An Afternoon with the Eugene Kaspersky, the Antivirus King with the Chesire...
“The world I’m living in, which is the security world, is becoming more and more complicated,” Eugene Kaspersky ominously informed us. One would imagine: His Russian-based antivirus company, Kaspersky...
View ArticleThere Are Two Narratives on Hewlett-Packard’s $8.8 Billion Loss, Which One...
In the hours since Hewlett-Packard stunned investors by announcing an $8.8 billion loss on its acquisition of Autonomy, competing narratives have emerged to describe just what went wrong. H-P spoke...
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Related Honcho Kenneth Himmel Sells Spread In Company’s Prized Time Warner...
The living room is surprisingly old-fashioned for the Time Warner Center. Can we really blame Kenneth A. Himmel for wanting to leave the Time Warner Center in the past? The President and CEO of Related...
View ArticlePro-Gaza Hackers Completely Dismantle Israeli Official’s Social Media
Israel and Hamas may have agreed to cease hostilities on “land sea and air” but that may not stop the cyberwar. On Wednesday the ZCompany Hacking Crew (ZHC) hacked apart the online life of Israel’s...
View ArticleThe President Pardons Cobbler and Gobbler: The Official Transcript
Earlier today, President Barack Obama participated in a presidential Thanksgiving tradition, officially pardoning two turkeys. In his speech announcing the move, Mr. Obama cracked a number of jokes and...
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Update: Voice of Elmo Resigns From Sesame Street as Second Underage Sexual...
Kevin Clash and Elmo (Bill Thompson, Wikipedia) Update 11/20/12 4 p.m. Kevin Clash, the voice of Elmo, has resigned from his role on Sesame Street after a second young man stepped forward to accuse the...
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Former Real Estate Mogul Aaron Ziegelman Sells UWS Co-op For $2.5 M.
Ziegelman sells. The King of the Co-op Castle has sold his own co-op castle at 290 West End Avenue. Former real estate mogul Aaron Ziegelman, who recently fell on hard times, has just offloaded his...
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To Do Thursday: I Love a Parade
The era of the department store may be nearing its end, thanks to the rise of online commerce, but let’s focus on what they can fly overhead one day a year, not their high overhead on the other 364....
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Flying Cars: Sky Garage Penthouse Trades For $11 M.
How to price a penthouse with an en-suite garage? It's a bird, it's a plane, no it's a car elevator! Penthouse 1 at Annabelle Seldorf's notorious "sky-garage" condo project at 200 Eleventh Avenue has...
View ArticleWe Are OK: New Technology and Existing Resources Are Allowing Sandy’s Victims...
On Thursday, Nov. 1, Virgo Business Centers made 27,321 square feet of temporary, furnished office space available at 14 Penn Plaza. Companies displaced by Hurricane Sandy filed in one by one, and by...
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To Do Friday: Get Your Kicks
We’re skipping Black Friday—it’s worth paying the not-marked-down price on just about every gift we’re buying, just to avoid getting physically pushed to the ground in the checkout line at the Astor...
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To Do Saturday: Everything’s Coming Up Roosevelts
It’s the post-holiday lull, and we still have relatives in town—now that they’re done with their Black Friday shopping, we’re catching up on the newly reopened Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall at the...
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To Do Sunday: Who’s Afraid of Lindsay Lohan?
Forget Homeland or The Good Wife: the can’t-miss TV broadcast this Sunday night is Lindsay Lohan’s comeback performance (2012 edition) as Elizabeth Taylor in Liz and Dick. The onetime teen queen plays...
View ArticleAttorney General to Track Sandy Relief Charities
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is keeping an eye on the assorted charities raising money for Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. In a statement released today, Mr. Schneiderman announced he...
View ArticleA Peek Inside the New Old-Fashioned Residential Tower at 135 East 79th Street
Not every building wants to be a glassy sky spire like One57, or feels the needs to race to the clouds like 432 Park. Why redefine luxury when it's been done so well—arguably as well it can be...
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Dwight Garner Praises Katie Roiphe’s In Praise of Messy Lives
Katie Roiphe is, to put it mildly, a controversial figure. But Times literary critic Dwight Garner comes down firmly on the "Team Roiphe" side in his review of new essay collection, In Praise of Messy...
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Big Apple Idolatry: NPH’s Puppet Dreams and the Return of Topanga
Neil's Puppet Dreams (YouTube)- Just in case you thought those ForeRunner Chronicles that Two and a Half Men star Angus T. Jones participated in were part of a normal religious vlog, here's the pastor...
View ArticleStart-Ups Silicon Valley: In Which Our Recapper Inadvertently Makes His Bravo...
Dear 20 or so religious recap followers, You probably noticed that I took last week’s episode off. I could give you a list of reasons: it was really busy at work, I was trying to wind down for...
View ArticleMan Up: Macho Men Take Upper East Side Galleries—Too Much Testosterone?
THE UPPER EAST SIDE ART SCENE sure is getting wild. Long the preserve of the staid and genteel (old masters, modern masters and the like), the neighborhood has recently been seeing more adventurous...
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Brazil’s Version of Punk’d is Horrifying (Video)
Do not go on any Brazilian elevators (YouTube) What do you think about when you hear the word "Brazil"? Does it conjure up pictures of beautiful beaches, buxom models, and tropical drinks? Or does your...
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