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Patent War: Obama's Executive Order
Obama is making a move for the tech industry, and finally beginning to rain the fiery hammer upon Patent Trolls. Right now, 61% of patent infringement lawsuits come from Patent Assertion Entities,...
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App That Lets You Rate People Is Hitting College Campus'
What Would You Say If Every Partner (One-Night or Other) Instantly Rated You Online? Tinder.You've probably heard about it, If you saw The Social Network, you might remember "Face Mash," the product...
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13 Little Things You May Be Doing to Sabotage Your Success
Are you one of these two?1. You've been out in the job market for a few years now, but you're still holding on to old habits. 2. Just looking to enter the market, but you need to just shed that college...
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What's on Your Screen (Desktop/Phones)
This is of course, a response to the "What's on Your Desk" post, and a decently obvious attempt to gain a foothold in what kind of programs different finance jobs carry on their various home...
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Mark Zuckerberg Responds To PRISM
4 Hours ago, Mark Zuckerberg Posted This on Facebook: Mark ZuckerBerg: I want to respond personally to the outrageous press reports about PRISM: Facebook is not and has never been part of any program...
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Thoughts: WSO 2013 Layout
Throughout the day, all the WSO icons changed, and the previous week, I've noticed the comment bar change, user interaction UI's got refreshed, and etc.WSO has been around for I believe over 6 years,...
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BREAKING: US Intelli Chief Issues PRISM Fact Sheet
The Director of National Intelligence says he has declassified some information"in hope that it will help dispel some of the myths and add necessary context to what has been published."Full Doc: Go to...
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Lurkers and College Kids: 2008 Run-Down
WSO is primarily THE peer-to-peer source for information pertaining to finance and our users show that. But as we all know, we have a lot of users who lurk the site, (like college kids trying to...
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Legal Break: From Banker To Entrepreneur
Okay. Hold your horses. Before you decide to jump ship and join/start that TexMex text delivery service, here's a few things to check with your employment contract to avoid a court summons, and make a...
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HFT: Trading Faster Than Reality
At 1:07 p.m. on April 23, a hijacked AP Twitter account falsely reported an attack on the White House. Seconds later, major US stock indexes started to fall. They were down 1 percent by the time the...
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Bank of America Twitter Flop
Brands are supposed to use social media to show their human side, but apparently Bank of America– and the alleged humans that run its customer service Twitter feed – missed that memo.Now it's not just...
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Detroit Declares Bankruptcy: $18B Red
'Let me be blunt: Detroit's broke,' says Michigan's governor Rick Snyder.Thirty-eight cents of every city dollar goes to debt repayment and unfunded liabilities, the governor said.By 2017, Snyder said,...
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PayPal Accidentally Credits $92 QUADRILLION
We know sometimes a bank can slip-up and add a few hundred thousand out of the blue, but what about a 3rd party service?Paypal recently accidentally credited a Pennsylvania man $92,233,720,368,547,800,...
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Detroit: Should I Buyout Slums?
Now, I'm not a real estate guy, nor do I flip properties so I don't have a solid opinion on the matter. But, I had a thought. Is there any use to the abandoned slums in Detroit? Can anyone take...
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Legalizing Aspects of Insider Trading
SAC Capital's dilemma has been a bit of a springboard for arguing what really constitutes as insider trading; more or less if you ask 100 people that question, you'll get 100 different answers back....
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Bonus Bananas August 2, 2013
1 - Summer Intern On The Hill Gets Drunk, Loses Shoe, Stalks Paul RyanSomewhere, the drunk, now former, summer intern is wandering the streets of DC. While he is reunited with the shoe, he will not...
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Bonus Bananas August 9, 2013
Bronze Medal Ping Pong GOD Bravely Resigns From Goldman SachsWell, this one isn't actually from this week, or even this year for that matter, but I think it's an appropriate Friday to drag up the...
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Surviving Sporting Events With Your Wall Street Boss
Courtesy and Credit of GS ElevatorAs a follow-up to my recent piece, Tips for Summer Interns of 2013, I have been asked to provide pearls of wisdom on surviving a sporting event with your boss. As an...
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Bonus Bananas August 16, 2013
Why I Quit My PE Job To Work at Chipotle Well, basically the guy jumps the finance ship to work at Chipotle and figures out how they work, so he can open his own rival shop serving... Indian food?A...
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NeuorEnhancers and Chances
Every now and then WSO experiences rushes of posts centric around Neuorenhancers, Adderall, Vitamin Stacks, and etc. etc. as we all know.I figured it's time to just get a solid handle on everything,...
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