The Charles Schwab Corporation has predictably named its president, Walt Bettinger, to succeed its eponymous founder as CEO. Bettinger, like Schwab, is a scrappy entrepreneur, or so the canned corporate biography has it; he founded a company at the age of 22, which Schwab later bought. Not mentioned in Bettinger's bio: A court case involving a Walter W. Bettinger II and Laura Bettinger. In 2005, this Walter tried to get a $6,000/mo. child-support payment to Laura reduced, in part because the va....
Yeah, I know: The world is ending. You can flip through Sequoia Capital's 56-slide preso on it. Still, in the middle of what he dubbed the Startup Depression, Mahalo chatterbo ... Discussion
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg signs autographs at an event for developers in France. Can you think of a better caption for this photo? Leave it in the comments. The best one wi ... Discussion
At today's annual meeting, Oracle's top dog told shareholders, "Acquisitions that we have been looking at for some time may now be more attractive." He wasn't any more specifi ... Discussion
Capital Research Global Investors now owns a 10.1 percent stake in Yahoo, according to a new SEC filing. Even Silicon Alley Insider is stumped as to why Capital Research chief ... Discussion
Stock market be damned, it's Fleet Week. While Owen grumbles about the racket overhead that drowns out his phone calls, I'm up on the roof screaming Yeeeeeeeeeha baby YES WE C ... Discussion
What plots are the members of "Campcyprus," a group of young webheads, cooking up? Perhaps we'll read about them in a Wall Street Journal front-page A-hed, since reporter Jess ... Discussion
Fox News scored this memo from inside the World Bank. In what one manager termed an "unprecedented crisis," the bank's servers were cracked over and over again beginning in th ... Discussion
Eric Jackson, the sassy activist investor who made so much trouble for Yahoo this year, has given up the ghost, crapped out, sailed into the sunset — pick your truism, J ... Discussion
A couple of friends want me to blog about how Larry Lessig has been added to the evil friends of Barack Obama at the anti-Obama parody site BarackBook. Why oh why, they ask? R ... Discussion
Times are tough all over. That's the excuse bosses are now using for cleaning house, making hard decisions they were too timid to execute in bubblier times. We've just heard t ... Discussion
