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Did Yahoo Just Acquire Another Financial Disaster?
Yahoo has a knack for bailing out bombing businesses. This time, they're saving Flurry: a mobile analytics startup that just took on $10 million in debt as it struggled to find an exit.Read more...
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Tech PR Dummies: Sharing Your Purchases Is "New Form of Swagger"
In an ideal world, people would only make things that were good and that other people wanted to use. Until then, we've got public relations professionals who help pitch ideas like "PeepMe," an app for...
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How to Contact Gawker with Tips and Leaks
Gawker relies on tips, leaked documents, and eyewitness accounts for many of its stories. Here’s how to get in touch.Read more...
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NBA All-Star Carmelo Anthony Is Now a Venture Capitalist
NBA forward Carmelo Anthony is already rich. The seven time All-Star just signed a five-year contract with the New York Knicks worth a reported $122 to 129 million. But Anthony wants to gamble with...
View ArticleA new Bloomberg survey considered 240 corporate 401k plans, ranked by...
A new Bloomberg survey considered 240 corporate 401k plans, ranked by generosity, matching, and other factors. Facebook came in last place.Read more...
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The World's Most Pointless Uber Ride Costs $4.28
Despite an impressive "25% off uberX this summer" deal, one man's worthless 82 foot Uber journey around Houston still set him back $4.28.Read more...
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Apple Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Unpaid Wages
Apple is now facing a class action lawsuit for unpaid wages. The suit was originally filed on behalf of Genius Bar employees in 2009, alleging Apple denied workers their legally-required meal and rest...
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Airbnb Finally Gets In the Game and Starts Poaching Politicos
You wouldn't guess it from the ubiquitous subway ads or astroturfing campaigns , but Airbnb's legislative efforts are a little behind the times. For example, the company spent "tens of millions" on a...
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Irony Is Dead: A Startup Called "Socialist"
Capitalism always gets the last laugh: Twitter and ProductHunt are gushing about yet another way to share your feeds and streams, and it's an iPhone app called Socialist. Cute!Read more...
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Google Engineer Charged With Raping 19-Year-Old
New York City police are investigating a Google engineer for an alleged string of sexual assaults. Justin Chan was arraigned in Manhattan Supreme Court Tuesday over charges springing from the latest...
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If TaskRabbit Is the Future of Employment, the Employed Are Fucked
The employment of the future is here, and it's terrific for everyone except the people doing the work. TaskRabbit, which lets you outsource the things you don't want to do to people who need money, is...
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Why Would Ashton Kutcher Photoshop a Tweet About a Startup?
Yesterday evening, Ashton Kutcher tweeted out a photo of a "brain sensing headband" called Muse, telling his 16.3 million followers that he was: " Excited to learn from this incredible technology."...
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Twitter Buries Pathetic Diversity Numbers Behind Facebook News
After initially dragging their feet , Twitter has finally released their diversity numbers, one minute before the industry's biggest financial news. It's easy to see why: the company is just as lily...
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Stephen Colbert Asks Tim Draper Why He Wants to Destroy California
The only thing that could make grinning villain venture capitalist Tim Draper look more sinister and insane than campaigning to divide California into six poorly named states is laughing maniacally on...
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Mozilla Founder Pens Heroic Facebook Post About a Bad Bachelor Party
I am willing to wager a few shillings that Mozilla founder and former Facebook director Blake Ross has been to a Renaissance fair or two. For he hath bourne, on Facebook, the kind of dramatic play...
View ArticleFacebook's blockbuster earnings call yesterday was a testament to the...
Facebook's blockbuster earnings call yesterday was a testament to the money-making power of advertising. At $194 billion, Facebook's market cap is now bigger than Amazon's. Think of all the social...
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Tinder Is Full of Robot Prostitutes
I moved back to New York from Cairo in January of 2014, and among the biggest culture shocks was American Tinder. In Cairo, there was the occasional woman, mostly Russian tourists on holiday, using...
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Even Comic-Con Has Banned Google Glass
It's a bad sign when your futuristic face computer is so universally hated that a conference full of Iron Man fanboys bans its presence. Read more...
View ArticleRe/code reports that Facebook and Uber have discussed integrating the car...
Re/code reports that Facebook and Uber have discussed integrating the car service into Facebook's Messenger app. Uber was synergized into Google Maps in May. Google Maps is currently no. 14 among free...
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San Francisco's Tech Boom Has Pushed Up Office Rents 81% in Four Years
The latest tech boom has been inflating commercial rents all across the Bay Area, but nowhere have the impacts been as acute as in San Francisco. The increases are certainly welcome news to the city's...
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