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CharityBuzz has announced the winner of the most expensive cup of coffee...

CharityBuzz has announced the winner of the most expensive cup of coffee you've ever had in your life with Apple CEO Tim Cook. A newcomer known only as "a********s" came out on top with $610,000 bid....

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Yahoo's Big Plan to Become Cool with Kids: Billboards

Yahoo doesn't do much these days except buy silly startups and gather mounds of traffic from parents who don't know how to change their homepage. The company needs a new direction—and it's... more...

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The fact that an article about how to hug women is on the front page of...

The fact that an article about how to hug women is on the front page of Hacker News tells you pretty much everything you need to know about Hacker News. When I run into a male acquaintance, I know...

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Demi Is Going After Ashton Kutcher's VC Fund in the Divorce

Ashton Kutcher's panel at this year's TechCrunch Disrupt had at least one very interested party glued to the livestream. On stage, the actor-capitalist and his business partner Guy Oseary, Madonna's...

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Not Complicated: Randi Says You Should Leave Work Every Day

In this week's dispatch from the Randi Zuckerberg e-zine, the verbal equivalent of a plastic bag of chopped up coupons, we're getting some solid advice for the workplace: google your boss, and don't...

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Feds Seize Assets of World's Largest Bitcoin Exchange

The problems keep coming for Mt. Gox, the world's biggest Bitcoin exchange. Just days after Gawker revealed a key business partnership had devolved into a $75 million lawsuit, the Department of...

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Three Men Busted in Massive Facebook IPO Scam

The only thing worse than actually investing in the Facebook IPO is probably thinking you'd invested in the NASDAQ stinker, when in fact the cash was stolen from you as part of an international scam....

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Deadspin You're Fucked, But You're Free: A Message To The Class Of 2013 |...

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Party Planning Company Given $2.5 Million... To Plan Parties

There's not much to say about Tech Cocktail, and the firm says that little bit itself: it's "a media company and events organization for startups, entrepreneurs, and technology enthusiasts." Networking...

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The Ebook Pricing Email That Steve Jobs Sent to James Murdoch

As part of the ongoing Apple e-book price fixing investigation by the Department of Justice, a new email sent from Steve Jobs to James Murdoch has come to light. Murdoch, ultimately in control of what...

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Former PayPal CEO Signs Off on Bitcoin

Before he was one of the most powerful VCs in the world, Peter Thiel created PayPal, which deals in real dollars and boomed accordingly. If you think this might make him wary of unregulated internet...

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Betwixt colonizing Mars and electrifying automobiles, Elon Musk just got...

Betwixt colonizing Mars and electrifying automobiles, Elon Musk just got Goldman Sachs to cover $500 million in leases for his side gig installing rooftop photovoltaics. One Elon to rule them all, one...

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Bono, Al Gore, and Other Rich Men Invest in Mysterious Startup

Twitter co-creator whose real name is actually Biz Stone has a new project called "Jelly." No one knows what it is, other than an epicenter of vagaries and tech intrigue. Now it's got big, rich new...

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Which Journalists Accepted Free Laptops from Google?

Yesterday's Google I/O keynote—a tech Nuremberg of fanboyism, developer jargon, and fancy new features for Gmail—dragged on for hours. Those thousands who sat patiently in their chairs were rewarded...

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Rumor Alert: Yahoo Is Buying Tumblr for a Billion?

Yahoo has a problem: it has no idea what it's doing, or how it's going to do it (outside of teenage dream hires). Some people who claim intimate knowledge say the company is going to do it by throwing...

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A Brief History of Yahoo Buying and Ruining Things

New rumors that Yahoo is eyeing Tumblr for a mega-pricy acquisition are startling at first. It'd be an expensive, desperate plan. But if you look over the company's past, you'll see history repeating...

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Ousted Groupon CEO Recording Motivational Album

Former Groupon chief Andrew Mason is either having a nervous breakdown or a spiritual reawakening: "I spent a week in LA earlier this month recording Hardly Workin', a seven song album of motivational...

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A Year Ago Today, Facebook Went Public

IPO price: $38. Today's price: $26.

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Bang With Friends Got Banned From the Apple App Store

That didn't take long! Last Wednesday, Bang with Friends—the app that lets you find which of your Facebook friends are down to bone—released an iPhone and Android version of the service. But Apple has...

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