Los Angeles Times :: The secret to Silicon Valley's success, we've been told, is its ecosystem: Where else in the world can you find such a large, symbiotic collection of expert visionaries, engineers, marketers, financiers?
How about influence peddlers?
Path, a San Francisco social networking company, got caught downloading users' address books from their iPhones without theirpermission. After New York Times tech blogger Nick Bilton picked up the story, he and his story became the target of vituperative attacks by tech bloggers Michael Arrington and MG Siegler, who happen to be investors in Path.
[Michael Hiltzik:] Many bloggers about technology drape themselves in the mantle of journalistic objectivity. But real journalists don't invest in companies they cover or seek investments in their own enterprises from companies they cover.
Continue to read Michael Hiltzik, www.latimes.com
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