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"Also: How a failed startup led to one founder&amp;#8217;s suicide.\u00A0\nNeal Mohan, VP of Display Ad Products for Google.\nGoogle paid this man $100 million: Here&amp;#8217;s his story\u00A0[BUSINESS INSIDER]\nTechCrunch\u00A0later reported that\u00A0Google paid Mohan more than $100 million in stock.\nIn the two years since Mohan signed the deal, Google&amp;#8217;s stock price has increased about 35 percent, making Mohan&amp;#8217;s deal worth as much as $150 million.\nOver the past several weeks, we&amp;#8217;ve spoken to his colleagues, clients, and competitors to learn more about Mohan.\u00A0Some of them asked to remain anonymous out of deference to Mohan&amp;#8217;s quiet, behind-the-scenes style.\u00A0Mohan himself declined to comment.\u00A0They say Mohan is the visionary who predicted how brand advertising would\u00A0fund\u00A0Internet, turned this vision into a plan, and then executed it.\nThe story of a failed startup and a founder driven to suicide\u00A0[BUSINESS INSIDER]\nPut more simply, Ecomom was broke.\u00A0The 28-person startup \u2014 which had just raised $5 million six months earlier and more than $12 million total \u2014 ran out of cash. And no one left at the company seemed to know where it had gone.\nOver the past six weeks, we have interviewed more than a dozen people close to Jody Sherman and his startup about what happened in those final months. They&amp;#8217;re colleagues, friends, advisors, investors and confidantes. Many of them spoke on the condition of anonymity.\nAll are shocked by what happened. Many feel duped. And everyone was left wondering:\nWho was Jody Sherman?\nAnd what happened in the last few months of his life that caused it to end so tragically?\nFacebook&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8216;Phone&amp;#8217; is another triumph of mediocrity [WIRED]\nOver the past few days, lots of pundits have been asking who this is for. Facebook gave us an answer today: It\u2019s for people who don\u2019t care about a rich, full experience on the Internet, yet love Facebook. People who want to run apps, but are overwhelmed by them. People who want to connect with friends and family, but want it to be super easy to do so. For many people, Facebook\u00A0is\u00A0the Internet, just as AOL was before it. And just as Facebook is the best way for them to experience the Internet in a browser, Facebook Home is going to be the best way for those people to experience the Internet on a phone.\nNo TV? No subscription? No problem [THE NEW YORK TIMES]\nBut to the collective relief of nearly everyone I know, the companies with whom I spoke seemed to have little to no interest in curbing our sharing behavior \u2014 in part because they can\u2019t. They have little ability to track and curtail their customers who are sharing account information, according to Jeff Cusson, senior vice president for corporate affairs at HBO. And, he said, the network doesn\u2019t view the sharing \u201Cas a pervasive problem at this time.\u201D\nAllen Stern, blogging pioneer and entrepreneur, passes away &amp;#8212; we will miss you Allen [GIGAOM]\nBefore blogging became a big business, Stern created a tech blog\u00A0called Center Networks, which became a go-to destination for many in the early Web 2.0 movement. Later, he sold that business and shifted focus to a new startup called\u00A0CloudContacts\u00A0\u2014 and more recently, he moved from his home town of New York to Austin, Texas to start a company called\u00A0Let\u2019s Talk Fitness.\nDon&amp;#8217;t miss the latest tech news.\u00A0Sign up now\u00A0to get Today in Tech emailed every morning."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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