I'm no marketing wizard, but if you try to trick your classmates into believing there is a violent criminal act occurring on campus, the stunt might just blow up in your face. The crew at Bevii is learning this the very hard way.
Yesterday's amended IPO documents brought more news than continued unprofitablility
If you're looking for housing in San Francisco and aren't literally Ev Williams, you might want to consider just killing yourself or trying to find a place in prison: Curbed reports "more than 100 people" just tried to buy condos in the Mission that are setting records for insane overpricing.
What is the secret to unlocking your personal potential and creating a more harmonious society? A San Francisco company says you can find it between every woman's legs. Gawker's Nitasha Tiku investigates, step by step.
The next stop on Sheryl Sandberg's Sheryl Sandberg Publicity Tour: our shuttered nation's capital, where the shutdown means government officials are happy to meet you, but unable to explain to anyone why.
Twitter tossed out a little update to its pre-IPO disclosures, and the soon-to-be-public company is still far, far away from profitable.
Dave Morin's social networking app Path laid off 13 employees today, which represents 20 percent of the company's staff. A spokesperson for the company confirmed the layoffs, saying, "We're working to realign the company to support continued innovation and Path 4.0."
@bfeld tooling around #techstars via robot (he’s in Keystone) pic.twitter.com/CxS4O3ttP7
— Mark Solon (@marksolon) October 15, 2013
How do you get single venture capitalists, tech executives, and other assorted one percenters to pony up $45,000 for an multi-day singles mixer? By billing it as an "intellectually rigorous" extension of TED and Aspen Ideas Festival circuit and hosting it on Richard Branson’s 74-acre Caribbean island.
Chrisann Brennan became involved with Apple's founding tyrant
Cool, more things to be terrified of: the Washington Post has more Ed Snowden slides detailing our federal government's data mining operations, and they are bad. Hundreds of millions of address books across Facebook, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, and other various inboxes are subject to secret NSA collection.
After the discussion of a blog post about rape went south in typical
We knew Snapchat had policies
Soon, 36-year-old Jack Dorsey will be the chairman of a publicly traded Twitter, and worth hundreds of millions of dollars. A decade prior, before screwing
Waywire—which served briefly
The room-renting startup rumored to be worth $2.5 billion is facing eviction
Members of the Service Employees International Union gathered outside Twitter's Mid-Market headquarters yesterday, with one protestor carrying a sign that read "Don't Twit on Me."
Larry Summers first public appearance since an "army of academic economists" quashed his bid for chair of the Federal Reserve, did not disappoint. At the Nantucket Project—New England's answer to Davos—Summers called Peter Thiel's scholarship to keep millennial entrepreneurs out of school "the single most misdirected bit…
Nick Bilton presents more evidence of near-implosion at the International House of GIFs: "At Tumblr, the venture capitalists grew so impatient with its founder, David Karp, as he struggled to make the company profitable, they were discussing his removal before the site’s sale to Yahoo."
This was bound to happen. Following Facebook's highly controversial attempts to make social endorsements ubiquitous on the site, Google just announced a Terms of Service update that will enable the company to use your name, photo and endorsements in its advertising network.
After years of international anti-fashion icon status and getting married in his own back yard, the NASDAQ Prince might be scaling up: he just bought four homes directly next to his.
Very soon, any Facebook user you haven't blocked will be able to search for your name and find your Facebook profile. It's Google for people and you're just a result. Only no one would know that this is a big change by the way Facebook describes it in its blog post. Ho-hum, just "finishing the removal of an old search…
Only at Twitter will I lunch on an oyster, lamb chop, scallop & brownie and then worry that maybe I didn't get enough to eat. @birdfeeder
— Valerie Nelson (@VNellie) October 10, 2013
There's little doubt that Amazon is the future of retailing. Its CEO, Jeff Bezos, is one of the most admired and scrutinized businessmen in the world. How did he build the company into what it is today? By being a penny-pinching ballbuster.
Benedict Evans, a popular London-based tech and media analyst (and Fred Wilson's "favorite read on the Internet") wrote a post this morning about how "significant reduction in consumer interest" for Foursquare in the US and the UK is being offset by "strong growth" in Indonesia and Turkey.
Like Instagram, Pinterest was never going to be a free ride forever—you're not paying for it with money, so you'll pay with your eyeballs instead. Here come the advertisements, and you all better start buying some tote bags and twine balls real fast.
Or maybe it's meant to entice another board
