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Business Insider Is Having a Nervous Breakdown Over Google Glass

Google Glass will blow you away, nobody is going to buy it, it will change the world forever, it's flawed, it's perfect, you'll never wear it, and you'll never be able to live without it. At least...

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Netflix: Where We Set Up Shop, Torrenting Drops

The Chief Content Officer of streaming giant Netflix claims the modern trend for easily streaming legal content is impacting on the more hardcore Bittorrent scene, with pirate traffic dropping in...

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Tech Bro's Agency Implodes After Sharing Dick Pics of a Client

Last time we checked in with Jesse Thomas, founder of the interactive agency JESS3, he was posting drunken dick pics of his friend Matt Monahan taken during a "Geeks on a Plane" jaunt to India,...

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EIC Quits Bill Gates' Company Because He Fears It'll Get People Killed

Of all the reasons to flee a startup, death rarely ranks—but photo editor Corey Pein ditched Demotix after its acquisition by Corbis. "I thought their plans were dangerous," he explains. The...

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Canned Storyboard Staffer Now Leaning In with Sheryl Sandberg

This ended well surprisingly fast! Jessica Bennett, formerly of Tumblr's eliminated editorial department, will be helping Sandberg spread the Lean In mantra with original "editorial and social content."

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Everyone looks so thrilled to be working at Zynga, don't they? DON'T THEY?...

Everyone looks so thrilled to be working at Zynga, don't they? DON'T THEY? Careful, the dog is watching.

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Zuckerberg Waited Until Game of Thrones Ended to Buy Instagram

From Kara Swisher's latest tech profile in Vanity Fair, one of those "this is indicative of something profound and strange, but I'm not exactly sure what" moments: Saturday, [Instagram founder Kevin]...

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Want VC Cash From This Guy? Don't Talk Like a Foreigner

If you read Nathaniel Rich's half-skeptical orbit around Y Combinator—one of tech's trendier cash camps—there's one important takeaway: the guy in charge really doesn't like foreign accents. Rich...

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How detached from reality is PandoDaily?

How detached from reality is PandoDaily? When a middling company that makes no money is purchased by another company for $60 million, that deal is "underwhelming."

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Twitter's Beautiful Founder Is Officially Scaring Us

Jack Dorsey, condemned to a perpetual state of selfie for crimes in a past life, is starting to straight up frighten us. Is staring blankly into a camera every day the best way to get people to use...

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As part of Zynga's new "austerity," the company is fixating on its Farmville...

As part of Zynga's new "austerity," the company is fixating on its Farmville franchise. "It could be the Seinfeld of our era in gaming, a multi-season show that has a quality and a consistency that you...

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MG Siegler Just Became the Most Blessed Shill in The Entire World

Apple shopper, ever-conflicted TechCrunch blogger and venture capitalist MG Siegler just took on a third job: partner at Google Ventures. But don't worry, he says, everything is going to stay just the...

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Slow clap for Facebook, which just is now a member of the Fortune 500 club.

Slow clap for Facebook, which just is now a member of the Fortune 500 club. It debuted at 482, despite a botched IPO and this really bad TV ad for Facebook Home.

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San Fran Yuppie-Haters Destroy Google Pinata

Silicon Valley's cushy private buses epitomize the area's social tension: rich white people get driven around with air conditioning, poor non-whites get higher rent, and not much else. So how about an...

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The US Senate Just Passed That Internet Sales Tax Bill

That massive online sales tax hike that senators were pushing through? Yeah, it's looking more and more likely. The US senate just held a final vote on the Internet Sales tax issue and it passed...

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What It's Like to Die at AOL

AOL Music lasted fifteen years before it was destroyed late last month without warning or much of a funeral. After talking with a survivor (of sorts) from the wreckage, you have to wonder how anyone...

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Pricks on a Slope: Summit Series Buys Whole Mountain for $40 Million

You might say Summit Series, a bespoke conference of "epic events" for the one percent, has been employing a freemium strategy. Back in 2008, 20-something CEO Elliott Bisnow started by footing the...

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Robert Scoble Indulges a Quora Question About Contacting Robert Scoble

Enter the infinity ego, a ruddy, loudmouthed ouroboros: Scoble's latest web foray poses satisfies an important question: how do you get in touch with Robert Scoble? Scoble, perhaps still dripping from...

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Thank God, There's Another Way to Order Food Online

VentureBeat brings us the breaking news that something called "Foodpanda" just locked down $20 million in funding. The big, expensive idea? Ordering takeout. Through the internet. There's no indication...

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