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Google bans ads for payday loans | The Verge

I just saw another huge, viral page say that it is now focusing on FB videos, as opposed to its old model of driving FB traffic to its own website. But how are they getting paid from vids in a newsfeed? Is FB sharing ad revenue or something now? I don't get it.

Found it odd to learn that a lot of people don't like this guy. I heard someone say he is a douchebag but for some reason I don't see it in his act.

Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn sign on for 'True Detective' second season - NY Daily News

Facebook to display less "click-bait" - Aug. 25, 2014 It's like each step of the way, FB attacks whatever is working for pages. If something is popular and profitable for pages, you can be sure FB will attack it tomorrow.

For CEOs, Correlation Between Pay and Stock Performance Is Pretty Random - Businessweek

The median household is 20% poorer today than in 1984 - Vox Gee, who would have guessed that gutting unions through anti-worker laws, sending jobs overseas, providing ridiculous levels of executive compensation, having a poverty level minimum wage, letting Wall Street gamble risk-free on...

I saw one for startups the other day and it got me wondering if I'm missing any good ones.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/324283889/potato-salad

Is it a quarterly thing from profits or just a payoff in the end if the company is gobbled up by a bigger company? For example, if a shark buys 20% equity for $200,000, when does s/he start getting paid and how?

Uber Worth $18 Billion Because Sure, Why Not?

Federal Regulators Issue Proposed Rules that Would Kill Open and Equal Internet Access | Alternet A good video on why this is very bad for those of us who rely on the internet for a living. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc2aso6W7jQ

Will our blogs, websites, landing pages, etc., get throttled and de-prioritized speed-wise in favor of big sites that can pay like Netflix?

I'm talking about sites like CafePress, etc. Some of the bigger name ones. I notice when I visit their sites to pick products to promote that I am then followed for weeks by their ads for those products. I want to make sure I'm not doing business with scummy vendors. But I'm not sure how to...