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Zappos' Tony Hsieh is using his empire to help revitalize downtown Las Vegas. "I first thought I would buy a piece of land and build our own Disneyland." [New York Times]

Sources say the SEC's probe into Facebook's IPO has found no evidence that the company withheld information from investors. Good news for those seeking relief for the stock dive in civil court: Whether retail investors were led astray by misleading info from brokers still remains to be seen. [Bloomberg]

BuzzFeed is opening a Los Angeles bureau; prepare for a lot more celebrity photo lists. [BuzzFeed]

Internet service providers like Verizon and Time Warner have launched the Copyright Alert System, a new warning feature that will send notes to customers they've found are pirating content. Users who ignore these messages could even have their connections throttled, because ISPs will pretend to care about piracy if it gives them an excuse not to pay for bandwidth. [CNN]

Shopping for glitzy gowns just got a lot easier. On Friday, Rent the Runway introduced a new feature that replaces models with everyday women, "allowing visitors to search for women of a certain age, height, weight and even bust size, to see how that dress looks on someone similar."  [New York Times]

Mr. Hsieh/Mr. Wiggles

Earlier this month, Meetup CEO Scott Heiferman announced the newest member of the Meetup cap table: Zappos front man Tony Hsieh. "indeed, tony (zappos ceo) bought out one of our shareholders," Mr. Heiferman wrote in a company-wide email.

"i'm thrilled--because tony is a true hero of great companies, cultures, customer experience, community and it can't hurt to have another hsieh around," he added, referring presumably to Richard Hsieh, Meetup's lead software engineer here in New York.

Mr. Heiferman didn't specify which shareholder was bought out. Previous investors include Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Omidyar Network, eBay, and Union Square Ventures. In February, cofounder Matt Meeker left to launch BarkBox, a Birchbox for dogs. Mr. Heiferman said that Mr. Hsieh's motivation was two-fold:

tony bought a piece of meetup because he believes in our potential --both meme & money: he wants us to revolutionize community for people-- and i think he wants a cut of the profit as we keep growing over the long-haul (or whatever way that all of our stock/options pay out)

Based on the growth in new members, things are definitely looking up-and-to-the-right, as they say.

As for Mr. Hsieh, this isn't his first run-in with the company.  Back in 2009, he introduced staffers to a scooter-racing alter-ego known as Mr. Wiggles (at about 1.50):