- Peter Thiel Says Don't Piss Off The Robots (Or Bet On A…
- Peter Thiel is best known as the guy who cofounded and ran PayPal before selling it to eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002. Since then, he's founded a $2 billion hedge fund, Clarium Capital, and the Founders Fund, a venture fund with $275 million…
- The Business Insider
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- 11/18/2009
- Peter Thiel —
- the PayPal co-founder and artificial intelligence enthusiast, explaining to Business Insider that Luddites may well be the first up against the wall when the robot revolution comes. The new order "could be very good, it could be very bad
- The Business Insider
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- 11/18/2009
- Dot-Com Hero Turned Hedge Fund Bear Skeptical of Recovery
- According to Bloomberg , Thiel's hedge fund Clarium Capital was down -15.8% as of the end of September. Thiel told an investor conference in October, "There was a degree to which the financial economy has been extremely decoupled from the…
- Yahoo Finance
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- 5 hours ago
- Zynga Hits 100 Million Unique Visitors Per Month
- Zynga ( www.zynga.com : ), the largest developer of social games, today announced that more than 100 million unique users play its games every month, making it the largest online game destination. The company has 200 million monthly active…
- PR Inside
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- 6 hours ago
- Facebook friends for sale
- The company, which counts venture capitalist Peter Thiel, Accel Partners, Microsoft Corp and Russian Internet investment firm Digital Sky Technologies among its investors, has more than 250 million registered users. But uSocial's packages…
- Vancouver Sun
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- 11/16/2009
- How Much Money Did Joyent Really Raise?
- Previous investors in the company include Peter Thiel, former PayPal-executive-turned-hedge-fund-investor whose investments include Facebook. Jason Hoffman, CTO Joyent @ Structure 09 Conference So why the Dell and Intel interest in Joyent?
- Gigaom.com
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- 11/17/2009
- WHERE TO GO for entertainment around the Valley
- Ticketmaster: Macy’s in Eastwood, Southern Park and Shenango Valley malls; and Giant Eagle stores in Austintown, Calcutta and New Castle. Call (330) 747-1212. Web address is www.Ticketmaster.com. Covelli Centre, 229 E. Front St.,…
- Vindy.com
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- 11/19/2009
