Now that Tinder has put their sexual harassment lawsuit behind them, the...
Now that Tinder has put their sexual harassment lawsuit behind them , the company is raising a fresh round of financing. According to TechCrunch, the new investment will make the dating app "worth"...
View ArticleFour Reasons Not To Give Up Hope If Apple Buys Path
Last night, Pando reported that Apple is about to acquire Path, according to a single source in Apple's engineering team. We heard second-hand that Path is at least in talks with Apple. The idea that...
View ArticleMacworld Staff Mostly Canned After Biggest Apple News Day of the Year
Yesterday, the staff of Macworld—a venerable industry publication about Apple gadgets and computers—covered the company's frenzied product launches for several hours straight. Today, most of them were...
View ArticleForeign Tourists Stunned By Luxurious Startup Offices
Techies from across the world flocked to San Francisco this week to take part in TechCrunch Disrupt, hoping to make an impression on tech's top brand journalists and maybe land some venture bucks. But...
View ArticleLawsuit: Uber Refuses Blind Customers, Shoved Service Dog in Car Trunk
Uber has a long-standing obsession with skirting regulations . Now the on-demand car service is accused of breaking anti-discrimination laws meant to protect the disabled.Read more...
View ArticleHow to Apologize Like a Silicon Valley Dirtbag
Seth Bannon, the 28-year-old creator of an app for non-profits called Amicus, lied about going to Harvard, didn't pay taxes, lost millions of dollars of his investors' money, and alienated his...
View ArticleStartup Selling A Butler for $99/Month Wins TechCrunch Disrupt
When your biannual business event has been satirized by Mike Judge, you need to level up, which is a casual phrase humans say to other humans. And, oh, what a level this year's TechCrunch Disrupt...
View ArticleMy Day on the Emoji-Only Social Network, Translated (I Think)
Words are dead. Grammar, syntax, nuance—all pointless when adorable cartoon sea animals can do the dirty work for us. At least, that's the world Emojli, an emoji-only social network, would like to...
View ArticleSoho House Is Having a Hackathon
Soho House New York, the members-only club that once tried to banish investment bankers , has been much more welcoming to the new crop of capitalists. Techies should feel even more comfortable in lap...
View ArticleThe New Global Navigation
We're very excited to introduce the new global navigation for Kinja. Read more...
View ArticleThe NSA Was Going to Fine Yahoo $250K a Day If It Didn't Join PRISM
When we first learned about NSA metadata collection, we wondered how readily the biggest tech companies acquiesced to the government. Today we start to find out. This is the story of how Yahoo was...
View ArticleStartups With Millions Demand "Tryouts" Before Hiring You
Startups have found a hot not new human resources trend to fit their fast-growth lifestyle: making job candidates work on contract for a week to months before they decide to hire them. But startups...
View ArticlePolice Accused of Killing Engineer Who Exposed Wage-Fixing Scandal
Brandon Marshall was an accomplished quality assurance engineer who helped exposed the illegal anti-poaching practices of some of Silicon Valley's biggest firms. But he also suffered from mental...
View ArticleWhy Won't Our Uber Drivers Just Shut the Fuck Up?
Mark Pincus , who not too long ago was deposed from his perch as CEO of Zynga , has a bone to pick with the people driving him around: Why aren't they silent?Read more...
View ArticleUnfortunately for Silicon Valley's slobbering pursuit of autonomy, California...
Unfortunately for Silicon Valley's slobbering pursuit of autonomy, California will remain one state. Venture capitalist Tim Draper's plan to break the state into six parts failed to make the 2016...
View ArticleWhy Does Andreessen Horowitz Have an Official Rapper?
Divine, an underground rapper from Brooklyn, has taken his friendship with venture capitalist Ben Horowitz, who invested in Rap Genius, to the next level. First Divine made a music video for...
View ArticleMicrosoft Buys Minecraft Maker Mojang for $2.5 Billion
Microsoft just announced in a press release that it has acquired Mojang, creators of Minecraft, in a $2.5 billion deal. Furthermore, all three of Mojang's original founders, including Markus "Notch"...
View ArticleSnapchat Investor Says High-Profile Failures Are Just Around the Corner
Bill Gurley, the Benchmark Capital investor who backed Snapchat and Uber, is uber-bullish when it comes to his own portfolio. But the rest of Silicon Valley, he says, is not nearly frightened enough:...
View ArticleApple Tells Customers How To Delete the Stupid U2 Album Nobody Wanted
Last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook pranked the entire iPhone-toting world with a gratis copy of U2's new album—"Songs Of Innocence"—beamed directly to everyone's phone, without asking. Today, it's letting...
View ArticleBehold: Startup Shirts and the Men Who Wear Them
In the Bay Area, fashion is just another opportunity to pitch your app. Startups hand out logo and slogan-covered shirts to all employees, creating bands of boy billboards that roam around San...
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