Back 9 biz bites: Hunter Moore backtracks

Cool links about startups, entrepreneurs, and random stuff for Wednesday, December 5:

1. "Drunk and coked out" revenge porn entrepreneur backtracks.
2. Twitter: Instagram takes its ball and goes home.
3. MetroMile wants to charge by the mile for car insurance.
4. Participating in Microsoft's FuseLab's social search experiment.
5. Citrix acquires security startup Zenprise.
6. Appler charged in $1 billion trade.
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Jay-Z just the latest to innovate in Brooklyn

Brooklyn is getting a lot of branding lately and no small amount of it comes courtesy of its superstar native son Jay-Z, who just released a documentary about the Barclays Center stadium that opened not far from the neighborhood where he grew up in a public housing project.

If you haven’t seen the documentary, scroll down and check it out. Worth the price of admission is the part where he’s  ...

The true costs of losing an $8 an hour employee

Hourly wages are only part of the investment an employer makes in an employee. And when that employee leaves, in most cases so too does the rest of that investment.

The below infographic breaks down the truth behind those departed employees, and the cost it can mean to employers. And that cost isn't inconsequential: when an employee paid $8 an hour leaves, it costs the employer $5,500.

Here are  ...

The new face of higher education: technology with a pinch of Pinterest

Education technology is one of the hottest fields in entrepreneurship right now, and two infographics released today prove that higher education is undergoing some serious changes.

The first, from college rankings site thebestcolleges.org, organizes the results of Pew Research studies to describe how Americans think technology will impact higher education:

Confessions of a Twitterphobic editor

I have something to confess that, given my career choice and my role as editor of Upstart Business Journal, I'm not really proud of—I don't like Twitter.

My negative feelings toward the micro-blogging site are rooted in its earliest reputation as a place to detail the minutia of one's life. I make my living in media, and I love telling stories, but I've never felt compelled to fully immerse  ...

Reinventing the payphone: NYC Mayor Bloomberg taps local talent

One of today’s press releases that stood out from the pack:

What’s happening: Yesterday evening, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge via video conference at the New York Tech Meetup, a campaign that could save the communications market becoming increasingly obsolete in the mobile era.

Why it’s of interest: ...

To be, or not to be: Arizona incubator with 3-D printing fights to exist on Indiegogo

The Inventors Warehouse today announced the launch of a crowdfunding campaign to open a small business incubator and shared creative space in Phoenix. And as testament to the growing importance of 3-D printing to make on the spot, impromptu prototypes to test incubating ideas, the accelerator, will give its participants access to Mcor Technologies' 3-D printers as part of the program.

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