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Elon Musk Just Became the Jim Lonborg of Tweeting

Drop your tweets, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced last week in a lawsuit. No more half-cocked character bursts about your company’s prospects or stock price. Cross this hard, digital line and risk being barred from leadership at any public…

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Twitter’s Beating Heart of Libel

Twitter is the perfect libel platform, a truth ever more visible this week in the smearfest over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s entitled badboy past and the lawsuits just filed against Tesla’s Elon Musk. We’re not sure how Jack Dorsey…

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Need a JetNap or a JetLift? Sleep Innovation to the Rescue

The executives from Portugal were in high spirits after a fun exploration activity at San Francisco’s Ferry Building. The goal was to find examples of great user experiences, cross-pollination, and customer empathy, and they hurried back to the Hyatt Regency…

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Reports of Silicon Valley’s Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated

The establishment has newly declared that California is dead. As in, Silicon Valley and San Francisco. Normally the New York Times performs this decapitation, with glee, long having believed that NYC and points east are the center of the universe….

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