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Shame-Magnet Randi Zuckerberg Begs You To Stop Shaming People
Randi Zuckerberg, famous for her accomplishments in the field of being related to her own brother, loves the public eye. Except when it's mean. So please, Randi implores, only nice attention from now...
View ArticlePeople with autism can work just as hard as the rest of us, if not harder,...
People with autism can work just as hard as the rest of us, if not harder, TechCrunch would like to remind you. In fact, they're "phenomenal workers." So, go hire some autistic people.
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The Obnoxious Email Auto-Replies of a Super VC
Successful mega-investor Dave McClure is all about quantity over quality, and he's not ashamed: his fund is called 500 Startups, after all. But if you want to be part of this moneyed crowd, you'll...
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Pirated Music Paradise Grooveshark Has Left Its Founder Broke as Hell
Remember Grooveshark? You could stream any song you wanted, in high quality, for absolutely free. It sort of seemed too good to be true, which it was: every major music label sued the site into the...
View ArticleA Kickstarter-style startup that lets you invest in the future wealth of...
A Kickstarter-style startup that lets you invest in the future wealth of other humans just received a $5.9 million investment from some already-rich humans. "The trick will be to attract investors,"...
View ArticleLooks like Tumblr actually does sorta care about making money: mobile users...
Looks like Tumblr actually does sorta care about making money: mobile users will see "up to four ads per day, and they'll be differentiated with a dollar-sign icon with beams shooting out of it,"...
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Tumblr Thinks Everything Is Incredible
Tumblr isn't a lot of things: profitable, gentle with its staff, or generally SFW. But if you ask Tumblr, it's definitely doing a lot of incredible things. An incredible number of incredible things,...
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What "self-respecting man who likes sports," Internet Alpha Male and VC Ben...
What "self-respecting man who likes sports," Internet Alpha Male and VC Ben Lerer ponders, wouldn't like these baseball caps with Hawaiian print brims? Conveniently sold by his men's online clothing...
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Marissa Mayer's Latest Kill: Selling to Yahoo "Was a Horrible Mistake"
What the hell is Yahoo? No one knows. But it's definitely not in the business of events planning anymore, with the news that it's unceremoniously killing Upcoming.org after ten years. Upcoming's...
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Mike Arrington Will Skip TechCrunch Disrupt for the First Time Ever
Mike Arrington's jowls and brash questions have been a staple of TechCrunch's annual green-tinted festival of self-congratulation. But a well-informed source tells us the former main act won't be...
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Fab.com Worth $1,000,000,000?
Looks like a lot of people have been buying wacky stools and canine bow ties: TechCrunch reports that whimsy epicenter Fab.com is taking a new funding round that will put its "value" squarely at one...
View ArticleEvery single Kardashian (that we can count) tweeted or Instagrammed about how...
Every single Kardashian (that we can count) tweeted or Instagrammed about how much they love the video-sharing app Keek last night, perfectly timed to the E! upfronts. What's the going rate for a...
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Sad HP Paying Dancers for World's Most Awkward Corporate Brainstorming
The days of Hewlett-Packard's Silicon Valley dominance sure do feel far away, don't they? The company has no clear future, a slew of futures, financial misery and now... inspirational ballet. Slow...
View ArticleDespite a recent investment from Jeff Bezos, Business Insider appears to be...
Despite a recent investment from Jeff Bezos, Business Insider appears to be advertising for Facebook instead.
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Robert Scoble Has No Problem Wearing a Camera into Public Bathrooms
Of all the possible privacy night terrors you can conjure up around Google's fantastically-engineered cosplay device, spotting Glass next to you at a urinal ranks near the top. But for Rackspace...
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How a Bill Gates Handshake Caused Controversy in South Korea
Bill Gates is dedicating his life to helping others. But let's not judge him on that. Let's judge him on how he shakes hands. Because that's important. The above photo is all over the South Korean...
View ArticleTwitter has been slow and/or totally broken since this morning for many...
Twitter has been slow and/or totally broken since this morning for many users—what the company is calling a "service issue." Meanwhile, the last tweet from the communications team is about the new...
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Vimeo Founder's 'Brilliant Scam': Apply Here to Build Him a Bathhouse
New York media outlets who have been daydreaming of a chance to profile Zach Klein's turn as an upstate woodsman may have their chance yet! Klein, who cofounded Vimeo and was an early employee at...
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Tumblr's L.A. Fuck You to Fired Employees
It's hard to imagine what could be worse than being fired in the same paragraph that heaps praise upon the work you've been doing. But at Tumblr, there is worse: your company shitcans you and then...
View ArticleThe AP's Twitter account was just hacked, almost certainly in the same...
The AP's Twitter account was just hacked, almost certainly in the same fashion as Burger King and Jeep before it. All of this because Twitter still won't add simple two-step security like Facebook or...
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