After a bazingo exit, the possibilities for a startup founder seem endless. You could form a mafia with your old coworkers, you could design bourgeois apps for your pals
OMGPOP Founder Wrote a Movie About the Dark Side of Civilian Drones
CES May Not Survive, But Booth Babes Are Forever
Over a week after fucking up your privacy, Snapchat says it's "sorry" for a security hole that put y
Over a week after fucking up your privacy, Snapchat says it's "sorry" for a security hole that put your phone number in the open. All it took was universal umbrage!
What It Looks Like When Goldman Sachs Gets Your Startup Shitfaced
There's a reason the Goldman Sachs Private Internet Company Conference is held in Vegas, and not, say, Northern Virginia. The "fuckfest
Did Taylor Swift and Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel Totally Make Out?
OMFG: the startup scene is ablaze with the same lip gloss-smudged rumor: Spring Fling tiara-wearer Taylor Swift and sociopathic app dude Evan Spiegel
Uber's Grand Plan to Make Taxis Obsolete Is Now In Effect
If Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is Keyser Söze, this is the moment in The Usual Suspects when he stops limping, sparks up a cigarette, and rides off in a sleek black car. Today, the e-hailing company announced "the most aggressive price cut the company has ever made," in order to handicap the competition.
Google PR Accidentally Replies to Private Shuttle Protests: "Ugh..."
An eye-opening look into the world of tech public communications: a reporter at Mission Local wanted to know what Google
Co-Chief Eric Eldon Leaving TechCrunch
One half of the heavyweight duo operating Silicon Valley's industry blog of record is making his exit. After a little over two years at the helm alongside Alexia Tsotsis, TechCrunch co-editor Eric Eldon will soon depart the site. He planned to make the news official next week.
Uber Tells Drivers Price Cuts Are Just A "Promotion" for "Slow Months"
When Uber announced its plan to radically slash prices for UberX, putting massive pressure on taxis and competitors
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LivingSocial's CEO Jumps from Rapidly Sinking Ship
This probably would have been a better move before the entire company
Google's Private Ferry Is Stealing Whale Watching Season
Another strike against Google in the public
This Might Be the Most Hated Man in Silicon Valley
You can get away with a lot in the ego-lacquered corridors of tech—but if people think you stole their money, they're going to try to tear you apart. TechCrunch's Ryan Lawler is on the trail of alleged startup crook Jon Mills, who friends say blew tons of cash in Vegas. Their cash.
Paleofuture The Weirdest CES Gadgets Of All Time -- That Never Came Out | Regressing How The Seahawk
Paleofuture The Weirdest CES Gadgets Of All Time — That Never Came Out | Regressing How The Seahawks' NFL-Best Defense Runs On Pressure | Defamer Which Hollywood Star Tried to Bribe the CIA for $50k of Cocaine? | Truck Yeah! Five-Star Safety Rating Doesn't Mean Perfection For GM Pickups | Kinja Popular Posts
Tyra Banks Is Dating Oversharing Uber Investor Shervin Pishevar
The first and only time I was permitted to gaze (through a Skype window) at the glittering visage of Tyra Banks, the tech-curious TV personality told me she would "love to have invested in Uber." Banks, who launched her own photo app and claimed to spend "a lot of time in Silicon Valley," may have better deal flow now that she's dating Shervin Pishevar, an early investor in the $3.5 billion e-hailing company.
Path's Biggest New Investor Is Shady and Despised
If you're wondering who the fuck would help give Dave Morin $25 more million to continue Path's
Facebook Buys Branch for $15 Million
If you're wondering why there's been little news out of Twitter-based discussion... thing Branch, here's some: Facebook is acquiring the tiny talented team for $15 million, to create a project group in New York.
French Cab Drivers Smash Uber Cars During Protest
Now that it's obvious Uber is trying to put conventional taxis out of business
Waves of Spam Are Infiltrating Snapchat
Those private ephemeral ads for losing pounds and enhancing penis size you see above appeared in my Snapchat feed yesterday, along with a handful of new "friends" in my contacts. I'm not the only one being inundated by spam.
San Francisco's Exclusive Techie Club Is Fighting to Hide Lameness
There aren't enough ways for the Bay Area software crowd to insulate itself from people with regular jobs: and so, The Battery exists