Mark Zuckerberg Is Now Advertising on Rush Limbaugh
The NASDAQ Prince is making it clear he'll do whatever it takes to push through his version of immigration reform: Zuck's FWD.us lobbying giant is now bankrolling ads on the Rush Limbaugh show. The...
View ArticleElon Musk Is Serious About This Sci-Fi "Hyperloop" Transportation
Lobbying dissenter Elon Musk's electric car company is still in its infancy, and the man is already looking to create a new form of transportation so eccentric it can't even really be described. First...
View ArticleDefoundered Foursquare exec Naveen Selvadurai is doing the medium is the...
Defoundered Foursquare exec Naveen Selvadurai is doing the medium is the message one better: the data is the human. He just released a personal API exposing his "sleep, weight, steps, fuel/activity and...
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Not Complicated: Randi Shares the Occult Gift of "Laughter Yoga"
This week, R-Zuck didn't actually write anything for her netiquette e-scripture, but farmed it out to some freelancers. The silver lining: we get to learn about a new spiritual practice from the far...
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Tumblr's Creative Director Quits
Jacob Bijani joined Tumblr as one of its original, most formative employees (and its first designer/product engineer) back in 2008—when a $1.1 billion Yahoo buyout was unfathomable. Now he's leaving....
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Xanga Is Shutting Down
Let's feel nostalgic for 45 seconds or so: Xanga, the LiveJournal/MySpace hybrid that once boasted 30 million active users but never quite managed to capture enough weepy teenage hearts, is on the...
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Utah Task Force Investigates Child Porn On Pinterest
Pinterest, the aspirational, consumer-oriented social network that was quickly adopted by Midwestern moms and Mormons, is facing the same vile problem as other almost every other platform before it....
View ArticleZuck's Lobbying Gang Adds Two Powerful New Members
Elon Musk had enough of FWD.us and its political doublespeak, but that doesn't mean the PAC is going down. To the contrary, AllThingsD reports it just recruited new media mogul Barry Diller and YouTube...
View ArticleGizmodo How a Supercomputer May Have Finally Unlocked a Way to Beat HIV |...
Gizmodo How a Supercomputer May Have Finally Unlocked a Way to Beat HIV | Deadspin Does Jaden Smith, After Earth's Uncompelling Star, Really Want This? | Jalopnik Did Transformers 4 Rip Off This Guy's...
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Here's Your Sean Parker Wedding Money Shot
It may not be the forest cosplay fest we all had our fingers crossed for, but we'll take what we can get. Former Facebook prez and impenitent tech party boy Sean Parker is officially hitched to...
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Investor to Kids: "A startup job is the new office job"
Last week brought us some brutal VC-on-VC invective, and today, the Silicon Valley Honesty Hour continues with a perfectly honest warning to would-be startup employees. It's not all bean bag chairs and...
View ArticleGoogle's MG Siegler: Apple Is "Boring"
This is why stuff like this matters: less than a month after investor MG Siegler announced his move to Google, he's written a TechCrunch column pillorying Apple for looking dull. There's no mention—by...
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Dr. Dre Unveils Incoherent College Degree in "Disruption"
Former rapper turned headphone mogul Andre Young and longtime business partner Jimmy Iovine just gave USC a $70 million donation. New library? Field hockey sticks? Way better! The duo are creating an...
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Google may have banned facial recognition on Google Glass, but boob...
Google may have banned facial recognition on Google Glass, but boob appreciation is a-okay with the Burning Man regular Larry Page. Developers at MiKandi released the first porn app for the device,...
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Racism Denier Jason Calacanis Is Starting His Own VC Fund
If you're willing to ignore the existence of institutionalized prejudice and hustle, you might be the recipient of some cold cash from dot-com millionaire Jason Calacanis' impending investment firm....
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Zynga Firing Hundreds, Closing Major Offices [UPDATE: Trading Halted]
AllThingsD's Kara Swisher says Zynga is on the verge of massive layoffs, as a bad year gets worse for the bleeding FarmVille firm. Maybe selling virtual castles is no longer a $7 billion business....
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Fat-Shaming Eugenicist Will Get His Own Statue in Silicon Valley
Good job internet! Nikola Tesla—a noted promoter of eugenics who hated fat people and once fired one of his secretaries for being overweight—will soon have his very own statue in Silicon Valley! The...
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Here's Everyone Who Hyped Zynga Before It Shit the Bed
It's easy to mock Zynga right now as it starts to grip its stomach and collapse—but where were the skeptics before the IPO boom and bust? Too busy heaping praise on a company that sold virtual hay...
View ArticleNow, Your Obligatory Jack Dorsey/Sean Parker Wedding Crossover Selfie
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View ArticleSean Parker Owes California $2.5 Mil for Extravagant Wedding Castle
It turns out you can't evade the long, eco-regulatory arm of the law just because you're Sean Parker. Well, you can, but it'll cost you two and a half million dollars: the Mercury News says the...
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