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Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up


January 30, 2012, 9:15 am, 947173
 When a few weeks back my friend and occasional interviewer, Henry Blodget, the CEO of Business Insider, tweeted word of a new BI piece defending Google (with the characteristically understated headline, “Like Hell Facebook is Killing Google”), I tweeted back to Henry ...


January 17, 2012, 9:15 am, 942397


December 28, 2011, 9:15 am, 935848


December 8, 2011, 1:15 pm, 929208
 2011 Editor’s Note: Back again by popular demand, we’ll again try to keep this year’s update brief…but past performance would tell you ...


December 5, 2011, 7:15 pm, 927950
 Research-in-Motion
 Motorola
 Victrola Talking Machines
 eToys


November 11, 2011, 9:15 am, 919548

The NotMakingThisUp Book Review
 So how did a guy who was described by one of his closest friends as “reflexively cruel and harmful to some people” and by the mother of his first child as “an ...


November 7, 2011, 9:15 am, 917572

“All I said was I liked the pen…”—Jerry Seinfeld, “The Astronaut Pen”
 We considered naming this follow-up to last month’s “Apple: For What It’s Worth” column after a ...


October 20, 2011, 7:15 am, 910539

Something’s happening hereWhat it is ain’t exactly clear—Stephen Stills, “For What It’s Worth”
 Something’s happening at Apple.  We’re not sure what, but ...


October 14, 2011, 9:15 am, 908476
 Gawker, which is just one of the many excellent reasons the New York Times keeps cutting staff (I have yet to see an article “tweeted” or “liked” by anyone under the age of 30 from the ...


October 10, 2011, 9:15 am, 906657

 There was “chatter” in the markets on Friday that Wells Fargo—the large US bank of which Berkshire Hathaway is the largest shareholder—was going to make a bid for Morgan Stanley, the currently beleaguered US investment that has been the ...