Recode reports a Twitter engineer, Sara Haider, is ditching the company for...
Recode reports a Twitter engineer, Sara Haider, is ditching the company for Secret , the secret-sharing phenom app. This is great news for the latter, bad news for the former, and lovely news for...
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A Startup I Like: Luna
Before I left for a trip to San Francisco earlier this month, I challenged myself (read: was forced by a boss) to find a startup I like. The assumption being that, surely, if I work at Valleywag, I...
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Michael Arrington: "Google Spied on My Gmail"
This week, we learned Microsoft has been able to read anyone's Hotmail inbox, if it so pleases. But what about Google? According to TechCrunch founder and friendly VC giant Mike Arrington , his Gmail...
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Jason Calacanis Whines About Secret on Secret
Let's put it this way: long-ago-successful venture capitalist Jason Calacanis isn't the absolute smartest man in the business. Otherwise, he probably wouldn't obviously post anonymously to Secret...
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So, it's settled: Silicon Valley has the worst roadside billboards in the...
So, it's settled: Silicon Valley has the worst roadside billboards in the Western Hemisphere. [Photo via Sara Mauskopf]Read more...
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Google Glass Continues Passive-Aggressive PR Campaign
By 2014, wearing a Google Glass on your face has become only slightly less stigmatized than a giant swastika or swath of acne. But if face computers die, Google's rep will take a hit, too: so the...
View ArticleSame as it ever was, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.
Same as it ever was, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. In 1999, at the peak of the boom: "Startups turned warehouses into offices. Venture capitalists poured money into companies with no earnings....
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Can We Call Jelly a Failure Yet?
On March 6th, Twitter co-founder and Silicon Valley nice guy Biz Stone sent me a very sad email.Read more...
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Ageism Turned Silicon Valley Into a Hotbed for Male Plastic Surgery
If I had $1 million for every time a founder told me "It's impossible to raise funding if you're not a twenty-something dude," I could lead their Series A round. The same bias applies to hiring. The...
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The Billion-Dollar Battle for Snapchat
How long does a Snapchat photo last? Ten seconds. How long does the partnership behind the country's hottest app stay together? Not much longer.Read more...
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VC Justifies Investing in Blue Bottle Coffee By Calling It a Movement
If there's anyone more precious than a coffee snob, it's the tech investors who plowed $45.7 million into Blue Bottle Coffee, which Slate calls the Apple to Starbucks' Microsoft.Read more...
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Vice Is the Tech Bubble
Vice Media, a company that sells cool kids to corporations for marketing purposes and does good journalism on the side, is a legitimately profitable business. Makes a lot of cash. But is Vice really...
View ArticleMonths later, the battle to pry public beaches from the private, lawless...
Months later, the battle to pry public beaches from the private, lawless control of venture capitalist Vinod Khosla continues. But San Francisco Magazine reports that even though Khosla still has the...
View ArticleTurns out my @Facebook is kind of worthless.
Turns out my @Facebook is kind of worthless. I used to post & reach most of my 200k followers, now I reach 5k & have to pay to hit more. — RainnWilson (@rainnwilson) March 25, 2014 Read more...
View ArticleThis Week's Tech IPO Winner Was a Millionaire Matchmaker Star
Dylan Smith co-founded Box, a storage company that's posed to be Silicon Valley's newest public company. Smith will make tens of millions of dollars (at least!)—perhaps enough money to erase his...
View ArticleInstagram is experimenting with using Facebook Places for location rather...
Instagram is experimenting with using Facebook Places for location rather than Foursquare. This is bad for Foursquare's chance to make money by being the "location layer" for the internet , although...
View ArticleThe dreams of those agorist Bitcoiners who still hoped that their digital...
The dreams of those agorist Bitcoiners who still hoped that their digital currency could evade the taxman are finally dead. The IRS hath spoken. They will treat Bitcoins as property, which means...
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Facebook Buys Oculus Rift For $2 Billion
Facebook has just announced that it's buying Oculus Rift for $2 billion. Seriously.Read more...
View ArticlePaleofuture This "Electric Book Reader" of 1927 Was The Future of Speed...
Paleofuture This "Electric Book Reader" of 1927 Was The Future of Speed Reading | Defamer Hollywood Filmmakers Help the Gun Industry Stay Rich | Regressing Which Countries Have Produced The Most...
View ArticleWe were in talks about maybe bringing a version of Minecraft to Oculus.
We were in talks about maybe bringing a version of Minecraft to Oculus. I just cancelled that deal. Facebook creeps me out. — Markus Persson (@notch) March 25, 2014 Read more...
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