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Private Relations: Tech PR Firm Sued for Rampant Sexual Harassment
There's nothing less sexy than tech public relations, except maybe incessant lewd texts from your coworkers. According to a just-filed lawsuit against OpenCommunications, PR flacks have combined the...
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Things Continue to Work Out Just Fine for Allison Williams
Girls star Allison Williams got a bit of good news today, and then another bit of good news, and then another bit of good news, and so on and so forth until bits of good news arranged in neat, orderly...
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Ben Horowitz: Silicon Valley's Most Powerful Burn Victim
Quick: take this sorry, confused patient away from the newest cover of Fortune and back to his ward—and warn the rest of the vain techie hot shots that the era of the hilariously ill-advised magazine...
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UK Spy Agency Grabbed Millions of Webcam Images From Yahoo Users
With the help of the NSA, British spy agency GCHQ captured and stored webcam images from millions of unsuspecting users, the vast majority of whom were not suspected of any crimes. "Substantial...
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Silicon Valley Innovates New Level of Lameness for Ultimate Frisbee
Whenever you meet someone new, ask them "Are you a murderer?," and if they say "No!" you ask them "Do you play ultimate frisbee?" This is how you weed out bad people. But the dumbest game on two feet...
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Silicon Valley's Richest Hood Gets Vandalized and the FBI Is on It
Here's the difference between where you live, and where people like Eric Schmidt , Guy Kawasaki, and Tim Draper live: when their houses get tagged by vandals, it becomes a federal problem.Read more...
View ArticleRegressing New Study Says NBA Referees Aren't Racist Anymore | Defamer Here's...
Regressing New Study Says NBA Referees Aren't Racist Anymore | Defamer Here's Justin Bieber Doing Push Ups in Jail | Paleofuture This 1924 Illustration Nails the Real Future of Drone Warfare |...
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How a Hacker Intercepted FBI and Secret Service Calls With Google Maps
Earlier this week, Bryan Seely, a network engineer and one-time Marine, played me recordings of two phone calls (embedded below.) The calls were placed by unwitting citizens to the FBI office in San...
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Uber Is Spamming Seattle with Unwanted Phone Calls
Pending legislation could hamper Uber's ability to do business in Seattle. Rather than use some of its hundreds of millions of dollars to buy influence like every other company, the transit startup is...
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Your Spare Tire Is Taking Grubhub-Seamless Public
Yesterday, I ordered both breakfast and dinner from Seamless. I didn't consume lunch since that would have involved leaving my laptop and walking across the street. Because I am disgusting, Grubhub,...
View ArticleBitcoin Kingpin Admits Everyone's Money Is Gone
Japan-based Mt.Gox CEO Mike Karpele—who may or may not be Chris Farley reanimated with the soul of Reddit—just copped to some very bad news: yes, he lost all your money.Read more...
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The Serbia news site Netokracija says this the statue that Apple picked from...
The Serbia news site Netokracija says this the statue that Apple picked from 10,000 other entries to memorialize Steve Jobs. It's either that or a mystical key that unlocks the Google barges (via...
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The Highest Paid Interns in Startup Land
We already know Google interns rake it in, but what about their high-pedigreed peers? They're also doing very, very well—how's $7,000 a month sound?Read more...
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Mt. Gox users who lost all their money in the burning embers of the Bitcoin exchange are gathering at GoxBux.com to explore "legal options+ remedies." Earlier today, CEO Mike Karpele said he'd be...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Shuts Down Anti-Environmental Investors
At today's annual shareholder meeting, Apple CEO Tim Cook laid the verbal smack down on conservative investors who want the company to abandon some of its progressive policies. Read more...
View ArticleThe Wall Street Journal reports that two more execs have left Fab, the once...
The Wall Street Journal reports that two more execs have left Fab, the once spendthrift and now struggling ecommerce company, including CFO David Lapter. A leaked memo from CEO Jason Goldberg recently...
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Heart of Blandness: A Walking Tour of Silicon Valley
Walking is the only pleasant form of traveling by land. You need no special equipment, training, money, e-tickets, antidepressants, or Twitter followers. Whatever clothes you're wearing will do fine;...
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Seamless Takes a Cut Almost Equal To the Tip On Every Order
Great and powerful provider of food delivery Seamless and GrubHub take almost a 14 percent cut on every order, according to data culled by Quartz from the company's IPO prospectus. That means in some...
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Does Mt.Gox's CEO Have a Secret History of Committing Fraud?
In the wake of Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox announcing that it lost $473 million worth of the virtual currency , many people who saw their money disappear have called for CEO Mark Karpeles to be...
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The Guy Behind "Scroogled" Now Runs Strategy at Microsoft
Mark Penn , former Clinton administration aide turned bumbling corporate flack, just got a new gig at Microsoft, Recode reports, running corporate strategy. He's also the brain (?) behind one of the...
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