1. Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle since he founded the company in 1977, has relinquished his CEO title. New co-CEO structure consisting of Mark Hurd and Safra Catz.
2. Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has gone public, NYSE opening at $92.70 per share, up 36 percent from the $68 share price of its ipo. valued at $237.7 billion
3. 17-year-old Kai Kloepfer has invented a biometric smart gun that unlocks with your fingerprint. The high school student from Boulder hopes that his prototype, which employs a user ID and fingerprint match, will help reduce gun-related accidents.
4. Sarah Buhr reported on a San Francisco startup called ManServants, a service through which you can hire attractive men to wait on you hand and foot for $125 an hour. In an effort to dig deeper into this controversial idea,
6. Facebook recently employed a mass deletion of hundreds of drag queens’ personal profile pages based on real name usage policy./
7. Tomorrow Group founder Tom Goodwin wrote a piece called “How The Internet Killed Profit” about how he sees the Internet as a destructive force against the foundations of business and how digitalization has skewed economic balance.
8. Launched: iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus, and Matthew Panzarino showed us what using these new devices is actually like in real life, as he brought the new iPhones with him on a trip to Disneyland..
10. Mike Ducker took us back in time with his story “It’s Not About Creating Another Silicon Valley, But Preventing Another Motor City” in which he discusses how to develop ecosystems that will support the job-creating entrepreneurs of the future.
11. Twitter’s CEO had a great comeback to Peter Thiel’s attack on the company’s management, suggesting that there is “probably a lot of pot-smoking going on there” telling Thiel that he’d get back to him when he finished his bag of Doritos.
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