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By Nate Freeman 10/04/11 4:44pm

Crime

Cy Vance will lot let Samoas-stealers go unpunished.

How the Cookie Crumbles: Girl Scouts Finance Director Accused of Embezzling Thousands from Company

It’s not every day an email about the Girl Scouts arrives in our inbox. And, hey, it’s still 67 days until cookie season, according to the up-to-the-second countdown on the company’s website. Why, then, did we receive a Tagalong-flavored dispatch on this day? And why is Cy Vance quoted in it?

Turns out former Read More

By Foster Kamer 9/09/11 1:13pm

C IS FOR COOKIE

Band of Outsiders' Scott Sternberg and Momofuku's David Chang.

Momofuku x Band Of Outsiders: Is This The Hippest Cookie In The Universe?

Last night’s Opening Ceremony party at the Ace Hotel for Fashion’s Night Out is certainly deserving of its own report, which is coming shortly. The most coveted item of the night, however, may be the hippest cookie in the universe. Read More

By Emily Atkin 5/06/11 3:02pm

Food Porn

Trend Alert! 9 of the Best Manhattan ‘Street Sweets’

Now that the sun’s out, many would say dessert season is over. Not so–never so. The warmth is merely an opportunity to take your dessert to go, to enjoy your saccharine in the sun instead of in that stuffy, crowded little bakery. 

The Observer has worked tirelessly to put together a list of Manhattan’s most Read More

By admin 1/24/11 7:35pm

Privacy Police

Facebook, MasterCard and HP Join Board Of Digital ID Firm BlueCava

Digital tracking firm Bluecava made headlines earlier this year when it was reported that the company had collected unique IDs on more than 200 million devices like smartphones and laptops. 

Today Bluecava announced that executives from big name companies like Facebook, HP and Mastercard had joined its newly formed advisory board. 

The startup, Read More

By admin 12/03/10 4:34pm

Privacy Police

Fred Wilson: A Web Without Tracking Technologies Would Kinda Suck

The government’s announcement that they may create a Do Not Track registry for the web, similar to the offline Do Not Call system, has sent the digital advertising industry scrambling to clean its image.

But not everyone agrees that web tracking is an unqualified evil. This morning prominent New York VC Fred Wilson wrote Read More

By admin 10/25/10 7:29pm

Privacy Police

How the Stranger at Starbucks Can Steal Your Facebook Account

Stop into almost any coffee shop in New York and you’ll see dozens of strangers sharing the same unsecured WiFi network.

If you had Firesheep, you could see every time one of these folks signs onto an unsecured site like Facebook or Twitter, than grab their username and password for yourself.

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