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Abusive CEO Announces Comeback with Inspirational Video
Gurbaksh Chahal, the RadiumOne CEO who was fired after pleading guilty to domestic violence, has launched his new startup with what appears to be a low-budget Nike ad. Ever the marketeer, Chahal added...
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Google Placates the Public with Their Own Luxury Buses
Google's glistening fleet of employee coaches will soon be tainted by the presence of Everyman. In an effort to get ahead of concerns that the search giant is growing too quickly for Mountain View,...
View ArticleIf the best minds of our generation have graduated from "thinking about how...
If the best minds of our generation have graduated from "thinking about how to make people click ads" to thinking about how to make people click "the buy button." Facebook is letting small and...
View ArticlePlan to Destroy California Is Even Crazier in Nutcase's Own Words
It's easy to dismiss wacky venture capitalist Tim Draper's "Six Californias" plan. After all, the notion of splitting America's third-largest state into six pieces just for the tax benefit of Silicon...
View ArticleMarvel is turning Tony Stark into an app maker.
Marvel is turning Tony Stark into an app maker. In the new Superior Iron Man comic, Stark moves to San Francisco, gets a "Genius Bar" costume, and "has very ambitious plans for the city that some of...
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Sirius Gave Randi Zuckerberg a Radio Show for Gadget Gossip
Randi Zuckerberg, the Roger Clinton of the tech world, is back to profiting off the success of her younger brother. Her latest exploit? Failing up from her miserable Dot Complicated newsletter to a...
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Even a $2,400 membership fee can't insulate The Battery, the private club...
Even a $2,400 membership fee can't insulate The Battery, the private club founded by Michael and Xochi Birch, from the ubiquitous protests against Terra Nova Industries, a nonunion contractor. A...
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Product Hunt Founder Explains Why The Hell He Joined Y Combinator
Industry obsessives talk about Product Hunt—a leaderboard that lets members vote on new apps, devices, and other assorted technologies—with a sense of gratefulness. Venture capitalists use its...
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Tech's Whitest White Man Still Thinks You Aren't Trying Hard Enough
About a year ago, millionaire tech investor and adult-sized baby Jason Calacanis proclaimed a simple message: if you're not successful in this country, you're not working hard enough . Every bias and...
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SF Billboard Says Higher Minimum Wage Means iPads Will Replace Workers
When it comes to threatening workers into accepting poverty wages, a new billboard erected in San Francisco knows just how to do it. The advertisement, prominently displayed on a downtown building...
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Google Gives Executive $8 Million Bonus For Bailing on His Contract
It's become de rigueur in Silicon Valley to let departing executives keep their needlessly plump bonus packages—no matter what the circumstances. First, Yahoo's incompetent COO took home $58 million...
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Bootcut Bandit Hits Startup Offices In San Francisco
It's open season on open floor plans, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. At least two startups reported break-ins costing thousands of dollars of electronics. One of the companies, BuildZoom,...
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Vinod Khosla Says It's "Blackmail" For Activists to Save Public Beach
Billionaire Vinod Khosla has dealt with actual extortion before. So he should know better than to throw around the word "blackmail." But the venture capitalist insists that he's the real victim in his...
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Banana Republic's Latest Fashion Line: 'The Startup Guy'
Despite their status as the new white collar villains of our day (or probably, because of it), startup founders have one more victory to tout: fashion icons. At least according to Banana Republic,...
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Airbnb Isn't Much Help When Your Guests Turn Into Squatters
Everyone is saving a buck with Airbnb, from New York sex workers turning apartments into brothels to "XXX Freak Fest " promoters locking down their next venue. Now a pair of Texas brothers have found...
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New York Has Its Own Loathsome App to Scalp Hot Restaurant Reservations
San Franciscans were aghast at the launch of ReservationHop, a service that scrapes plum restaurant reservations and sells them back to diners who can pay a premium . But the inspiration for inserting...
View ArticleDem. Strategist Smacks "Six Californias" Over Alleged Voter Fraud
The campaign to split California into six smaller states in order to benefit Silicon Valley isn't just nuts—according to a California politico, it's illegal, too.Read more...
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RadiumOne Issues Mealymouthed Apology to Avoid Gurbaksh Chahal Lawsuit
RadiumOne and Gurbaksh Chahal issued a joint statement today in order "to bring an end to all disputes they have had." RadiumOne fired Chahal as CEO after he pled guilty to domestic violence. Chahal...
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Swag, Vapes, and Econ: My Day at the North American Bitcoin Conference
Bitcoin may have emerged from a shadowy corner of the internet, but soon, it'll have its own government affairs office in Washington. According to the crypto-currency's biggest advocates, who...
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This Startup Office Is Cursed
The building at the corner of 23rd and Bryant in San Francisco is proving to be poison for tech companies. Its landlord originally displaced an arts collective to turn the space into startup offices....
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