Last week, Google announced that Eric Schmidt got a $106 million bonus
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Eric Schmidt Started Spending His Bonus on This Playboy-Adjacent Manse
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Hacker Swipes PayPal President's Credit Card Info, Goes on Shopping Spree
When you own a company specializing in online payments, the constant threat of hackers and phishing schemes is an inescapable part of the job description. So it's hard not to experience a little schadenfreude in the fact that PayPal President David Marcus's credit card information got swiped recently and taken on a bit of a shopping spree. Oh, sweet irony.
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Snapchat Is Too Arrogant to Fix Its Security Problems
What does Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel care about, other than wooing Taylor Swift and driving his Ferrari? Turning his startup into a business doesn't seem to register, and based on the newest report of security hubris
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The Real Reason Why Techies Are the New Yuppies
Back in the 1980s, people talked about the 1 percent by referring to "young urban professionals," or yuppies. The term was supposed to contrast with hippies, the youth culture of a previous generation. Today in cities like San Francisco, the idea of the yuppie has been grafted onto a new term: techie.
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Defamer News Anchor Mistakes Samuel L.
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The 21st Century Valentine's Day Gift for Someone You Hate
The future is now, and it is conducive to extremely depressing, impersonal gifts for your lover. Brit
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John Oliver On The Crunchies: "Why Do You Need An Awards Ceremony?"
Last night, TechCrunch rolled out the green carpet (unfortunately, I'm speaking literally here) and lit up Davies Symphony Hall to look like the inside of The Matrix in order to properly honor . . . what exactly, emcee John Oliver wasn't sure.
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Business Insider Changed its Story on Buzzfeed
Yesterday, Business Insider chief correspondent Nicholas Carlson stuck a subtle shiv into his competitors at Buzzfeed, attributing the site's success in exploiting Facebook's ever-evolving newsfeed algorithm to its practice of buying traffic in the form of Facebook ads—as opposed to, you know, attracting readers. Then he took it out. Without telling anyone.
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You can call yourself "utterly pointless," flounder in beta forever, pivot, then show a downward slo
You can call yourself "utterly pointless," flounder in beta forever, pivot, then show a downward slope in the App Store, and still get acqui-hired by Yahoo. No man left behind, no landing too soft.
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Amazon Protestors Block Seattle Traffic
There, there, Google, it's not just you—a small group stopped one of Amazon's private shuttles a streetcar in its tracks outside Amazon HQ, decrying the company's business dealings with the CIA. The Stranger was on the scene, with photos.
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Screwed By Square
This is a guest post by game designer and writer Alex Shvartsman originally published on his blog: In addition to making the small bucks as a science fiction writer, I have a day job. I run a game store which hosts events and serves the local community here in Brooklyn, but also sells games and collectibles online and at shows/conventions.
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Apple Sounds Like a Terrible Place to Work
There are few jobs as paper-prestigious as working where the iPod was invented. Even though Apple
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GoldieBlox Means Well But Doesn't Live Up to the Hype
GoldieBlox has inspired much enthusiasm among adults. The concept—disrupt the pink aisle! provide girls with an alternative to princess-mania!—is the stuff TED talks and viral videos are made of. But are the toys actually any good? Those videos aren't just a P.S.A. campaign—they're advertisements. And there, the jury's still out.
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Last week: Twitter's stock price plunges after a weak earnings report, and still no sign of profitab
Last week: Twitter's stock price plunges after a weak earnings report, and still no sign of profitability. Today, Twitter's Head of News, Vivian Schiller, enjoys a New York office "champagne tasting," provided by Moet.
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Oh Hey, Half the PRISM Slideshow Just Joined Anti-Surveillance Day
Yesterday, we called the coalition behind "The Day We Fight Back," an initiative protesting mass surveillance, to find out why NSA-friendly tech giants had not signed up alongside Reddit, Tumblr, and other companies for today's event. Just wait, they said.
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Bing Is Heavily Censoring Chinese Language Searches Within the U.S. [Update]
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Chinese citizens expect their government to censor search results. But according to The Guardian, Bing has been censoring results for Chinese language searches, even when you access the Microsoft-owned search engine within the U. S. of A.
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Tim Armstrong Refused to Take Questions at AOL's Conference for Women
The mission statement for AOL's invite-only Makers Conference sounded suspect from the start. How can a random assortment of high-profile women (and a handful of male executives) possibly presume to "reset the agenda for women in the workplace" during a private excursion at an oceanside resort?
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Startup Founder Is Relying on His Daddy, Dr. Phil
If you're one of the many Americans who watches the Dr. Phil show, you might be getting a startup advertisement without realizing it. "Doctor" Phil McGraw's son—who is also not a medical doctor—is the co-creator of a new app called Doctor on Demand, which is suddenly getting a boatload of free, conflicted press.
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Female Athletes Say Tinder Use at The Olympic Village Is "Next Level"
Jamie Anderson, the 23-year-old American snowboarder, tells US Weekly that she and her fellow female athletes spend their down time in Sochi on one app in particular:
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The Biggest Bullshit Job Titles in Tech
Last week, the chilling visage of David Shing
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