Let's Start Wildly Speculating About When Marissa Mayer Will Be Fired
Okay, Wall Street Journal, might as well get this rolling today: "The clock is now ticking for Marissa Mayer ," says the paper's Doug MacMillan. It's true: Yahoo! loves firing its CEOs, and Marissa...
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View ArticleY Combinator, which has been going through an identity crisis, just welcomed...
Y Combinator, which has been going through an identity crisis, just welcomed Quora (a $900 million, 7-year-old company) into its summer batch of early-stage startups. The accelerator will also invest...
View ArticleHappy Mother's Day From the Moms on Whisper Who Hate Their Kids
Moms are pretty much the best. But just because many of them are amazing and lovely and badass doesn't mean they don't have their moments of frustration with their children. Or that they don't...
View ArticleThe Lost Children of TechCrunch Disrupt
The biannual TechCrunch Disrupt conference series is only about money. There are interviews, the exchange of opinions, software presentations, questions, answers, and lots of visuals. But the entire...
View ArticleLet's Talk About Last Night's Silicon Valley
In the most recent episode of Startup Asperger's Action Squad , the boys of Pied Piper face a big problem: TechCrunch Disrupt is around the corner, and their software doesn't work. It also included...
View ArticleGarden Gnomes, the Google Way
The rich live differently. Yard art at the DNC fundraiser home of tech entrepreneur Anne Wojcicki. pic.twitter.com/mIM27Pvp7v — Angela GreilingKeane (@agreilingkeane) May 9, 2014 Read more...
View ArticleUber Is Now the Uber for Planes
God, does Uber have to do everything around here? Since Blackjet, the Uber for private planes , has crashed and burned, the company that once let you hail cars with your smartphone is temporarily...
View ArticleTwitter's New Mute Function Is the Unkindest Cut of All
With every new social network comes new etiquette and, thus, great strides in the field of feeling slighted . But Twitter's mute function really twists the knife.Read more...
View ArticleOm Malik says the "gold rush mentality" of the dotcom days has turned into...
Om Malik says the "gold rush mentality" of the dotcom days has turned into "gross entitlement." Then there's this: "Yes, I have overheard a conversation that combined wisdom from Jesus and Ben...
View ArticleNow We Write Resumes Like Douchebags, Too
In 2014, it's not often enough to just do something: dogs must be tracked via Bluetooth, articles have to animate like kaleidoscopes, and a simple resume becomes a multimedia memoir.Read more...
View ArticleSemen-Like Startup Snack Now Selling for $115 a Pouch
If you want to buy three servings of a nutritional powder than can be combined with water to create a synthetic "meal" with the exact appearance and consistency of semen , you're going to pay a lot...
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View ArticlePlaintiff In Wage-Fixing Suit Refuses Chump Change From Tech Companies
Lawsuits and federal investigations against tech companies tend to end one of three ways. Corporations pay a pittance of a settlement, swear they'll do better without admitting guilt , or the whole...
View ArticleTwitter Promises Over $1 Million for SF Community Classrooms
We've given Twitter flak in the past for taking millions in tax cuts and giving back to its neighbors in questionable ways. But a new partnership with a homeless care group looks like the real...
View ArticleFormer FriendFinder CEO Is Selling His $35 Million Star Trek Mansion
This replica of the starship Enterprise (down to the sound effects when you open the door) is located inside the $35 million home of Marc Bell, the former CEO of FriendFinder. The network of adult...
View ArticleBillionaire Testifies That He Can't "Recall" Blocking Access to Beach
It's hard to believe Vinod Khosla can run a venture capital firm with more than $3 billion under management when his brain is full of holes. During an hour of testimony, the billionaire repeatedly...
View ArticleJennifer Jenkins, a senior staff writer at the New York Times, is leaving the...
Jennifer Jenkins, a senior staff writer at the New York Times, is leaving the paper to work for Paper, a Facebook app.Read more...
View ArticleNew York Supreme Court just threw out Attorney General's subpoena of Airbnb,...
New York Supreme Court just threw out Attorney General's subpoena of Airbnb, a big victory for the apartment-sharing site — Doug MacMillan (@dmac1) May 13, 2014 Read more...
View ArticlePaleofuture 15 Years of Virgin Galactic's Failed Space Age Promises | Defamer...
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