Video Claims to Capture iPhone 6 Handoffs in Chinese Mafia
Congratulations on buying your new iPhone—now give it to someone else. According to the video above, alleged members of the Chinese mafia are reaping the benefits of other people waiting in line to...
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Mark Zuckerberg Is Quickly Becoming the Worst Neighbor in San Francisco
In late 2012, Mark Zuckerberg dished out $10 million on a San Francisco vacation home one block away from Dolores Park. He has been driving his new neighbors insane with non-stop construction ever...
View ArticleUPDATE 6:30pm: Apple has denied TechCrunch's claims that Beats Music is being...
UPDATE 6:30pm: Apple has denied TechCrunch's claims that Beats Music is being shut down, saying the report "is not true." Re/code further refuted TechCrunch's story, writing: "Apple won't shutter the...
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It Just Got Easier to Sue Failed Kickstarter Campaigns for a Refund
Kickstarter has decided to update its famously laissez-faire attitude when it comes to protecting donors who have pledged more than $1 billion through the company over the years. The new terms state...
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Lyft Guts Luxury Service, Sticking Drivers With $34,000 Custom SUVs
In May, Lyft launched a program to compete with Uber's black car and SUV services. Drivers had to pony up $34,000 to purchase the "tricked-out" Lyft-branded Ford Explorers just to get into the pool....
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Predatory Parking App Booted From San Francisco Tries Los Angeles Next
MonkeyParking is the rare kind of app that forced San Francisco's tech-teeming citizenry to throw up their hands and say "enough ." The illegal app was chased out of town by the City Attorney after...
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Larry Ellison Learns Hawaiian Island Makes Uncool Engineering Project
After Oracle founder Larry Ellison plunked $300 million to buy his own island, he described his plan to transform Lanai into a "sustainable Eden" as "this really cool 21st-century engineering...
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Problems Solved by Startups, Ranked
In 2012, Y Combinator founder Paul Graham offered the following words of wisdom on creating companies: "The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems,...
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Remember the Time Snapchat's New PR Chief Played Dirty NJ Politics?
The next time Snapchat's fratty young master puts his loafers in his maw, his newest hire will be there to assist: Jill Hazelbaker is the app's new communications director, and she has a penchant for...
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Ex-Cisco Engineer Caught On Google Maps Pled Guilty to Wife's Murder
Bradley Graham Cooper, a former engineer for Cisco, pled guilty to second-degree murder in the death of his wife yesterday. Part of the evidence against Cooper was a Google map search to the location...
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The Selfie.com Mystery Is Over, and It's Very Stupid
Almost exactly a year ago, TechCrunch started building anticipation over Selfie.com, a website that teased some upcoming startup, but revealed nothing. Today the mystery ends, and boy is it dumb: an...
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Bitcoin Mining Company Screwed Customers and Bought Guns Instead
As a small business owner, a very easy way to lose the trust of others is to not give them the things you promised when they handed you money. Another way is to take that money and waste it on...
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Eduardo Saverin Invests in Startup That Only Rents Silver Audis
Eduardo Saverin made his billions as one of the co-founders of Facebook. But for a man who help pioneer the modern era of social networking, Saverin sure does hate talking to other people. According...
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Airbnb Cofounder's Previous Startup Idea Was Butt Pads
What drives startup founders to barrel through the free market with such Randian ruthlessness? Money, duh. But there's another possibility. Perhaps the will to succeed is so consuming because they...
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Wow, Clinkle Didn't Die Before Launching
Today, after three years and enough gaffes to keep food on my plate, Clinkle released a single thing to the public. Like some long, long journey to the frontier, the people we are upon arrival don't...
View ArticleEveryone's mad that LookSmart founder Evan Thornley put up a slide at a...
Everyone's mad that LookSmart founder Evan Thornley put up a slide at a startup conference saying, "Women: Like Men, Only Cheaper." But that's out of context. His point was that "there's a great...
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Facebook and Google Disavow the Vile Climate Deniers They Helped Fund
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt appears to have infected Silicon Valley with a sudden bout of corporate consciousness this week, after telling The Diane Rehm Show that ALEC, the powerful...
View ArticleWait a second, is Elon Musk having the "best month in modern tech history"...
Wait a second, is Elon Musk having the "best month in modern tech history" EVER? Reddit thinks so. Read more...
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Silicon Valley Now Selling Trade School Diplomas Called "Nanodegrees"
Sebastian Thrun, founder of Google X and the former project lead of Google Glass, started Udacity in 2011 to bring "university-level education to the world." But the lofty mission of his unaccredited...
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Snapchat Models Suing CEO for "Misleading Two Young Sisters"
The new PR captain at Snapchat has her first headache: Elizabeth and Sarah Turner are suing the company (and its deeply unlikable CEO) for taking advantage of them through an unpaid modeling gig.Read...
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