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Facebook Donates $10,000 to Anti-Gay Crusader
On Facebook's diversity page, the company celebrates their gay users, proclaiming "we want you to feel comfortable being your true, authentic self." Mark Zuckerberg himself has shown up to San...
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TV Commercials Use Cute Kids To Exploit Panic Over Technology FOMO
Children make great props for gadget commercials. They're cute—like lil mini grown-ups with years before the regret sets in. They also say the darndest slogans. But recent barrage of precocious tots...
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Kevin Rose Can't Help Himself From Relaunching Failed Startup Idea
What happened to just letting a shitty idea die? For Kevin Rose , giving up the dream of owning a thriving app incubator is something he can't let go of. The former television personality's last...
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People Keep Getting Into Strangers' Cars Because They Think It's An Uber
Just because Uber's motto is "Everyone's private driver," doesn't mean every car is yours for the hailing. But the popularity of apps like Uber and Lyft have spawned some awkward curbside...
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Tech PR Dummies: Don't Use Ferguson to Sell Your App
Some good ground rules for public relations: never call people the n-word. Never attach a virus in your pitch email. And definitely do not use the hideous race tragedy in Ferguson, MO as an angle for...
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Glasshole Wants You To Wear A Computer On Your Face While You Cook
National Geographic magazine, a mail-order Caring About Things merit badge for baby boomers, has been running a "Future of Food" series on the Plate, its food blog, for the past few months. This...
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Professional Yeller Steve Ballmer Found The Job He Was Born For
Steve Ballmer was never really a great culture fit for Microsoft CEO. He hawked operating systems at the same decibel as an infomercial salesman and sweated out his enthusiasm for developers. Ballmer...
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Google's Cafeteria Has a Multimillion Dollar Chicken Bill
Google developed a reputation in the mid-aughties for its lavish employee perks, particularly their corporate kitchens dishing out gourmet meals for their well-fed workers. But in a recent Business...
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Startup Staples Ad On Parking Tickets Promising To Make It All Go Away
In the new appified San Francisco, startup advertisements are everywhere: Our highway are lined with their obnoxious billboards , spinning-sign guys are used to recruit Lyft drivers, and ads dangle...
View ArticleThe tech boom has already pushed up office rents in San Francisco 81 percent...
The tech boom has already pushed up office rents in San Francisco 81 percent in four years, causing rents to approach levels last seen during the dot-com bubble. Now analysts are predicting the city's...
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One Woman Finally Calls Out a Tech Investor for Creepy Advances
Almost all venture capitalists are men, which means a woman with a good startup idea will almost certainly need the favor of a man at some point. Sometimes the man exploits this imbalance , but for...
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I Went To A Magical Kickstarter Party And All I Got Was So Much Bacon
There is a mystical place in San Francisco where whiskey drinks are made with marshmallows, salads contain pork three ways, rows of grilled cheese are constantly replenished, and the pale beer option...
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Obama Mastermind David Plouffe Is Now Uber's Machiavelli
In 2008, David Plouffe helped Barack Obama win one of the most pivotal elections in American history. Today, he just announced he's going full-time at Uber , helping the transit startup try to conquer...
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Legendary Investor Has No Idea If Delivery Apps Will Ever Be Profitable
Silicon Valley loves reviving the dead . Whether it's propping up publishing or resuscitating mobile app incubators , investors are hellbent pumping money into yesteryear's financial fiascos. And no...
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Uber Launches Corner Store Delivery In D.C.'s Whitest Neighborhoods
It's been a busy day for Uber. In addition to adding a presidential mastermind to the payroll, the company also began an "experimental" delivery service called Corner Store "rolling out first to DC...
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Techie Apartment Complex Declares San Francisco the "Promised Land"
NEMA hadn't even opened before the luxury apartment complex became the recipient of San Francisco's collective scorn. The complex , which is conveniently nuzzled between the headquarters of Twitter,...
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Investor Pavel Curda Apologizes for Creepy Sex Messages
Yesterday, New York tech worker Gesche Haas went public with her story of unwanted sexual advances from a male industry power figure. Today, that man is fessing up.Read more...
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Top Tech Investor: "Michael Brown was an asshole"
Chris Sacca has almost 1.5 million Twitter followers. He's invested in Uber, Instagram, Kickstarter, and Twitter. Among venture capitalists, he's a hero. And he has some thoughts about Ferguson,...
View ArticleSecret's flimsy anti-bullying system wasn't adequate enough to keep the app...
Secret's flimsy anti-bullying system wasn't adequate enough to keep the app from being banned in Brazil. A court ruled that Secret violated the country's constitutional ban on anonymity, and has...
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Dumb Tech Conference Sues Pointless Tech Conference for Word "Summit"
When your tech conference is best known for paying $40 million to buy its own mountain , it's hard to stand on moral high ground. But Summit Series , the "hipper Davos" is suing Paddy Cosgrave, the...
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