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Uber Investor Ashton Kutcher Defends Slandering Critical Journalists
Ashton Kutcher is a walking conflict of interest . He invests his acting fortune into startups like Uber and then promotes those companies without disclosing his financial ties. Now that Uber's...
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Startups Promising the Future Have Resorted to Embarrassing Direct Mail
Silicon Valley thinks the U.S. Postal Service is a joke. Tech investor Tim Draper called it a classic example of a "fat and lazy" industry. They tried, but failed to put it out of business. "Paper "...
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Will Facebook Really Let Its Bus Drivers Unionize?
Facebook's fleet of shuttle bus drivers will vote today on whether to join the Teamsters labor union. The drivers have protested their work conditions, saying their employer requires them to work 15.5...
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Male Startup Founders Think Your Vagina Should Smell Like a Ripe Peach
When the PayPal cofounder came for your period, I did not speak out enough. So I blame myself, really, for this waste of science. According to Inc. magazine, two male bio-hackers just "previewed plans...
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Billboards of Semi-Nude Brogrammers Are Lining Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is so flush with cash, tech companies are assaulting motorists' eyes with billboards of emaciated engineers for the fuck of it. Bloomberg reports that highway billboards have returned...
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What to do about Uber
Let me get one thing clear: I am fascinated by Uber, as a business, as a service, as a model for the modern economy, and even as a force for racial justice (more on that some other time). But it's...
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Fab May Sell for a Pittance While Ex-Founder Abandons Fab-Like Startup
For years, venture capitalists exuberantly assumed Fab, the online furniture store, could be worth $1 billion, despite mounting evidence that it was difficult to make money off of flash sales. Now...
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Airbnb Thinks It Should Win the Nobel Peace Prize
Airbnb, a company that operates as a vacation home middleman, thinks it's under appreciated. In fact, their "hospitality guru" believes the company should win the Nobel Peace Prize.Read more...
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List of Salaries For Interns Who Can Code Will Burn Your Eyeballs
Earlier today Tiffany Zhong tweeted out a list of "top" offers for undergraduate internships at tech companies. Her use of a single paltry money bag emoji in the caption barely cover$$$$$$$ it. The...
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Airbnb Had Housing Activists Pushed Into a "Free Speech Zone"
This weekend Airbnb held its first-ever conference for hosts in San Francisco. Inside, executives restated the company's goal to win a Nobel Peace Prize . Outside, local cops allegedly shoved housing...
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Your Dating App Is Probably Not Going to Fix Dating for Women
Here's some hot tech news about a hot new app with a hot new idea: Bumble is a forthcoming app that appears to be yet another product devoted to creating "a safe and respectful community" for single...
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Tech Companies Stoke Fears of a Talent Shortage to Get Cheaper Labor
How is Silicon Valley supposed to stay exceptional when its belief system keeps getting debunked? First empirical evidence proved there's no such thing as a meritocracy . Then they had to add a...
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Clinkle Is Bribing College Students With a Vending Machine Full of Cash
Clinkle, a well-funded startup run by Lucas Duplan, the Prince Joffrey of mobile payments , recently revealed its $30 million idea. After rounds of layoffs and many setbacks, young Duplan has bestowed...
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Blue Bottle, Which Raised $45 M, Cut Health Benefits for Part-Timers
Blue Bottle, the artisanal coffee retailer popular with hipsters from coast to coast, just informed employees that part-time workers will not receive health benefits, effective January 2015. A tipster...
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These Letters Reveal Which Congressmen Google Has In Its Pocket
Yesterday twelve U.S. Congressmen signed, sealed, and delivered a letter (embedded below) to members of the European Parliament lobbying their counterparts to leave Google alone. According to the...
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Zillow Accused of Subjecting Female Employees to "Sexual Torture"
Zillow has built up a $4.5 billion valuation by amassing an immense real estate database. But a lawsuit filed in a California court accuses the company of cultivating an "adult frat house" culture in...
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Suit: Zillow Says Women Over 40 Are "Too Old to Close," "Can't Keep Up"
A second lawsuit filed in a California court this week accuses Zillow of being an "frat house" which promotes sexual and ageist harassment. This time, a single mother is suing after being fired by...
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Confirmed: Snapchat Turned Down More Than $3 Billion Last Year
One of last year's great moments in undeserved ego was Snapchat rejecting billions of dollars from Facebook, and allegedly Google, too. Now, straight out of leaked Sony emails obtained by Gawker, we...
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Predictions For 2015: There Will Be Blood
The photo above was published in April, 2013, when Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins announced the Glass Collective, which was going to invest in companies to develop apps for...
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Elon Musk Just Can't Stay Married
Obnoxious but waggishly charming tech mogul Elon Musk is 43 years old and getting divorced for the third time. There's a twist this time because the woman he's divorcing is the one he divorced last...
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