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"Wolves of Bitcoin" Figured Out a Nice Little Pump-And-Dump Scheme
San Francisco magazine says all the heat surrounding Bitcoin has attracted the kind of unsavory schemers you might have once found on the trading room floor. But they're not just trying to manipulate...
View ArticleFinally, a Tech Debutante Advertises in the Super Bowl
Historically, introducing your internet-based company to a new audience via Super Bowl airtime hasn't always worked so well. But maybe Squarespace will wind up on the E*Trade side of things, rather...
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Mark Zuckerberg Is Making Fucking Insane Money This Year
The boy king of NASDAQ has earned $3.4 billion dollars for himself this year alone, Bloomberg, reports, owing mostly to Facebook buoyant stock prices.. It's barely February.Read more...
View ArticleDell is rumored to be laying off more than 15,000 employees, or about 15...
Dell is rumored to be laying off more than 15,000 employees, or about 15 percent of its staff, this week because of reduced demands for PCs. Never have the words "management has every conference room...
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Lean In Promotes Anti-Feminist Congresswoman
Chairman Sandberg's Great Lean Forward isn't about advancing women, it's about advancing the right women—those who want to advance corporate America in turn. Maybe this is why the ostensibly feminist...
View ArticlePaleofuture When a Bar Full of Women Was a Nightmarish Dystopia | Defamer NBC...
Paleofuture When a Bar Full of Women Was a Nightmarish Dystopia | Defamer NBC Plans to Lay Off Entire Tonight Show Staff | Regressing Who Was America Rooting For Last Night? | Truck Yeah! New Automated...
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SF to Google: Get Your Dang Mystery Barge Off Our Lawn
Google's mystery barge that's been floating in San Francisco Bay since last fall? Yeah, it's gotta go because Google never secured any permits for it to be there in the first place. Read more...
View ArticleInvite-Only Oceanside Conference Vows to "Reset the Agenda for Women"
Makers began as a documentary about the history of women's equality developed by AOL and PBS, but seems to have morphed into a brand of its own. Next week, Makers is hosting a three-day conference...
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Revealed: One of Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive Guest Lists
Every year, a chosen cadre of investors, high profile tech luminaries, and startup folk get together at the SV Angel Summit. A tipster tells us this year's confidential confab is happening today, with...
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New York's Bitcoin Trading Floor Is Real and It Is Ridiculous
Just because Bitcoin is the future doesn't mean its true believers don't respect tradition. Since May, the community has been hosting a poorly-attended trading pit in Union Square as an "homage to Wall...
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The Medium Model: Making Shit Up About Suicidal Journalists
Last week, Medium editor Arikia Millikan published a bizarre essay about an “important war correspondent” who gave her a “red-blooded introduction to journalism” by drinking with her, seducing her,...
View ArticleFoursquare just struck a $15 million, non-exclusive licensing deal with...
Foursquare just struck a $15 million, non-exclusive licensing deal with Microsoft to "work Foursquare's data into its products." Now if Foursquare could just get the other apps that use its data, like...
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Son, It's Time We Talk About Where Startups Come From
Hey there, I'm glad we're watching CNBC together. Don't those Silicon Valley entrepreneurs look awful young? Especially that main one ringing the NASDAQ bell, with the spiky hair and shifty eyes? Read...
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Tech CEOs Have Gotten Much Better at Seeming Normal
This morning, the world woke up to two "humbled" letters from two chief executives: Satya Nadella and Mark Zuckerberg. But you didn't need to read their words that closely because the CEOs proceeded to...
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YouTube Creator's New Baby Is Self-Destructing
One success never guarantees another: Chad Hurley, who helped bring the world YouTube, is bombing once again. His video-sharing service MixBit is dead following legal threats by Kanye West, and the...
View ArticleHere Is Where Medium Employees Will Fuck at Work
New @Medium office is spacious enough to make this feasible: "Can I move in to save rent and not be caught?" pic.twitter.com/q6RKGXwgI7— Adam Debreczeni (@heyadam) February 4, 2014Read more...
View ArticleUber Is Basically Training Drivers to Violate California State Law
A pending lawsuit against Uber says the smartphone car service is partially responsible for a little girl's death by encouraging illegal distracted driving. We looked at Uber's internal training...
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AOL's Miserly New 401k Policy Will Ruin It For the Rest of Us
Buried in AOL's summary of its 2014 employee benefits was a tweak to its retirement policy that the Washington Post says will "make 401(k)s worse for everyone." AOL must agree because an article about...
View ArticleA random Verizon customer service rep admitted that the telecom giant has...
A random Verizon customer service rep admitted that the telecom giant has been using its recent net neutrality victory to limit bandwidth to Netflix and Amazon AWS services. Verizon corporate denies...
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Investor's Plan to Split California Would Create Poorest State in USA
When we first read over superstar tech capitalist Tim Draper's "Six Californias" plan to make Silicon Valley its own state, we were a little skeptical. Was dividing California into six new states a...
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