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Gawker Heroes: Josh Tetrick
Josh Tetrick is a Silicon Valley startup CEO, but eased admiration out of me as soon as we first talked on the phone earlier this year. Tetrick isn't making an app or a service to pick up your dirty...
View ArticleGawker Heroes: Kimberly Bryant , Founder of Black Girls Code
While others debate the upside of learning to code or whether Silicon Valley's gatekeepers are as meritocratic as they claim, Kimberly Bryant has been quietly disrupting the status quo through Black...
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Facebook Candidate Uses Awesome Power of Internet, Pulls 146 Donations
The best laid schemes of Facebook cofounders often go awry. Chris Hughes had hoped a $2 million home in largely working class Ulster County—not to mention his facility with those game-changing ways of...
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Happy New Year! Hackers Leak 4.6 Million Snapchat Accounts
While everyone was drunk last night, hackers published the user names and private phone numbers ("private") of 4.6 million Snapchat profiles. This comes directly after the startup, valued for its...
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Halftime Entertainment, The Silicon Valley Way
Fresh off of being hacked, Snapchat's logo makes an appearance at the Rose Bowl, in honor of the university that birthed it. Technically, guys, it shouldn't have eyes or a mouth, which were removed due...
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After being basically kicked off of the internet by Google, Andreessen...
After being basically kicked off of the internet by Google, Andreessen Horowitz's $15 million golden child, is as popular in the new year as it was in the summer of 2011.Read more...
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"The Mindy Project" Is Advertising on Tinder with Fake Profiles
The last time we asked Tinder about its apparent brand-synergy-third-base-score with FOX, it clammed up. Now it's pretty obvious: Tinder users are being matched up with characters from "The Mindy...
View ArticleMarc Andreessen's Twitter Spurt Peaks With an Ode to Ashton Kutcher
A: I'm not joking. @aplusk. He gets it completely. The underrated man of all time in your world.— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) January 2, 2014Read more...
View ArticleMG Siegler Pinpoints Everything Wrong with Tech Journalism in One Post
Nature abhors a vacuum, Silicon Valley abhors even the most minute attempt at criticism. So when Quartz's Christopher Mims wrote "2013 was a lost year for tech," gallant techies took offense. Charging...
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Google Glass Fanboy Robert Scoble Breaks Creepiness Record
Overpaid manbaby technologist Robert Scoble, famous for unapologetically wearing a face-mounted camera into public bathrooms, has outdone himself: as evidence that Google's face computers will be a...
View ArticleWorkers in Silicon Valley "bring almost double the amount of money that their...
Workers in Silicon Valley "bring almost double the amount of money that their counterparts nationwide earn each week," according to new federal data.Read more...
View ArticlePaleofuture 17 High-Tech Gizmos From 1927's Version of CES | Defamer The New...
Paleofuture 17 High-Tech Gizmos From 1927's Version of CES | Defamer The New Nebraska TV Spot Should Appeal to Old White Voters | Regressing The Science Of Hangovers: Causes, Cures, And Prevention |...
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Security Expert Says Snapchat Needs "To Hire Some Really Good Lawyers"
On Bloomberg West today, Christopher Soghoian, a former privacy advisor to the Federal Trade Commission, said that after its recent security breach Snapchat better lawyer up because a federal...
View ArticleSnapchat issued a statement about the security breach that exposed 4.6...
Snapchat issued a statement about the security breach that exposed 4.6 million accounts. The company promised better privacy protection with the next update, but apparently brogramming means never...
View ArticlePandoDaily's One Talented Writer Quits
Hamish McKenszie, who provided the occasional sign of life in an otherwise algae-clogged editorial pro-corporate dead zone, has left PandoDaily for a PR gig at Tesla Motors, multiple sources tell me...
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The Silicon Valley Secessionist Clarifies His Batshit Insane Plan
Balaji Srinivasan, Stanford lecturer and newest addition to the Andreessen Horowitz venture capital all-star team, does not want to live near you. He believes he and his Silicon Valley vanguard deserve...
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PandoDaily to City of San Francisco: Fuck You
Bryan Goldberg, the CEO of Bustle and intellectual equivalent of a large wet sponge, just published his latest treatise about people who are not him. He calls it "satire." The rest of the internet...
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The Fatal Flaw In Marc Andreessen's Tencent Theory
In a new Q&A with the Wall Street Journal, Marc Andreessen argues that skeptics who predict the second coming of the dotcom bubble "just don't know what they're talking about." This time around, he...
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Pioneering video game designer Bill Budge, who spotted this graffiti in...
Pioneering video game designer Bill Budge, who spotted this graffiti in Oakland, said he's "never seen this kind of hate" in 33 years. Image via Twitter.Read more...
View ArticleSnapchat CEO Won't Say Sorry for Hack
The $3 billion boy, Evan Spiegel, had a very good New Year's Eve. He allegedly partied at a lavish L.A. company fete with Taylor Swift and coworkers, looking back on a meteoric 2013. His millions of...
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