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...
View ArticleWillie 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...
View ArticleFab.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....
View ArticleResearchers 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%...
View ArticleDefamer Cate Blanchett Is Terrifying In Her New York Times Magazine Short...
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View ArticleSnapchat 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...
View ArticleZuckerberg 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...
View ArticleAn 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...
View ArticleRegressing Chart: LeBron James Is Outdoing Himself | Defamer Twelve Years A...
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View ArticleKanye 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...
View ArticleSeattle 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...
View ArticleCam'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...
View ArticleThis 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...
View ArticleAnother 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...
View ArticleHarvard 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...
View ArticleSalesforce 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...
View ArticleAmazon 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...
View ArticleGoogle 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...
View ArticleDefamer Drag Racing May Have Played A Part In Paul Walker's Fatal Car Crash |...
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View ArticlePeople 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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