People are paying tens of thousands of dollars for custom phone numbers. These are the most expensive

It's often not the area code that matters. San Francisco, a city with no shortage of status symbols, has just gained another: the 415 area code. Like New York's 212 before it, phone companies are mixing a new, dare-we-say ugly area code, 628, in for new numbers. But there's no need to panic. As with all status symbols in San Francisco and elsewhere, a 415 number can be yours, for a price.
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Google Sued by Job Candidate for Age Discrimination

A 64-year-old Florida tech worker filed an age-discrimination lawsuit against Google on Wednesday, claiming the company passed on him after a job interview because of his age.
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Is Slack Really Worth $2.8 Billion? A Conversation With Stewart Butterfield

The corporate messaging start-up Slack raised $160 million at a $2.8 billion valuation. Stewart Butterfield, the company’s chief executive, discusses Silicon Valley’s easy-money moment.
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A bipartisan proposal to make a universal basic income a reality in America

Its merits are many and varied. It would reduce poverty, but would be less politically vulnerable to cuts than other safety net programs because it isn't means-tested. Like food stamps and such, it isn't tied to work, so it would raise workers' bargaining power and thus their wages. Finally, by giving families some economic breathing room, it would roll back some of the market's encroachments into family and community life...
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A Bot Made Millions on Wall Street by Reading the Web. It Also Ate This Guy’s Lunch.

On the afternoon of Friday, March 27, as several news outlets reported at the time, somebody apparently made $2.4 million from a tweet. That tweet was a bit of breaking news from Wall Street Journal writer Dana Mattioli.
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The most exciting proposal of the GOP presidential campaign so far

Marco Rubio and Mike Lee proposed a seemingly technical change that could be the start of something much, much bigger.
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I am a cook in the US Senate but I still need food stamps to feed my children

I work 70 hours a week doing two jobs but cannot make ends meet. Presidential hopefuls must make profitable federal contractors pay living wages. By Bertrand Olotara
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