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The Weirdly PG World of Celebrities on WhoSay
If you read Sarah Silverman's recent heart-rending obituary for her dog Duck, then you've probably heard of WhoSay, a startup that began as a social media dashboard ("Hootsuite to the stars!") for...
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Startup Pulls $3 Mil Investment to Mail Frozen Sandwiches Across USA
Behold the era of software companies that are literally disgusting: Goldbely, with the name and business sense of a cartoon Bond villain, just snagged a big check for an unfathomably unappetizing idea....
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Time Magazine Wonders If "Google Can Solve Death"
Time magazine's new cover story is the about the ultimate tech company cage match: GOOGLE VS. DEATH. In Silicon Valley parlance, this mortal coil is a bug, not a feature, and Time gives GOOG pretty...
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Most of Quora's Traffic Is Now Coming from India
Quora, the question-and-answer site that convinced investors to part with a whopping $61 million, is notoriously unwilling to release any concrete data about its growth—preferring, instead to dole out...
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Facebook Used the Image of a Dead Cyber-bullying Victim in a Dating Ad
Earlier this week, a picture of Rehtaeh Parsons showed up in a "sponsored ad" on Facebook for an online dating site called Ionechat.com. Parsons was a 17-year-old Canadian girl, who committed suicide...
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Grand Theft Auto V Calls Facebook a Data-Gobbling Privacy Invader
The newest installment in the Grand Theft Auto series takes players into the offices of "Lifeinvader," a nefarious data-guzzling company that's clearly intended to mock Facebook. The best part is the...
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Why Zuck's "Pro-Knowledge" Politics Are Just More Corporate Bullshit
A familiar sheen of sweat coated Mark Zuckerberg's forehead yesterday when James Bennet, editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, asked the CEO of Facebook to place himself on the political spectrum. "Liberal...
View ArticleYou may have forgotten about Pinterest, but CEO Ben Silbermann hasn't...
You may have forgotten about Pinterest, but CEO Ben Silbermann hasn't forgotten that his investors need an exit. The company, which has raised $338 million, will be "experimenting" with "tasteful"...
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It's Official: AllThingsD's Powerhouse Reporters Are Leaving News Corp
Last month, Reuters asked if Rupert Murdoch could hold on to Kara Swisher, the "best journalist (so far) of the new millennium." The answer is officially no, according to Fortune's Dan Primack, who...
View ArticleThis Is What Startup Launch Parties Look Like Now
And by now, I mean again, because an economic disaster wasn't enough to teach people that modesty is becoming when you're touting a business with no demonstrable worth. But, Pharrell!Read more...
View ArticleHappy New iPhone Day to Everyone Paid Peanuts to Stand in Line
Yo @Valleywag @samfbiddle: There's two homeless guys standing in line @ Apple Store in the Marina. Story: find the assholes who paid them. — Corey Lewis (@CeeLew) September 20, 2013Read more...
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Wired Thinks Bitcoin Could Be the Great Homeless "Equalizer"
Bitcoin tends to bring out a sense of blind optimism in true believers. But of all the delirious visions about the "monetary miracles" that Bitcoin can bring to our wretched, fiat currency-based world,...
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Read Google's Private Jet Negotiation Emails with Your Government
Google's playboy executives didn't just land their planes on NASA property and start chugging Pentagon fuel without permission—first, they had to cozy up with the government.Read more...
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BlackBerry Is Unofficially Dead
The company that used to make standard issue hardware for suits, geeks, and spoiled college kids is, as long expected, sliding into oblivion: BlackBerry will lay off 4,500 employees after a quarterly...
View ArticlePaleofuture 17 Better Ways to Waste Your Money Than On This Crowdfunded...
Paleofuture 17 Better Ways to Waste Your Money Than On This Crowdfunded "Flying Car" | Defamer Tim Tebow Wants CAA To Fail Him In All Areas, Not Just Football | Regressing The Problem With Bitching...
View ArticleForget Personal Brands, Airbnb CEO Says People Are Now Businesses
Brian Chesky addresses regulatory issues."There are laws for people and laws for business, but you are new category: people as businesses."— Jessica Guynn (@jguynn) November 12, 2013Read more...
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San Francisco Mayor Put in Office By Tech Industry Loves Tech Industry
A month before San Francisco's last mayoral election, when Ed Lee's rivals struggled to raise funds, Lee was helped along by independent committees like San Franciscans for Jobs and Good Government, a...
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How a Startup Went from Hype to Clusterfuck
Before Kno, an education startup, was sold for chump change yesterday, it was on its way to the top. Don't take my word for it: just look at all the "smart" "tech" "experts" who poured $100 million and...
View ArticleQuora says it has "no near term plans" of attempting to make any money at...
Quora says it has "no near term plans" of attempting to make any money at all, likely because it was founded by two extremely rich people and doesn't need to ever make money. We need to rethink what's...
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Rap Genius Incites Unsolicited Startup Beef Over Sexiest Tech Bros
There are certain risks any reporter exposes herself to by agreeing to interview the cofounders of Rap Genius. Once you've crossed the wobbly line of crushed up Vyvanse into their Williamsburg offices,...
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