Twitter Employee Disses Twitter Cofounder Jack Dorsey on Twitter
Square IPO "postponed indefinitely" http://t.co/F6TyCrjoOt In unrelated news, I'm hiring for my Payments team! https://t.co/Ys84e9Awyl — Andrew Row (@andrewrow) February 28, 2014 Read more...
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Unprofitable Tech Company Buys Two Old Log Cabins
Twitter, which is not a profitable company and enjoys a cushy tax break from the city of San Francisco, has purchased two wood cabins to be installed within its cafeteria , the Marin Independent...
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Rupert Murdoch's Oscar Party Date Was a Silicon Valley Alpha Investor
Billionaire bachelor Rupert Murdoch may be in the market for a fourth wife. The 82-year-old mogul escorted Kleiner Perkins partner Juliet de Baubigny to Vanity Fair's Oscar party last night, posing...
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The Ellen Selfie Was TV's Victory, Not Twitter's
It's 2014 and Twitter isn't a profitable company—but did you see how many retweets Ellen got last night? The Hollywood selfie seems like a giant business coup for ad-reliant Twitter, but it says more...
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Glasshole "Hate Crime" Victim Not too Traumatized for Free Trip
It would be awesome, Sarah Slocum . Also awesome if Google could throw in a self-driving car, a Starbucks gift card, and maybe some of those cool shoes that have the wheels built in—you know, the ones...
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Mural In the Mission Puts Ed Lee, Uber, and Airbnb On a "Shame" List
The "Shame" list on this Clarion Alley mural includes Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Corporate Tax Give-Aways from Mayor Ed Lee and the SF Eviction Epidemic. And this was painted before a house in Glen Park...
View ArticleStartup Kids Lose Their Underwear at Hot Tub Victory Party
When the team behind Connect—a generically named, beautifully designed social app—won a recent pitch competition, they were ecstatic. Nabbing $200,000 and the oozing love of venture capitalists is a...
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Are Startups Addicted to Adderall?
Dextroamphetamine/Amphetamine has long been the friendly pocketable crutch of the so-called "creative class" (yuck!) and college overachievers. But what about tech? I hear more and more about startup...
View ArticleStartup Flying Dateable Women to San Francisco Like It's Imperial Japan
A startup called The Dating Ring has taken its inspiration from an unlikely source: the "comfort women" of World War II. How else can they explain this crowdfunding campaign to help fly New York women...
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Reminder: Please Take Randi Zuckerberg Seriously
Completely legitimate business entity, self-made woman, Davos guest, author, and technologist Randi Zuckerberg is now hitting Broadway with a two-week stint in "Rock of Ages." This is not a drill.Read...
View ArticleDefamer Watch This Moving Tribute Honoring Phillip Seymour Hoffman's Career |...
Defamer Watch This Moving Tribute Honoring Phillip Seymour Hoffman's Career | Paleofuture What Is This Fake Hoverboard Company Actually Promoting? | Regressing Title IX's Other Effects: Do Sports Make...
View ArticleFWD.us Immigration Ad Exposes the Problem with Playing Both Sides
Yesterday, the Council for American Job Growth, the left-leaning arm of FWD.us , released an ad attacking House Republicans for blocking immigration reform. According to TechCrunch, the Council will...
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The Winklevii Are Going to Space
There was a time when news that Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss just bought spaceship tickets using Bitcoin would have been completely surprising . That time is long, long gone.Read more...
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Silicon Valley had a lovely time at the Oscars, part two: this one featuring...
Silicon Valley had a lovely time at the Oscars, part two: this one featuring Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, his girlfriend, Frontback community manager Elissa Patel, Airbnb investor and advisor Ashton...
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I Tried BroApp and It Did Not Turn Me Into an Awesome Boyfriend
Every day on my way to work, I spend the entire train ride deleting inane press releases from my email inbox. Diet pills? Delete. A series of seminars on how to convince your boyfriend to propose?...
View ArticleStartup Founder Seeks Roomie for "Super Gentrified Apartment"
Do you want to live with the people behind "Clash," an "urban scavenger hunt" startup? Really? OK, well now, "ask yourself if you would thrive in a living condition that's A) very urban B) bright...
View ArticleThe latest stop on Marc Andreessen's can't stop, won't stop loquacious world...
The latest stop on Marc Andreessen's can't stop, won't stop loquacious world tour is this obsessive-compulsive evisceration of Carl Icahn (The third in a series.) With bloggers like this, the news...
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Facebook Just Bought Itself a Police Officer
The biggest problem with Facebook is all the shootouts, unsolved mysteries, and occult strangling attacks at its massive Menlo Park campus . Worry no more: the San Jose Mercury News reports Facebook...
View ArticleEx-Twitter designer @jbrewer has joined Clinkle as VP of design.
Ex-Twitter designer @jbrewer has joined Clinkle as VP of design. Continues to be disconnect between co's rep and its hiring wins. — danprimack (@danprimack) March 5, 2014 Read more...
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Complaint Alleges Sean Eldridge Illegally Accepted In-Kind Donations
Republicans in Hudson Valley, where Sean Eldridge is running for Congress, allege that their new neighbor accepted in-kind donation from a local economic group. In a complaint to the Federal Election...
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