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TechCrunch Says I Can't Come to Their Party Anymore
As the sun began to rise in New York, Katie Clark-AlSadder, Senior Account Manager at SHIFT Communications, broke my heart: my press credentials to Disrupt 2013 are revoked for no reason. It's time for...
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The Weather Channel Is Torturing Its Interns with Twitter
"Man, this unpaid internship sucks," you might say to yourself, "but at least I'm not stuck in a tornado." Tough nuts for these 'terns (click the video above), who are caught in a diabolical attempt...
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That Horrible Tumblr Memo Was Actually a Fired Editor's Secret Revenge
Tumblr founder David Karp's abrupt farewell to his Storyboard team earlier this month was so disingenuous, so thick with noxious doublespeak, that it hardly seemed real. That's because it wasn't:...
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Here Is How Foursquare Plans On Turning Your Life Into Ads
On stage at TechCrunch Disrupt earlier today (RIP, Sam Biddle's press credentials!) Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley acknowledged the haters, before offering a confident dismissal: "I think there are a...
View ArticleThe Wall Street Journal has anointed will.
The Wall Street Journal has anointed will.i.am and MC Hammer (cofounder of the failed, Michael Arrington-backed startup DanceJam) as judges for its "Startup of the Year" competition. Because...
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Twitter Should Shut Me Down
In August of 2012 I left my job at a startup in New York City. I was 24. I enrolled in a graduate program at NYU, wanting to study Computer Science and Biology. Two weeks in, one of my professors...
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The CIA Loves Investing In Retail-Friendly Startups, Too
There's more going on at Langley than Hellfire missile strikes and eavesdropping: the CIA has a lively presence in Silicon Valley. The most recent cash-drop? The spook VC is cozying up with a company...
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Life "Isn't Easy" for Handsome Bankers with Ivy League Social Network
Gather round, campers, turn down the lantern, and prepare for a story from our friends at Bloomberg. A story of two rich, good looking men, ripped by the claws of fortune and fate as they struggle to...
View ArticleTwitter's Complete Guide to Not Being Hacked
The microblogging service that's become a newsroom staple across the world is still missing stronger, two-step security offered by Google and Facebook. Security that would've stopped companies like...
View ArticleEx-Facebook Exec: Startup World Should Be "Utterly Ashamed" Of Itself
Former Facebook bigwig and current investor Chamath Palihapitiya isn't pulling any punches at this week's TechCrunch Disrupt, where many a punch is typically pulled. He's disgusted with what's called...
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Is David Petraeus About to Join KKR?
The David Petraeus comeback tour may lead the disgraced former general through the cleansing fires of high finance, where your alleged sins can be washed away with a few stellar exits. He has been...
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Update: Michael Arrington Showed Up at TechCrunch Disrupt After All
Last week, we reported that TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington would skip his Disrupt conference for the first time ever. We were wrong: Yesterday, he showed up on stage. It seems that whatever...
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Twitter's Creator Just Perfected the Selfie
Vine, previously known for ruining every medium of visual art, has reached new heights: an infinitely looping vision of its king, Jack Dorsey. Vanity has never looked so good—and this might be what...
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Mark Zuckerberg's Self-Serving Immigration Crusade
Having solved the problem of people not wasting enough time on the internet, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is now tackling his first real-world political cause: immigration reform. With a slick new...
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This Is What It Looks Like When You Lose All of Your Startup Money
Well, technically not all of it. After working as a programmer for online gaming community Meez.com, our tipster saw his scoop of the corporate money sundae reduced by 8,000,000 to 1, leaving him with...
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Ben Huh's LOLCat Empire Axes a Third of Its Staff
Cheezburger Network, which has amassed a heap of attention (and millions in VC money) just announced it's canning 24 employees. Why? Well, they're just not making enough money. Full statement below:...
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Path Is Seriously Spamming People (Again)?
It sure looks like it, according to the laments of one frustrated Brit—he says Dave Morin's twee Facebook respite has been bombarding his friends without permission, even after he deleted it. This...
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If Google Has Its Way, Someday Every White Guy Will Look Like This
Yep, it's possible for caucasian America to be more annoying: just add a face computer. This Tumblr is doing a bang-up job of chronicling the new cyber-eyed vanguard of the nerd aristocracy. Luckily,...
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Company You've Never Heard of Throws Insanely Expensive Party
Last night's launch party for Gig-It, an online sim game that essentially swaps out FarmVille's crops for rappers, was music video lavish. It looked like its backers just listened to the radio for 30...
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These Guys Are Now in The News Business
You might remember Rap Genius co-founder Mahbod Moghadam from that time he said "Zuck can suck my dick." Now he wants to help the world better understand current events. There he is up on the Disrupt...
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