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Surprise: Everyone Hates Working for the 22-Year-Old's Mystery Startup

The more we learn about Clinkle—a mobile payments app so fantastic, so splendorous, that the startup hasn't deemed our species worthy of any details—the duller it seems. Another way to pay with our...

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Willie Brown Says Techies Have Started A Class War in San Francisco

Former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown has looked out his 35th floor window at the St. Regis and decided he doesn't like what he sees. In his latest Willie's World column for the San Francisco...

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Fab.com in 2010: "I Know Absolutely Nothing About Running a Company"

When you've got a proven history of colossal failure as a startup founder, it's best to avoid silly, swaggering videos that make light of this fact—remember, you're playing with someone else's money....

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Researchers found 20 million fake Twitter accounts for sale this summer,...

Researchers found 20 million fake Twitter accounts for sale this summer, reports the Wall Street Journal. That would mean almost 9% of Twitter's monthly active users are fake—nearly double the 5%...

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Defamer Cate Blanchett Is Terrifying In Her New York Times Magazine Short...

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Snapchat CEO: The Friend I Screwed Should Be Grateful

Snapchat's 23-year-old founder continues his goodwill campaign: in a video deposition clip obtained by Business Insider, Evan Spiegel says his only regrets about forcing out his partner is "the...

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Zuckerberg Wants Your Kid's Student Data

Code.org—a tech non-profit backed by Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and other top brass—wants to improve computer science education for young women and minorities. And hey, that's great. But it...

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An Amazingly Bad IT Job Listing that Borders on Abusive

Tech jobs are often hard, thankless, and generally unpleasant—but rarely do you see a company tell you, straight up, it's going to be miserable. The next systems admin for geeky web comic Penny Arcade...

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Regressing Chart: LeBron James Is Outdoing Himself | Defamer Twelve Years A...

Regressing Chart: LeBron James Is Outdoing Himself | Defamer Twelve Years A Slave Producer Was Once An Israeli Arms Dealer | Paleofuture What International Air Travel Was Like in the 1930sRead more...

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Kanye West Courts Silicon Valley Investors, But VCs Don't Want DONDA

Nucleic rapper Kanye West, embodiment of the New Uncanny, appears to have found himself in the same position as many an entrepreneur before him: long on ideas and short on financing. And what better...

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Seattle Asshole Demands Employee Firing Over Bar's Google Glass Policy

The most absolutely awful thing about the story of Nick Starr is not that he exists, but that there are surely more people like him: the Seattle IT drone threw a Facebook fit when he was asked to take...

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Cam'ron and Damon Dash Did a Commercial for Fancy, a $600 M. Startup

Rap moguls and startups collide once again in this new commercial for Fancy, a Pinterest competitor. The ad, a low budget affair that shows Damon Dash introducing Fancy to Cam'ron as a way to sell $450...

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This Car Is Going To Be Keyed Very Soon

Tesla Model S in Hayes Valley, vanity plates: DISRUPTD pic.twitter.com/MFmf3oMEUs— Arlen Abraham (@arlenarlenarlen) November 30, 2013Read more...

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Another Secret Twitter Investor: This Conniving Millionaire Mom

Twitter's IPO filing lifted the veil on all manner of investors who wished to keep their good fortune out of the public eye, like secretive Hollywood investor Suhail Rizvi. A new lawsuit from a...

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Harvard Startup CEO Spams Entire Contact List with Scam Conference

The bullshit industry has never boomed harder: Harvard biz student Ryan Allis, the "CEO" of a "company" called "Connect," wants you to know about a "conference" he's organizing. He was kind enough to...

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Salesforce Gives 2nd Place Hackathon Team $1 Mil After Cheaters Win

After giving the top, million dollar prize in a recent hackathon to a former employee and blatant cheater, Salesforce is apologizing the only way it knows how: with lots and lots of cash and...

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Amazon Drones Are Truly Revolutionary [Marketing]

The most thrilling [marketing] advancement in recent years was unveiled last night on 60 Minutes. If you missed it—how could you have missed it?—Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos detailed the [marketing] future of...

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Google Gave Money to Group That Helped Force Government Shutdown

Silicon Valley's anti-government fervor hasn't spread to the main-est of the mainstream so far: no calls for secession from Zuck or Dorsey. But that doesn't mean big tech money isn't reaching radical...

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Defamer Drag Racing May Have Played A Part In Paul Walker's Fatal Car Crash |...

Defamer Drag Racing May Have Played A Part In Paul Walker's Fatal Car Crash | Paleofuture Skyport One: The Airport of the Future from 1957 | Kinja Best OfRead more...

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People in San Francisco Are Truly Struggling

SF, what's the best way to get a small Christmas tree delivered to my apt? Also, why is there no seasonal Uber-like app for this yet?— Ashley Brown (@ashbrown) December 3, 2013Read more...

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