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Goodbye, Patch: Good Idea, Bad Execution
Patch, AOL's national network of hyperlocal news sites, was born with a big idea: that local news can be profitable... somehow. That may be true. But Patch won't be the one to reap the rewards. Read...
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Nas and Childish Gambino Are Bitcoin Believers
The Bitcoin Forum got a vicarious thrill over the weekend when crypto kiddies found out that Nasir Jones is now a Bitcoin investor. The news came courtesy of a PandoDaily article that admired the...
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Twitter Employees: Don't Talk About Your Neighbors This Way
A series of events: the New York Times writes about how insulated Twitter is from its destitute urban surroundings. Twitter engineer writes that, well, if you've made it into the company's offices,...
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New York Senator Accuses Airbnb Lobbyist Of Misinformation Campaign
The bedtime story about disruption goes like so: a big bad useless government financed by greedy incumbents is the only reason that authorities are concerned about issues like public transportation or...
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Obama Meeting with Silicon Valley Elites to Figure His Shit Out
After months of chanting We could have done sooo-oo much better, TIME reports America's tech sector will have a chance to school President Obama on Healthcare.gov and NSA surveillance. But he probably...
View ArticleTim Cook Speaks About His Own Discrimination as a Gay Man
After years of (silently) being the most powerful gay man in technology (and perhaps the entirety of corporate America), Apple CEO Tim Cook is starting to get personal. A recent speech on human rights...
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This Is Not The Lindsay Lohan Startup Party You're Looking For
Last night, the paparazzi and their tech blogging equivalent gathered at Pravda, a once trendy Soho hot spot, to celebrate apps with fly girl jail bird Lindsay Lohan.Read more...
View ArticleHorrible Spam App Promises To Cease Horrible Spam
After Valleywag called out Circle, a contact list-bombing social network no one asked for, the company's CEO apologized via bloggy mea culpa, and pledged to be less annoying. Good!Read more...
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How Much Did It Cost Mark Pincus To Sit Next To President Obama?
When the White House invite list for "top tech executives" got out yesterday, a few names stood out for the wrong reason. What would former Zynga CEO Mark Pincus, who stepped down in July after...
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President Barack Obama just wrapped up a meeting with some of Silicon...
President Barack Obama just wrapped up a meeting with some of Silicon Valley's brassiest brass. Marissa and Sheryl got very good seats. [Photo: Getty]Read more...
View ArticleSeriously, Enough With This Apple Holiday Ad
Apple's new holiday ad has been called, in turn, endearing, note-perfect, and, in a spasm of enthrallment, perhaps Apple's best iPhone commercial ever. I think maybe I saw a different ad.Read more...
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Amazon Could Get a Union
Amazon is the future of retail in America. Like its biggest competitors, it is not unionized. But that could change soon. Read more...
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The $357 Uber Ride
After we wrote about Uber's weekend stupendous, wintry price-gouge-athon, a reader in otherwise lovely Los Angeles left a transit horror story of her own. Here's the brief tale of one woman's very...
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Defamer Here's What Your Favorite Television Writers Make | Paleofuture The Best Books of 2013 | Regressing Which NBA Coaches Are Best At Designing Plays During Timeouts? | Sploid This prefab portable...
View ArticleCandy Crush, the sugary time suck that rots your wallet, was the most...
Candy Crush, the sugary time suck that rots your wallet, was the most downloaded iOS app of 2013. Keep in mind, however, that virality and value are two separate things. Read more...
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NIPS and the Zuckerberg Visit
This past weekend, several hundred researchers, students, and hobbyists streamed into Lake Tahoe to attend a conference called Neural Information Processing Systems. NIPS is one of the two machine...
View ArticleThe Coin Miracle Credit Card Is Still a Junky Prototype
Coin, the frivolous wallet gadget that swept the frivolitysphere last month, just issued its first update to pre-order customers. A lot of them are pissed, because the miracle product they paid for...
View ArticleAs expected: NYT reporter Nick Bilton's treacherous Twitter tale has been...
As expected: NYT reporter Nick Bilton's treacherous Twitter tale has been optioned for the (small) screen—Lionsgate is going to spin it into a TV series, with the same producer as "The Hunger Games,"...
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Uber's CEO Is Laughing at You on Facebook
For Uber, this weekend's snowstorm was followed by a shitstorm, of a magnitude that would make most reviled CEOs tuck their tails for a few days. Not Travis Kalanick, the techno-libertarian mastermind...
View ArticleDefamer Jeff Zucker Interested in Fucking Over Jay Leno at CNN | Paleofuture...
Defamer Jeff Zucker Interested in Fucking Over Jay Leno at CNN | Paleofuture DARPA Tried to Build Skynet in the 1980s | Regressing Chart: Who Has The Hardest World Cup Draw? | Sploid The definitive...
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