Having worked in the banking sector and having seen up-close how tightly regulated the industry is, I’m somewhat surprised that this sort of thing can happen at a retail bank. On Friday, Roku, the TV streaming company, said in a filing that roughly $487 million of its $1.9 billion in cash was tied up with… Read More Silicon Valley Bank’s Collapse Causes Strain for Young Companies – The New York Times
This is a joke, right? “PROOF OF BEING UNVACCINATED REQUIRED.” Not sure how that would work. Maybe you could give a sworn statement as to your vaccination history? Does a MMR jab count? Or just vaccines for Covid. Tagging this bit with ‘wtf’. Source: Restaurant Requires ’Proof of Being Unvaccinated’ – NBC Los Angeles
I know how Snap can save $500 million per year: his name is Evan Spiegel. The CEO famously rejected stock options comp for a ridiculous annual salary of one half a billion USD. Snap Inc. stock slid more than 5% on Tuesday morning after an analyst said the Santa Monica company behind the Snapchat video-messaging… Read More Snap is ‘quickly running out of money’
“Any criminal investigation into this payment would likely have significant overlap with plaintiff’s assertion that the agreement, and the payment in particular, had an illegal purpose,” Otero wrote.
The Annenberg Space for Photography in Century City (sitting beneath the offices of both Creative Artists Agency and the Annenberg Foundation) is pairing with Craft to offer 10% off dinner to any of the exhibit’s attendees. Who Shot Rock & Roll opens on June 23 ~ October 7, 2012 and features images from over 100 iconic… Read More Stop Shooting Your Dinner
California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris will no longer take part in a national foreclosure probe of some of the nation’s biggest banks, which are accused of pervasive misconduct in dealing with troubled homeowners. Harris removed herself from talks by a coalition of state attorneys general and federal agencies investigating abusive foreclosure practices because the nation’s… Read More California breaks from 50-state probe into mortgage lenders [Updated] – latimes.com
This is the food I want the night before I go to the gas chamber. Wow. I’d heard about Waterloo and City about a month ago, and it really was that good. Locavore decadence. My last comparable dining experience was the first time I ate at Craft in Century City. I started out with a… Read More @WaterlooandCity Rocked My Mother-Loving Socks Off Last Night
The Chiat/Day relationship with Steve Jobs and Apple is nothing short of legendary. That legend goes something like this: Chiat was hired by Apple to create the (also legendary) Ridley Scott-directed, $1 million, only-aired-once-cause-it’s-so-goddamn-special 1984 commercial that introduced the Macintosh line of computers during the Super Bowl. When Jobs was forced out of left Apple, he used… Read More Apple-Google Squabble Spreads to LA
The 29-foot-long, 15-foot-wide Orbital Test Vehicle arrived in Cape Canaveral, Fla., last month according to the Air Force. The OTV spaceplane was built at a Boeing Phantom Works facility in Southern California. via SPACE.com — Secret Military Space Plane Primed For Test Launch.
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