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Mark Zuckerberg: Awkward in South Korea, Too
The Zuck is on a mission of peace to North Korea's peaceful, smartphone-churning neighbor. He met South Korean President Park Geun-hye, talked about Facebook, shook some hands, drank some water (see...
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Job Networking Site LinkedIn Filled With Secret NSA Program Names
Want to know all the code names for America's massive intelligence gathering programs? Just browse through the "intelligence analysts" who post their resumes on the public career networking site...
View ArticleEverything That Rises Must Converge
#Yeezus drops today. Check out the @ACLU's analysis of #privateprisons in @KanyeWest's "New Slaves" via @RapGenius: http://t.co/0hdgbNiiKE — ACLU National (@ACLU) June 18, 2013
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How the Tech Industry Is Quietly Changing the Face of American Cities
When Steve Jobs presented the initial design for his donut-like headquarters to the Cupertino City Council, in 2011, he described the building as a reaction against suburban office parks. “We’ve come...
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Investors Say Fab.com Is Worth $1 Billion
That's really the magic number now, huh? AllThingsD reports that the super-chic chair and bauble site just raised $150 million dollars, bringing its valuation to a billi. “I don’t consider us a success...
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Sean Parker's Life Has Descended into Hell, Says Sean Parker
You monsters. Shame on you. A Facebook billionaire wants to nudge a few redwoods in the comfort of his own forest, and you think less of him for it? I'm disgusted—and so is Sean Parker, who says he's...
View ArticlePandoDaily Uses Journalist's Death to Discuss Some Software Bullshit
Pando, taken as a large green corpus, is generally tasteless. But is this a nadir? I think so: here's a post using the saddening death of famed journalist Michael Hastings to muse about a fucking...
View ArticleTwitter closed a deal with Viacom in its big push for TV ad dollars.
Twitter closed a deal with Viacom in its big push for TV ad dollars. Since you can already find video highlights on Twitter, the sponsored clips amounts to "not much more than sticking an ad (for a...
View ArticleTesla Issues Partial Recall on Cars that Might Fall Apart When Hit
If you bought a $60,000+ Tesla Model S between May 10th and June 8th, read this: Tesla CEO Elon Musk says these cars might have a defect that "reduces our confidence that the left hand seat back will...
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30 Years Ago, the Next Silicon Valley Could Have Been in Vermont
There's Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Beach in Los Angeles, Silicon Alley in New York, Silicon Hills in Austin and lately tech boosters in New Orleans have been trying to get...
View ArticleAnother Wired editor has been lured over to industry he once covered.
Another Wired editor has been lured over to industry he once covered. Senior editor Michael Copeland will be heading up "content strategy" for Andreessen Horowitz, the VC firm he wrote about just two...
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Jenn Allen Not Backing Down on Michael Arrington Rape Claims
Newly filed court documents show Jennifer Allen won't recant: her attorneys say she's sticking with her story, and are prepared to fight back in an impending libel case from TechCrunch founder and VC...
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There Are Over 50 Instagram Ripoffs: The Stupid Startup Clone War
One of life's grand injustices is that it's very hard to come up with an idea that's both original and good. Even harder to make money from it! But that's not stopping anyone from trying to cash in...
View ArticleBad News for Foursquare: Twitter Just Bought a Location Startup
Someone's gonna snatch up New York's finest local service, and it's not going to be Twitter: AllThingsD says the company just bought Spindle, a sort of poor man's Foursquare.
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Further proof from Jakob Lodwick that you don't necessarily have to have a...
Further proof from Jakob Lodwick that you don't necessarily have to have a good idea to make money in tech. Two of the fameballer's investments have been acquired this year: Tumblr and now MakerBot,...
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New York Times: Manhattan Tech People Gorging on Free Fattening Treats
Do you find your job, diet, and existence inadequate? If not, make sure to read this latest dispatch from the New York Times trend squad: the city's startup jockeys are spending day after day pressing...
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The NSA and Silicon Valley Are in the Same Business
The National Security Agency and Silicon Valley are both after the same thing: You. Or your data, insofar as you can manage to make a distinction. A New York Times special delves into "the degree to...
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Google Admits Its Trickiest Job Interview Questions Are Bullshit
If you're hoping for a job at Google but can't fathom the answer to "How many golf balls can you fit into an airplane?," don't worry—the company is phasing out its notorious brainteasers, because they...
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AOL Still Has Enough Cash for Cannes
Even after (or maybe because of?) spending the first half of this year making headlines for layoffs, AOL still has money. At least, enough to put its logo across a hillside "villa party" in one of the...
View ArticleI also really love that the back of the Facebook HQ sign is still the Sun logo.
I also really love that the back of the Facebook HQ sign is still the Sun logo. Nice tribute to the last resident: pic.twitter.com/gD13HpVbn0 — Greg Kumparak (@Grg) June 20, 2013
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