In case Fred Dicker’s objections to Bloomberg’s Albany strategy weren’t clear enough, he said on his radio show this morning, “who the heck is a mayor, any mayor, to tell the governor that he wants something to be part of the budget? How presumptious can you be?”
Bloomberg has pressed Governor Cuomo to put Read More
Mayor Bloomberg further distanced himself from Governor Andrew Cuomo today, telling reporters “the length of time that you have worked is irrelevant” to evaluating teachers.
Unnamed Bloomberg aides were quoted in the Daily News saying Cuomo’s legislation to revise teacher seniority rules were a “sham” and, possibly, the created by the teacher’s union.
Facebook announced today that it’s launching a new messaging platform that aims to own the conversation, no matter where it takes place.
Zuckerberg told an anecdote about chatting with high schoolers who don’t use email, because they think its too slow. Addresses, introductions, signing off, all these things slow the conversation down.
“Email is Read More
The big rumor today, broken by Jason Kincaid over at Techcrunch, is that Facebook will be announcing its own email client on Monday, adding a little context to the battle over email contacts that broke out this week between Google and Facebook.
It appears as though Facebook will build out its message service into Read More
Last week Google blocked Facebook from automatically importing user email contacts.
The move was seen as payback: Google’s new terms of service declared they would only share contact data with companies that returned the favor.
Facebook didn’t offer to share and shake alike, and in fact used some clever, aggressive engineering to sidestep Google’s Read More
