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OkCupid Blocks Firefox Over Anti-Gay CEO
If you're both a fan of convenient, local, web-enabled sex and Mozilla's open source browser, your daily routine is about to get interrupted: Firefox users are now greeted by the following protest...
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Don't Believe Mark Zuckerberg's "Dollar" Salary Myth
What a mensch! The 22nd richest man in the world was paid just a single buckeroo in 2013, Bloomberg reports, according to Facebook's latest regulatory filings. That's so cool of him, except it's also...
View ArticleProtestors in Clown Gear Block Another Google Bus
SFPD shouting "sidewalk!" at onesie-clad protesters to clear #googlebus protest. Bus just pulled away. pic.twitter.com/iI9ufIyk8J — Ellen Huet (@ellenhuet) April 1, 2014 Read more...
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Now That It's Worth $10 B., Airbnb Makes San Francisco Hosts Pay Taxes
You have to hand it to Startupland. Where else could a company figure out its tax obligations only after the market says it's worth $10 billion? An even better trick is chanting "sharing" all the way...
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Fox Is Trying to Cast Tech Entrepreneurs for Its Reality Show Utopia
Fox has begun casting for Utopia, its "social reality experiment series," where 15 people spend a year in an isolated, undeveloped location and create their own civilization from scratch. What better...
View ArticlePaleofuture 10 More Viral Photos That Are Actually Fake | Defamer Sex Tape...
Paleofuture 10 More Viral Photos That Are Actually Fake | Defamer Sex Tape Preview Shows Cameron Diaz's Boobs, Other Sex Stuff | Regressing ESPN College Hoops Writer Makes Terrible "Bold Predictions" |...
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You Could Get a Job From Gossiping on Secret
The anonymous app Secret is good for bragging about polyamorous deviances, lifting the veil on #crushit culture, and now getting a job with a powerful venture capitalist. Read more...
View ArticleBefore you get too excited wearable technology, keep in mind that it gets...
Before you get too excited wearable technology, keep in mind that it gets abandoned faster than a gym membership. One third of American consumers who own a wearable products like activity trackers or...
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Silicon Valley Deserves Silicon Valley
Until now, no one adequately embarrassed Silicon Valley on TV. All prior attempts either embarrassed themselves, or fell just short. But Silicon Valley, Mike Judge's HBO foray into the sociopathic pit...
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Oakland Rebels So Sickened By Techie Scum, They Barfed on a Yahoo Bus
The protests against tech corporation shuttle buses have gone from high production value to gross out gags. Read more...
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Don't Boast About the "Hot Bartender" at Your Tech Meetup
As tech communities on both coasts grapple with issues of gender inclusion and harassment , casual meetups will be more and more important. But this is definitely one of the worst places you can...
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Whisper Moves from a Santa Monica Frat House to a Fortress In Venice
What's gnarlier than a startup office with a pool and ping pong table five blocks from the Santa Monica beach? Using a nice chunk of the $54 million you raised to inhabit a Venice "fortress" once...
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U.S. Secretly Created 'Cuban Twitter' to Undermine Castro's Government
For more than two years, the United States secretly funded and developed ZunZuneo, a text-based social media platform, in order to encourage an uprising against the Cuban government, according to a...
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Mike Arrington Won't Shake Your Disgusting Hand
Typically, you might worry about what would happen if Michael Arrington's hands were on you. But the TechCrunch founder and pugnacious VC is equally terrified of physical contact, creating a public...
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Sheryl Sandberg Is a Comic Book Superhero
Faster at liquidating Facebook shares than a speeding bullet, able to leap across the promotional book tour circuit in a single bound, it's Sheryl Sandberg!Read more...
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The Duke of York Commissioned a Startup Contest Called Pitch@Palace
You know the balance of power has tipped when British royalty wants to become the next Ashton Kutcher. Yesterday Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, invited the entire London tech scene and their mums to...
View ArticleIt's official.
It's official. Google completed its controversial two-tiered stock split , insuring that top executives like Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt control the voting power. Now all they need is...
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Anti-Gay Firefox Chief Brendan Eich Quits Days After OkCupid Backlash
That was relatively quick! After lots of angst and arguing, Recode reports the anti-gay CEO of the Mozilla Foundation just stepped down. What can't online dating accomplish ?Read more...
View ArticleTwitter Investor Says "We're in Bubble Territory"
Notable venture capitalist George Zachary just went on Bloomberg West—not exactly home turf for market skepticism—and said he thinks we're in a tech bubble, as evidenced by ballooning company...
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Elon Musk Hates Silicon Valley
The general consensus ahead of Sunday's big HBO debut is positive: geeks and geek detractors are both excited for Silicon Valley . But Recode's Nellie Bowles attended the show's San Francisco...
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