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Uber Calls Woman's 20-Mile Nightmare Abduction an "Inefficient Route"
Several days ago, a Los Angeles Uber customer decided to leave a party for home early via UberX, the company's affordable taxi replacement. Instead of taking her home, the driver took her on a...
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Facebook and Apple Offer Egg-Freezing Perk So Women Never Stop Working
Tech corporations have perfected the science of the employee perk: a lavish amenity designed to keep workers in the office and fixated on the job. The recent announcement that Facebook and Apple will...
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Uber and Lyft Price War Drives Major Competitor Out of North America
The fierce price war between Uber and Lyft hasn't just been squeezing the pockets of drivers . Hailo, an European on-demand car app backed by millions in American venture capital, says frequent price...
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Doctors Say Google Glass Caused Worse Withdrawal Symptoms Than Alcohol
Google Glass has a habit of changing people. Not only does it turn wearers into hysterical assholes , American doctors say Glass caused one man to become an addict.Read more...
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Eric Schmidt Tries Three Different Spins to Prove Google's No Monopoly
European regulators are once again scrutinizing Google as complaints mount that the search giant is diverting traffic away from competitors in favor of their own services. But Eric Schmidt insists the...
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Bono Is Sorry U2 Infected Your Phone With Their New Album
Sunglasses model Bono has admitted that, yes, dropping U2's new album Songs of Innocence on everyone's iPhones without their permission was probably not a very good idea. He's sorry about it....
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Airbnb Investors Finance Smear Campaign as Reward for Favorable Law
When San Francisco began considering legalizing Airbnb, the flourishing startup was quick to ingrain itself in the political process. Airbnb's lobbyists secretly helped author favorable legislation,...
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Bow Down to Pinterest CEO: Lord of Ads, Future Ruler of All E-commerce
Cannes Lions—the Science and Technical Oscars of the French Riviera—can be an embarrassing trip for American tech executives trying to woo advertisers . Not so with Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann, who...
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Venmo Racial Profiling: Account Frozen for Typing the Word "Ahmed"
The PayPal-owned app Venmo has very quickly become easiest way to pay back your friends if you don't have cash. It's lightweight, simple, frictionless, and it always works. Unless you have any Middle...
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Apple Paid $1 Million for a Lame Mystery Box to Impress the Press
Apple built considerable anticipation for their September media event . They erected a mysterious white building at site where Steve Jobs unveiled the first Macintosh computer in 1984, leading fanboys...
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Mr. Buzzwords Goes To Washington
Silicon Valley regulars like Google, Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg, Vinod Khosla, Eric Schmidt, Peter Thiel, and a gaggle of venture capital firms have tried to growth hack Ro Khanna into Congress. With...
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UberPLUS: Like UberX But For L.A. Cliches
Uber launched a new car service in Los Angeles today. It's basically the old one that everybody uses. But it's more expensive and perfect for people who reinforce stereotypes about vapid Angelenos...
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This Is How Whisper Is Tracking Its "Anonymous" Users
Whisper became a darling of the L.A. startup scene based on one simple premise: an app that lets you safely, anonymously share details of your life. But a new report from The Guardian shows the...
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CEO Pled Guilty to Wire Fraud for Spending Startup Funding on Parties
Former Motionloft CEO Jonathan Mills has pled guilty to two counts of wire fraud. The San Francisco entrepreneur, who raised funding from Mark Cuban, was arrested by the FBI in February. He admitted...
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South Park Takes Down Tech's Absurd Transportation War
It took them long enough! South Park finally took on Silicon Valley's ongoing transportation rivalry last night.Read more...
View ArticleBuzzfeed "Temporarily" Breaks Whisper Deal Over Fears of User Tracking
Earlier today The Guardian reported that the secret-sharing app Whisper tracks the location of their anonymous users. The information came to light because the paper was in talks to partner with...
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One Man's Superfund Site Is Another's Techie "Innovation Center"
With all the tech money being flung around the Bay Area, everyone is grabbing for a piece—especially real estate developers. In San Francisco's south-east corner, a Miami-based development company is...
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Attorney General: 72 Percent of Airbnb Rentals in NYC Are Illegal
While San Francisco is rolling over for Airbnb, New York's attorney general is going after the so-called "home sharing" startup. After subpoenaing records from thousands of Airbnb's New York users,...
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Top LivingSocial Exec Pled Guilty to Assaulting Female Bar Patron
The corporate clown car that is LivingSocial faced another meltdown yesterday. According to the Washington Post, the daily deal site's Chief Marketing Officer was convicted of assaulting a woman in a...
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More Than 40 Percent of Top Techies Think We're in a Bubble
The Atlantic has embarked on a new quest, dubbed the Silicon Valley Insiders Poll, in which they survey 50 of tech's foremost "executives, innovators, and thinkers." Their findings proved something we...
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