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Daily Mail Duped By Fake Article About Google Selling Driverless Cars
According to this article in the Daily Mail, urban alterna-taxi service and annoying fashion-shoot-looking-website Uber will be purchasing 2500 of Google's new self-driving cars, the GX3200. This data...
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Bubble Watch: Ridiculous Stock Values Edition
The farther we get from the last economic collapse, the closer we get to the next economic collapse. But which bubble is next to pop? Student loans? Desert real estate? Today, we turn our untrained eye...
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VCs' Daughters Are the New Bankers' Daughters
While you were watching our national twerking nightmare unfold on your TV last night, venture capitalist Shervin Pishevar was backstage at the VMAs making his daughter's birthday dream come true.Read...
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There Are Officially Too Many Ideas
You can assume any given startup has a very good chance of dying. Maybe it's a bad idea—maybe it's a good idea with too much competition. But that doesn't stop everyone from trying, and trying, and now...
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Major FWD.us Donor Says a "Strong Foreign Accent" Makes You a Bad CEO
Y Combinator founder Paul Graham is listed as a "major contributor" to FWD.us, Mark Zuckerberg's powerful lobbying firm whose primary focus has been immigration reform. But just because Graham wants to...
View ArticleFacebook Releases First Global Government Spying Report
Zuck promised more details on how much of your online life Facebook hands over to the government, and he's starting to deliver. Bonus: we're not just getting The Government, but dozens of governments...
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Wikileaks Reveals Reddit Co-Founder Tried to Work for Shady Intel Firm
Internal emails from Texas-based private intelligence firm Stratfor leaked by Wikileaks show that it is, at best, a sleazy operation, offering corporate and government clients dubious information and...
View ArticleCEO of America's Least Favorite Company Joins Twitter Business Team
Nathan Hubbard, former top dog at Ticketmaster, a corporation that's made itself a giant out of price gouging, egregious fees, and general consumer-fucking is Twitter's new head of commerce, Bloomberg...
View ArticlePath Is Looking More Desperate than Ever
Sad to see this, Path design is usually well considered but this is not a well thought out engagement/growth play. pic.twitter.com/9x6rQKzUHS — Kenton Kivestu (@kivestu) August 27, 2013Read more...
View ArticleOn the first day of my Intro to Computer Science class, the professor (who...
On the first day of my Intro to Computer Science class, the professor (who was incidentally the chair of the division, don't know why he was teaching the 110 class) actually got up in front of the...
View ArticleThese days, "it takes an equity event (or two) for an entrepreneur to even...
These days, "it takes an equity event (or two) for an entrepreneur to even afford to stay [in San Francisco," says Louis Gray head of Google Developers Live, who predicts "an odd phase of the inner...
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Court Date Set for Michael Arrington Rape Accuser
Jenn Allen is sticking with her allegations of rape and assault against TechCrunch's kingpin emeritus Michael Arrington, despite a defamation lawsuit over the claims. Now we know when it's all going...
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Anti-Foreigner VC Also Supports Hiring Discrimination
Paul Graham, the brains and investment personality cult leader behind Y Combinator, is very vocal about what he doesn't like. Foreign accents are a no-no—but as a buried blog post from 2005 shows, the...
View ArticleTo explain the rise of "the sharing economy" made of startups like Airbnb,...
To explain the rise of "the sharing economy" made of startups like Airbnb, Uber, and TaskRabbit, The Verge looks to . . . the decline of serial killers. The two would seem to correlate about as well...
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Brit Morin Finds Million Dollar Idea After Walking into Glass Door
If necessity isn't the mother of invention, it's at least the mother of some inane DIY nonsense: Brit Morin, damned to an eternity of glue-gunning for sins in a past life, drew inspiration for her...
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How to Evaluate a Potential Startup CEO
In light of recent controversy over how startups ought to select their membership, former Tumblr editor-in-chief and current VP of programming at Blip Chris Mohney weighs in.Read more...
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Donald Trump Offers Treats to Little Kids Who Go to His Hotel
For every child that dreamed of one day becoming a "a financially embattled thousandaire," Trump Soho hotel has just the thing. Read more...
View ArticleBetaworks Makes Another Ugly Thing Not Ugly
The makeover success streak at Betaworks is bordering on witchcraft: after pulling Digg out of oblivion, coming to the aid of mourning Google Reader users, and wasting millions of productivity hours...
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Google Creator Sergey Brin and Wife Are Over While He Dates Employee
The man with one of the most recognizable faces in tech (behind the most recognizable homepage in history) has split from his wife of six years, 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki, AllThingsD reports....
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Meet the Google Founder's Mistress
Since Google Glass launched to our awe and horror, the company's co-founder, Sergey Brin, hasn't been spotted without a pair. He's placed himself atop the privacy-eroding project, publicly, and inside...
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