The Department of Defense just announced that Uber executive Emil Michael...
The Department of Defense just announced that Uber executive Emil Michael will be joining the government agency's Defense Business Board. So . . . Uber for self-driving tanks? Or Uber's next investment...
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San Francisco Is Treating Uber for Weed Just As Rough As Regular Uber
Now that San Francisco has successfully shut down predatory parking apps , city officials are turning their regulatory eyes towards a new crop of startups: weed delivery apps.Read more...
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Lyft Claims Uber Sabotaged Drivers By Canceling More Than 5,000 Rides
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick likes to talk about the unfair ways that taxi incumbents "protect their monopoly" against his popular product . But the bigger Uber gets, the more aggressive its own...
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After 38 Years In Business, Apple's Workforce Is Only 30 Percent Female
Apple is joining the ranks of Silicon Valley powerhouses that disclosure their employee diversity statistics. The company claims to "Think Different," but their hiring reflects more of the same.Read...
View ArticleFor the first time, Y Combinator's Jessica Livingston has issued a reminder...
For the first time, Y Combinator's Jessica Livingston has issued a reminder to investors not to sexually harass people on Demo Day. "Don't even think about doing it. I will find out. Y Combinator will...
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AOL's Digital Prophet Shingy Can't Stop Iterating Amazing Hairstyles
David "Shingy" Shing, the Digital Prophet of an empire built on people who never cancelled their AOL subscriptions, is a sought after speaker. He has preached the gospel of gibberish on live TV and...
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Winklevoss Twins Let a Struggling Startup Die Over a Paltry Payday
No one derails a startup quite like the Winklevoss twins. Now their colossal egos have sunk a startup they invested in because they didn't approve of the terms of its sale.Read more...
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Uber Issues Ultimate Passive-Aggressive Press Release About Lyft
Uber is the Übermensch of the sharing economy. It's better at making money than other startups, it knows how to politick better, and it throws sharper elbows. Uber applied the same superior...
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Twitter Is Plagued With 23 Million Automated Accounts
A recent SEC filing by Twitter confirms what everyone already knew: Twitter is deluged with automated accounts. Millions and millions of them!Read more...
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Candy Crush Is Turning Into The Next Stock Market Disaster
Zynga learned the hard way that relying on one hit game would kill a company if the farm ever went arid. Now King Digital is proving to be another disastrous one-hit wonder with their increasingly...
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Startup CEO Offers 1,284 Slides In The Most Insane PowerPoint Ever
To mark the occasion of his 30th birthday, serial entrepreneur and occasional Harvard spammer Ryan Allis decided to give back to the world that had been so generous to him. So he made a PowerPoint....
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Techies Are Hacking Tinder In a Desperate Attempt to Get Laid
There's nothing quite as pathetic as swiping right on every profile you come across on Tinder. It's little more than the dating equivalent of throwing a giant bowl of questionably delicious spaghetti...
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Is Rupert Murdoch Sniffing Around San Francisco For The Next MySpace?
The Republican party isn't the only right-wing fearmonger looking to make inroads in Silicon Valley. A tipster tells Valleywag that News Corp's chairman Rupert Murdoch has spent the last two days...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg Would Rather Drench Himself than Give $100 to Charity
A new viral sensation is sweeping our nation's billionaire technologists: Daring their rich friends to either donate $100 to ALS research, or dump a bucketful of ice water over their heads. The latest...
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Lawsuit Claims Google Wrote Down Plan to Steal Idea on Some Post-Its
Some complaints are a morass of technical jargon and legalese. Others read like the makings of a zany crime-comedy by Steven Soderbergh. One new lawsuit filed against Google for copying the technology...
View ArticleTech Is Finally Pivoting Away From the Hoodie
I'm at #ditchthehoodie at the Creamery! Donate your Hoodie in exchange for a button up :) pic.twitter.com/9ESaJeWdzW — Stephanie Ellen Chan (@StephEllenChan) August 14, 2014 Read more...
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Square Posts List of Its Top Ten Insecurities
The only tried and true PR strategy is to literally never say anything, ever, to anyone. Short of that, another good rule is to not post a list of "myths" to "debunk" about your "company" because it...
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Driving the Tech Elite to Work Is a Miserable, Thankless Job
Tech buses don't need anymore bad press. Their mere existence in San Francisco has been enough to make them the most hated bus system in America. But a new report is certain to drag their reputation...
View ArticleSam Lessin is leaving his role as VP of product management at Facebook,...
Sam Lessin is leaving his role as VP of product management at Facebook, signing off with "[smiley face] feeling gratitude." Lessin came to Facebook through the Drop.io acqui-hire and plans to...
View ArticleSocial Media Charlatan Named Newest Miss America Judge
Beauty pageantry is synonymous with integrity, an image august figures like Donald Trump and Mario Lopez have cultivated over the years. So it's only right that the newest addition to the flesh...
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