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The Guest Curator On Product Hunt Today Is Nas
Nas, the rapper and general partner at Queensbridge Ventures is today's guest DJ on Product Hunt , a discovery tool for apps and other technology. Ten startups are listed under "Products Nas finds...
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Google Shamed Into Paying Their Security Guards a Living Wage
For years, companies like Google and Apple have outsourced their security operations, ensuring their campus guards take home low wages while programmers earn top dollar. But following worker protests...
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Think of the Children! New Yorkers Fight Against "Internet People" Bar
The Upper West Side will not suffer the scourge of "Internet people." At a community board meeting, locals wanted to deny a nearby wine bar its right to serve alcohol outdoors because it's become a...
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Uber Allegedly Used "God View" To Stalk VIP Users as a Party Trick
Earlier this week, we told you about an Uber launch party where the company showed off its ability to stalk customers as entertainment , according to Julia Allison. Forbes has more details, including...
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Judge Orders Microsoft to Pay $2 M. for Bullying and Discrimination
A Texas judge has issued a final ruling against Microsoft, ordering the once-dominant software company to pay a leading former salesman $2 million in damages in a defamation, sexual harassment, and...
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Source: Yahoo Is Investing $20 Million In Snapchat
Earlier today, the Wall Street Journal broke the news that Yahoo, the corporate equivalent of Remember the 90's is "close" to investing in Snapchat, the fratty harbinger of our ephemeral future, at a...
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Soylent Upgrades Its Formula to Make Techies Fart Less
Soylent , the venture-backed startup snack that aims to replace food with oils and powders, has upgraded their nu-food. Optimization-obsessed techies will get a lot with the update: new packaging,...
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Every Inspirational Quote on the Salesforce Tower Construction Site
Salesforce Tower, currently under construction, has set records in terms of height (it will be the tallest building in San Francisco and tallest office building west of Chicago) as well as commercial...
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Kickstarter Dude: I Spent All Your Money, Please Give Me More
If you can admire nothing else about Venkat Yuvaraj, a Kickstarter entrepreneur who raised over $100,000 to make dry erase notebooks, you can admire his bravery. He is daring enough to run out of all...
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Shuttle Bus Drivers Rebel Against Facebook and Try to Unionize
The workers who drive Facebook's luxury shuttles have exposed the harsh realities of their jobs over the past few months. Now they're turning their complaints into action, pushing Facebook to help...
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Walter Isaacson Talks AI, Apple Watch, and His New Book The Innovators
The stories we tell ourselves about genius and geniuses are often stories about history's great men. But Walter Isaacson's latest project is different. Read more...
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Startups Did Not Get Last Month's Memo To Stop Burning All Their Money
After checking up on their brood last month, some of the tech industry's most prominent investors scolded startups about burning through their venture capital allowance. But dad's new rule about...
View ArticleWeb 2.0's most influential consultants just sold to Capital One, so Mat Honan...
Web 2.0's most influential consultants just sold to Capital One, so Mat Honan wrote a eulogy for the entire era: "Web 2.0 was a hothouse of self-promotion—and knives-out backstabbing."Read more...
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Twitter Engineer Dana McCallum Pled Guilty to Two Misdemeanors
At a hearing in San Francisco Superior Court this morning, Dana McCallum, a Twitter engineer and prominent women's rights and LGBT activist, accepted a guilty plea for two misdemeanors related to the...
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Inside the Booming Business of Kickstarter Coaches
Here's a staggering statistic: Kickstarter backers pledge roughly $1.5 million every day. Crowdfunding is a big business, despite its image as a folksy, grassroots-style approach to money. It's so...
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Is This Dude In a Banana Outfit the Most Fashionable Person In Tech?
When it comes to fashion, techies are perhaps best known for being layered in logos. But there are the occasional exceptions. And according to the New York Post—the city's premier publication for...
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The Booming Bay Area Gave Less to Charity Than Most Major Cities
The Bay Area, ground zero for apps that will change the world and the investors who finance them, is one of the least charitable places in America . The Chronicle of Philanthropy ranked the 50 largest...
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Facebook Will Launch an Anonymous App Days After Fighting Fake Names
Facebook just spent weeks banning users and battling back criticism against their misguided "real name" policy . So you wouldn't think that the company would be now embracing online anonymity....
View ArticleAirbnb just got its very own law!
Airbnb just got its very own law! San Francisco Board of Supervisors agreed to "legalize but rein in short-term residential rentals by passing the so-called 'Airbnb law.'" Hopefully that marks the end...
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Slack Is Letting Anyone Peek at Their Competitors
Few pieces of corporate software have earned so many fans so quickly as Slack, which is basically a sophisticated chat room for businesses. But as one blogger just realized, a vulnerability in the...
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