Uber Fired a Driver Over a "Hateful" Tweet About the Company
Earlier this afternoon, Uber driver Christopher J. Ortiz posted the email above informing him that he would be "permanently deactivated" because of a single tweet. "I think that's pretty much...
View ArticleiOS Expert: Don't Use Whisper If You Want to Remain Anonymous
When apps are accused of shady behavior, Jonathan Zdziarski is the guy that investigates . And this week, the self-identified iOS forensics expert was quick to respond to requests for a deep dive into...
View ArticleBay Area rents keep climbing thanks to the tech boom.
Bay Area rents keep climbing thanks to the tech boom. According to the Contra Costa Times, rental costs across the region have hit a new record: "Bay Area apartment rents have jumped 11.4 percent from...
View ArticleTeenage Party Planner CEO Now Promising One Hour Delivery of Liquor
Here's an idea: if you are a tech CEO who was once hit with over 160 misdemeanor charges for planning booze-filled parties for high schoolers , maybe your startup shouldn't offer to ship devil water...
View ArticleNew York Hipster Can't Find Anyone To Buy Her Unwanted Soylent
Adrianne Jeffries had a simple dream: to "hack lunch" by ordering a week's supply of Soylent, the food of the future for people who have better things to do than eat. It took five months for her order...
View ArticleModCloth Just Laid Off Another 50 Employees, With More Layoffs To Come
ModCloth, the fashion retailer with $63.7 million in funding from some of Silicon Valley's biggest investors, has announced another round of layoffs. According to TechCrunch, "around 40 or 50" jobs...
View ArticleSnapchat CEO Says Its New Ads Are Swell, Other Ads Are "Totally Rude"
Today Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel joins the grand tradition of tech CEOs who trashed talked ads in ways they later came to regret. In a blog post announcing new ads for American users, the company said...
View ArticleMarc Andreessen Still Believes in the Meritocracy
The oversized brain of Silicon Valley star Marc Andreessen can hold a lot of insight, but every once in a while, it still overflows: a new interview reveals he still clings to the fantasy of...
View ArticleMicrosoft CEO Apology Less Convincing When He Stands to Make $18 M/Year
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is better prepared for his apology tour than he was for his panel at the Grace Hopper conference for women in computing. He gave CNBC and USA Today the same line explaining...
View ArticleYahoo Still Thinks It Can Acquire Success
Faced with sagging ad sales, Yahoo has decided to keep trying to same failing strategy: gobbling up fledgling startups to reinvigorate the aging behemoth. An activist investor already slammed this...
View ArticleTinder Wants Users to Pay Up Before It Shows You Better Matches
During the Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit—a gathering of "the world's brightest young game changers" and the middle-aged men who are obsessed with them—Tinder CEO Sean Rad announced that his dating app...
View ArticleFormer Facebook VP Struggles to Adjust to Rough Life in San Francisco
For many, strolling around San Francisco is a pleasure. But for the optimization-obsessed elites of Silicon Valley, traveling through a world-class city is just laboring tax on their time. Now one...
View ArticleCourt Documents Say WhatsApp CEO Methodically Harassed College Ex
Years before Jan Koum sold WhatsApp to Facebook for $22 billion, a California court granted his ex-girlfriend a restraining order against the future tech CEO. After court documents surfaced today,...
View ArticleUber Driver Allegedly Threw Rider On the Street and Smashed Her iPhone
Authorities have charged a San Francisco UberX driver with battery, malicious mischief, and vandalism after "forcibly" pulling a female passenger out of the car and throwing her iPhone down the...
View ArticleSteve Ballmer defends Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: "Actually he allowed good...
Steve Ballmer defends Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: "Actually he allowed good karma to happen and good things happened to him and he was very fortunate , and that's his genuine belief in life." Yo...
View ArticleHoarder House In Palo Alto Is On the Market for $1.8 Million
If a rising tide lifts all boats, then Google rising up as corporate landowner of Santa Clara County has lifted all housing prices. A tipster directed us to this cracked-on-the-outside,...
View ArticleAirbnb Accused of Illegally Lobbying For Favorable Legislation
Airbnb is proving itself to the quite the political operator . In an ethics complaint filed today in San Francisco, Airbnb has been accused using off-the-books lobbyists to help push legislation that...
View ArticleHandy's Nightmare Tryout Process Is a Startup Stereotype
Before Handy, a house cleaning and odd jobs startup, became the darling of the New York startup scene and raised $30 million dollars, the company was called "Handybook." And according to a person who...
View ArticleGoogle Invests $542 M in Bizarre Florida Man Promising Virtual Reality
Recode tried to warn you over and over that Silicon Valley found love in a hopeless place (Florida). Now it's official. Google announced that it led a $542 million round in Magic Leap, an augmented...
View ArticleFab.com is still fucked.
Fab.com is still fucked. The startup's co-founder Jason Goldberg told TechCrunch that Fab, which once raised $150 million and commanded a $1 billion valuation, was burning $14 million a month before...
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