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How to Leak to Gawker Anonymously
Over the past few years, Gawker and other outlets have detailed how to leak documents and information without getting caught by your employer’s I.T. department—or government investigators with...
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The Fallen Mt. Gox Bitcoin King Faces Jail Time in France
After making a bloody mess of Mt. Gox, the first and biggest name in Bitcoin trading, no one is expecting CEO Mark Karpeles to redeem himself and refund their missing cyber-money. A new report of...
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Why Are Tech Workers So Bad at Dressing Themselves?
If the guiding principle for building great startups is "solve an important problem," then the difficulty tech workers have locating (and laundering!) garments to wear in public would appear to be the...
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Mark Cuban Celebrated His First Billion By Hitting Refresh While Naked
How does becoming a billionaire feel? For Mark Cuban, it was nothing short of primordial bliss.Read more...
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Clinkle Leaves Its Office
It's fine for a startup with $30 million in venture capital to not actually have a product—but what if it doesn't have an office, either? A tipster tells us Clinkle, the software disaster that keeps...
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Dave Morin's Existential Crisis Is Playing Out on Twitter
In past six weeks former Facebook mafioso Dave Morin has changed his Twitter bio at least three times. Three versions of his mini memoir—"Small town guy," "Small town guy from Montana," and...
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One of forces responsible for getting reluctant tech corporations to release their diversity data was Pinterest engineer Tracy Chou, who started collecting the numbers herself. Chou will be featured in...
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Europe's "Right to be Forgotten" Law Kills Its First Wikipedia Page
Europe's controversial "Right to be forgotten" ruling has claimed its first Wikipedia page victim, according to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Wales told The Observer that the E.U. legislation is...
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Airbnb is Astroturfing Against Legislation They Helped Write
San Francisco's politicians have been working hard to make nice with Airbnb. They even let Airbnb's lobbyists make the city's "home sharing" regulations more liberal, allowing homeowners to host with...
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Beached Tech Bus Spoils Morning Commute
San Francisco is just five days into its tech bus pilot program and one of Silicon Valley's glistening chariots has already lodged itself at the bottom of one of the city's hills. Fortunately for the...
View ArticleJustin.tv shutting down before Google reportedly buys Twitch for $1 billion...
Justin.tv shutting down before Google reportedly buys Twitch for $1 billion is a prime example of the unspoken brutality of acquisitions: "Purchases are often followed by consolidation, as well as...
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Dropping Out and Hitting TechCrunch Is the New Teen Summer Job
Youths are our greatest national resource, and the youth of today are making apps for effortless on-demand junk food delivery. I talked to one, 19-year-old Max Hellerstein, who captured today's tech...
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LinkedIn Caught Withholding Overtime Wages From 359 Employees
LinkedIn has been busted by the Department of Labor for failing to pay hundreds of employees their owed overtime wages. When investigators informed the company of their findings, the omnipresent...
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Ex-Facebook Guy Recalls "Graffiti of a woman shitting" in Office
In her 2012 book The Boy Kings, early Facebooker Kate Losse describes the tribulations of being a woman at a company that didn't get women. A new eBook by another early Facebook alum details just how...
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Rumor: Benchmark May Invest in Tinder at a Valuation as High as $1B.
Venture capital firms have been sniffing around Tinder, the Los Angeles-based dating app, since at least last spring. But according to one Valleywag source, Benchmark's Matt Cohler may soon sign one...
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Republicans Want to Win Over Millennials By Shilling For Uber
Republicans have long struggled to capture the hearts of millennials. It's never helped that the emerging crop of young voters are fundamentally opposed to the GOP's archaic social policies and...
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More Than Two Million People Still Pay AOL For Internet Access
Humans of a certain age will remember the brief period when accessing the internet meant shelling out a monthly fee to AOL. For most of us, this gave way to better business models well over a decade...
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Warby Parker Is So Cool They're Screwing Over Employees With Low Pay
Before Warby Parker came around, you had to build your own glasses until your hands bled—remember that? Now, buying corrective lenses is fun and (relatively) cheap, and Warby sells the startup chic de...
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Twitter's Latest Test Suggests That Tweet-Based Shopping Is Coming Soon
A group of Twitter users have spotted a "payment and shipping" option within their Android apps. As The Next Web pointed out, this is just one in a series of tests that suggest Jack Dorsey might be...
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Is Steve Jobs Alive in Brazil?
Computer executive Steve Jobs reportedly passed away in 2011 after a long battle with cancer and Google's Android operating system. How, then, did this trustworthy guy from Reddit just take a selfie...
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