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The App Gold Rush Is Over
If the App Store presented developers with a potential river of revenue when it launched six years ago, it's little more than a trickle today. The Financial Times says profits are "squeezed" as the...
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Rich Pricks Ruined Burning Man (Again)
OK, this headline is misleading because it implies Burning Man was ever not lame, but for old-timers who cherish the annual pyrotechnic MDMA and BO festival, the end has been nigh. Now the New York...
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Pandora Reveals Most Promising Diversity Numbers Yet
Pandora has become the latest Bay Area tech firm to disclose their diversity data. And of all the companies to release their numbers thus far, the pioneering music streaming and recommendation company...
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The newest stalwart of the sharing economy is none other than Goop herself:...
The newest stalwart of the sharing economy is none other than Goop herself: Uber is now part of Gwenyth Paltrow's favorite things, joining a pantheon that includes salvia and magic water that...
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Twitter Headquarters Has Painted #Ferguson On Its Office Wall
Twitter, a corporation with a market capitalization of $29 billion, has enjoyed some goodwill and good press this week because people successfully used the service to make the fatal shooting of Mike...
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Gimmick App "Yo" Offered Gimmick Car Service and No One Wanted It
Silicon Valley hit a new pinnacle of pointlessness earlier today as the summer's hottest two-letter app co-branded with Smart Automobile to offer minimalist-themed rides across San Francisco.Read more...
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Sign of the Times: Startup Buys Monstrous "Extreme Truck"
This monstrosity looks like the kind of vehicle the military would perch snipers atop of. But no, it belongs to a San Francisco speaker startup's marketing department.Read more...
View ArticleBe wary of what you post to Secret: A hacker detailed to Wired a new way to...
Be wary of what you post to Secret: A hacker detailed to Wired a new way to read any individual's secrets. What's more? There have been 42 security vulnerabilities on the gossip platform discovered by...
View ArticleCredit Card Startup Screws Pre-Ordering Customers
Last year, we told you about Coin, a credit card gadget for people with so many credit cards, they need a fancier credit card to organize them all. If this sounded like a convoluted product idea, it...
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Gaming CEO Says Politics Is a Game He Can Fix With More Money
Dark money has been plaguing politics even since the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. The subsequent Super PACs, fueled by shadowy donations from millionaires and billionaires, have brought...
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Even a Cofounder of Y Combinator Doesn't Feel Comfortable Naming Names
Less than a month ago, Sam Altman, the new President of Y Combinator, officially declared that "Sexism in tech is real." That was the first sentence of his post on diversity. Sadly, there is now more...
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Is Bustle Really "Successful"?
Do you read Bustle, the website best known in "the culture" as the place whose founder, Bryan Goldberg, uses his female employees' legs as typing desks? No, me neither. Nonetheless, according to...
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Gavin Newsom Suffering Through Saddest Coworking Sitch In San Francisco
Poor Gavin Newsom. Once he was the Mayor of San Francisco, spending his days working in a golden City Hall, sleeping with his campaign manager's wife, and boozing around town. Now he's California's...
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The Average Tech Worker Now Makes $291,497 In San Mateo County
Tech is already known for having some of the highest wages of any American industry. But they continue climbing to new heights. Just south of San Francisco, in San Mateo county , home of Menlo Park...
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Clinkle Made a Pop Music Video About a Hackathon
If coders are the new rockstars, then hackathons (marathon coding sessions to experiment with software) are a natural setting for a music video. A millennial CEO like Lucas Duplan gets that, which is...
View ArticleCoin has apologized for screwing their customers.
Coin has apologized for screwing their customers . In a letter pushed out late Saturday afternoon, the credit card startup told their pre-order customers that 15,000 purchasers will receive Coin Beta...
View ArticleTechCrunch's Revolving Door Keeps Spinning
TechCrunch contributor Billy Gallagher is the latest writer for the site to make the jump into venture capital. Only this time, Gallagher is going to continue writing for the site, despite a conflict...
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Report: Amazon's Trying to Buy Twitch Out From Under Google
According to The Information (paywall), Amazon is in "late-stage talks" with Twitch over a possible acquisition. This is particularly shocking since it's been previously reported that a YouTube and...
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Airbnb Pats Itself On The Back For Hurricane Sandy Charity
In recent months, Airbnb has come to resemble a political operator that happens to run a hotel network. As politicians and governments on both coasts turn the screws on the $10 billion startup, the...
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Burning Man Canceled for Two Days Because Even God Hates Burning Man
It's a good thing luxury RVs are on the rise among Burning Man fans: the whole dust-and-MDMA bonanza is rained out because of shitty weather.Read more...
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