12-10-2015, 10:39 PM
It was one of the greatest sales pitches the music industry has ever heard. In March 2014, Robert Diggs, better known as RZA, the producer and de facto leader of the Wu-Tang Clan, the iconic rap group, announced that the Clan would create only one copy of its next album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, and sell it to the highest bidder. “We’re about to put out a piece of art like nobody else has done in the history of music,” RZA told Forbes. “We’re making a single-sale collector’s item. This is like someone having the scepter of an Egyptian king.”
Pharma’s Bad Boy Exec Paid $2 Million for Wu-Tang Clan’s New Record - Bloomberg Business
PayPal, for example, saw 40% year-on-year growth in mobile transactions last quarter, while over a billion transactions, or a quarter of the total, came from mobile last year.
PayPal CEO on shift to mobile payments - Business Insider
That security screwup was discovered with the help of Censys, a search engine aimed at helping security researchers find the Internet’s dirty little secrets by tracking all the devices hooked up to it. Launched in October by researchers at the University of Michigan, it is likely to produce many more hair-raising findings. Google is providing infrastructure to power the search engine, which is free to use. “We’re trying to maintain a complete database of everything on the Internet,” says Zakir Durumeric, the University of Michigan researcher who leads the open-source project.
Search Engine Censys Knows the Internet’s Dirty Little Security Secrets | MIT Technology Review
"The economic situation is deteriorating fast. And meanwhile the Fed seems to want to raise interest rates into that, which I think is a bit of a policy mistake and I think the market is getting more and more concerned from not understanding why they're doing it," Pal told CNBC's "Fast Money" last week.
US economy recession odds '65 percent': Investor
College-educated men and women are more likely to stay married than those without a four-year degree, according to a new report by the Pew Research Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C. Some 78% of women with a bachelor’s degree are likely to stay married for 20 years if it’s their first marriage, versus just 40% of women in a first marriage with a high school degree or less; while 65% of men with a bachelor’s degree who are married for the first time are likely to stay married for 20 years versus 50% of men with a high school diploma or less.