TechCrunch says Bitstrips, a company based on spamming your Facebook feed...
TechCrunch says Bitstrips, a company based on spamming your Facebook feed with poorly-rendered cartoons, just raised another $15 million in venture capital.Read more...
View ArticleRejoice, Silicon Valley, tech blogs have solved all your infrastructure issues.
Rejoice, Silicon Valley, tech blogs have solved all your infrastructure issues. You can either (1) colonize Oakland or (2) act more like Connecticut. What sounds better: crust punk or cable knit?Read...
View ArticleSnapchat is suddenly open to some adult supervision.
Snapchat is suddenly open to some adult supervision. The company lured Emily White from Instagram, then hired lobbyists after a careless privacy breach. Today, it poached Peter Magnusson, a former...
View ArticlePaleofuture Was This The First Robot Ever Arrested?
Paleofuture Was This The First Robot Ever Arrested? | Defamer Watch Rare Footage of Pre-SNL Chris Farley Performing Iconic Character | Regressing Iowa AD: Paying Players Is Too Complicated For Me And...
View ArticleSad People Are Standing on the Sidewalk in Tokyo to Protest Bitcoin
One of the biggest forces in the ever-shady Bitcoin economy, MtGox, has been blocking withdrawals. If you've invested real money in speculative cyber-money, this is bad news—and it's spurred the...
View ArticleDelivery Startup Lands $16M Investment as Employees Cry Exploitation
The instant gratification economy got a big shot in the arm this week, after Postmates scooped up a $16 million investment round. The company is based on cheaply rushing whatever you want at that...
View ArticleTinder Exposed Your Exact Location for Months
Tinder's callous approach to privacy is getting more brazen. Businessweek says a security flaw exposed the exact latitude and longitude of Tinder users for between 40 to 165 days, with no notice from...
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Google Asks Glass Users To Please Stop Being So Fucking Creepy
Chevy never has to issue reminders to drivers to not deliberately steer trucks into playgrounds, but people who choose to wear $1,500 computers on their faces need an extra lesson in how to be a member...
View ArticleWant to be a tailor, but also want $6.5 million in venture capital funding...
Want to be a tailor, but also want $6.5 million in venture capital funding for no reason? Get TechCrunch to call you a "Made-To-Measure Men's Apparel Startup"—no one will ever know the difference!Read...
View ArticlePaleofuture This Woman Secretly Dubbed American Movies During the Cold War |...
Paleofuture This Woman Secretly Dubbed American Movies During the Cold War | Defamer Watch Jimmy Fallon's Ragtime Cover of R. Kelly's "Ignition (Remix)" | Regressing Why You'll Never Make A Living...
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Facebook Buys Messaging App for $19 Billion in Blockbuster Deal
Put the Snapchat co-founders on suicide watch: Facebook is buying WhatsApp, a smartphone messaging service that's enormously popular around the world, for $16 billion, plus $3 billion in restricted...
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The Winklevii Launched A Bitcoin Index Called "Winkdex"
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who misspelled Gandhi on a PowerPoint at the last Bitcoin conference, have decided to bring some precision to the rough-and-tumble world of cryptocurrency. Today they...
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WhatsApp Developers Are Celebrating With Boxes of Cristal
WhatsApp's 55 employees have $19 billion reasons to celebrate, including Igor Solomennikov, an iPhone developer who has been with the company since 2009. He just posted this shot of the finest bubbly...
View ArticleYes, This Is a Real Advertisement for a Real Tech Company
NOT A SINGLE LINE OF THIS MEANS ANYTHING AT ALL pic.twitter.com/C09wSVztVH— Ivor Tossell (@ivortossell) February 20, 2014Read more...
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Rebirth of the Shitheads: Silicon Villains Get a Second Chance
Every morning some startup founder rises and thanks our species for its short attention span. If we didn't forget the innumerable failures of yesterday, who would ever fund their close cousins today?...
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Buzzfeed and Facebook Are Like Cersei and Jaime Lannister
The law of platforms puts boundaries on appropriate interaction between Facebook (a means for content distribution) and Buzzfeed (a content manufacturer). But, somehow, the two tech companies keep...
View ArticleWhile so many scramble to find/keep housing, the idea of moving to San...
While so many scramble to find/keep housing, the idea of moving to San Francisco made Tim Bray, a well-known developer advocate for Google, give notice. "I find the Bay Area congested, racist,...
View ArticlePaleofuture 10 More Viral Photos That Are Actually Total Fakes | Regressing...
Paleofuture 10 More Viral Photos That Are Actually Total Fakes | Regressing Which Olympic Sport Has The Biggest Athletes? | Defamer James Franco Defends Shia LaBeouf in Ridiculous New York Times Op-Ed...
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A Tiny Group Will Become Hugely Rich from Facebook Money
The three guys up there—the co-founders of WhatsApp and their investor—just made billions and billions of dollars. The photo was taken right after they sealed the deal. Smile! But even the people...
View ArticleJon Mills, who made an armful of enemies through squandered investments in...
Jon Mills, who made an armful of enemies through squandered investments in his company Motionloft, is in FBI custody, TechCrunch reports.Read more...
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