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“Bob is not authentic at all,” Joni Mitchell told The Los Angeles Times in 2010, referring, of course, to Bob Dylan. “He’s a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a ...

I’ll admit it: I was the student that tipped the teacher off that half of our English class, including me, was using SparkNotes to “read” “Twelfth Night” by Shakespeare, instead of actually reading ...

*Shakespeare either rolls over in his grave or decides he loves memes* Credit: mashable composite: JannHuizenga/getty images and sparknotes via Instagram Most millennials know SparkNotes as the ...

Sam Yagan, co-founder of SparkNotes, OkCupid, and Corazon Capital.. Photo: Justin Clemons Like a lot of first-time entrepreneurs during the early days of the internet in the 1990s, Sam Yagan started ...

Once upon a time, two years ago to be precise, four Harvard graduates of the class of 1999—Sam, Max, Eli and Chris—set up shop in a little office in nearby Davis Square. They had a modest income but ...

Bob Dylan may have plagiarized portions of his Nobel Prize lecture from SparkNotes, an online version of CliffsNotes, according to a new piece from Andrea Pitzer on Slate. Pitzer uncovered the ...

Sam Yagan knows he's been lucky. He told us for an episode of Business Insider's podcast "Success! How I Did It" that one of the luckiest moments of his life was meeting his college roommates.