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Facebook Taps Frank Gehry for New Manhattan Digs
According to Serkan Piantino, head of Facebook's New York engineering team, the crew's move isn't going to be just any humdrum relocation: Frank Gehry, legendary designer of big wavy metallic...
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OMGPOP Is Dead
Zynga's gargantuan purchase of OMGPOP, that company that made briefly mega-popular Draw Something, will now be an icon of tech collapse. Only slightly over a year after impulse-spending $200 million on...
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Full Frontal Bummer: Google Bans Porn for Google Glass
Last week came news of the first-ever porn app for Google Glass. Today, the App, Tits & Glass, debuted, allowing users to record themselves having sex from their own perspective. And only hours...
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The Full Damage of Facebook Billionaire Sean Parker's Fantasy Wedding
When California regulators told Sean Parker that the elaborate, Tolkienesque set for his wedding wasn't permitted, he went along anyway. Was this just eco-oversensitivity? Nope: Parker's grotesque...
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Zynga VP in NYC Wants Everyone To Know He's Still 'Gainfully EMPLOYED'
While Zynga was busy laying off 520 employees without warning yesterday, including most of his officemates, Zynga's newly hired VP of mobile ad strategy Timothy Price piped up on Facebook to assure his...
View ArticleTwitter Founder Jack Dorsey Is Currently Standing Atop the Bay Bridge
https://t.co/hLIn885NzS ā Jack Dorsey (@jack) June 4, 2013
View ArticleWatch a BBC Anchor Ask Robert Scoble If He's a Total Narcissist
The BBC's Jeremy Paxman is none too eager to jump in the shower with Google Glass, if this interview with Robert Scoble is any indication. The veteran Newsnight anchor grills Scoble, skeptical about...
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Larry Ellison Is So Rich He Priced Other Rich Guys Out of Yachting
Software wealth emperor Larry Ellison, whose riches can now only be measured in parts of the Earth he legally owns, has reached a new mega-money milestone, the New York Times reports: His plans for the...
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Fired Zynga Staff Hits Reddit to Talk Life Before the Massacre
A few game-makers who got the axe on Monday have already recoveredāenough to dish on Reddit, at least. They're answering questions right nowāand talking severance packages, game theft, and of course,...
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TweetDeck Redesign Hits a Tad Early, and Christina's Gonna Be Pissed
TweetDeck is pushing out an update today! But something went wrong at Twitter HQ, and nobody bothered to review the post announcing the update before it went live. Don't tell Christina. She's gonna be...
View ArticleThe Republican National Committee has hired a 32-year-old senior Facebook...
The Republican National Committee has hired a 32-year-old senior Facebook engineer and angel investor for its "newly created" Chief Technology Officer position. So much for the George Packer naysayers...
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Zynga's "Walking Dead" Must Train Their Replacements or Lose Severance
The east coast presence of Zynga, that once-proud and mighty maker of tractor simulators, has been decimatedābut it looks like it's not completely gone. Yet. A skeleton crew of doomed software refugees...
View ArticleFor the first time ever, Airbnb will proactively support an Airbnb host...
For the first time ever, Airbnb will proactively support an Airbnb host facing legal repercussions for using the company's service. But the "sharing economy" isn't as beneficent as it seems. Airbnb's...
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Marissa Mayer Playing Favorites, Giving Everyone Else a Shitty Laptop
Yahoo's betting its entire existence on a new wave of smartphone apps. None of it's come to fruition yet, but the mobile team is already being rewarded, says the New York Post: and the rest of the...
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Computer Science Is King of Stanford for First Time in Its History
Stanford has been a west coast corporate feeder for decades, but now tech's trendiest degree is also the school's most popular: a full tenth of the school's 7,000 undergrads are declaring in CS....
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Top California Pols Invited to Sean Parker's Eco-Fuck Wedding [UPDATE]
So you want to put a giant construction site inside an ancient redwood forest so you can have artificial ruins on your wedding day. Fine. It'll take a lot of money. It also helps if the most powerful...
View ArticleSean Parker Defends His Wedding: He Only Spent FOUR Million Dollars
Oh, Sean. This isn't how you get people on your side. In an email to The Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal, Parker attempts an apologia. You see, there wasn't any ancient redwood damageāor "at least none that...
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Rumor: Will Amazon's New NYC Office Be on the Williamsburg Waterfront?
According to a source, Amazon may have settled on a location for the mammoth office space the company began seeking in February: the Williamsburg waterfront. Back in February, both the Wall Street...
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Here's How "Tasteful" and "Subtle" Sean Parker's Wedding Really Was
It's true, this wasn't a Game of Thrones wedding. It was a Game of Thrones, Lord of The Rings, Avatar crossover wedding. And it certainly wasn't "subtle." This brand new photo will either make you weep...
View ArticleIf meritocratic, colorblind Silicon Valley were a pie, there would be no...
If meritocratic, colorblind Silicon Valley were a pie, there would be no slice for African-American entrepreneurs.
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