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The round included existing investors as well as the former CEO and COO of Twitter.Fast-growing pizza tech platform Slice has raised $40 million from existing investors as well as two former Twitter executives. The Series D round was led by Cross Creek, with contributions from KKR, GGV Capital and Primary Ventures. But the highlight was the addition of former Twitter CEO Dick Costilo and COO Adam Bain through their 01 Advisors venture. “We are so grateful to Cross Creek for leading this round and giving us the opportunity to bring on the 01 team as we enter this next stage...

Since its founding in the 1930s, Hewlett-Packard has been synonymous with innovation, and many's the engineer who had cause to praise its workhorse oscillators, minicomputers, servers, and PCs. But since the turn of this century, the company's changed its name to HP and its focus to sleazy ways to part unhappy printer owners from their money. Printer companies have long excelled at this dishonorable practice, but HP is truly an innovator, the industry-leading Darth Vader of sleaze, always ready to strong-arm you into a "deal" and then alter it later to tilt things even further to its advantage. The company's...

The news spread around Huntsville, Ala., in the winter of 2014. Remington, the country’s oldest gun maker, had decided to expand from its historic home in upstate New York to a gigantic former Chrysler factory near the airport. Workers at the new plant, the company said, would earn a minimum average of $19.50 an hour assembling shotguns, pistols, hunting rifles and AR-15-style semiautomatics. The city’s mayor wrote in a newspaper column that he was thrilled that Remington’s quest for a new factory space had ended in Huntsville. He calculated the typical annual salary as $42,500. Huntsville is a boomtown in...

Jeff Jones, the president of Uber, is quitting the car-hailing company after less than a year. The move by the No. 2 exec, said sources, is directly related to the multiple controversies there, including explosive charges of sexism and sexual harassment. (UPDATE: Uber confirmed the departure and will be sending a statement. (UPDATE: Jones also confirmed the departure with a blistering assessment of the company. “It is now clear, however, that the beliefs and approach to leadership that have guided my career are inconsistent with what I saw and experienced at Uber, and I can no longer continue as president...

Abby Johnson: Planned Parenthood Business Model All About Abortion Myths about Planned Parenthood are spreading like grassfire. Thanks to a perfect storm of events, the abortion provider is scrambling to cauterize the biggest PR hit it has ever sustained. November’s election of an overwhelmingly pro-life Congress, revelation of numerous violations by its staff and repeated calls for its defunding by social and fiscal conservatives alike have put Planned Parenthood’s lifeblood on the line. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/04/05/abby-johnson-planned-parenthood-business-model-all-about-abortion/

The Five Open Source Business Models Posted by Andy Dornan, Jan 2, 2008 02:03 AM »  Print»  Write To Editor »  Slashdot Open source has become standard in Silicon Valley, with nearly every software startup planning to release at least some code. So far, they've found five main business models:1. Sell support services. This is the traditional Linux model, prototyped by Red Hat. It's still a part of most open-source business plans, but on its own it's rarely enough for startups trying to grow. The problem (for the startups) is that anyone can redistribute the code and sell support or...

RUSH: Here is Mack in Orlando, Florida. Welcome, sir, to the program. CALLER: Rush, what an honor to talk to you. It's been 16 years that I've been listening, and first time I've ever called in. RUSH: Thank you. I'm glad you got through. CALLER: Yes. What I wanted to talk about today was something very interesting that went across the Internet this morning. I see that Air America filed for Chapter 11. No Kidding? Its Really Dead, Jim! RUSH: Is that right? CALLER: I thought it's an interesting contrast between a media program that has been propped up by...

Who Moved My Arugula? By ROB KAUFELT After graduating from college in the late 1960's, unclear about my future, I drifted into the family supermarket business in New Jersey. From Day One, I bugged my father and uncle about all the things they were doing wrong. In response, they sent me to an old-fashioned supermarket training program. The course did not have its intended effect. Most of what I learned came from my roommate, who arrived in a Mercedes convertible with golf clubs in the trunk (I had a Pinto). He regaled me with his vision of a new type...