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James Franco Apparently Tried to Hook Up With a Teenager On Instagram
Actor/poet/aspiring MFA-Ph.D. James Franco might also be able to add "creepy older dude" to his C.V. after he—or someone very convincingly pretending to be him—tried to arrange a hotel hookup with a...
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Love Note from an Airbnb Billionaire: "Fuck Hotels"
The seasons are changing, and synergy is in the air: Airbnb's founder Brian Chesky is using his girlfriend's app as a platform to share their love—and his unofficial corporate slogan.Read more...
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Michael Arrington Defends Mozilla CEO Because Gays are "Mostly Free"
To get a glimpse at the interior logic of libertarian leaders who work in the technology industry, take a look at Michael Arrington's triumphal tweet from last night: "My point is this. WE'VE WON!...
View ArticleIn 2005, Mark Zuckerberg Gave a Talk and Barely Anyone Showed Up
Right now, you read this (very possibly having arrived via Facebook), Mark Zuckerberg is one of the richest, influential , and world-historically diabolical figures in the history of American...
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Truck Yeah! Leaked GM E-Mail Reveals Furious Backpedaling On Spokesman's Statement | Paleofuture When Watching Baseball on TV Was the Future | Regressing The Last Flight Of DeAndre Kane, College...
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Bizarre New Tech Trend: Demanding a Ransom in Billions or Bitcoin
Yesterday was not an insanely awesome #sundayfunday for Google Ventures general partner Kevin Rose. Protestors gathered outside the Digg founder's San Francisco home in Potrero Hill with banners...
View ArticleWatch the Entire First Episode of HBO's Silicon Valley Right Here
Perhaps realizing that everyone is just going to use their former roommate's pilfered HBO Go password anyway, the series premiere of the (hugely smart and funny) Silicon Valley is now available on...
View ArticleInvestor Semil Shah has christened a new category of startups.
Investor Semil Shah has christened a new category of startups. By the power vested in him by TechCrunch, all apps that help users to summon goods and services will henceforth be part of the lucrative...
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Give a Child $30 Million for a Startup, Keep Waiting for It to Start
Last week, Recode reported the departure of two more top executives from Clinkle , a San Francisco startup that's trying to create yet another way to transfer money with your phone. Investors have...
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Yahoo! Wants to Be the Next Netflix
It's hard to say what Yahoo! is, exactly: your grandma's favorite search engine (!)? a convenient place to set up your fantasy baseball league (!)? just a sneaky means of getting us to look at more...
View ArticleSilicon Valley is just like the Ivy League, argues venture capitalist Rachel...
Silicon Valley is just like the Ivy League, argues venture capitalist Rachel Chalmers. In both places, lucky is a dirty word: "The game is rigged. The pathology of Silicon Valley is that the winners...
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Those Who Serve Tech Billionaires Lunch are Facing Eviction
At Google, the people who spoon out gourmet lunches to the Mountain View struggle to feed themselves . At Tesla Motors, chariot-builders of the geek elite, working at the corporate cafeteria means you...
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And So It Begins: Uber Adds "Uber For Things" Delivery Option
Uber has officially taken its first step towards becoming the next Amazon —or the next vertical-crazy, growth-chasing Icarus (Fab.com, Gilt Groupe, Groupon, take your pick.) The car-hailing company...
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The CEO of Tinder Is Dating Michael Dell’s 20-Year-Old Daughter
Last fall, Sean Rad told Bloomberg Businessweek that he met his girlfriend of four months on Tinder, the same dating app where he serves as CEO. That young lady, who went unnamed, is 20-year-old Alexa...
View ArticleRegressing How A Clever Kansas Play Went Viral And Took Over College...
Regressing How A Clever Kansas Play Went Viral And Took Over College Basketball | Defamer House of Cards May Have to Film Elsewhere After Losing Incentives | Paleofuture The TV-Guided Drones of World...
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The Anarchists Who Protested Kevin Rose Sound Surprisingly Logical
After slogging through their 2,000-word anti-Google ransom note , I did not expect to engage in a remotely reasonable discussion with the Counterforce. Not when the anti-capitalist protestors...
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The Quantified Dog: Are We Out of Bad Ideas?
Last week, tech companies offered the web their April Fool's "jokes," like cats with dead mice, and we all sort of uncomfortably nodded. It's never been harder to discern a facetious idea from the...
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Silicon Valley Royalty Cosplay for Game of Thrones Party
Joe Lonsdale , co-founder of the unambiguously sinister data-mining startup Palantir and Clarium Capital alum, is just like the rest of us. When he turns 30, he rents out a castle. And when it's time...
View ArticleOn the hierarchy of which employees get acqui-hired, frivolous contributions...
On the hierarchy of which employees get acqui-hired, frivolous contributions like user experience and marketing are at the bottom. Designers, who are more likely to be female than their engineering...
View ArticleSnapchat Will Never Disappear
thanks @evanspiegel for an awesome talk at @LaunchpadLA last night. excited for the next 25 years of @Snapchat! pic.twitter.com/5sY8AH7U2b — Sam Teller (@samteller) April 9, 2014 Read more...
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