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Dirtbag Spotted: Venture Capitalist Charging Startups Just To Talk
It's perfectly fine to be a predatory sleaze after you invest in a company—but expecting a struggling startup founder to hand over cash just for ten minutes of your time is generally frowned upon....
View ArticleApple Is Trying To Block This Weird Warning Video by CEO Tim Cook
It starts with a Martin Luther King Jr. quote, and ends as a total mystery: an internal video memo from Apple's chief is very strange, and the company is trying to scrub it off the internet.Read more...
View ArticleRegressing Why Baylor Is Porn For Football Nerds | Defamer Girls Shouldn't...
Regressing Why Baylor Is Porn For Football Nerds | Defamer Girls Shouldn't Try Raunchy Comedy, Variety Critic Says | Paleofuture Making Designer Babies Was Supposed to Be Just Like Shopping for...
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New York Times Saves Sex-Shaming App from Pits of Obscurity
Lulu, an app that lets women anonymously torment their dude Facebook friends with sexual feedback, is one of those you play with briefly and then forget. It's a gimmick—half malice, half prank, and all...
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"Sheryl Sandberg Sex Laundry" Has To be the Worst Lesson From Lean In
Salesforce's annual Dreamforce conference—"the biggest cloud computing event of the year"—already mocked Wal-Mart workers protesting Marissa Mayer's board seat and broke a local hospitality union's...
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The "Biggest Hackathon Prize In History" Was Won By Cheaters
It's important to never take anything called a "hackathon" too seriously, but when a million bucks is on the line—the self-hyped "single biggest prize in history"—allegations of foul play really sting....
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Marc Benioff Is the Ron Burgundy of Tech
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is an egomaniacal buffoon who laughs at the plight of underpaid Walmart workers and flies the prime minister of Haiti up to San Francisco so he can thank Benioff in...
View ArticleTurntable.fm Is Dead
First it was going, now it's gone: the social music website we all messed around with a couple years ago (I think that's when—right?) is now going off to the great website in the sky.Read more...
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[At least one Kickstarter project has reached fruition.
[At least one Kickstarter project has reached fruition. It looks like the company's $7.5 million new headquarters, a former pencil factory on Kent St. in Greenpoint with a "rooftop garden penthouse,"...
View ArticleDefamer Why Is This Agency Holding Onto Unreleased JFK Assassination Footage?
Defamer Why Is This Agency Holding Onto Unreleased JFK Assassination Footage? | Paleofuture Apple's Superstar Designer Auctioning Off Actual Spacesuit for Charity | Regressing The Science Of Hangovers:...
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Angel Investing Is No Different Than Gambling in Vegas
Entrepreneur and investor Jason Calacanis offered an exquisite example of the dangers created by loosening the rules around crowd-funding. During a PandoMonthly fireside chat last night, Calacanis not...
View ArticleTechCrunch alum Paul Carr's e-zine NSFW Corp has gone under, The Guardian...
TechCrunch alum Paul Carr's e-zine NSFW Corp has gone under, The Guardian reports. Carr says he will join longtime friend Sarah Lacy at her site, PandoDaily, which will also hire some of his staff.Read...
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FDA Orders Mrs. Google to Stop Selling Dangerous DNA Tests
It's been a very, very bad year for Anne Wojcicki. The wife of Google founder Sergey Brin just went through a blockbuster cheating scandal and the implosion of her marriage, and now the federal...
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No One at Yahoo! Wants To Use Yahoo! Mail
Tech workers: they're just like the rest of us. Despite all the bluster of renewed innovation and the fiery spirit of Mayer-ism, Yahoo! Mail remains a calcified piece of shit—and naturally no one at...
View ArticleThe New York Times says Twitter is "providing lawyers to help fight...
The New York Times says Twitter is "providing lawyers to help fight evictions" as part of its tax break agreement with San Francisco. Isn't that like asking Peter Thiel to donate to a college...
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Randi Zuckerberg Says "Stop Sharing" On Instagram's Most Popular Day
Randi Zuckerberg's holiday over-shares haven't always ended up in her favor. But it's still awfully presumptuous to demand that everybody else "Stop Sharing on Thanksgiving." Like so much of her near...
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Which Startup CEOs Were Spotted at This Bikini-Clad Bathhouse Party?
Sean Glass, the Park Avenue-raised, Dalton-educated son of music mogul, is trying super hard at his "job" to make the New York tech community look cool. Read more...
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Katie Couric: What the Hell Are You Doing at Yahoo?
It's 2013, and David Karp, David Pogue, and Katie Couric are now coworkers. Think about that. They're not sharing a stage at some boring conference or wacky variety show: they're part of the same...
View ArticleDefamer Sony Chairman's Assistant Makes 'Well Over' $250,000 A Year |...
Defamer Sony Chairman's Assistant Makes 'Well Over' $250,000 A Year | Paleofuture Southland: Excavating the Urban History of Greater Los Angeles | Regressing Chart: A Week In The Insane Life Of An NFL...
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The Snapchat CEO's Girlfriend: A Perpetually Topless Reality TV Star
Here's an image that Snapchat co-creator Evan Spiegel will hope disappears: his girlfriend, model Lucinda Aragon, will attempt to woo ABC's "The Bachelor" in the upcoming season. Zuckerberg and...
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