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Apple's Irish Tax Stash Is Actually Hidden in New York City
Tim Cook's grand scheme to avoid American corporate tax rates was just revealed as a little more absurd, with a new report by the New York Times. The (Californian) company is using (Irish) dummy...
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Digg Teases Haters with Passive-Aggressive Cocktail
A staple of the Gilded Age 2.0 startup party, beyond custom stickers and a GIF photo booth, is the novelty cocktail. At last night's "Shin Digg" (get it?) in New York, the chic aggregator was serving...
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Amazon Is Planning a Massive Biodome HQ So No One Ever Has to Leave
If you work for Amazon, you might soon have the option to feel like you're working outside every day. Proposed earlier this week at Seattle City Hall's Design Review Board, this trio of interconnected...
View ArticleTumblr Has No Idea How to Handle Porn
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is plowing through a media tour with her newly adopted internet son David Karp. On everyone's mind is how Tumblr will reconcile its vast collection of rape porn GIFs with...
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Tech Bro Threatens to Call the Cops on Unpaid Former Employees
The kind of CEO who posts dick pics of clients and orders his cofounder (and girlfriend, at the time) to “kiss the ring and listen to my billion dollar guidance,” does not go gently into that startup...
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Twitter Finally Has Two-Factor Authentication: Here's How to Get It
It's about damn time. After an endless, occasionally entertaining—but mostly disconcerting—string of high-profile hacks, Twitter has finally introduced two-factor authentication to verify that yes, it...
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Here's the Document that Started Apple's Hidden Irish Tax Scheme
The mega-valuable company that makes your laptop is under congressional scrutiny this week for offshore tax-dodging. It all started in 1980, when Apple's California execs moved their operation to...
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The Start-Up Ride Stops Here
Come in, close the floating glass door behind you and take a seat on the purple mitt chair. Laugh and high-five me as I tell you this: After a period of exponential growth from a single formica table...
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Yahoo Resumes Buying Things that Make Zero Sense
The Tumblr afterglow is starting to fade, and Yahoo is back to dumping money into oddball startups without any explanation. Why? Don't ask why. TechCrunch reports the newest impulse buy is PlayerScale,...
View ArticleWho is "Satoshi Nakamoto," the mysterious creator of Bitcoin?
Who is "Satoshi Nakamoto," the mysterious creator of Bitcoin? Maybe one of these people.
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Sean Parker's Decadent Wizard Wedding Escapes Government Crackdown
Polish your Dothraki blade and down some... Game of Thrones wine (?), because it looks like the lavish Parker/Lenas fantasy wedding has hurdled California's pesky permits. A mere construction code...
View ArticleAmazon Votes No on Political Transparency
That place that sells e-books and deodorant bulk packs just held its annual shareholder meeting. There was only one proposal. It did not pass: That didn't lead to the issues disappearing altogether,...
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Meet the 28-Year-Old CEO of Bang With Friends
The last time I met up with “C”, the CEO of Bang with Friends, it was for a boozy night of bar-hopping that ended up on a Brooklyn rooftop. He refused to tell me his last name. That changed last week...
View ArticleOh No: Another Techie Reality Show
Bravo's attempt at making programmers interesting wasn't skull-fuck boring enough, so a new contender has risen: "Alley Girls." The conceit of Alley Girls is a fine one: let's show that women can do...
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Yes, Silicon Valley, You Are as Exactly as Vain as They Say
George Packer's thesis in this week's New Yorker is simple and sober: "After decades in which the country has become less and less equal, Silicon Valley is one of the most unequal places in America."...
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Facebook Eyeing Shiny New Downtown Manhattan Office?
Crain's says Facebook is tired of its lackluster digs in the Bank of America Tower, nuzzled between finance offices filled with its corporate antitheses. So how about a very expensive relocation to one...
View ArticleIf Tumblr Were a Person, They'd Be This Annoying
Cloying, GIF-happy, nostalgic, attention span devoid—this woman-as-website impression could only be better if she, well, did some really horrible things! But it's otherwise perfect. Really, Yahoo...
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Bonobos CEO: You VCs Are All Idiots
You probably recognize Bonobos, wildly successful purveyor of pants and other stuff (I think?), as that company that's always on your goddamn Facebook news feed, no matter how many times you click...
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Snapchat Leaked: This Is Your Online Nightmare [UPDATE]
We do a lot of joking about how Snapchat is just for dickpics, and this new site (NSFW, of course) proves us wrong: Snapchat, a company with millions in venture funding, is used for all sorts of...
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Here's How Facebook Will Invade Your TV with Product Placement
Facebook's TV ads are still young, experimental, and a bit strange. But not for long: the site is launching an old-school product-placement campaign to buy its way onto your favorite television show....
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