, is preparing to give up his post at the open-source software nonprofit foundation, which is also a for-profit start-up. [ UPDATE: Lilly confirmed the move in an email to Mozilla employees, which you can read below in its entirety.] Lilly (pictured here) is moving to Greylock Partners as a venture partner, sources added, although the affable entrepreneur could eventually end up doing a start-up. In a post on his personal blog about the change , Lilly said: “Venture investing is what I’ve wanted to do for quite a long time–I’ve been involved in many startups, even building an incubator a decade ago, and have interests that span enterprise, open source, and the broader web, among others. I’m incredibly excited to join an amazing team there, and the firm that I’ve noted to be incredibly strongly oriented towards entrepreneurs–it really matches my sensibilities as an operator quite well.”
Exclusive: Mozilla CEO John Lilly to Step Down and Head to Greyl