Saturday, June 09, 2012
Cost to lunch with Warren Buffett: $3.5 million – USATODAY.com - The annual auction for a private lunch with the Nebraska billionaire closed following a flurry of activity in the final hours. In the end, the highest bid was a record-breaking $3,456,789. The auction benefits the Glide Foundation, which helps the homeless in San Francisco. Buffett has raised more than $11.5 million for the group in 13 past auctions. The event provides a significant portion of Glide's roughly $17 million annual budget that pays for social services to the poor and homeless.
LinkedIn Performance Impresses Investors, Despite Hiccups - The Daily Beast - Nick Summers - The résumé/job site has never really been cool. But the disastrous Facebook IPO has Silicon Valley reappraising the smaller social network—even after this week’s missteps.
Six Mariners pitchers combine for no-hitter - USATODAY - Kevin Millwood and five relievers combined for the fourth no-hitter this season in a 1-0 home win Friday night against the first-place Dodgers. It is the third no-hitter in Mariners history, following by Randy Johnson's in 1990 and Chris Bosio's in 1993.
The many rumors surrounding Apple's keynote at WWDC - LATimes.com - Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco is just around the corner, with the keynote session Monday morning, and we could be in for quite a few announcements.
Friday, June 08, 2012
Facebook Holds a Vote and Turnout is Low - NYTimes.com - It has more than 900 million people. It has its own currency. And this month, for the first time, the digital republic known as Facebook held elections of a sort: it offered users a chance to vote on the way the site is governed, including how the company deploys its users’ data. Turnout was spectacularly bad in the digital republic that the writer Rebecca Mackinnon has dubbed Facebookistan. Fewer than 350,000 Facebook users voted, or under four percent.
Def Leppard Rip Through Intimate Los Angeles Gig for YouTube | Music News | Rolling Stone / Mikael Wood - On Wednesday afternoon in Los Angeles, though, the hard-rock hitmakers went small at the House of Blues, where they taped a performance for YouTube that will premiere online today at 3 p.m. ET. It was Def Leppard's first gig of 2012, according to frontman Joe Elliott. "Be gentle with us," he said. The seven-song set included "Rock of Ages" and"Pour Some Sugar on Me" – both of which Def Leppard recently re-recorded for digital-music retailers – as well as"Foolin'" and the title track from their massive 1987 LP Hysteria. - Def Leppard did reach back to 1981's High 'n' Dry for "Let It Go" and "Bringin' on the Heartbreak." - Def Leppard also took questions from fans and revealed that they've rehearsed approximately 30 tunes for the upcoming tour.
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