Marissa Mayer addressed her haters during Yahoo's earnings call.
Marissa Mayer addressed her haters during Yahoo's earnings call. Tumblr, she claimed, will generate $100 million in revenue in 2015. As for profitability, Mayer said Tumblr will reach "positive...
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Hollywood Wants to Turn a Single Quora Q+A Thread Into a TV Show
Quora, a question-and-answer startup that's basically Yahoo Answers with crumbs of intelligence sprinkled on top, may not live to see forever , but it could make it to Hollywood. According to Variety,...
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Sean Parker's Wedding Was So Horrible He Has to Make an Apology App
What feels like several dozen years ago, Silicon Valley's reformed party boy and his Middle Earth bride celebrated their love (and love of nature) by shitting up part of a protected redwood forest....
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Which "Tech Couple" Is Spending Millions on a San Francisco Bunker?
Mark Zuckerberg has already won the race to become San Francisco's most obnoxious techie homeowner . But a report says another Noe Valley manse owned by a "tech couple" could surpass Fort Zuckerberg...
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Judge Ruled Powerful VC Firm Can Keep Harassment Complaints Private
In 2012, Ellen Pao, a partner at the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, sued the venerated venture capital firm for sexual harassment and discrimination. It was a more cloistered time and the...
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People Can't Download Facebook's Retro Rooms App
Facebook's habit for blowing app launches has doomed another debut. Rooms, a pseudo-anonymous forum app that appears to be Reddit crossed with 90s-era forums, was supposed to make a big splash in the...
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Senator Rockefeller Demands Privacy Answers from Whisper
Whisper sold itself to the world as the safest place to spill your secrets online, and it turned out that wasn't really true. Now the privacy backlash has reached so far, even this 77-year-old dude...
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No Love for Lovelace: A Closer Read of Walter Isaacson's Innovators
I'm glad Walter Isaacson is getting such an outpouring of love from reviewers and talk-show hosts for including Ada Lovelace in The Innovators, his new history of the digital revolution.1 Thanks to...
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Ello Raises $5.5 Million to Stay Anti-Corporate
When a small group of disgruntled Facebook users decamped to Ello four weeks ago, a million more people followed looking for The Next Big Thing in Social Networking. But Ello's newcomers didn't find...
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Study Says Venture Capitalists Are Nervous For the First Time in Years
There's a cool new trend sweeping Sand Hill Road and it's called self-doubt. Just look at your Tweetdeck. Everybody who's anybody is suddenly spazzing out . According to the Silicon Valley Venture...
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FBI: Google Employee Scammed Undergrad Into Sending Him Nude Pics
Silicon Valley mega-corps like Google often target promising young men like Nicholas Rotundo, fresh from college. And sometimes those young men are terrorizing their classmates with a nude Gmail...
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Twitter Teaching the Homeless to Code In Exchange for Tax Break
The last time a startup programmer taught a homeless man to code , the naive vanity project failed. A few engineering lessons failed to solve socioeconomic realities and the man was still sleeping in...
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Hewlett-Packard Imitated HBO's Silicon Valley By Hiring Flo Rida to Rap
Last night, Hewlett-Packard hosted a launch event for its new Helion Development platform at Temple, a nightclub in San Francisco's Financial District. To celebrate cloud computing, the company...
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Old Rich Google Man Already Beat Felix Baumgartner’s Space Jump Record
Looks like Red Bull's wings aren't very good at keeping people ahead of the competition.Read more...
View ArticleAirbnb is set to be "worth" $13 billion.
Airbnb is set to be "worth" $13 billion. Having just received a $10 billion valuation in April , the new jump in value comes as the home-renting startup seeks to allow "some of its employees to cash in...
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Google Street View car spotted in Greenwich Village subtly blocking...
Google Street View car spotted in Greenwich Village subtly blocking everyone's view of a fire hydrant. Officers, just go ahead and add the ticket to Google's $7 million tab.Read more...
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Tech Founder Sends Female Reporter Gift Basket Loaded With Sexism
Tech's armada of PR professionals can be their own worst enemy. But their protective shield occasionally hides the chauvinism of tech founders. Otherwise you get dudes like Blake Francis, founder of...
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Startup Founder Hacks Investor’s Voicemail In Attempt to Get Funding
It's hard to cast a better clusterfuck—or a worse caricature of Silicon Valley hustle—than what happened to tech investor Jason Calacanis. "Someone hacked my voicemail and changed my outgoing message...
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Tech Corporations Don't Even Know What Their D.C. Lobbyists Are Up To
In recent months, companies like Facebook, Google, and Yahoo have dialed back their most egregious political donations, pulling support from climate change-denying groups like ALEC and the Chamber of...
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With the election fast approaching, Airbnb investor Reid Hoffman is...
With the election fast approaching, Airbnb investor Reid Hoffman is continuing his disingenuous campaign against David Campos as a favor to a pro-Airbnb politician .Read more...
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