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Seattle Police Clear Uber Driver of Rape Charge, But Not Sexual Assault
Seattle police have cleared an Uber driver of rape charges, but have kept the investigation into sexual assault "active and ongoing." Komo News, which had access to the police report, said the victim...
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New Yorkers agree: Airbnb's subway ad campaign is trying too hard [via Twitter]
New Yorkers agree: Airbnb's subway ad campaign is trying too hard [via Twitter]Read more...
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Tech VC Says His Plan to Break California Apart Is Moving Forward
Tim Draper, legendary venture capitalist, has a plan to cement Silicon Valley's status as the most-hated locale in America: make it its own state. It sounds crazy, because it is—but the insane...
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Twitter Hit with Age Discrimination Lawsuit
Silicon Valley fetishizes youth—the 20-something, white , over-worked male who will write code until his wrists tingle. That's just great, unless you happen to not be those things. Case in point: a...
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Even Tech Bloggers Hate Themselves
This week, New York magazine profiles Re/code's Kara Swisher—attempting to parse how a rabid reporter who knows so many of Silicon Valley's secrets still enjoys the adoration of its executives. The...
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Ex-White House Press Secretary Jay Carney May Flack for Apple or Uber
Politicians have historically left Washington to land cushy jobs on Wall Street. But as the alpha males of banking have decamped to California in pursuit of startup riches, Washington's revolving door...
View ArticleHackathon Accidentally Picks Perfect Metaphor for Its Own Awfulness
Startup Land only says something poignant about itself by accident, and this time is no exception: the grand prize in an upcoming venture capital sponsored hackathon is a chance to degrade yourself in...
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More Than 5,000 Microsoft Employees Could Be Laid Off This Week
Satya Nadella took over as Microsoft's CEO just under six months ago and he's already poised to give thousands of employees a pink slip "as soon as this week." Bloomberg reports that the restructuring...
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Google generously allows the freedom to use pseudonyms on Google+, a social network designed to find out what you do when you're online . Read more...
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Let No Man Leave This Earth Without Wildly Speculating on Uber's Worth
Earlier this afternoon, Bloomberg reported that Google Ventures managing partner Bill Maris (the Glass man in the middle, above) thinks that Uber could one day be worth "$200 billion or more." Why...
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San Francisco Boldly Stands Up to Tech Buses with $3.55 Fee
San Francisco's plan to legalize the armada of tech buses has sailed past its last regulatory hurdle. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency voted today to approve increased fees charged to...
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Janet Yellen's New Code Word for the Bubble: "Substantially Stretched"
Every economic cycle exhibiting unsubstantiated optimism deserves its own euphemism for calm the fuck down—a evocative, but subtle phrase implying that investors may want to check themselves before...
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Airbnb's New Logo Is a Vagina
The resemblance apparently did not look familiar to any Airbnb employees. In a rare display of design virtuosity, it also kind of looks like a butt. [Image via @SeamusCondron]Read more...
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Fuck Stanford
America's prettiest sun-soaked research university has somehow managed to become the "Harvard of the West" without getting any of the loathing that befalls the "Harvard of the East." It's time we talk...
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Techie Poet Is Continually Amazed By San Francisco
First impressions are important. For those who've only just moved to San Francisco, they often find themselves smitten with the city's fog-swept valleys, Victorian architecture, curious eccentrics,...
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Female Yahoo Exec Accused of Sexual Harassment Files for Defamation
Maria Zhang, the Yahoo engineering executive sued for sexual harassment by one of her female employees, is striking back. Zhang, who helps lead Yahoo's crucial mobile efforts, filed a cross-complaint...
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Airbnb's New Vagina Is a Ripoff of Another Company's Logo
The Hotels.com of unregulated sublease bedrooms got a big makeover today, and thousands of words have been typed out over how it represents "community," "butts," "belonging," and or some other stuff,...
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ModCloth Just Laid Off Almost 15 Percent of Its Staff
ModCloth, the online clothing retailer, laid off 70 employees yesterday. The Los Angeles-based company has raised $63.7 million since it launched in 2002, including investment from Accel Partners and...
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Microsoft Starting Biggest Layoffs in Company History
In an agonizingly euphemistic memo to his company ("Starting to Evolve our Organization and Culture"), Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says he's getting rid of 18,000 jobs at the struggling software...
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Tech's Dream of Building Our Way to Affordability Will Never Come True
Silicon Valley's loudest mouths love little more than demanding free market solutions to every public ill—the Bay Area's housing crisis being no exception. Their pitch is simple: just build more...
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