Kirsten Grind
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San Francisco, CA, United States
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The Circus Came to Town—and Bought the Place
Spiegelworld, a Las Vegas-based company known for adult-themed acrobatic performances, purchased Nipton, Calif. The company has never owned or run a town before. → Read More
Elon Musk's alleged affair with Sergey Brin's wife led to falling out between billionaires
Elon Musk engaged in a brief affair last fall with the wife of Sergey Brin, prompting the Google co-founder to file for divorce earlier this year and ending... → Read More
Hello? Hello? Is This Facebook? Anybody There? (Nope.)
You thought you had to wait forever to speak with a customer service representative? Facebook and Instagram serve nearly 3 billion users a day with a help desk that numbers closer to zero. So pity John Bacon, a 72-year-old retiree of Cleveland, Ohio. Facebook disabled his account after it was hacked last year, and he expected to speak with someone about getting it up and running. → Read More
Meta’s Sheryl Sandberg Pressured Daily Mail to Drop Bobby Kotick Reporting
The social-media executive, who dated the Activision Blizzard CEO, was part of a campaign to persuade the U.K. tabloid to shelve a potential article. → Read More
U.S. Probes Meeting Between Activision CEO and Option Buyer
Authorities are looking into at least one meeting between Bobby Kotick, the chief of the videogame firm, and one of three traders who made a timely options trade just before a merger announcement. → Read More
The Rise and Fall of the Management Visionary Behind Zappos
Tony Hsieh wanted to make the world a happier place. In the end he couldn’t find a sense of peace himself. → Read More
Regulators Widen Activision Blizzard Probes Over Workplace Issues
The SEC subpoenas more current and former executives and a California agency seeks additional information on CEO Bobby Kotick and board’s handling of workplace misconduct allegations as the videogame giant works to complete a planned $75 billion sale to Microsoft. → Read More
Activision Blizzard Pushes Out Dozens of Employees Over Workplace Misconduct
The videogame giant’s actions have come in the wake of pressure from investors, business partners and employees to address complaints over its handling of misconduct issues. → Read More
Schitt’s Creek, but in Real Life: Owner Tries Selling California Desert Town
Roxanne Lang's husband bought Nipton 35 years ago on a whim; she’s been trying to sell it for years—trading post, ‘desert art’ and ghost included. → Read More
Inside ‘Facebook Jail’: The Secret Rules That Put Users in the Doghouse
The site’s Oversight Board is expected to rule on Donald Trump’s case Wednesday. Breaking Facebook’s rules can mean removed posts and blocked privileges, but a vast number of guidelines for moderators aren’t made public. → Read More
States Hire Consultants for Covid-19 Help, With Mixed—and Expensive—Results
U.S. state governments struggling with the pandemic have paid tens of millions of dollars to big consulting firms for help. In some cases, they have seen only modest benefits, if any at all, for the extra cost. → Read More
What Is Triller? TikTok Rival Prepares for Its Moment
Triller’s push for social-video success—as the U.S. version of TikTok—is a second act of sorts for the app’s owners, whose careers in Hollywood and beyond have been marked by controversy. → Read More
Does a Famous Bay Area Pizza Help Induce Labor? Expectant Moms Think So
Doctors say there’s no magical food that can cause contractions to start, but that hasn’t stopped parents-to-be from lining up for the ‘Prego’. → Read More
Care.com Removed Tens of Thousands of Unverified Listings
The online child-care marketplace Care.com scrubbed its site of tens of thousands of unverified day-care center listings just before a Wall Street Journal investigation published March 8, an analysis shows. → Read More
Care.com Overhauls Vetting of Sitters, Listings
Care.com the country’s largest marketplace for babysitters and other caregivers, unveiled a set of policies aimed at overseeing its members and said it had taken steps to remove fake day-care center listings. → Read More
Care.com Puts Onus on Families to Check Caregivers' Backgrounds---With Sometimes Tragic Outcomes
On a warm July morning last year, Amelia Wieand left her twin toddlers at an in-home day-care center outside Knoxville, Tenn. She had read about the facility on Care.com, the largest online marketplace for babysitters and other caregivers. → Read More
Marriott says hackers swiped millions of passport numbers, but fewer than initially feared
Marriott International said fewer customers were affected in a massive data breach than initially feared but confirmed that hackers had compromised the passport numbers of millions of people in what security analysts have described as a potential foreign-intelligence gold mine. → Read More
Facebook emails give inside look at how it shared user data
The U.K. Parliament on Wednesday released nearly 250 pages of internal Facebook Inc. emails and excerpts from several years ago related to a previously little-known lawsuit ongoing in the U.S. The documents sometimes lack context and include only parts of email chains, but the communications together show how Facebook negotiated with thousands of outside app developers on its platform, revealing… → Read More
Facebook Says Fewer Users Impacted by Recent Cyberattack than First Thought
Facebook said fewer users than it initially thought were impacted by hackers in the largest-ever security breach at the social-media giant two weeks ago—and the company detailed for the first time the depth of personal information that was accessed. → Read More
WhatsApp co-founder’s ‘Rest and vest’ reward from Facebook: $450 Million
Facebook purchased WhatsApp in 2014 for $22 billion, and Jan Koum became a board member shortly after the sale. He decided to leave Facebook earlier this year after a long-simmering dispute with chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandbergover. → Read More