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Rap Genius Cofounder Resigns Over Comments On Elliot Rodger Manifesto
Rap Genius cofounder Mahbod Moghadam resigned from both the company and its board of directors, effective immediately, after leaving inappropriate annotations on the manifesto by Elliot Rodgers, the...
View ArticleTwitter's new growth strategy is Facebook's old one: developing countries....
Twitter's new growth strategy is Facebook's old one: developing countries. eMarketer says Twitter will grow fastest this year in Indonesia, India, Argentina, Mexico, and Brazil. Good thing since...
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Google’s Thermostat Division Wants to Get Into the Nanny Cam Business
Search engines and home security go together about as well as microwave ovens and television programming, but now that Facebook is a utility, Google might as well be GE. The Information reports that...
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Data proves that getting a college degree is worth it.
Data proves that getting a college degree is worth it. Let's see what Silicon Valley data fiends have to say about this empirical evidence via The New York TimesRead more...
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Activist Workers Will "Lean In" to Sheryl Sandberg's Speech at Harvard
How does Sheryl Sandberg's brand of corporate feminism apply to working women who haven't been offered "a seat on a rocketship "? We'll find out tomorrow when she delivers the commencement speech at...
View ArticleSo much has changed since the Arab Spring.
So much has changed since the Arab Spring . Wael Ghonim, the Google marketing executive credited with igniting a revolution in Egypt, just joined Google's venture capital firm as an...
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Amazon's Hit List: Which Books Are Screwed, and By How Much
As of today , Amazon's crusade against book publisher Hachette is no longer an open secret, it's outright confirmed. Shipments are being delayed, prices are elevated, and some listings are unavailable...
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This Is What Passes For a Craigslist Rental In San Francisco
San Francisco's housing market is now more exuberant than the dotcom boom, leaving eviction notices for longtime tenants and all cash buyers in a bidding frenzy. Even renting a couch in some dude's...
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"Fuck Bitches Get Leid," the Sleazy Frat Emails of Snapchat's CEO
Evan Spiegel , the boyish cofounder and CEO of Snapchat, is dying to be taken seriously. He rejected Mark Zuckerberg, opines like Steve Jobs, and hobnobs with media titans. But Spiegel's undergrad...
View ArticleUber CEO Travis Kalanick says he was not getting any ladies when he was...
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick says he was not getting any ladies when he was previous startups were tanking. “It’s great now!" — Nicholas Carlson (@nichcarlson) May 28, 2014 Read more...
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Amazon Deserves All of Its Bad PR
Amazon, the Cthulhu of retail, finds itself embroiled in a spat with a major book publisher. It's gotten nasty. And, remarkably, Amazon is losing the PR battle. Why? Perhaps because Amazon—where...
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Let's Boycott Amazon! Now Where Do We Buy Stuff?
Amazon has gone too far. Now. Now that it is apparently trying to extort ebook concessions from Hachette by delaying delivery and blocking preorders of regular Hachette books—this is it.Read more...
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Google Is Only 2 Percent Black
For the first time ever Google, "organizer of the world's information," has released pertinent information about itself. Only 2 percent of Google employees are black and only 30 percent are women. No...
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Why Isn't the Guy Who Designed Beats Going to Work For Apple, Too?
When Apple bought Beats earlier this week, it also got two high-profile new employees . Dr. Dre is going to work for Apple. So is music mogul Jimmy Iovine. But there's one surprise: Robert Brunner,...
View ArticleUber Doesn't Give a Damn About Jobs
Uber, the thunderous on-demand chauffeur startup, released two big pieces of news today. First, it boasted that it's creating a bevy of high-paying jobs. Then, Uber's CEO praised the arrival of...
View ArticlePrivate universities are no different from Hollywood.
Private universities are no different from Hollywood. There's an "it" girl and her name is Stanford. Harvard will now be auditioning for roles as the hot mom. Read more...
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Fired CEO Who Pled Guilty to Domestic Abuse Plans to Sue His Board
It's been a few weeks since we've heard from RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal, but there's no rest for the abusive. Chahal has upgraded from writing demented blog posts to writing delusional letters to...
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Steve Ballmer Is Reportedly Buying the Clippers for $2 Billion
According to the Los Angeles Times, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is buying the Clippers from noted racist Donald Sterling for a mere $2 billion. Read more...
View ArticlePrivacy, there's a form for that.
Privacy, there's a form for that. Google reluctantly complied with the European Union's "Right To Be Forgotten" ruling, which lets citizens petition search engines to takedown* a URL. *The site will...
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