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Instagram Video Already Has Ads
Instagram creator Kevin Systrom is unveiling video for Instagram literally as I write this and Lululemon is already using it for marketing. This is how Facebook starts to recoup that billion dollar...
View ArticleTalent Agency for 'Vine Stars' Is Today's Saddest Startup Idea
If there's a way to make money from a 6-second loop of poking an old man in his dignified European man boobs, by george, startups will find it. Jerome Jarre, the Jerry Lewis of Vine, judging by his...
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Meet Facebook's New Top Lawyer
Even without Winklevii to fend off, with PRISM panic and FISA fights, it's still been a hell of a time to be legal counsel at Facebook. Now it's a new guy's problem. Facebook's outbound general...
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Even Instagram's Creator Isn't Using Instagram Video
Despite a healthily trending #RIPVine Twitter tag and full press coverage, today's Instagram reveal hasn't popped any minds. Or even made them fizz. It's video, on Instagram. It's fine. Cool. But the...
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David Karp Calls Advertisers 'More Talented' Than Anyone At Tumblr
David Karp, the proud new owner of generational wealth (despite 2012 revenues of less than $5 million), is in France this week making some new best amis! At the Cannes Lion International Festival of...
View ArticleSteve Wozniak is among the privileged few to gaze, north west, upon the spawn...
Steve Wozniak is among the privileged few to gaze, north west, upon the spawn of Kanye, a self-described Steve Jobs in the making. But the baby meet-and-greet was Kim Kardashian's doing: "Just because...
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The ascendance of video over photo won't mean fewer gratuitous selfies.
The ascendance of video over photo won't mean fewer gratuitous selfies. Now, they just come with a soundtrack. In the case of TechCrunch co-editor Alexia Tsotsis: some heart-breaking Daft Punk.
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Instagram Video Just Exposed The Terrible Side of Twitter
What's your poison, Valleywag asked a Silicon Valley startup founder last night, Instagram's new Cinema feature or Vine? "Instagram for sure," he shot back. "Easier network effect. Faster...
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Lolcat Kingpin Reflects on Firing One Third of His Company
Ben Huh made himself a rich man by selling advertisements against captioned pictures of cats that other people created—something of a 21st century Andrew Carnegie. But the "I can haz _____" fever...
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Here Are Silicon Valley's $6 Million Arts and Crafts Kits
Brit "Sprinkle-Covered Yo-Yo" Morin recently received a very generous investment in her spunky camp counselor startup, Brit + Co. The company has never really made any money to speak of, but it's...
View ArticleJezebel ‘Native American’ Lone Ranger Designer Isn't Actually Native American...
Jezebel ‘Native American’ Lone Ranger Designer Isn't Actually Native American | Jalopnik The Ten Best Smartphone Car Games | Lifehacker The “20-Something” Myths That Stall Your Career (and How to Fix...
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Blog Millionaire Warns of Imminent Google Glass Ass-Kickings
Jason Calacanis, who once made a popular thing many years ago and has since been a go-to authority on race relations and poker, is ready with his forecast for the future of Google Glass. There's some...
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Here Is Startup Land's Worst Job Opening
If you're looking to get into the low-margin, high-turnover world of trendy e-commerce, do we have a large body of copy and pasted text for you: Fab.com is looking for an executive assistant. As long...
View ArticleHere's a straight razor of a piece with a headline that can't be overstated:...
Here's a straight razor of a piece with a headline that can't be overstated: "PandoDaily Is Really Very Terrible"—the perfect analogy: "Imagine the Associated Press bragging about one of its...
View ArticleApple is guilty of an ebook price-fixing conspiracy, says a federal judge,...
Apple is guilty of an ebook price-fixing conspiracy, says a federal judge, wherein the cost of books was artificially pushed up. The dullest of all frauds.
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Zuckerberg's PAC Feeding Money Directly to These Immigration Backers
We know FWD.us has been working both sides of the aisle with covert TV ads, but the social network's corporate PAC is also pushing its immigration agenda with a more traditional ploy: cash handouts....
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Yahoo! just tossed AltaVista on the failed acquisition bonfire, after 10 years of nothing.
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Snapchat Had the Frattiest Creation in Startup History
The Brogrammer is a mostly mythological figure, a nine-headed scapegoat. But there are, of course, programmers who also happen to be massive bros. For instance, the dudes who founded mega-valuable...
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Hedge Funds Will Be Able to Advertise Soon
For 80 years, it's been illegal for hedge funds to advertise to the public, due to various SEC regulations. Now, those regulations are changing. Hedge funds will soon be able to advertise! *Eyes you up...
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NYC Tech Investor Seeking Untrained ‘Guides’ To Teach His Kids
Albert Wenger is a top investor at Union Square Ventures, which has invested in radical companies like Twitter, Tumblr, and Kickstarter. Wenger's next idea is nothing if not radical: he and his wife...
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