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Marketplace for Friday September 26, 2014
Sep 26, 2014

Marketplace for Friday September 26, 2014

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Hundreds of flights were grounded in Chicago this morning after a fire at an air traffic control facility. O’Hare is the second busiest airport nation and home to hubs for both American and United airlines. How often do these types of shutdowns happen and what are the economic ripple effects across the country? And, social media upstart Ello made a lot of noise online this week by positioning itself as the anti-Facebook, promising no ads, no data mining, and to stop treating people as "a product that's bought and sold." Apparently, those are words many wanted to hear, as the site was welcoming 4,000 new users per hour midweek. But the question remains, how do you make any money if you aren't selling advertising and scraping user data?

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Weekly Wrap: Inside Goldman Sachs

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Kai talked with Linette Lopez and Cardiff Garcia about the week that was.

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Rotten Tomatoes turns its Tomatometer to television

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The film review website Rotten Tomatoes makes a big push for television reviews.

A social network with no ads?

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Social media upstart Ello is positioning itself as the anti-Facebook.

Protecting yourself from fraud protection

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U.S. Bank billed customers for identity theft services they never received.

Google explores why everyone is a little bit racist

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New York Times reporter Farhad Manjoo says Google knows diversifying is good biz.

Hundreds of flights were grounded in Chicago this morning after a fire at an air traffic control facility. O’Hare is the second busiest airport nation and home to hubs for both American and United airlines. How often do these types of shutdowns happen and what are the economic ripple effects across the country? And, social media upstart Ello made a lot of noise online this week by positioning itself as the anti-Facebook, promising no ads, no data mining, and to stop treating people as “a product that’s bought and sold.” Apparently, those are words many wanted to hear, as the site was welcoming 4,000 new users per hour midweek. But the question remains, how do you make any money if you aren’t selling advertising and scraping user data?