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23andMe Stops Providing Health Information And Submits To FDA Review
Anne Wojcicki thought she might be able to get the FDA off by her back if 23andMe stopped advertising its $99 genetic testing kits. But when your company is five years late on "analytical and clinical"...
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Vanity Fair Quietly Wonders: Does Marissa Mayer Have Asperger's?
This recent profile in Vanity Fair is very, very strange, in that it obsesses over Marissa Mayer being very, very strange. It hits all the usual notes about the Yahoo! CEO (She's a geek! She loves...
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From Venmo's live-updating homepage, just now.
From Venmo's live-updating homepage, just now. Everyone is finding new ways to integrate this useful service into their lives. [Thanks, Eileen!]Read more...
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WSJ Editorial Asks If Apple Prosecutor Wants to "Disinter Steve Jobs"
What shining bastion of moral authority would bravely step up to defend a helpless $500 billion corporation being bullied by evil anti-trust investigators? The kind of editorial board that comes with...
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Paleofuture Sadly This 1969 "Internet" Radio Can't Load Doge | Defamer Noel Gallagher "Fucking Had A Shit Year" And Other Things That Bug Him | Regressing "Death Star" Lotulelei Might Be The NFL's Next...
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Yahoo Is Trying to Buy Imgur, Reddit's Favorite Image Sharing Website
Business Insider reports that Yahoo began "serious talks to buy" Imgur, the meme-laden photo-sharing site that grew of its symbiosis with Reddit, this fall. We heard a similar rumor from a source in...
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Snapchat Demands Restraining Order Against Betrayed Brofounder
The volume of pure resentment spewing out of Snapchat is approaching early-Winklevoss levels: TechCrunch reports the co-creators, embroiled in legal grappling, are now asking for a restraining order...
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$25 Million Mystery Startup Hits Layoffs Before It Even Launches
Fortune's Dan Primack reports that Clinkle, the stealth mobile startup company that raised $25 million in venture capital without really explaining what it does, has "issued pink slips to 16 of its...
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[Demonstrators blocked a Google shuttle bus at 24th and Mission this morning...
[Demonstrators blocked a Google shuttle bus at 24th and Mission this morning with signs that said "Two-Tier System" and "Illegal Use of Public Infrastructure." Activists want tech companies to pay San...
View ArticleGoogle Employee: "You can't afford it? You can leave!" (Update: Hoax)
Well, if you're going to be awful, at least be awfully honest. Or something. Or, maybe think twice before hopping off the Google Bus as it's surrounded by protestors and saying "Why don't you go to a...
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Twitter Refused to Answer SEC Questions About the Profitability of Ads
Late Friday afternoon Twitter released its "secret correspondence" with the Securities and Exchange Commission leading up to the IPO. The previously private documents show that the SEC had a lot of...
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A Rich Technologist Encounters a Homeless Person
When PayPal co-founder Max Levchin saw one of San Francisco's innumerable homeless over the weekend, he did what any of us would do: tweeted a picture with a remark about the person's use of portable...
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View ArticleAllThingsD editors Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg made a deal with...
AllThingsD editors Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg made a deal with NBCUniversal "for a news and conference business that will bring their current staff" to a new, still unnamed website. The holding...
View ArticlePeople Who Did Not Get Rich and/or Famous Coding Want You to Code
If you find this new batch of Code.org PSAs hilariously awkward, you're in good company. I literally yelped when I heard Nas say "I just did 15 lines of code." There are more than a dozen new videos...
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Silicon Valley Kings Write Half-Assed Outrage Letter to NSA
It only took half a year for the un-beating heart of America's tech sector to show any unified opposition to NSA dragnet techniques: ReformGovernmentSurveillance.com is a lazy piece of PR dreck—and...
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Tech "Advisor" Lindsay Lohan Is Hosting a VIP Party for a Startup
Since startup titles have lost their meaning, why not task a foxy troublemaker to represent your company? Days after Lindsay Lohan was accused of ordering an attack on Paris Hilton's brother, we got an...
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Larry Ellison's Billionaire Yacht Race Cost San Francisco $5.5 Million
Turning an entire region into a playpen for rich technologists sounds good on paper, sure, and everyone with a view of the water loves a good boat race—but at what cost? Five and a half million dollars...
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Sean Parker Goes On Spotify Benders to Curate His "Hipster" Playlist
Sean Parker has a rocky relationship with the press unless (1) there is no word count or (2) it's about a subject he wants to discuss. A new article by Steven Bertoni, who covers the billionaire beat...
View ArticleFoursquare's brilliant new update, which offers passive real-time...
Foursquare's brilliant new update, which offers passive real-time notifications as you're walking around, might help the company get an acquisition "by Google or Facebook," but it won't "explode their...
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