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Billionaires Will Disrupt Death If It's The Last Thing They Do
Like space travel and imaginary tubes, the extension of the human life span is being financed by the private interests of tech billionaires. Read more...
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Yahoo! CEO's Backyard Playhouse Is Bigger than Your Apartment
When Marissa Mayer isn't posing upside down in lawn chairs, Yahoo's chief executive is doing normal CEO stuff, like buying this miniature, $33,000 version of Palo Alto's Peninsula Creamery. To place in...
View ArticleNasdaq Is Down
Only days after Amazon crashed, the entire Nasdaq exchange is also out of service due to a "technical issue." All trading has been halted.Read more...
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Homelessness Solved
We owe young Patrick McConlogue an apology. Yesterday, the boyish wantrepreneur startled us with his plan to help the poor: just teach them how to code. It seemed a little naive—even demeaning—to think...
View Article"I Hate San Francisco" Will Make You Want To Go to San Francisco
This video is the best thing to happen to the city on the internet in probably a century.Read more...
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Is Marissa Mayer Courting Katie Couric as the Face of Yahoo Media?
Upside-down uber-acquirer Marissa Mayer is fashioning herself into something of a content queen. According to Kara Swisher, the "hey-look-at-me CEO" wants Yahoo visitors to look at Katie Couric too....
View ArticleAnother Reason To Never Leave the Office
Facebook sells Facebook-blue nail polish ("social butterfly blue") in its campus store pic.twitter.com/3vm7Ylm4cL — Bianca Bosker (@bbosker) August 22, 2013Read more...
View ArticleAs of June, the average price for a 1 bedroom condo in San Francisco was...
As of June, the average price for a 1 bedroom condo in San Francisco was $630,000, but there's still room before the market hits "peak exuberance," argues Priceonomics. In 2000, 74 percent of homes...
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American Spies Are Heading Westward to Make Spooky Startups
If you want to make a company premised on squeezing money out of vast troves of personal data, our U.S. government is one swarming job fair jamboree. The New York Times details how tax-trained...
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This Guy Just CCed All of Microsoft By Accident
A little Friday advice: if you work for one of the great mammoths in the history of technology, and your faltering CEO just emailed to say he's departing, make sure you click the right buttons when you...
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"Culture Fit" Is a Shitty Excuse for Marginalizing Women in Tech
Tech startups, like any other business sector, gravitate towards jargon that conveniently glosses over what they're really talking about. Wall Street has its collateralized debt obligations, Silicon...
View ArticleWhat is Medium, asks the Atlantic.
What is Medium, asks the Atlantic. Friend or foe? Publication or platform? Epic troll? Then, like magic, MEDIUM REPLIES.Read more...
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Google Graduates From Self-Driving Software to Full-Fledged Robo Taxi
So you're Google, out there looking to the future, tryna extend the human life span, map every corner of land and sea, generally moon shot-ing all OVER the goddam place. Why bother trying to sell...
View ArticleUber is done with vociferous denials.
Uber is done with vociferous denials. Sort of. Raging Randian disruptor Travis Kalanick confirmed that Uber raised a $258 M. round, led by Google Ventures and TPG Capital in order to expand and "fight...
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TechCrunch Now Writing Imaginary Press Releases
The team at AOL's intrepid startup newsroom never shies away from thinly rewritten press releases—don't mess with a good formula. But today, TechCrunch reaches new heights/depths in the art: the press...
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VC Says His School Creates Startup "Heroes" Equal to Firefighters
Tim Draper, by any cursory Wikipedia skim, is a successful man. He's reaped enough through his venture capital endeavors to create his own zany vanity "school," where wannabe Zuckerbergs and Brit...
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Bustle's CEO is Even More of a Self-Serving Misogynist Than You Feared
When Bryan Goldberg interviewed himself on PandoDaily about the $6.5 million he received to launch Bustle, a website for women that "puts world news and politics alongside beauty tips," Bryan Goldberg...
View ArticleHow Much Is That VC in the Window?
really? estimated value of a lunch with a VC is $4K? http://t.co/PK5z3g0ci5 — Shai Goldman (@shaig) August 26, 2013Read more...
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Startup Founder Mocks Airport Employee For Having Shitty Non-Tech Job
Years ago, Jason Kester made a TechCrunch-approved company called Twiddla. It lets you draw virtual pictures on websites with other people, which maybe you want to do, who knows. Today, globetrotting...
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Buzzfeed Censors Kanye West News on Twitter
Buzzfeed, a business premised on the free sharing of news and information via social media networks, instructed its one billion employees not to tweet about an office visit from noted startup advisor...
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