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Startup CEO Says His Company Is Profitable, Axes Full-Time Staff
Here today we have a flawless specimen of Valley doublespeak: Dalton Caldwell, the founder and CEO of an inscrutable company called App.net, wrote up a "state of the union" for his company. Money is...
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Googler Storms Out Tech Conference: "I AM Google!"
Don't invite veteran software designer Scott Jenson to your next tech conference, unless you're prepared to sell out Madison Square Garden: ReadWrite reports the stuck-up veteran bailed on a speaking...
View ArticleAlibaba filed for a U.S.
Alibaba filed for a U.S. IPO that could value the Chinese e-commerce giant more than Amazon or Facebook. CEO Jack Ma warned his employees, whom he calls Aliren (Ali people), about the "unparalleled...
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Tech Stocks Tank As Wall Street Wonders If They're Worth It
Tech stocks look like a Taylor Swift concert right now. Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Yahoo, Groupon, and King (the makers of Candy Crush) were all in the red this morning. Twitter continues to hit record...
View ArticleUber is first third-party app to ever to be integrated into Google Maps.
Uber is first third-party app to ever to be integrated into Google Maps. Last summer Google Ventures, the corporation's "entirely" separate venture firm, was part of a $258 million investment round in...
View ArticleWhisper CEO Crashes and Burns Over Questions About Gwyneth Paltrow
Michael Arrington is a man who would prefer to keep the things people whisper about him out of the public eye. So the blogging-capitalist, whose "conflicts of interests" run longer than his resume...
View ArticlePaleofuture 11 More Fake Viral Images | Defamer Get Ready for a New Power...
Paleofuture 11 More Fake Viral Images | Defamer Get Ready for a New Power Rangers Movie | Regressing How To Plan A Road Trip To All 30 MLB Ballparks In 30 Days | Truck Yeah! Aluminum Unibody For The...
View ArticleThe founder of NastyGal, the online retailer, has a new book out called...
The founder of NastyGal, the online retailer, has a new book out called #Girlboss. One reason to forgive the hashtag? This story about VC who left her a voicemail while he was "messed up on Percocet...
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TechCrunch Kisses Michael Arrington's Ass for 4th Consecutive Year
Last year, TechCrunch founder and middle-finger-waving investor Michael Arrington announced he'd no longer judge the site's annual startup competition, citing the ominous influence of outside forces...
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Jazz Is The New Punk Rock On Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is midway through its first season now, and the shape of the show is starting to reveal itself. Richard, in fits and starts and panic attacks, is beginning to lead when he needs to and...
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Government Says Snapchat Lied About Your Messages Disappearing
From the very start, pitched as a Greek life dream, Snapchat lured in users by promising their racy pics would vanish after ten seconds. But, as all tweens know, it's easy to get around that, and now...
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Airbnb Lobbyist Is Charging $800 for Tickets to a "Sharing" Conference
It's time to draw a line in the (shared) sand. Technocrats can have "disrupt" and "pivot." Bury those words in a PowerPoint pitch deck; they are lost to us now. But startups must not be allowed to...
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Startups Are Trying to Bribe Tech Reporters With Equity
The dotcom bubble wasn't all piano-jumping and socket puppets. It also involved bribing tech journalists with startup equity. Fortune's Adam Lashinsky reports that it's happening again. In fact, he...
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Goodbye to Katie Cotton, the Queen of Evil Tech PR
After 18 years of spin, Katie Cotton, Apple's magnetically ruthless vice president of worldwide corporate communications, has left her job, and tributes from the tech press are pouring in. What no one...
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Working at Amazon Is "a Soul-Crushing Experience"
In the past week, we've heard from a parade of Amazon insiders—both warehouse workers and white collar employees—speaking about the serious flaws in the company's intense, sometimes inhuman work...
View ArticleTwitter Proposes a Three Column Solution
We're updating http://t.co/mIbPaWEhll with a third column — more flexible for various screen sizes. pic.twitter.com/cvWgoMjCME — Twitter (@twitter) May 8, 2014 Read more...
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Report: Apple Is Getting Ready to Buy Beats for $3.2 Billion
According to the Financial Times, Apple is closing in on an acquisition of Beats, the headphone manufacturer turned streaming music service . The $3.2 billion deal would give Apple control over a...
View ArticleDr. Dre Celebrates Becoming a Billionaire In Future Heineken Commercial
You hardly ever get acquisition updates from World Star Hip Hop, but the blog just posted this video of Dr. Dre and Tyrese confirming Apple's $3.2 billion deal with Beats over some Heinekens.Read more...
View ArticleBetabeat Now Just Posting Press Releases for Its Editor
Remember when the New York Observer had a tech section? It feels like so long ago, before Betabeat was edited by a fraud who uses the site to sell copies of his audiobook. That was a nice time, while...
View ArticleLean Back And Let Silicon Valley Show You How to "Rest and Vest"
Most of the scenes in the final three episodes of HBO's Silicon Valley take place in Mike Judge's version of TechCrunch Disrupt. Without giving away from spoilers, it's pretty much like the real...
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