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Techies Invest In Fund to "Unshackle" Immigrant Startup Founders
The United States' (disgraceful) immigration process has long been the bane of the tech industry. But a new venture capital fund thinks it's hacked the immigration process, allowing them to bring...
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Startup Exploits Evictions to Create Party Pad for Tech Workers
Single-room-occupancy hotels are some of the last scraps of low-income housing left in San Francisco. But for the city's high-tech strata, they're just another piece of property to flip for profit....
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Reddit Installs Interim Female CEO and Says The Job Is Hers to Lose
When Reddit CEO Yishan Wong announced that the crowd-sourced news site had raised $50 million, he called his financiers "patient, long-term investors who support our views on difficult issues." But...
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Twitter Rated "Junk" by Credit Rating Agency
Twitter just can't get it together. Their corporate vision is blurred, executives are fleeing , and when the company spent an entire day trying to impress Wall Street investors, they botched it by...
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You Can Now Order a Knockoff Soylent Called "Schmoylent"
Addicts will go to great lengths to get their fix. And shipping delays for the meal replacement Soylent have created a market of famished nu food fiends. One San Francisco startup has decided to fill...
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Goldman Sachs Sucks at Recruiting Engineers Until They See the Salary
The recruiting funnel from the Ivy League to Goldman Sachs has been short on engineers ever since Silicon Valley decided to exploit Wall Street's moral failings to fill their tech campuses. But...
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Google Faces Class Action Suit For Exploiting Contract Workers
Google has become the latest tech company hit with a lawsuit for exploiting contract workers. Reuters reports that a class action suit has been filed against Google, alleging the company misclassified...
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Uber Gets Closer to Driverless Cars by Letting Riders Control the Music
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick believes in magic. With the "magic" of driverless cars, he recently said on stage, the cost of his car service will become cheaper because riders don't have to pay for "the...
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The Great Google Glass Experiment Is Fucked
Just over two years ago, Google's Sergey Brin was on the catwalk at New York Fashion Week, taking a bow following fashion icon Diane von Furstenberg's Google Glass-studded show. Back then, Google...
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I Can't Wait to Work for Candy Crush Magazine
Airbnb, the popular hotel-tax dodging application and apartment-renting service that artists use to gouge tourists and finance their careers, has launched a print magazine, the Times reports. It is...
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Snapchat Dances on Money to Unveil New Payment Feature
Snapchat, an unprofitable company "worth" $10 billion , just unveiled a new feature called "Snapcash." It allows teen users send each other money, just like Venmo already does. Snapchat celebrated the...
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Keep Daly City Uncool
This is a guest post by author Bob Calhoun. Last week, Yishan Wong resigned as Reddit CEO because he wanted to move the company's office from the hip SOMA district in San Francisco to Daly City, a...
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New Dating App Is the Latest to Try to Weed Out the Shitbags
Consider it Lulu combined with Tinder: The Grade is the latest in a steady stream of dating apps to launch that solemnly swears that dating will be different for women if they just come along and try...
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Rap Genius Co-Founder Finally Pushes Venture Capitalist Over the Edge
Rap Genius co-founder Mahbod Moghadam is a testament to just how far you can push a venture capitalist. The Yale graduate is one of tech's foremost delusional fools—repeatedly embarrassing himself ,...
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Uber Exec Proposes Smearing Female Reporters Who Criticized the App
Uber's competitors, regulators, and drivers can take a breath. The company, which believes it is worth $25 billion, has a new nemesis: reporters who don't follow the puff piece protocol. A top Uber...
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Talent Agents for Programmers Can't Wait to Take Their 15 Percent
If coders are the new rock stars, then it makes sense the music industry's hanger-ons want to play Scooter Braun to Silicon Valley's top engineers. That's exactly the case with 10x Management, a...
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Uber CEO Posts 13-Tweet Apology Without Answering a Single Question
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick just responded to privacy and ethics concerns about Emil Michael, after the top executive publicly suggested paying $1 million to smear journalists who have criticized the...
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Parents Forced Frat Boys to Screw a Partner Out of a Popular Startup
Yik Yak may not be a household name like Snapchat, but it's almost as popular. The anonymous college bulletin board app was founded by three frat brothers at Furman University last fall and has...
View ArticleIf you had a wager on which tech reporter would quit journalism to get paid...
If you had a wager on which tech reporter would quit journalism to get paid by the company he once covered, I hope you bet on a long shot. The staff of TechCrunch is is intact . But Snapchat believer...
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Uber Wants to Be In Charge of Your Student Loan Debt
Uber is already pushing subprime car loans onto their drivers. Now the ethically-challenged on-demand car service wants to manage their drivers' student loan debt too.Read more...
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