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Report: Zynga Founder Asked Obama To "Pardon" Edward Snowden
Yesterday, a bunch of America's leading tech sector executives met with US President Barack Obama. They were meant to be talking about the failure of Heathcare.gov, but things got really interesting...
View ArticleFoursquare Will Not Die
A new $35 million Series D investment round should stave off worries of money implosion at Foursquare: AllThingsD reports the locational app is newly flush, coinciding nicely with a lovely...
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The Second Class Citizens of the Google Cafeteria
As part of a week-long exploration of income inequality in the midst of an economic boom, NPR has matched some faces with abstract dots on a map, demonstrating that you can work for Google and still go...
View ArticleStartups Musically Humiliate Themselves for The Holidays, 2013 Edition
If you're a startup that's taken investment money from First Round Capital, I'm not sure why you'd agree to participate in this video, unless they're threatening to take the money back. Or maybe...
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A totally-not-dsytopian-at-all scene from Google's holiday party, where...
A totally-not-dsytopian-at-all scene from Google's holiday party, where guests were immediately welcomed by three people wearing face computers.Read more...
View ArticleProminent Venture Capitalist Discovers Black People
If you live in the space-silent cultural vacuum of Silicon Valley, you might be surprised by these truths: black people enjoy apps, spend money, and are grossly underrepresented as both creators and...
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Senate Says Facebook Data Brokers "Operate Under a Veil of Secrecy"
Yesterday, during a Senate commerce committee meeting about data brokers—which make $156 billion tracking and selling your personal information—Senator Jay Rockefeller released the damning results of a...
View ArticleUber Backer Compares Company to Life-Saving Cancer Drugs
The more Uber's price gouging is contested, the more its defense boils down to pay up, or fuck off. Menlo Ventures investor Venky Ganesan just offered up the most tone deaf version, comparing...
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Celeb-Backed Blackjet Is Officially Fucked
Blackjet, the Uber for private jets backed by Jay-Z, Ashton Kutcher, Will Smith, and Shervin Pishevar, has laid off most of its employees after additional funding did not come through, reports...
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Tech Titan: Let's Break Up California and Make Silicon Valley a State
Old guard investor Tim Draper made a name for himself with mammoth VC returns on mainstream companies like Hotmail and Skype, then surprised many by retreating from his own firm firm. Now we know why:...
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Twitter, quite literally, bought and paid for San Francisco's City Hall,...
Twitter, quite literally, bought and paid for San Francisco's City Hall, which bled blue last night for the company's holiday party. Looks like Ron Conway's investment in Ed Lee was a real home run!...
View ArticleAnd Now, a Funny Holiday Joke from IAC's PR Boss
Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!— Justine Sacco (@JustineSacco) December 20, 2013Read more...
View ArticleRich Kids of Instagram is being turned into a novel.
Rich Kids of Instagram is being turned into a novel. Coming to an Urban Outfitters discount table near you next summer. Read more...
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Anti-Google Protest Turns Slightly Violent
To the pronounced horror of some people who work at Google, a cadre of anti-tech-gentrification protestors today surrounded one of the company's private San Francisco shuttles, eventually smashing one...
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New Google Perk Shows You Gotta Have Money to Get Money
Tech corporations perks are finally growing up. AllThingsD's Jason Del Rey reports that Google has spoken with Lending Club about the possibility of using its cash holdings to offer low-interest loans...
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Startup Makes Every Employee's Salary Public
If there's anything Silicon Valley enjoys more than money, it's jargon: Buffer, a company that sells an "efficient solution to handle sharing on social media," just published its internal formula for...
View ArticleJack Dorsey is now on the board of Disney.
Jack Dorsey is now on the board of Disney.Read more...
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The Biggest Dick Moves of Silicon Valley 2013
Although we try to focus on the positive, innovative—and dare we say revolutionary?—moments in tech here at Valleywag, the startup world isn't without its occasional bad eggs. It's a shame this crowd...
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Tumblr Is Hiding Its Traffic Numbers
Since Yahoo! decided to buy itself many million cool, popular teens, we've been wondering just how much the billion dollar purchase is working out. Are they clicking ads? And more importantly, just how...
View ArticleDefamer Disney's Christmas Gift To Bill Simmons Is Making Him A Movie...
Defamer Disney's Christmas Gift To Bill Simmons Is Making Him A Movie Producer | Paleofuture Airships and Automobiles Were Going To Put Santa's Reindeer Out of Work | Sploid A blind man tries to guess...
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