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  • 01 Feb 2012 at 5:23 PM

Mark Zuckerberg Takes A Moment To Reclaim The Word “Hacker”

By Bess Levin

If you’ll allow, a quick manifesto: Continue reading »

  • 07 Oct 2011 at 2:56 PM

Don’t Let The Whims Of Some Pissant Kid Eat Into Your Profits

By Bess Levin

Why do people work on Wall Street? Some do it for the money. Some the love of the game. And some to put enough in the bank that they can one day leave the industry and finance their true passion. And, as a comprehensive survey shows, for many, that passion is dolls. Barbie dolls, cabbage patch dolls, celebrity dolls, dolls with creepy painted faces. Whether or not you’re ready to admit that to your colleagues, friends and, most importantly, to yourselves, I don’t care. What I do care about is you remembering all the accumulated wisdom you picked up on Wall Street and applying it to your new gig. And not making the same mistakes at this guy. Continue reading »

  • 28 Sep 2011 at 2:17 PM

Erin Burnett May Or May Not Be Off The Market

By Bess Levin


Or perhaps the above is a decoy. [CNN]

  • 05 Aug 2011 at 4:50 PM

Mandy Drury Needs Your Help

By Bess Levin


[via MandyCNBC]

  • 01 Jun 2011 at 4:56 PM

Sbarro’s Denies Lack Of Philly Cheese Steak Stuffed Pizza Harbinger Of Bankruptcy-Related Cost-Cutting To Come

By Bess Levin

… if you tried to get a Philly cheese steak slice at the Sbarro on Seventh Avenue on Wednesday, you’d see it wasn’t even listed on the menu alongside the restaurant’s other stuffed pizzas and strombolis. Sbarro’s online menu still shows it, and Bankruptcy Beat called another New York Sbarro and was assured by a manager that it’s still on the menu, though not Wednesday “because we got no beef.” [WSJ]

  • 20 Oct 2010 at 11:37 AM

Istanbul Sea Granted Audience With Unsheathed Bill Ackman

By Bess Levin

Ackman’s confession that he swam naked in the Bosphorus– the sea that runs through Istanbul- when he was an MBA student at Harvard came at a speech he gave in Istanbul last month. Ackman was on vacation, but he still wanted to introduce himself to the Turkish investment community…When asked why he swam naked, Ackman responded “’cause I didn’t have a swimming suit!” [IM]

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  • 11 May 2010 at 4:47 PM

Do You Want To Put A Face To The SEC Employee Who Surfed Tranny Porn On The Job?

By Bess Levin

Do you need that visual? Of this guy attempting to log onto www.ladyboyjuice.com 385 times in one day? Or of his colleague freaking out over his hard drive being full of all the porn he’d previously saved, and frantically rummaging through his desk to find some CDs on which to put his new stash? If you answered yes and hell yes, at least one law firm is fighting for your rights. Continue reading »