Second Opinion

In Second Opinion, Silver Lake stands to make 5x its money with the Alibaba IPO, Rob Ford has been diagnosed with a rare type of cancer and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says the NFL will overhaul how it deals with player behavior.

In Second Opinion, the U.S. poverty rate declines for the first time since 2006, how to download IOS 8 w/out deleting any of your data and tomorrow Scottish citizens will vote on whether to become independent.

In Second Opinion, Rackspace is no longer for sale, that NFC chip on the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus will only be used for Apple Pay and another round of layoffs at MSFT is expected later this week.

In Second Opinion, Microsoft buys Mojang, maker of Minecraft, Alibaba is raising the terms of its IPO to $66 to $68 a share and what do venture capitalists actually do all day.

In Second Opinion, Peter Thiel is the John D. Rockefeller of our age, about 1,000 Uber drivers plan to strike Monday and North Korea supports Scottish independence. Plus, Zeus, the world's tallest dog, has passed away.

In Second Opinion, Twitter taps the debt markets for the first time, the top 5 blogs for venture capital and how to trade in your old iPhone for the iPhone 6. Plus, when did the NFL known about the Ray Rice video?

In Second Opinion, the Apple Watch will cost at least $349 and be available early next year, the iPod Classic is finally dead and why most people don't use 529 college savings plans.

In Second Opinon, Amazon cuts the price of its Fire phone to 99 cents, Harvard University receives a record donation of $350 million and Apple is calling its new 5.5-inch iPhone model the “iPhone 6 Plus.”

In Second Opinion, Alibaba could raise $21.1 bln in its IPO, Starbucks is launching smaller, express-style stores to speed up service and Dave & Buster's is filing to go public again.

In Second Opinion, Carl Icahn sells his entire stake in Family Dollar Stores, should universities get involved in venture capital and Michael Bloomberg is returning to lead the company he founded.