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The World's New Least Favorite App: "Circle"
The newest spam-blasting social app shares a name with Dave Eggers' fictional villain-company, and all of its charm. Why do startups—and their big-time backers—think they can get away with molesting...
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Happy Holidays: Startup CEO Complains SF Is Full of Human Trash
Behold a perfect Silicon Valley denizen, an archetype: he's been written up in TechCrunch for his hackathon-organizing company. He's been fluffed in Business Insider. And now, inevitably, he's publicly...
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Surprise: No One Graduates from Internet Schools
A comprehensive study released today by the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education looked at a million users of MOOCs—"venture capital's massive, terrible idea" to democratize...
View ArticleYou Shouldn't Want To Live in Uber's Lazy Utopia
When children are about old enough to stop vomiting on themselves, we teach them that instant gratification is bad—one of the simpler vices. But if Uber has its way and explodes into the big fat...
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Airbnb's Industry Mouthpiece Astroturfs for Donations
While Airbnb funneled some of its $326 million in venture capital toward movie replica conference rooms, a skee ball machine, and corporate myth-making at its shmancy new Soma headquarters, the...
View ArticleAfter all that jazz, Snapchat confirmed to TechCrunch that it only raised $50...
After all that jazz, Snapchat confirmed to TechCrunch that it only raised $50 million for its Series C round from a little known hedge fund called Coatue Management. Although Evan Spiegel says the...
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Sploid What the terrifying future of a drone police force would look like | Defamer Fast & Furious 7 Is Being Rewritten To Send Off Paul Walker | Paleofuture Tomorrow's Telephone and The Leisure...
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Bitstrips, Universally Hated Facebook Spam Company, Bags $3 Million
Not only do you not need to make money to be deemed a worthy investment, you can be widely loathed: Bitstrips, an online "web comic" and Facebook annoyance so bad, BuzzFeed made a guide to blocking...
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NASA Admits Google Execs Flew Private Jets with Cheap Government Fuel
After an investigation by the inspector general, NASA says what we already knew: Google's top brass use tax-subsidized gas to go on pleasure trips around the world, saving millions of dollars it could...
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It's a Startup Miracle! SXSW Has-been Highlight Raises $4M.
Insiders are not wrong when they insist this tech bubble is nothing like the last one. For one, the corporate war chests of Google, Yahoo, and Facebook—and the need to compete against them—have...
View Article#Followateen is not just a hashtag, it's a business model.
#Followateen is not just a hashtag, it's a business model. Kik, one of the apps competing to be your backchannel of choice, has ridden "teen interest" to 100 million users. According to CNET, "Youth in...
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Jessica Lessin Throws Intimate Party for The People She Covers
If you're considering a $400 subscription to The Information, the new tech reporting venture from star Wall Street Journal alum Jessica Lessin, you're buying more than news. As her Pacific Heights...
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Dear Dummies, "Learnings" Is Not a Word
In the end, the tech industry's most egregious imposition on society may not be ruthlessness of its founders or the hubris its financiers, but rather its corruption of the English language. For...
View ArticleWhat's more irksome than a stream clogged up with tweets about a TV show you...
What's more irksome than a stream clogged up with tweets about a TV show you don't watch? Unsolicited alerts from Twitter that your friends are talking about a TV show. Read more...
View ArticleIs Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom the Least Human Executive in America?
Mark Zuckerberg is a success story, having gone from Hollywood sociopath and interview nightmare to mere super-dork. He's awkward, but much of the alienating superweirdness has been coached away. But...
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Paleofuture This Week in Time Capsules: Nikola Tesla Statue Rises in Silicon Valley | Defamer Lorne Michaels Held A Super Secret SNL Audition For Black Females | Regressing GSP Is Being Honest; It's...
View ArticleKatie Couric Will Rake in $6 Million Salary at Yahoo! for... Something
We have no idea what Katie Couric is going to do for Yahoo! other than get people talking and writing about Yahoo!, but we do know she'll be paid handsomely for it: TMZ is citing a $6 million per year...
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The Weekend Uber Tried To Rip Everyone Off
For several hours on Saturday, Uber was maybe the most hated company in America. Some of the year's most atrocious weather dumped across the Northeast, and the transit company of the future hit...
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