Children's Books, San Francisco Style
In San Francisco, kids are taught about the exciting investment opportunities in technology startups at a young age. Take this book of San Francisco ABCs: the "I" entry features internet investments...
View ArticleVC Firm Settles Sickening Sexual Harassment Suit From Female Admins
CMEA Capital, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm, has settled a sexual harassment lawsuit filed in March, 2013 by three female executive administrative assistants. The complaint, which is...
View ArticleTech Titans Lobby Hard So Privacy Law Won't Hurt Precious Wearables
Apple may have only unveiled their long-awaited Watch a few weeks ago, but they're already pushing the government to make sure it isn't subjected to health privacy regulations. According to Politico,...
View ArticleBeach-Blocking Billionaire Must Reopen California Coast to Commoners
Forgetful venture capitalist Vinod Khosla has been blocking public access to Martin's Beach ever since he closed its only access road in 2010. But a California judge ruled Wednesday that Khosla acted...
View ArticleHow Big Data Is Failing Us
Big Data: The phrase conjures up images of nerdy techno-alchemists finessing valuable information about the universe with complicated and expensive computers. It is that, yes—but it's also a necessary...
View ArticleLyft Just Slashed Driver Pay Again, And Everyone's Pissed
Lyft just gutted their premium Lyft Plus service, leaving drivers with $34,000 luxury SUVs . Now the on-demand ride company is screwing their drivers again, slashing rates by ten percent in Los...
View ArticleEllo Is There Anybody Out There
Ello is a bright and clean new social network that promises, in its manifesto, to stay free of ads, never sell your data, and not make anyone use real names. People are paying attention to Ello...
View ArticleRichard Branson Is So Rich He Doesn't Realize How Stupid He Looks Here
Sir Richard Branson (net worth: $4.6 billion) just tweeted out this photo of himself and Lucas Duplan , whose hilariously disastrous app he invested in last year. The caption is "this is why I invest...
View ArticleApple's New Health Tracking App Forgets That Periods Exist
In recent months, Apple has given iTunes users a U2 album and health nuts a revamped HealthKit app that tracks just about everything about a person's health except menstruation. Apple loves Bono and...
View ArticleWhy Aren't Uber and Lyft Railing Against Legal Threats from SF and LA?
Yesterday, the district attorneys from San Francisco and Los Angeles sent letters to Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar threatening potential legal action, including an injunction to their service unless they...
View ArticleInvestor Wants Yahoo and AOL to Merge Into Single Corporate Catastrophe
What happens when you combine two dying '90s internet relics into one conglomerate of uselessness? According an activist investor at Starboard Value, a proposed merger of Yahoo and AOL could see...
View ArticleMarc Andreessen Sounds the Alarm on Marc Andreessen's Tech Bubble
For a third time , a prominent venture capitalist is warning us all that some sort of ominous economic shit is about to go down. And for the third time in a row, he isn't admitting that it's his...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg Pays Kids to Squat in Parking Spots Overnight
The extravagant renovation of Mark Zuckerberg's $10 million San Francisco "fixer-upper" has already aggravated neighbors with months of noise and parking concerns. But Zuckerberg's own actions are...
View ArticleGoogle Workshops Explain Sexism to "Skeptical" Employees
Google has been trying to build cars that drive without humans for longer than it's been trying to hire more women and minorities. But the company really knows its audience. Workshops at the center of...
View ArticleMen Taking Up Space in San Francisco
San Francisco is famous for its yuppie bread lines, especially outside of trendy lunch spots surrounding the startups of SoMa. And you can find conclusive evidence of the industry's maleness at Man...
View ArticleUber Driver Charged for Bashing a Passenger In the Head With a Hammer
An Uber driver has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon and battery with serious bodily injury for hitting a passenger in the head with a hammer in Bernal Heights, reports the San Francisco...
View ArticleThere Will Finally Be a "Yahoo For Men"
For decades now, the internet has been dominated by the interests of women. You can't load a tab or click a hyperlink without running into diagrams of vaginas, perfume ads, estrogen videos, and...
View ArticleEuropean Commission Accuses Apple of Profiting Off Illegal State Aid
The European Commission is set to formally accuse Apple of funneling billions into an illegal Irish tax shelter—possibility setting up the world's largest corporation for "a record fine of as much as...
View ArticleInside Amazon's Kafkaesque "Performance Improvement Plans"
Amazon CEO and brilliant prick Jeff Bezos seems to have lost his magic touch lately. Investors , employees , and authors are all lashing out against different elements of Bezos' business practices....
View ArticleAnti-Corporate Ello Bravely Enforces Trademark Violation Complaint
The key to sound like an informed, annoying Silicon Valley insider for Fall '14 is owning an invite-only Ello account. Talking point: it's like Facebook, but it puts people above companies. Except,...
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