Write-Offs: 09.12.13
$$$ Twitter Inc. said it filed for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, in what would be the most highly anticipated offering since Facebook Inc. “We’ve confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO,” the company said via its corporate Twitter feed on its website. “This Tweet does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale.” [Bloomberg, earlier]
$$$Layoffs at Chesapeake Energy rattle employees [NetNet]
$$$ Callan pauses and looks out across the bay. “It may seem like a strange thing to say, but sometimes I’ll look around and I’ll see a huge yacht or we’ll go by a beautiful house, and the first thing that comes into my head is not, like, ‘Oh, wow, wouldn’t that be great?’ ” she says. “The first thing that comes into my head is, ‘I wonder what they’re giving up to be able to have that?’” [BusinessWeek/ Sheelah Kolhatkar]
$$$ If you're looking for a way to commemorate the five year Lehman anniversary, consider a portrait by Geoffrey Raymond, the greatest artist of our time. [TAWSP, Related]
$$$ A Utah dad fed up with his daughter’s preference for very short shorts decided to teach her a lesson by donning some Daisy Dukes of his own. Scott Mackintosh was about to go on a family night out, but when he asked his daughter to kindly change into longer shorts and she refused, he took some scissors to an old pair of his own jeans. The result was a revealing pair of cut-offs designed to show his daughter her shorts aren’t ‘as cute as she thinks.’ [DM]
$$$Central bankers, brokers snap at SEC's money-market proposals [Reuters]
$$$Mark Cuban Invests in Start-Up to Connect Companies to M.B.A.’s [Dealbook]
$$$ A Shreveport woman was arrested on Sunday night in Bossier City after becoming belligerent with police. The arrest came following an incident where she allegedly swam nude in the fountain of the Horseshoe Casino Hotel. [ALT]
