Sarah Mcbride
Recent Stories By Sarah Mcbride:
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Robin Williams, a Man Who Made Us Laugh, Commits SuicideAugust 12, 2014
Robin Williams, the versatile actor whose madcap comic style made him one of television and film’s biggest stars, was found dead on Monday from an apparent suicide at his home in Northern California...
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Tech Upstart Uber Aims to Ride High in 2014January 3, 2014
Uber Chief Executive Travis Kalanick knows the value of a good controversy. After his upstart company, which lets people summon rides at the touch of a smartphone button, provoked a flurry of social...
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Start-Up Success Secret: Pedigree Can Beat Big IdeasSeptember 13, 2013
When asked to name the most notable rags-to-riches entrepreneur that his firm has funded, venture capitalist Ben Horowitz doesn't hesitate: Christian Gheorghe, a Romanian immigrant who came to the...
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This 19-Year-Old Raised $7M for Start-Up Payment Co.May 7, 2012
Gumroad, a start-up payments company run by 19-year-old entrepreneur Sahil Lavingia, has raised $7 million in a funding round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Lavingia said in a blog post...
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Yahoo Lays Off 2,000 EmployeesApril 4, 2012
Yahoo Inc will lay off 2,000 people, or 15 percent of its workforce, in its deepest round of job cuts in years as new CEO Scott Thompson tries to drive innovation within a leaner, more agile company...
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VC Money Flows to Teenage CEOsFebruary 21, 2012
Josh Buckley, chief executive of an online gaming start-up, is looking forward to next month's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, particularly for the parties and the accompanying...
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Venture Capitalists Seek Big Wins in Big DataFebruary 17, 2012
When Jason Goldberg set out to raise a new round of funding for his flash sales site Fab.com, he dispensed with the usual PowerPoint presentations and instead gave potential investors a look at the...
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Facebook: Zuckerberg Keeps ControlFebruary 2, 2012
Facebook unveiled plans for the biggest ever Internet IPO that could raise as much as $10 billion, but made it clear CEO Mark Zuckerberg will exercise almost complete control over the company,...
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Tech Lobby Shows Muscle on PiracyJanuary 23, 2012
The massive online protest last Wednesday, in which Wikipedia and thousands of other websites closed down or otherwise protested and helped to kill controversial online piracy legislation, was widely...
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SOPA Protests: Wikipedia, Others Go DarkJanuary 18, 2012
The English page of Wikipedia, the world's free online encyclopedia, was dark on Wednesday except for a paragraph urging users to protest legislation designed to stop copyright piracy, but that...
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SOPA to Get Scaled Back or ScrappedJanuary 17, 2012
U.S. legislation aimed at curbing online piracy, which had appeared to be on a fast track for approval by Congress, appears likely to be scaled back or jettisoned entirely in the wake of critical...