Pando Spikes a Post Critical of a Company It Shares Investors With
The crookedest little bloghouse in Silicon Valley just hit a new low, it appears: A negative story about Birchbox, a beauty-product site with which Pando shares investors, was deleted shortly after...
View ArticleAirbnb's Numbers in New York Aren't What They Advertised
Airbnb should have picked another place as the testing ground for its battle with regulators. Just as the sweetheart of the sharing economy prepares to face off with New York Attorney General Eric...
View ArticleSilicon Valley's Dumbest Party Is Even Better on Video
What do you do when your startup mixer has been an internet punchline for an entire week? Release a "video recap" of the night's event, of course. Game-changer. Innovate.Read more...
View ArticlePaleofuture A Century-Old Prosthesis So Advanced Even an Expert Thought It...
Paleofuture A Century-Old Prosthesis So Advanced Even an Expert Thought It Was Fake | Defamer Jerry O'Connell Sets Up Art Exhibit Next Door to Shia LaBeouf | Regressing Mark Cuban Is Fighting To Make...
View ArticleEveryone Knows PayPal Is Closing StackMob, Except StackMob Marketing
Less than three months after PayPal purchased StackMob, PayPal announced it will be shutting down the mobile startup. The news of the closure broke yesterday, only no one told StackMob's marketing...
View ArticleDropbox Has a Conference Room Called "The Bromance Chamber"
Sometimes high-fiving meritocracy requires a conference room of one's own. And so it is at Dropbox, where interviews with potential female candidates take place in "The Breakup Room," which is located...
View ArticleThis Is the "Next-Level" Tinder the Olympic Athletes Are All On
Just because you're warm, indoors, and out of shape, doesn't mean you have to miss out on the best social networking fuckfest of the olympiad: here's what it looks like to browse Tinder at the athletic...
View ArticleLena Dunham's Publicity Tour of Silicon Valley
You can't crown yourself the voice of this generation without a little tech cred. Why else has Lena Dunham been popping up around Silicon Valley this week?Read more...
View ArticlePaleofuture 7 NSA Patents: Cyber Manholes, Super-Shredders and More | Defamer...
Paleofuture 7 NSA Patents: Cyber Manholes, Super-Shredders and More | Defamer Here Are Some Hot Valentine's Day Sex Tips from the Duggar Family | Regressing Is A Crappy Under Armour Race Suit Slowing...
View ArticleYou Won't Believe What Upworthy's Cofounder Overheard Today
On Facebook this afternoon, Upworthy cofounder Eli Pariser posted the kind of depressing tale you'd never find on his own site. The cringe-inducing interaction took place at the Soho outpost of WeWork,...
View ArticleKickstarter CEO Says Site Hacked, No Credit Card Info Stolen (Updated)
Uh oh, Kickstarter's CEO Yancey Strickler says that the company has been hacked. No credit card info was stolen (whew!), but the company says users' personal info has been compromised. Better go change...
View ArticleUber Tricked This Guy into Attending a Shitty Propaganda Session
If you get an email offering free rides to a free party with free booze, it's usually too good to be true.Read more...
View ArticleThomas Friedman Visited Silicon Valley and Is Wrong About Everything
The first line in town idiot Thomas Friedman's latest column is maybe the most stupid part: "The most striking thing about visiting Silicon Valley these days is how many creative ideas you can hear in...
View ArticleGoogle Admits Google+ Was Just A Ploy To Track Your Behavior Online
As a social network, Google+ is just a bunch of empty circles spinning in a barren wasteland. But Google could give a fuck if consumers prefer Facebook. What the $400 billion data vacuum really wanted,...
View ArticleNothing that starts with "The liberal wonderland of the San Francisco Bay...
Nothing that starts with "The liberal wonderland of the San Francisco Bay Area..." will end well. But this meditation on tech money and the middle class quickly moves from head-scratching ("Home...
View ArticleDefamer Obama Requested Advance Copies of Game of Thrones and True Detective...
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View ArticleCandy Crush Going Public, Because Candy Crush Will Always Be Popular
If there's one truism on the internet, it's that once something is well-liked and popular, it remains in that state forever. This is the rationale behind King Digital, the firm behind Candy Crush Saga...
View ArticleWhy Won't Technology Tell Us When to Fuck?
"Why Don't We Have a Monogamy App?" Ann Friedman asks in her latest New York magazine story. Yeah. Why don't we?Read more...
View ArticleRon Conway Sells the $9.5 M. Co-op Where His Ed Lee Promo Was Shot
Ron Conway, the pioneering angel investor behind the "spray and pray" technique, has put his $9.5 million "Louis XV style" abode up for sale, reports Business Insider. According to Trulia, the price...
View ArticleOysters and Weed: Meet the Rap Genius Interns
What do you imagine interning at a lyrics website that's run by three cartoonish Yalies with millions of dollars in the bank would be like? If your guess involved drugs, visits to Whole Foods,...
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