♦ A new startup that just raised $15 million from Andreessen Horowitz, Atlas Venture and Maveron is looking to replace FICO. Earnest came about after co-founder Louis Beryl was looking to take out a loan to pay for Harvard Business School. provides small loans to individuals based on their earning potential rather than credit history. Earnest asks loan applicants about their current job, salary and education history and any balance they have in a savings or retirement account.
♦ That’s a first. Credit Suisse plead guilty to (financial) criminal wrongdoing. The Swiss bank agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiring to aid tax evasion, will also pay about $2.6 billion in penalties and hire an independent monitor for up to two years. Good news is their stocks still opened on the positive on the market today.
♦ Charlize Theron is the Vogue June 2014 cover girl where she talks about her career, personal life with Sean Penn and son Jackson. This is her fifth Vogue cover.
♦ Exactly how “In a relationship” “It’s Complicated” “Engaged to___” are you? Facebook is now allowing users the opportunity to “ask” Facebook has added a button which allows US users to ask for friends’ relationship statuses. You can ask your friends if they’re single, if they’ve yet to fill out their relationship status on their profile. Once you click the button, you also have the option to send your friend a message telling them exactly why you’re so curious about their relationship status. Ask away, creeps.
♦ It doesn’t get realer than someone saying “I shot my wife” and this is no episode of Snapped. Actor Michael Jace (who?!) called 911 to report he shot his wife. He has been arrested for her murder.
♦ Will she make her BFF’s wedding though? Ciara welcomed a new baby boy with her fiance Future.
