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OMGPOP Founder Wrote a Movie About the Dark Side of Civilian Drones

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OMGPOP Founder Wrote a Movie About the Dark Side of Civilian Drones

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. If the mood strikes, you could charge a small Hawaiian island on your credit card. Whatever floats your yacht. Ever the outlier, OMGPop founder Charles Forman is trying his luck in Hollywood.

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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

What It Looks Like When Goldman Sachs Gets Your Startup Shitfaced

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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" weekend is a fat, ripe chance for bankers to give startup crews—who might go public someday—the drunken time of their lives.

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Did Taylor Swift and Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel Totally Make Out?

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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 kissed with their mouths on New Year's Eve.

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Uber's Grand Plan to Make Taxis Obsolete Is Now In Effect

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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.

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Google PR Accidentally Replies to Private Shuttle Protests: "Ugh..."

Co-Chief Eric Eldon Leaving TechCrunch

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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.

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Uber Tells Drivers Price Cuts Are Just A "Promotion" for "Slow Months"

Another PandoDaily Reporter Bites the Dust

LivingSocial's CEO Jumps from Rapidly Sinking Ship

Google's Private Ferry Is Stealing Whale Watching Season

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Another strike against Google in the public outreach department: the company's experiment with water-based private transit is depriving Bay Area sea-lovers of a beloved whale watching vessel.

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This Might Be the Most Hated Man in Silicon Valley

Paleofuture The Weirdest CES Gadgets Of All Time -- That Never Came Out | Regressing How The Seahawk

Tyra Banks Is Dating Oversharing Uber Investor Shervin Pishevar

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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.

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Path's Biggest New Investor Is Shady and Despised

Facebook Buys Branch for $15 Million

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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.

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French Cab Drivers Smash Uber Cars During Protest

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French Cab Drivers Smash Uber Cars During Protest

Now that it's obvious Uber is trying to put conventional taxis out of business, the people who drive those cars are more worried than ever. And in Paris, where Uber was recently legalized, that worry just spilled over into street violence.

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Waves of Spam Are Infiltrating Snapchat

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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.

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San Francisco's Exclusive Techie Club Is Fighting to Hide Lameness

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