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Brit Bro: "Blowing over $20k on a startup is the best thing I’ve done"
You might've heard something about Silicon Valley types being out of touch with the general consequences and realities of ordinary humans. Englishman and "digital strategist" Ash Read is here to fix...
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Your Ad Here
Late last week, Facebook announced that it would be reworking the set of various formats it offers to advertisers, to "simplify" its ad offerings. Among the changes, Ad Age reported, will be the end...
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Protestors Hit Facebook Shareholder Meeting
A small-ish (so far) group from San Francisco environmentalism cabal 350 Bay Area just arrived outside the Westin San Francisco Airport Hotel. Inside, Zuck and anxious Facebook investors talk shop....
View ArticlePeter Thiel Is Writing a Book
Prolific investor, college-discourager, and possible Bond villain Peter Thiel is writing a book, the New York Times reports. It's about starting your own business, and if you buy it in 2014, maybe you...
View ArticleAnd Now, a Reassuring Word from Mark Zuckerberg
Zuck says he doesn't work directly with NSA or any other program" to "PROACTIVELY" give user information — Evelyn Rusli (@EvelynRusli) June 11, 2013
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Douchebags Like You Are Ruining San Francisco
My Mea Culpa: I know that it’s people like me that started this shit show in SF. I moved to The Mission back in the early 90s. I was part of the gentrification that started the whole trend of startups...
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Google to Feds: Please Let Us Talk About Spying [UPDATE: Facebook Too]
Google says it's not giving the NSA direct access to your life online. Edward Snowden says otherwise. Either way, Google is upfront about one thing: it wants to disclose as much of its government...
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Facebook's Investors Are "PISSED" Today
An event staffer at today's first ever, lightly protested Facebook shareholders meeting has an important detail: the shareholders are out for blood. One of them yelled at Mark. Mark Zuckerberg. People...
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Google Interns Earn More than You
Good morning! The youth trainees of Google make $20,000 per summer on average, CNN Money reports. Although it's certainly a lot more work than your average coffee-and-browbeating internship at say, a...
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TechStars NY Fires Their Managing Director Right Before Demo Day
It sounds like the accelerator bubble is constricting right on schedule. According to an email obtained by Valleywag, Eugene Chung, who was hired to replace David Tisch as managing director of...
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Did Path Cheat Its Way to The Top?
Path is not a popular app. Outside of privacy crusaders and various geek niches, it's virtually unknown—a sanctimonious social network built to appeal to Facebook's haters, that ended up appealing to...
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Oyster.com Owner Fires Entire Staff After Returning from The Hamptons
Remember Oyster.com, the haute travel service that was briefly a bastion for travel writers, then a glam hotel review site, and then just sort of a booking service? The long death march is coming to an...
View ArticleYahoo Buys Another Thing
This time it's GhostBird, a thing that'll help them make Flickr better, maybe. GhostBird made apps that let you add filters and change colors in pictures you took. Now those things are gone, because...
View ArticleMySpace Still Has Enough Money for This $20 Million TV Ad
From deep within the Smithsonian's Fossilized Social Networks Wing, MySpace shouts to the world: We're here, and we have at least $20,000,000 to spend on this TV commercial. Look, Riff Raff and...
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Former Obama Advisers Are Ready to Flack for Your Startup
In another sign of confidence in the tech industry's money-minting promise, former public servants looking to "cash in" on their experience are turning to startups where they once might have knocked on...
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There's an "AirBnB For Boats" and "Assholes"
I hate it when people say startups focus largely on bourgeois concerns, like how "most boats sit unused for 95 percent of the year," according to TechCrunch. So it's refreshing to see "Boatbound" shake...
View ArticleMust-Watch TED Talk On Monetizing Wikipedia
Internet thinkfluencer and Wikipreneur Nimrod Kamer recently delivered a highly disruptive TED Talk on his plans to pivot the Wiki space into a monetizable platform. Solution'd!
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Crushing Dispatches from Inside the Silicon Valley Culture Bubble
Quora can be a place to discuss race relations, poorly. Quora can be a place to explain your company's position in the eternal geo-political battle between good and evil. Or it can be a cry for help:...
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CNBC Says Yahoo Might Buy Company that Facebook Already Owns
"Hot" "business" tip: "business reporter" Chris says "all of that cash on Yahoo's balance sheet is burning a hole in Marissa Mayer's pockets." How much cash? How much burning? Enough to burn the...
View Articleio9 Daenerys' whole storyline on Game of Thrones is messed up | Gawker Child...
io9 Daenerys' whole storyline on Game of Thrones is messed up | Gawker Child Cries After Expecting to Meet Iron Man, Getting RDJ Instead | Kotaku Don't Expect A Lot Of Third-Party Characters In The...
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