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Attorney General Will Reissue Rejected Subpoena for Airbnb Hosts
Airbnb is not in the clear yet. In court papers filed today, New York State Supreme Court ruled in favor of the $10 billion rental company and quashed a subpoena for data about illegal Airbnb hosts....
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At Amazon, Even the Part-Timers Are Miserable
At Amazon, the office workers tell us they feel trapped , and the warehouse workers tell us they feel exploited . Let's cover the rest of the bases, shall we? Today, a contract worker and an intern...
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Why Does TechCrunch Let Its Reporters Work for Startups?
Expecting ethical behavior from TechCrunch is like expecting your adopted chimpanzee to not eat your face—unfair to you, unfair to the chimp. Yet, impressively, even after years of sleaze , the...
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Happy 30th Birthday, Mark Zuckerberg: You're Officially Too Old
Mark Zuckerberg turned 30 today, which means he is too old to matter within the Silicon Valley boy-worship culture he largely helped found around himself.Read more...
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Paleofuture Politician Proposes Hoverboard Lanes For DC By 2015 | Defamer CBS Kills Greta Gerwig-Starring How I Met Your Mother Sequel | Regressing The Prettiest MLB Box Scores You Can Find Online Are...
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Startup CEO Charged in Felony Hit-and-Run Accident
Earlier today, CNN included Nextdoor in an article about "Hyperlocal apps [that] help residents fight crime." Later today, NBC Bay Area reports the CEO of one of those apps is now facing serious...
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We're hearing more terrible things to come from online throw pillow emporium Fab.com: a source close to the company says "Fab is going to reduce its NY office down to 20 to 25 people" (down from a few...
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The Twisted History Behind the CEO Charged with a Felony Hit-and-Run
Yesterday, Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia was charged with a felony for allegedly leaving the scene of a hit-and-run that left a female driver injured. Speeding away in a BMW X5 reflects poorly on a startup...
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Defamer Neil Patrick Harris Could Have Hosted the Late Show | Paleofuture Is This Aerofex Hoverbike Going on Sale in 2017? Probably Not. | Regressing The Scientific Case Against Vibram's FiveFinger...
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Protestors Claim They Vandalized Google's Frank Gehry-Designed Office
Protestors claiming to part of an anarchist collective called the Counterforce say that they vandalized Google's office in Venice, California, which is located inside the Frank Gehry-designed...
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Which Tech Companies Protect Your Data From the Government?
Every year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation releases its "Who Has Your Back" report card, detailing the privacy policies of tech companies. Here's the rundown of who fights for your privacy in the...
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The New York Times Shoves Tim Cook Back in the Closet
Cook is the CEO of Apple, that company that makes all of the things you either own or want to own at some point in the future. He's also gay. So why is the Times so emphatically saying "There Are...
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$10 Billion Is the New $1 Billion
Remember The Unicorn Club of startups that secured an esteemed $1 billion valuation? Might as well be The Garbage Club now, full of trifling companies with worth the kind of coin one chucks out the...
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This Month in Cosmo: Should You Try to Snag a Hot Techie Boyfriend?
Did you know that "Hollywood It Girls are snatching up web entrepreneurs like they're the latest iPhone upgrade?" If you read June's issue of Cosmopolitan magazine you do! It includes an article that...
View ArticleA Venture Capitalist Finally Weighs in on the Met Brawl
Can't listen to JayZ anymore without thinking he's a bitch after the beatdown from Solange...my bet is he cheated on Beyoncé and got caught. — Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath) May 16, 2014 Read more...
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The Week's Best Tech Gossip Has Been On This New Anonymous App
Last week I downloaded Tentwenty, a newly launched local message board that displays text and photos from anonymous users according to where they are in real time. Scrolling through my sparse feed at...
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WePay Blames "The Rules" For Withholding Medical Funds from Sex Worker
Eden Alexander is an adult film star and cam girl. After a "near fatal" reaction to a common prescription drug and a month of chronic pain, she tried to crowdfund $4,000 for her medical care. Hours...
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Twitter Censors "Blasphemous" Tweets to Oblige a Pakistani Bureaucrat
Twitter is still receiving accolades for its role in the Arab Spring years later, but the corporation's decision block tweets in Pakistan for the first time ever is tarnishing its reputation as a free...
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Glassholes Use Google to Destroy a Restaurant's Rating
A woman wearing Google Glass was recently asked to remove the computer—infamous for publicized recordings taken by its entitled owners —before having brunch at a popular East Village restaurant called...
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Rap Genius Cofounder's Creepy Comments on Elliot Rodger's Memoir
Tech rainmaker Marc Andreessen once boasted that Rap Genius would one day "annotate the world." If you needed yet another reminder of how utterly worthless that would be, read the creepy and weird...
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