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Jared Leto and His Haircut Are Now Venture Capitalists
The great tragedy of the pre-Internet era was that My So-Called Life superfans had no way of keeping the teen drama on the air. But we now know where the laconic bad boy, an ambling Zen koan in...
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Fab.com Is Probably Dead This Year
There hasn't been a single piece of good news from Fab.com in a very long time. Layoffs, mismanagement, plummeting morale, and executive reshuffles have erased Fab's early rep as a cheery decor...
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Beta-Testing Clinkle's New App Sounds Like a Nightmare
Clinkle, the payments app run by a tyrannical 22-year-old Stanford grad , is cloaked in roughly the same amount of mystery as the island in Lost. A source tells Valleywag that the app, which raised...
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To Get a Zappos Job, You Have To Spend Months On Its Social Network
Things couldn't be better for Zappos: ever since they were acquired by Amazon for $1.2 billion, the online fashion retailer has been growing like crazy. And to help further balloon their workforce by...
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Deep Thoughts with Marc Andreessen: The Poor Have It Pretty Good!
There's a reason why Marc Andreessen is an esteemed venture capitalist, and you're not. Consider the savvy of his investments, the impossible sheen of his dome, the wisdom of his tweets—and, despite...
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Airbnb Wants to Take You Out to Dinner Before Hitting the Sheets
Airbnb is finally making good on the food end of the bed and breakfast deal, as the sharing economy hotelier has begun testing a program that would have the site's hosts throwing dinner parties for...
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The Bay Area's tech elite have discovered a new way to get loud and in your...
The Bay Area's tech elite have discovered a new way to get loud and in your face: founding "dad rock cover bands." Basically, their music gig is doing what other people have done before, kinda like...
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Colbert Gives Amazon the Finger For Shady Book Selling Tactics
In the wake of Amazon's questionable tactics in dealing with publishing house Hachette, many Amazon shoppers are questioning their loyalty to the mega-seller. Stephen Colbert, not one to hide his...
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Andrew Dice Clay of Developers Compares Product to a Whiny Girlfriend
At a tech conference in Berlin yesterday, Jonathan Doklovic—a developer at Atlassian, which hosts the conference—gave the 500 sandwiches jerk a run for his money [via @Dmagge] Read more...
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Tinder Improves on Snapchat By Giving You 24 Hours to Screenshot a Pic [Update]
The new law of apps demands that every startup should be all things to all people. Thus Tinder is adding a feature "that lets users share annotated pictures with their matches," just like Snapchat....
View ArticleMarc Andreessen: Edward Snowden Is a Traitor
One of the most famous, lauded men in technology just called one of the most infamous men in the world a "traitor," on national television—all because the former is worried the latter might cost him...
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Who's Getting Super Rich Off Uber?
Uber is so hot with investors right now, they're in the position to dictate their own valuation . And now that number is set to hit $17 billion , the ride-sharing darling is poised to mint a new class...
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Students: Silicon Valley's Farm System Is Steeped in "Rape Culture"
After Stanford University officials condemned sexist emails sent by Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel during his time at school, Stanford students who have long protested the university's weak policies on...
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Here's a tip for all the transportation startups out there: if you're going...
Here's a tip for all the transportation startups out there: if you're going to constantly hit San Franciscans with Facebook ads, at least make sure you're not using the same stock photograph as...
View ArticleThe Wall Street Journal reports that Uber's latest investment round values...
The Wall Street Journal reports that Uber's latest investment round values the company at $18.2 billion—the second highest imaginary price tag for a startup in history. Number one? Facebook.Read more...
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YouTube Cofounders Break Up the Band After Second Act Flops
YouTube cofounders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen are parting ways. The duo worked together for 15 years, starting at PayPal, then got $1.65 billion from Google. But faced a series of missteps at their...
View ArticleAirbnb's gearing up to acquihire by the looks of this now deleted job listing.
Airbnb's gearing up to acquihire by the looks of this now deleted job listing . We heard the company is struggling to retain engineers; rumors also swirled around the design team. Okay, sharing...
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Eric Schmidt Personally Ruined Google Employee's Review, Court Says
Google, like other enlightened corporations, makes its workers to routinely rank each other and forces the scores to match a bell curve. The employees who are placed at the wrong end of the bell curve...
View ArticleAnti-Tech Protestors Hit Another Googler at His Home
Tom Fallows works as a product director at Google. He's also—if you believe the words of San Francisco's "Counterforce " protest group—a "capitalist shit bag," and everything wrong with techie...
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Elon Musk Wants To Make A Flying Car
"Maybe we'll make a flying car, just for fun," Elon Musk told The Independent yesterday.Read more...
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