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Wall Street Journal goes Wikileaks, solicits anonymous information (updated)

This is sort of amazing.  Let’s say you want to disclose something without giving away your identity. You could send it to Wikileaks, but there is a new alternative. The Wall Street Journal has...

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More scummy Murdoch behavior

The Wall Street Journal, a Murdoch publication and part of the family that brought you phone hacking in the UK (and the US?), has announced that they are changing their privacy policy to explicitly...

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Apple “TV”

Apple seems to periodically “leak” information to the Wall Street Journal. Today,  an interesting article is in the Journal discussing about the oft-rumored Apple TV. By Apple TV, the article seems to...

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Top 10 WSJ business stories of 2011

The Wall Street Journal has prepared its list of the top 10 most read business articles of 2011 as reported in the Journal.  Not surprisingly, Apple and Steve Jobs dominated the list. And the most read...

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WSJ look at Bain

The Wall Street Journal reviewed the success (or lack thereof) of companies acquired by Bain Capital while Mitt Romney was at the firm. The Romney campaign has complained about the results. A short...

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How big is Apple?

Apple’s performance has been so strong that it is producing disproportionate impacts on broad measures of stock market performance. With Apple removed economic performance is markedly lower. Check out...

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Don’t be evil

According to this report from the Wall Street Journal, Google has been secretly tracking users of the Safari browser on iPhones and computers even though such users had changed their settings to block...

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Apple and the Law of Large Numbers (updated)

The New York Times (which recently seems to be raising all sorts of questions regarding Apple) is out with a piece speculating that the Law of Large Numbers accounts for Apple’s seemingly-low price...

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Spreading FUD

In geek speak, FUD stands for “fear, uncertainty and doubt” and it is a bullshit way to try to scare others into either action or inaction. And it is now being used by our own government, yet again....

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I don’t think that means what you think it does

How careless are the headline writers at the Wall Street Journal? This careless: So the Republicans are “winning the war against women?” Perhaps they’d like to consider winning the war for women.

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Where you live can determine what you pay online

The Wall Street Journal conducted an investigation that shows that many online retailers access information about visiting customers, including their locations, and use that information to set the...

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The Wall Street Journal editorial page

For many years, I subscribed to the Wall Street Journal, although I cancelled last year. When I did read the paper I always avoided the editorial pages, which are full of over-the-top hard-right...

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Even the Wall Street Journal agrees

The NSA’s surveillance is unconstitutional.

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WSJ releases details on additional NSA spying programs

Joining the Washington Post and The Guardian in outing programs operated by the NSA,  the Wall Street Journal is reporting numerous addition programs that collectively 75% of the nation’s data traffic,...

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China Mobile signs deal to sell iPhone

According to reporting in the Wall Street Journal, China Mobile, the largest mobile provider in China, has signed a deal with Apple to sell iPhones in that country. This is a big win for Apple, in that...

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The agony of the 1% (updated)

Over the weekend, Tom Perkins, a founder of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, published a letter to the editor in the Wall Street Journal. The letter implied that the left...

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Apple buys back $14 Billion of its stock in two weeks

Apple announced today that it has purchased $14 Billion worth of its stock during the two weeks since it announced quarterly earnings. Reuters is reporting: The news was first reported by The Wall...

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Net neutrality death quote of the day

If reports in the Wall Street Journal are correct, Obama’s chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Thomas Wheeler, has proposed a new rule that is an explicit and blatant violation of...

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Apple places huge orders for iPhone 6

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple plans to manufacture many more iPhone 6 devices than they produced last year for the iPhone 5S. The Cupertino, Calif., company is asking suppliers to...

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Wall Street Journal calls out Rick Snyder

In an op-ed yesterday (pay wall), the Wall Street Journal called out Rick Snyder for “embracing the car dealer cartel.” Excerpt: Republican Michigan Governor Rick Snyder ’s re-election race against...

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