Twitter's Boss Lawyer Heads to Washington
Cnet reports Twitter's top counsel, Nicole Wong, will be the White House's new (and first!) Chief Privacy Officer. If Obama wanted to reach into the private sector, this isn't a bad pick: Twitter's...
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Startup Guy Will Only Talk if He Can Share the Conversation on YouTube
Gittip is a website that lets you pay people weekly allowances, which are made public. Why anyone would want to do this, I do not know. Why its founder, Chad Whitacre, insists on broadcasting his calls...
View ArticleAOL Killing Off American Tech Support
A (soon to be axed) tipster tells us AOL is canning its entire domestic tech support team, to be replaced by outsourced staff. I hope you don't have any future problems with your... AOL thing. Our...
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CrunchFund: It's 'About Who You Know'
After MG Siegler's announcement yesterday that the CrunchFund general partner was moving onto greener, more re$$$ourceful pastures at Google Ventures, questions about the future of the conflicted fund...
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VC Dumps Five Million Real Dollars into Bitcoin Hysteria
In the past, Fred Wilson's Union Square Ventures backed startups with decent ties to the mainstream: Foursquare, Tumblr, Soundcloud. Not anymore: welcome to the crazy, volatile, nerd gold rush, Fred....
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Donald Trump Is Giving Away 'Suitcases of Cash' to Promote His Startup
Name a type of business that Donald Trump could not improve by putting his face on top of it. If you said crowdfunding startup, you're wrong! (Typical loser.) The legitimate hairstyle choice is now...
View ArticleFoursquare: Letting Your Phone Automatically Check You In Is "Natural"
An interesting choice of words there from Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley. Auto-check-ins aren't here yet, he explains, but they would be a "natural progression" of the location-broadcasting we're...
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Meet the Richest Hypocrite in Silicon Valley
John Doerr is a White House advisor, prominent billionaire, and Silicon Valley household name—at least among yuppie Valley households who care. Six years ago, he famously stepped back and forth across...
View ArticleAmazon warehouse workers are forced to stand in line for 20 minutes or more—...
Amazon warehouse workers are forced to stand in line for 20 minutes or more— unpaid— at the end of their shifts, waiting for guards to search them for anything they might have stolen from work. They're...
View ArticlePath Buying Its Way onto New Sprint Phones
All signs point to Path being desperate for user growth: first spam recidivism, and now a deal with Sprint. Out of the box, popular Android smartphones will put a direct link to download Path in your...
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Not Complicated: Randi Zuck Talks Moms, Friendship, and Birthdays
Welcome to Not Complicated, where we break down Randi Zuckerberg's weekly try at cashing in on her last name. The literary newsletter can be a little too erudite, so we'll comprehend it so you don't...
View ArticleThe Facebook Phone Is Now $0.99
Either because of horrible sales or a change in strategy, AT&T is now selling Facebook's "Home" phone for the same price as a small order of McNuggets. It's a pretty decent phone, but really, the...
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Larry Ellison Just Buying Houses for The Hell of It Now
Boats, part of Hawaii, and now $200 mil worth of luxury Malibu real estate—tech billionaire Larry Ellison's eternal spending spree crusade continues. This is how you stay busy when you're the third...
View ArticleToot-toot, all aboard the cheap labor train!
Toot-toot, all aboard the cheap labor train! Tea Party prince Marco Rubio is leading the call for "pro-growth immigration reform" in his new role as part-time tech blogger. So begins TechCrunch's...
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Michael Arrington Sues Jenn Allen Over Rape Claims
After issuing an ultimatum to abuse-alleging ex Jenn Allen, TechCrunch founder and investor Michael Arrington is now trying to take her to federal court. In demand for trial filed just yesterday,...
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There Are Too Many Companies Doing the Exact Same Thing
Infographics are one of the worst things about having eyes, and like photos of venereal diseases, I will try to avoid posting them here whenever possible. This slide, however, from some hellish...
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Peter Thiel Just Paid 20 Kids $100k to Not Go to College
Techno-libertarian VC king Peter Thiel just promised $2,000,000 to kids in love with software. For scholarships? Nah—they get they ditch their education and form startups instead. The billionaire...
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Report: Microsoft Wants to Buy Nook for $1 Billion
TechCrunch is reporting that Microsoft, which has already made an interesting $300 million investment in Nook, wants to double down and buy the whole darn thing. Specifically, Microsoft wants to pay...
View ArticleTumblr IM Creator: Our Shit Is Broken, Now Pay Me to Fix It
Babblr is a simple idea: an IM add-on for Tumblr, so you can chat with your GIF and pro-ana pals without leaving the site. It proved to be a popular idea, too: so many people downloaded Babblr that...
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