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Silicon Valley Will Win the Immigration Battle with Celeb Selfies
Just kidding, this letter-writing campaign probably won't accomplish very much. But it'll make FWD.us feel like it's more than a cynical lobbying machine. Read more...
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The Language of Silicon Valley is Slowly Poisoning Our Brains
"Cloud Storage For Your Physical Stuff." Does that phrase make sense to you? If you're breathing the noxious fumes wafting from Silicon Valley, perhaps it does. But should it? Should that be a thing...
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Teens Are Literally Crawling on the Floor For the New Snapchat
The level of interest app-makers can command for adding new features is usually limited to a dutiful parroting of the press release on tech blogs. Maybe a mass privacy freakout, if you're lucky....
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Lawsuit Attacks Techie Luxury Bus System
After a string of protests has failed to put the brakes on the increasingly hated "Google Bus" network, the San Franciso Examiner reports activists are taking the city to court, along with its cushy...
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Is This the Worst Tech Idea of 2014?
If you can't birth a genuinely good idea, there's a mounting body of evidence saying you should try the most deliberately stupid idea possible. How about a storage unit company that's calling itself a...
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Amazon Insiders Tell the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
It is Amazon week here on Gawker.com. In the past two days, we've brought you stories from workers at Amazon's warehouses and corporate offices . Today, we bring you the stories of three different...
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Silicon Valley Turned the White House Correspondents' Dinner Into SXSW
It's difficult to further debase an annual event commemorating the moral failings of the media industry. But Silicon Valley is nothing if not innovative. Re/code reports that tech companies like...
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Board Emailed Congratulations to Gurbaksh Chahal After He Pled Guilty
Days before the board of directors for RadiumOne fired Gurbaksh Chahal for the controversy surrounding his guilty plea for domestic violence, the all-male board sent the former CEO and chairman some...
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PayPal Exec Goes on Twitter Spree Insulting Coworkers
I promise, your weekend isn't as bad as PayPal global strategist Rakesh Agrawal's—he just woke up and realized he tweeted all of this stuff about people he works with.Read more...
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Ex-PayPal Exec Tweets Individual Fuck Yous to Half of Silicon Valley
Rakesh Agarwal does not know when to say when, but he sure knows how to implode. The former PayPal global strategist followed up a Twitter spree insulting his coworkers with a spectacular cascade of...
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Kickstarter Decides You Don't Care About Money
When Oculus Rift sold out to Facebook for $2 billion, some of us raised eyebrows . A huge Kickstarter crowd had given Oculus money in its early days, and now they were being left behind. Kickstarter...
View ArticleLinkedIn's most popular feature is not job recruiting, but "Who's viewed your...
LinkedIn's most popular feature is not job recruiting, but "Who's viewed your profile," proving once again that social networks are only good for two things: stalking and ego boosts. Read more...
View ArticleVenture Capitalist's Daughter Is Saddest New TV Star
You might know Jesse Draper's dad as that very rich , possibly insane man who's trying to divide California into six smaller states. His daughter is trying to destroy our society in a much more modest...
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Rap Genius Squashes Beef with NMPA
Last November, it looked like unlicensed lyrics on Rap Genius —a website that's based on lyrics—could lead to a serious legal battle between the startup and the National Music Publishers' Association....
View ArticleTechCrunch Speaker Combines Every Possible Startup Cliche
Shingy may have met his match: Justin Rosenstein looks like your typical geek gentry, but underneath the milquetoast-chic demeanor, he's bubble buzzword demon. Watch as he channels every obnoxious...
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Wall Street Is Lording One Number Over Twitter. Is It the Right One?
If you're one of Twitter's 255 million monthly active users or MAUs, you may have noticed company insiders sub-tweeting Wall Street. Only a suit, they scoff, would fail to recognize the value of a...
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"I Do Not Know One Person Who Is Happy at Amazon"
In the past week, we've heard from several insiders at Amazon describing the company's bizarre and sometimes exploitative workplace culture. Today, a current and a former Amazon employee expound—in...
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Ex-Twitter Employees Freaking Out Because They Can't Sell Their Stock
Twitter's stock is currently plummeting down almost 17 percent, but it could have been even worse. The lockup period expired yesterday, prompting fears of a crash should employees and investors decide...
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