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Uber Scrambles to Beat Back Insurance and Safety Regulations
Uber, Lyft, and other on-demand taxi startups are on a lobbying blitz this week as California lawmakers consider two pieces of legislation that would strengthen insurance and background check...
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The Non-White Workers of Silicon Valley Get Screwed Every Day
It turns out, there's not a diversity problem in technology's heartland: the Googles and Facebooks are full of black and Latino workers. The problem is that they're doing the jobs nobody wants, for...
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Coin Cards Will Be Obsolete Months After They Are Released
Coin already blew their launch, pushing back the release of the all-in-one credit card eight-plus months right before pre-orders were supposed to ship. Now, customers will only be able to use their...
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The iPad Education Revolution Stalls Out
Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times reported that its sprawling hometown's school system, the second largest in the US, would be withdrawing from last year's ambitious promise to supply all 640,000...
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More Proof Uber Fights Dirty Against the Competition
When you have an unapologetic asshole for a CEO, your company does things like this: Uber is conducting a full-blown street campaign to destroy Lyft using deceptive tactics, The Verge reports. This is...
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Jessica Alba's Startup Is Worth Nearly $1 Billion
Celebrities ranging from basketball All-Stars to miscreant pop stars are desperate to cash in on Silicon Valley's boom. But rarely are they as successful as Jessica Alba.Read more...
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Eric Schmidt Erects Massive Monument to Irony
This just popped up on everyone's least favorite social network. If Facebook is a lemonade stand, then what exactly is Google+? A neglected sack of Country Time powder? An abandoned yeast factory,...
View ArticleSnapchat is joining the ranks of startups "worth" $10 billion.
Snapchat is joining the ranks of startups "worth" $10 billion . According to the Wall Street Journal, Kleiner Perkins is investing $20 million into the ephemeral messaging app. That cash infusion gives...
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Cards Against Humanity's Accused Rapist Banned from Tech Conference
Cards Against Humanity has supplanted classic games like "snort the adderall" and "kings" as the pastime of choice for the early-20s set. Max Temkin, the card game's creator, is an accused rapist —a...
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Twitter Finally Lets You See Just How Few People Are Faving Your Tweets
After quietly testing out its handy new analytics dashboard just over a month ago, Twitter is officially opening the service up to the rest of the world. And the results can be—er, kinda...
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Facebook Really Wants You to Stop Being Pissed About Messenger
Facebook wants you to know Messenger isn't spying on you. Read more...
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Google Wants Howard Hughes' Gigantic Old Hangar
Building 15, a gargantuan aerospace structure outside LAX airport, was once used to construct the Spruce Goose. Soon, it might be home to another focal point of hubris, the Wall Street Journal...
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Tech Stocks Continue Climbing to Record Levels
Tech companies across the board are hitting record stock prices, TechCrunch notes, as investors scurry to pump their money into anything remotely related to Silicon Valley. This week, companies such...
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LA Sheriff's Deputy Who Killed Former Napster Exec Won't Be Charged
Former Napster COO Milton Olin Jr. was killed while biking last December when a Los Angeles Sheriff's Deputy lost control of his vehicle while using a laptop. Now, the L.A. County District Attorney is...
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Apple Store Guards Stage Sit-In Demanding Higher Wages
Silicon Valley's top tech firms are infamous for paying their help borderline-poverty wages, including private security. Today, some of Apple's retail and corporate guards protested their low pay at...
View ArticleBloomberg: Google Exec Headed to White House for Top Tech Job
According to the usual anonymous administration sources, Bloomberg is reporting that Megan Smith, VP of Google's shadowy R&D lab, will assume the role of Obama's top tech advisor: Read more...
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Angry Birds CEO Resigns Because Who the Hell Still Plays That?
There was a moment in recent history when Angry Birds, a smartphone game people play on the toilet, was poised to sweep all of pop culture. There would be Angry Bird theme parks, museums, stuffed...
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San Francisco Gets Lazier: An App for Valet Parking Everywhere
Another week, another app designed by the entitled techno-brats of San Francisco, for their entitled friends. Here's Zirx, an app that makes someone else park your car. Read more...
View ArticleUberX is temporarily banned across Germany, the New York Times reports.
UberX is temporarily banned across Germany, the New York Times reports. The company says it will keep running in the face of the ban.Read more...
View ArticleWelcome to the Modern Cab's Wall Of Screens
Signs we have reached peak-app? Cabbie in SF running 5 dash mounted phones pic.twitter.com/WVycnmkGuN — Thomas Purves (@tpurves) September 2, 2014 Read more...
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