Gurbaksh Chahal, CEO and founder of RadiumOne, with two V2 vodka girls at bachelor party.
- Advertising company RadiumOne's board fired its CEO, Gurbaksh Chahal, over the weekend. Chahal pled guilty to two misdemeanors after being charged with assaulting his girlfriend last week, and since then has been engulfed in controversy.
- Before he was fired, Chahal wrote a blog post where he say he found his girlfriend was having sex with other men for money, which led to an argument, but that he never hit her.
- After he was fired, he wrote another blog post, and he blamed the media and his board members, saying the board betrayed him.
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- The New York Times looks at New York City's startup scene and says, "No New York start-up has been a breakout hit, the sort of blockbuster with a multibillion-dollar valuation that has become so commonplace in Silicon Valley."
- In an interview, technology journalist Kara Swisher says Google is "dangerous" and "thuggish."
- Rovio, the parent company of Angry Birds, has hit a wall. Revenue only grew a little between 2013 and 2012. It's hard being a mobile gaming company.
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- And finally, here's an analysis of what Apple should do if it wants to make investors, and consumers happy. It's not complicated, and it doesn't require building something brand new like an iWatch or a TV.