An anonymous user of 4chan has come up with a brilliantly harebrained scheme for their personal banking. They use video game retailer GameStop as a bank.
Here’s how it works: whenever a paycheck comes in, this person goes to GameStop and pre-orders a bunch of upcoming video games….
Author: Aulia Masna
Former tech journo, used to write for Macworld, DailySocial, e27. Ex , ran a national startup initiative program in Indonesia. Very much into the news.
Non-Stop star Liam Neeson: ‘I was asked to be James Bond but chose marriage instead’ | Hull Daily Mailbox
Probably an ordinary story and premise for an article but the approach and the storytelling here somehow fascinates me. The article is a profile of Liam Neeson, with him telling how his choice to marry the late Natasha Richardson cost him the chance to be James Bond but it wasn’t that big of a deal after all.
I’m just gonna leave it here for my writing reference.
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Indonesia’s ITE Law Continues Its Path Against Freedom of Expression
The Makassar attorney general’s office has decided to issue an arrest warrant for Muhammad Arsyad, an Indonesian anti-corruption activist, who was arrested in August 2013 for posting a BBM status which called Golkar politician and former head of Indonesian football association Nurdin Halid a corruptor and asked people not to vote for his brother.
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Four Numbers That Explain Why Facebook Acquired WhatsApp
WhatsApp Co-Founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton
Earlier today, Facebook announced its acquisition of WhatsApp for $16 billion. It’s a spectacular milestone for the company’s co-founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton, and their remarkable team.
From the moment they opened the doors of WhatsApp,…
Thought via Path
Facebook’s strategy is defensive acquisition to prevent a larger company being created, just like with the Instagram acquisition two years ago. Nevermind that WhatsApp’s business model isn’t really proven, bested in the short term by gaming platforms such as Kakao and Line with much much smaller number of users. The company is worth $345 million per employee to Facebook, or more than $500 million per engineer.
Given that the acquisition is primarily stock based ($12 billion out of $16 billion, **only** $4 billion in cash), we may see a different final purchase value once the deal closes. Instagram’s final acquisition value was in the mid $700 million as Facebook stock lost value in the months between announcement and close of deal. – Read on Path.
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