Clik here to view.
Yep, Investors Were Full of Shit About $370 Million Instagram Ripoff
Tech investors said Viddy, an Instagram clone with video, was worth $370 million. The tech press parroted the "Instagram for video" line until their lips chapped, assuming it was true—since when is app...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Q&A with Betas, Amazon's Show About Startup Life in Silicon Valley
Popular culture may have turned its gaze westward, toward the mirage of wunderkind coders, open floor plans studded with perks, and suddenly ubiquitous apps that make their makers insta-millionaires....
View ArticleThe first ever union vote at an Amazon facility in America is in: workers in...
The first ever union vote at an Amazon facility in America is in: workers in Delaware voted 21 to 6 against joining a machinist's union. For unions, these types of votes are often hard to win. Amazon...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Google Goons Now Guarding Private Buses
There's now a layer of corporate muscle standing between window-smashers and Google's soft, fleshy staffers: Reuters reports San Francisco's highly controversial campus shuttles are now being...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Farhad Manjoo Quits WSJ After 15 Seconds To Join NYT
There's nothing worse than getting married, then realizing you could have done so much better. Such was the dilemma of tech media's preeminent naif, Farhad Manjoo, is ditching the Wall Street Journal...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Startup Makes App to Help People Evade Traffic Laws
Never, ever forget: the Silicon Valley insider crowd is exempt from the rules and norms of the rest of the citizenry. TechCrunch excitedly reports on a new app called "Fixed," which will help San...
View ArticleThe denial phase is over.
The denial phase is over. In his speech about NSA spying tactics, President Obama just said: "We will also enable communications providers to make public more information than ever before about the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Your Sexiest Bachelors of '14 Include Three Silicon Valley Sociopaths
I understand why Town & Country shoehorned three techies into their "Sexiest Bachelors 2014" list. If coders are the new bankers, and bankers were the new imperial vassal lords (or something), it...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Yahoo! Cares About Every Detail Except the Important Ones
The company has no clear direction, it employs Dave Pogue, a marketing exec is in charge of the media division, Yahoo! Mail is a wreck, and morale is low—but at least the urinal cakes show team...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This Is the Dashboard of Your Life
As the saying goes, If you're not paying for the product, you are the product. For social networks and their data brokers, that product is personal data about what you like and what you buy, even the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Some Clusterfuck of Brands Turned Joe Jonas Into an UberX Driver
Why are the vaguely-techie stories that show up on TMZ never as juicy as you hoped? The Hollywood blog reports that Joe Jonas—you know, the one with the good hair who got corrupted by Miley Cyrus—took...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Venture Capitalist Accidentally Reveals 17 Ways VCs Are Screwing You
Investors who aren't announcing another $1.5 billion fund still have to get attention somehow or they'll lose deal flow to the latest venture celebrity. Gil Dibner, a VC at DFJ Espirit, thought maybe a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Artists Recreate Tiny Version of San Francisco Class Warfare
Artists, Bay Area residents, and Valleywag readers Colleen Flaherty and Matteo Bittanti shared their latest joint work with us—a series titled "The Streetviews of San Francisco." Or, more plainly, The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New York's Office Space Nightmare Buys Man a $10 Million House
Unless you have a lot of money, it's often impossible to find a suitable spot for your business in New York, with office lease prices through the roof—and if you're a cash-strapped startup, well, don't...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Harvard Study: Black People Get Screwed on Airbnb
If you rent a room on Airbnb, odds are you know what your host looks like—their picture is featured front and center. A new report out of Harvard Business School crunched the data, and says this is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The CEO of Nest Will Live to Regret This
In the warm afterglow of a $3.2 billion acquisition, a sated executive can find himself muttering the professional version of pillow talk. That's what Nest CEO Tony Fadell sounded like on stage this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Gawker Guide To Getting Unfollowed
This month, it has dawned on some people that it's possible to be rude on the Internet. Don't care for tenderly served personal revelations on Twitter1? Ticked off by an eager attempt to amuse you with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Randi Zuckerberg Proves Davos Is a Total Joke
Right now, many of the worst people alive are flocking to a tiny, silly Swiss town for a week of swapping platitudes and talking about money. But why would our planet's ultrarich dickheads want to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Leaked Memo: Google Tells Employees What To Think About Private Buses
Google's private shuttle system, which whisks staffers away from the cruel streets of San Francisco to the sterile safety of Mountain View, already has a big image problem. What could make it even more...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Black Twitter FINALLY Gets Recognized ... So Twitter Can Sell Ads
Last July describing the cultural impact of Black Twitter, Buzzfeed's Shani O. Hilton wrote, "It's diffuse, powerful, and all around you." That's the kind of active, influential user base that startups...
View Article