If Facebooks IPO on Friday was a one-day Web 2.0 Gold Rush, then today is when the prospectors realize all the gold has already been taken out of the rivers and start getting trashed on moonshine and...
Perhaps youve heard that Facebook is going public this week in a massive IPO that values the company at over $100 billion. Theres an apocalyptic air about the frenzy to be the first to invest in Face...
Boy King Mark Zuckerberg turned 28 today, striking fear and loathing into the hearts of everyone who is not a 28-year-old billionaire. Facebook will go public this week in an IPO that could value the...
If Facebook had its way, nothing on Earth would be called a "book" without its explicit permission. Now, Mark Zuckerbergs Big Blue Death Star is setting up for a potential trademark showdown ...
A brilliant neutron star winked out of existence today, when grammar-challenged baseball player Jose Canseco abruptly shut down his wonderful Twitter account. But "Jose Canseco" is not curren...
Now that Joseph Kony is in jail thanks to everyone tweeting that Kony 2012 video (he is, right?) all future activism will consist of slick viral videos which online mobs will tweet incessantly at eve...
Hey everyone: Before you send an important email make sure you check to see that you didnt accidentally attach a webcam picture of a topless woman. That includes you, hacktivist collective Anonymous....
Have you ever wondered what teens do all day on their smartphones? We havent either. But a psychology professor has amassed an enormous database of text messages, photos and IMs sent by dozens of Tex...
Google has been placing more and more crap around search results, which is very annoying, but it turns out this crapification may work out quite well for the giant internet company. Thats reportedly ...
In this new trailer, the screech of dubstep summons the lucrative 18-34 year-old male demographic to Wikileaks editor Julian Assanges upcoming talk show, The World of Tomorrow, which premiers on the ...
Motivations are supposed to be pure in Silicon Valley. Facebook, for example, was developed to make the world a better place; its billions of dollars in revenue are just a happy accident. And when a ...
Kevin Systrom, 28, made off quite well when he sold his company Instagram to Facebook, personally clearing a reported $400 million, or $725,000 per day of work. But Systrom, described by one associat...
In by far its largest acquisition to date, Facebook said it will buy photo-sharing service instagram for $1 billion, or about $100 million per Instagram employee. At last, the world will be blessed w...
Randi Zuckerberg has been awarded a Bravo reality show, a show that will follow young people trying to become "Silicon Valleys next great success stories." The mere existence of the program s...
Weve seen plenty of dystopian tech since 2000. Phones that track and record your every movement. Drones that stalk and kill people. An enormous database of your feelings, ruthlessly exploited for com...
Eric Schmidt has either gone through a sudden midlife transformation or is a hopelessly tangled web of contradictions. Either way, the Google chairman and longtime CEO wants to make one thing clear: ...
Two years ago, a series of odd billboards greeted passers-by in New York, Atlanta, and the San Francisco Bay Area. They showed a cuddling, smiling couple under the title "Charles & YaVaughnie"...
It was revealed Friday that hackers had hit the credit card payment processor Global Payments, and stolen potentially millions of Mastercard and Visa customer details in January and February. But on ...
Charles Forman made tens of millions of dollars selling his company last week. And thank God for that: Its been far too long since "fuck you money" went to a tech whiz who was at least margin...
Like a moth emerging from a cocoon, lying monologuist Mike Daisey has reached the final stage of his belabored public apology for making up stuff about Foxconn. Lets trace his dramatic transition fro...
What is it about Wall Street Journal editors that makes tech executives give horrible, self-destructive quotes? They got Googles CEO to say children will someday change their names to escape their Go...
On the internet its not just hard to be alone: Its depressing as hell. Design Observer points us to Screenshots of Despair, a Tumblr that collects sad moments from social networking that remind users...
Its been almost one year since Eric Schmidt stepped down as CEO of Google, and sometimes it seems like hes experienced a midlife identity crisis. Schmidt drives a Ferrari, will reportedly divorce his...
Monologuist Mike Daisey, weve all learned, is an excellent liar. Now, lets see what else Daisey has lied about in his decades-long career, besides many of the facts in his story about investigating F...
I cant blame This American Life for falling for disgraced monologuist Mike Daiseys lies because I fell for them, too. I once confronted Daisey with my own doubts about his story, but he gave such a c...
The former CEO of Time Warner famously called his companys merger with AOL the "worst deal of the century." But at least that was a combination of two profitable companies. The takeover we he...
Twitter Inc.s been spinning quite a turnaround story in the press lately. The microblogging service "has finally turned a corner," declares the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek. "Its a jug...
It was revealed today that the notorious Anonymous hacker Hector Monsegnur—a.k.a. "Sabu"—has been cooperating with the Feds for months, and even worked off a computer they gave hi...
It surprised no one that Russian President Vladimir Putin was overwhelmingly re-elected on Sunday. But the massive panoptic webcam network he set up to monitor polling stations across the country cap...
Whine-aggregating service Yelp went public today, and is currently trading at $24.60 a share, which values the company at around $1.43 billion, according to Reuters. If this IPO were a Yelp listing, ...
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