Peter Thiel

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Peter Andreas Thiel (born 1967) is an American entrepreneur, hedge fund manager, libertarian and venture capitalist. With Max Levchin, Thiel co-founded PayPal and was its CEO. He currently serves as president of Clarium Capital, a global macro hedge fund with more than $2 billion under management, and a managing partner in The Founders Fund, a $275 million venture capital fund he launched with Ken Howery and Luke Nosek in 2005. He was an early investor in Facebook, the popular social-networking site, and sits on the company’s board of directors.

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Two Indians among 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellows

Source: Business Balla   |   May 11 2013, 12:02am CDT

Two Indians among 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellows
Washington, May 11 (IANS) Two Indian young entrepreneurs are among 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellows chosen to "pursue innovative scientific and technical projects, learn entrepreneurship from the ground up, and begin to build the innovative companies of tomorrow."
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Google Resurrects Google Buzz Public Posts

Source: All Things Digital  |   May 25 2013, 10:17am CDT

Google emailed users of its long-forgotten Google Buzz social network last night to tell them their posts are about to be saved to Google Drive, where some of them will be publicly viewable. But now, a year and a half later, ...

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Emirates opens luxury lounge in Paris airport
Emirates opens luxury lounge in Paris airport
Paris, May 26 (IANS/WAM) Emirates has inaugurated a refurbished lounge for passengers at the Paris Charles de Gaulle airport.
 
Khurshid in Saudi Arabia as India scrambles to help workers
Khurshid in Saudi Arabia as India scrambles to help workers
Jeddah, May 25 (IANS) Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid Saturday discussed bilateral issues, including the Nitaqat law, with his Saudi Arabian counterpart Prince Saud Al Faisal as the Indian missions there scrambled to help over 55,000 Indian workers leave the kingdom in adherence to its new stringent work policy.
 
Scientists develop 'skin' for robots
Scientists develop 'skin' for robots
Rome, May 25 (IANS) European scientists have engineered artificial skins and sensor technologies to augment "sensitivity" in robots, says a study.
 
 

One Statement Tells You Whether A Business Is Truly Groundbreaking

Source: The Business Insider  |   May 25 2013, 7:27am CDT

To create something entirely new--something that the world has not seen before--requires contrarian thinking. Peter Thiel, a co-founder of Paypal who's now one of the world's best-known venture capital inve ...

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Yet Another Hulu Bidder! Yahoo Is In, Too.

Source: Voices | All Things Digital  |   May 24 2013, 1:39pm CDT

The Web giant submitted a bid for the video site this morning, according to a person familiar with process. Other people looking to buy all or a piece of Hulu include: Directv, Time Warner Cable William Morris Endeavor, along with with PE backer Silver ...

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Seasteading—the New Frontier?

Source: PERC: Property & Environment Research Center  |   May 24 2013, 1:26pm CDT

In the Fall 2000 issue of PERC Reports, Donald Leal wrote an article called “Homesteading the Oceans.” While Leal was talking about fisheries, seasteading goes much further in the concept of homesteading the ...

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Who shouldn't bother with college?

Source: Boston.com  |   May 24 2013, 7:45am CDT

When Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion this week, David Karp, Tumblr's 26-year-old founder, became an instant celebrity -- and joined the pantheon of tech entrepreneurs to make it big without a college degree. In fact, Karp drop ...

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Bitcoin attracts major investors

Source: Kurzweilai  |   May 24 2013, 6:26am CDT

Bitcoin is gaining traction outside its existing community of enthusiastic early adopters. An estimated 1,100 people attended Bitcoin 2013, the first large conference dedicated to Bitcoin, MIT Technology Review reports. The conference also ...

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Boot up: Glass views, Surface v iPad, Bitcoin flourishes, SGS4 hits 10m and more

Source: Guardian Unlimited  |   May 24 2013, 1:36am CDT

A burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Do They Meet a Need? · Seems pretty ob­vi­ous to me; I'm damn sick of haul­ing out my mo­bile to find out what time it is, or to check on my next meet­ing, or to glance at a map, o ...

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