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Soylent CEO Is Lifehacking Water By Pissing In the Sink
Rob Rhinehart thinks he's hacked food. As the inventor of Soylent, he's managed to replace the inefficient process of chewing food. But his lifestyle is still full of luxuries like water. Now the...
View ArticlePSA: On today's earnings call Twitter CEO Dick Costolo was saying "eccentric...
PSA: On today's earnings call Twitter CEO Dick Costolo was saying "eccentric circles" of users, not "concentric circles." Either way, Twitter's stock is down despite meeting expectations. If only Wall...
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I'm So Happy Kim Kardashian Just Gave a Talk at a Tech Conference
Kim Kardashian Illuminati West was on stage with Recode founder Kara Swisher this afternoon at the tech blog's Code/Mobile conference. I have no idea whether she arrived from Calabasas with a list of...
View ArticleGarrett Camp, cofounder of Uber and Blackjet, has launched a beta test for...
Garrett Camp, cofounder of Uber and Blackjet , has launched a beta test for Reserve, a "digital concierge" that works like a souped-up OpenTable. Solving the problem of getting a table at high-end...
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Tech Firms Employ Thousands of Immigrants as "Indentured Servants"
Tech's biggest players have been clamoring for the federal government to reform their immigration policies, demanding the expansion of the H-1B visa program. But tech's current crop of immigrant...
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Google Employee Thinks Paying Women to Date Him is Philanthropy
The Bay Area's tech boom might be benefitting the scores of white men that mainly make up the industry, leaving women and minorities behind . But techies have found a new way to redistribute their...
View ArticleBenchmark confirmed that it has invested in Tinder, a rumor we reported in...
Benchmark confirmed that it has invested in Tinder, a rumor we reported in August . No details were given about the deal, except that IAC continues to own "a controlling stake," deterring other venture...
View ArticleWall Street wasn't happy with Facebook's latest earnings report.
Wall Street wasn't happy with Facebook's latest earnings report. TechCrunch thinks it's because Facebook "refused to break out any data about usage levels of teens, which are widely thought to be...
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Freakout Levels Over "Burn Rate" Are At Historical Lows
When Benchmark Capital's Bill Gurley first expressed his concerns about "burn rate," the rate at which companies burn through his venture capital, startups started wondering whether they were setting...
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Reddit Unveils the Worst Kickstarter Clone We've Ever Seen
When Reddit quietly announced their new Redditmade project last night, we worried it'd be a quasi-Kickstarter knockoff where titillated teenagers crowdfund the release of hacked nudes. But Redditmade...
View ArticleUber just got caught trying to play the LA Weekly.
Uber just got caught trying to play the LA Weekly. Within a day of publishing an expose on the company, a "PR handler" representing a former taxi driver contacted the Weekly, looking to publish a piece...
View ArticleMicrosoft cut another 3,000 jobs today.
Microsoft cut another 3,000 jobs today. Meanwhile former CEO (and current Clippers owner ) Steve Ballmer is on stage at a Wall Street Journal conference singing lyrics that Fergie custom-recorded for...
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Whisper CEO Insists That The Guardian "Got the Facts Wrong"
Whisper CEO Michael Heyward has turned more forceful in dismissing allegations from The Guardian that his anonymous app was tracking users , including people who opted out of geolocation before...
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Can San Francisco's Puppet Mayor Survive Despite His Techie Friends?
For much of Ed Lee's first term as Mayor of San Francisco, he enjoyed both the popular support of the public and the financial backing of tech tycoons. Last March, a stunning 65 percent of local...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook: "I'm Proud to Be Gay"
Since he took control of Apple after the death of Steve Jobs, it feels like the only person who didn't say how Tim Cook is the most powerful gay executive in the world was Tim Cook. Today, he lets it...
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Here's What the Mission Riots Looked Like After the Giants' Victory
Multiple traffic lights were molested last night as crowds of fans flocked to San Francisco's Mission District following the Giants' World Series victory. As the riot grew in size and SFPD officers...
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Scratch "software is eating the world."
Scratch "software is eating the world." From the mouth of babes, Andreessen Horowitz partner Benedict Evans pulled a new pronouncement: "mobile is eating the world" while "technology" eats all our...
View Article"My Uber Is Down There!": San Francisco Hero Stands Up to Riot Cops
For many, the riots that broke out last night in San Francisco following the Giants' World Series victory were sheer terror. Bonfires raged in the street, buildings and buses were attacked, and at...
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Pinterest Engineer Describes Isolation of Being Black In Silicon Valley
USA Today interviewed Justin Edmund, an early employee at Pinterest. The 24-year-old engineer first caught Silicon Valley's attention with a candid personal essay about growing up black, where he said...
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Tech Billionaires Wanna Be the Only Billionaires Playing Politics
Silicon Valley's leaders usually do a good job finding things to agree on (regulations: bad; disruption: good; workplace diversity: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). But when it comes to campaign finance reform, the tech...
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