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One Day After Bitcoin Arrest, Winklevii Argue for Fewer Bitcoin Rules
At a panel on virtual currencies held by the New York Department of Financial Services yesterday, Bitcoin investors Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss warned banking supervisors that too many rules would...
View ArticleThe harrowing tale of how Twitter user @n lost his one-letter handle, worth...
The harrowing tale of how Twitter user @n lost his one-letter handle, worth $50,000. Spoiler alert: think twice about letting PayPal and GoDaddy store your credit card info.Read more...
View ArticleHere's How to Fix Class Tension: Let The 99% Pretend They're The 1%
Interesting. Doorman: A startup that collects your package deliveries, then delivers to your home on demand. http://t.co/rwdjracj8O— Farhad Manjoo (@fmanjoo) January 29, 2014Read more...
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Today's News, Brought to You By Tech Giants
The lines have gotten even blurrier since the Internet kneecapped newspapers. In the past few years, media companies called themselves tech companies, then that distinction became meaningless. In...
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Tom Perkins Was Right: We Do Hate the Rich. And For Good Reason
This column was originally published in VentureBeat by editor-in-chief Dylan Tweney and is reprinted here with permission. When Kleiner Perkins cofounder Tom Perkins wrote on Friday that a "progressive...
View ArticleRemember when Facebook was a social network?
Remember when Facebook was a social network? Well according to 53 percent of its revenue, it's now a mobile advertising company. Damn, this quote just gets better with age: "The best minds of my...
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Congress Wants To Ask Twitter Execs About All The Ads From Prostitutes
After months of reporting, TheStreet found more than a thousand of Twitter profiles advertising escorts and dominatrixes, and at least two international networks of escorts that "rely on the Twitter...
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Zuckerberg Will Write Thank You Notes for Moving Fast, Breaking Things
On the occasion of Facebook's 10th birthday, Mark Zuckerberg sat down with Businessweek to reflect on what the magazine generously calls the company's pubescent period. (Please. A decade in social...
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Before It Got Suspended, @A16ZElevator Ranked "Tech Douchenozzles"
There are only three decent Twitter parody accounts in tech. There's the late, great @fakedorsey, which deleted its imaginary dispatches from the mind of Jack Dorsey. Then there's @ViceMeme, although...
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Zynga Lays Off 15 Percent Of Staff, But Spends $527 M. for Acquisition
Today Zynga announced plans to lay off 15 percent of its staff, which amounts to about 314 employees. This follows massive layoffs last June, during which more than 500 employees lost their jobs. But...
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Michael Arrington's Next CrunchFund Might Be Smaller Than It Appears
Michael Arrington's capitalist dream will not be deferred. Even after losing cofounder MG Siegler to what looks like an indefinite international vacay, CrunchFund crunches on.Read more...
View ArticleYou should read this nonsensical, but brand loyal Twitter account that seems...
You should read this nonsensical, but brand loyal Twitter account that seems to belong to Satya Nadella, the man Bloomberg says will be Microsoft's new CEO. Nadella likes exclamation points almost as...
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Startup Gets Hacked, Revealing Child CEO Posing with Cash
Clinkle was supposed to be the mobile payments app of the future, but so far, all it's been able to create is horrible headlines about itself and its hated 22-year-old founder. Like clockwork, Clinkle...
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Larry and Sergey's Greed-Shot to Control Google Stock Paid Off
Some moon shots are more self-serving than others. On April 2, Google will split its stock for the first time, in an "unorthodox" move to that shareholders fear will benefit cofounders Larry Page and...
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LivingSocial Still Puking Money
Everyone's former favorite "daily deals" site from several years ago just posted terrible news for investors: a net loss of $183 million for 2013. Read more...
View ArticleChris Poole, the founder of 4Chan can hardly believe that Facebook--"the...
Chris Poole, the founder of 4Chan can hardly believe that Facebook—"the standard bearer for what most people think of as 'online identity'"—would allow its users to be anonymous. Does the fact that you...
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All The Dumb Things Facebook Wants Celebs to Post for the Super Bowl
Facebook has brokered a Superbowl deal with a short list of semi-famous athletes, one CNN anchor, and Fergie's husband. If these stars use Facebook to share a specific kind and number of posts during...
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SF Mayor: Middle Class Means Earning $80,000 to $150,000
Ed Lee is the mayor of San Francisco by the grace of that city's deep-pocketed technologists. He continues to return the favor in both deeds and rhetoric: a new interview with Time has Lee explaining...
View ArticlePaleofuture Depression-Era Teachers Predicted Online Schools Would Look Like...
Paleofuture Depression-Era Teachers Predicted Online Schools Would Look Like This | Defamer Lawsuit Accuses Dr. Phil of Ridiculing, Exploiting Sex-Seeking Teen | Regressing How The Super Bowl Can Kill...
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New York Observer Hires Known Fraud Ryan Holiday to Help Run Tech Blog
Ken Kurson, editor-in-chief of the New York Observer, confirmed to Valleywag that he has hired Ryan Holiday, author of the book Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator, as the...
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