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| Feb 23, 2021 | Peter Pham Is Not Afraid to Die. How One of LA's Preeminent VCs Became Obsessed with COVID | As Thanksgiving approached, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti implored residents to stay home and halt all nonessential travel as COVID-19 cases skyrocketed.
But on Thanksgiving Day, Peter Pham, one of L.A.'s most prominent early-stage invest... |
| Jan 30, 2020 | The life and career rise of Snap CEO Evan Spiegel, one of the youngest billionaires in the world | Getty
Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel is only 29 years old, and one of the youngest billionaires in the United States.
Since 2011, Spiegel has served as the CEO of Snap, Snapchat's parent company, and has overseen its public offering, fora... |
| Nov 24, 2019 | The 'PayPal Mafia' formed in the early 2000s, and includes everyone from Elon Musk to the Yelp founders. Here's where the original members have ended up. | Peter Thiel, left, and Elon Musk, are two members of the so-called "PayPal Mafia." Associated Press
Since working at PayPal in the early 2000s, these 23 entrepreneurs have all gone on to impact Silicon Valley and the startup world... |
| Oct 2, 2018 | Years after Evan Spiegel tried to buy Secret, its co-founder David Byttow joins Snap as director of engineering | David Byttow, co-founder of Secret, the defunct anonymous social network that once gained notoriety for serving as the tech industry’s burn book, announced today that he will join Snap. The hire is noteworthy because before Secret shut down... |
| Jun 14, 2018 | Snapchat launches privacy-safe Snap Kit, the un-Facebook platform | Today Snapchat finally gets a true developer platform, confirming TechCrunch’s scoop from last month about Snap Kit. This set of APIs lets other apps piggyback on Snap’s login for sign up, build Bitmoji avatars into their keyboards, display... |
| Apr 16, 2018 | “Not too fond of Facebook”: A dating app removes its linked-profile requirement | Bumble reader comments 177 with 73 posters participating, including story author
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| Apr 12, 2018 | FTC tightens reins around Uber following 2016 breach | Enlarge / The Uber ride-sharing app is seen on a mobile phone.
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| Jan 18, 2018 | Bringing luxury perks to co-living life, Ollie raises cash to expand | As rents continue to soar in America’s most desirable cities, companies like New York-based Ollie (no, not that one… the other one) are angling to transform the real estate market with an updated version of an old model of co-living spaces.... |
| Dec 11, 2017 | San Francisco Cracks Down on Delivery Robots | San Francisco has been home to many quirky, forward-thinking technology startups over the years. There have been services that will fill your gas tank, mail you rolls of quarters, and even more ridiculous things. But delivery robots are jus... |
| Sep 15, 2017 | How startups can avoid Bodega’s PR disaster | Tyler Perry Contributor
Tyler Perry is partner and general manager at Bateman Group, a PR and social media communications firm with offices in New York and San Francisco.
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| Jun 13, 2017 | От повышения цен к домогательствам — главные скандалы за всю историю Uber | Проблемы, которые могут стоить поста руководителю компании Трэвису Каланику.
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11 июня стало известно, что совет директоров Uber рассматривает вариант отстранения от обязанностей нынешнего руководителя Трэви... |
| May 30, 2017 | Uber’s New York manager, Josh Mohrer, joins Tusk Ventures as managing director | Tusk Ventures has hailed the former general manager of Uber’s New York operations, Josh Mohrer, as its new managing director.
Mohrer’s departure comes at a tough time for Uber . The company is still recovering from a series of very public m... |
| Apr 28, 2017 | Someone scraped 40,000 Tinder selfies to make a facial dataset for AI experiments | Tinder users have many motives for uploading their likeness to the dating app. But contributing a facial biometric to a downloadable data set for training convolutional neural networks probably wasn’t top of their list when they signed up t... |
| Mar 10, 2017 | Banned crime reporting app Vigilante returns as Citizen, says its ‘report incident’ feature will be pulled | Remember Vigilante? The controversial crime reporting app was kicked out of the App Store in November shortly after its release because Apple believed it encouraged private citizens to engage in, well…vigilantism. Now the app is back, under... |
| Nov 17, 2016 | He’s a Trump in-law who has bet big on Obamacare. What now? | Perhaps no presidential son-in-law has ever been more in the spotlight than Jared Kushner. He was President-elect Donald Trump’s “de facto campaign manager” and helps run the executive committee of Trump’s tumultuous transition team. And ru... |
| Nov 16, 2016 | Twitter cracks down on ‘alt-right’ accounts | Twitter has suspended accounts of several well-known “alt-right” members — the same day it announced new measures to combat online harassment and hate speech.
The alt-right, a fringe brand of conservatism that includes proponents of white n... |
| Nov 2, 2016 | Controversial crime reporting app Vigilante banned from App Store | A controversial crime-reporting app called Vigilante has been kicked out of the App Store for an app that encouraged, well – vigilantism – and led to the potential for violent responses and racial profiling. The app had only been live for a... |
| Oct 6, 2016 | Yep, there’s now a subscription handbag service: Ivory Clasp | There are subscription services for clothes, shoes, accessories, makeup, and even tampons, so why not one for handbags? That’s the premise, at least, behind a new startup called Ivory Clasp, which is promising to offer quality, stylish hand... |
| Sep 15, 2016 | Gawker Parody Site Emerges to Skewer Startup Clichés | September 15, 2016 4 min read
The long, strange saga of Gawker Media, Peter Thiel and Hulk Hogan came to an end last month when Univision purchased the media outlet for $135 million at auction. While Univision bought the company's entire po... |
| Jul 7, 2016 | Lyft relaunches its luxury car service to rival Uber | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Lyft has launched a new service that it thinks will appeal to those riders who just want to arrive at meetings or at social gatherings ... |
| Jul 7, 2016 | Lyft relaunches its luxury car service to rival Uber | Lyft has launched a new service that it thinks will appeal to those riders who just want to arrive at meetings or at social gatherings in style. Called Lyft Premier, it matches you with a driver in a high-end sedan or SUV, such as a BMW 5 S... |
| Mar 7, 2016 | What if Facebook forgot Donald Trump? | This year, more money will be spent on political ads – $11.4 billion – than ever before. According to Borrell Associates around $1 billion of that will be spent on digital media, and half of that on social media. Compare that digital media ... |
| Dec 7, 2015 | Nine Percent of All Kickstarters Fail, Study Finds | It's not just high-profile duds like the Coolest Cooler: Roughly 9 percent of all Kickstarters fail to provide their backers with the product they promised, according to new research conducted by the Wharton School at the University of Penn... |
| Nov 25, 2015 | Westlake Financial: Uber’s Shady New Partner | The Uber app. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
Earlier this year, Uber Technologies terminated its relationship with Santander Bank, which provided financing for prospective “driver-partners” who needed a vehicle. The program had come und... |
| Nov 2, 2015 | Handy Raises $50M Led By Fidelity, Reportedly At $500M Valuation, To Clean Up In Home Services | There has been consolidation, collapse and other troubles among some on-demand home services startups, but others seem to be cleaning up in their wake. Handy — a platform for on-demand housekeeping and other services like furniture delivery... |
| Nov 2, 2015 | On-demand home service Handy raises $50M in round led by Fidelity | On-demand home service provider Handy has raised $50 million for its series C round of funding, led by Fidelity Management and Research Company. The company said that this new investment will help solidify its position as a market leader in... |
| Oct 29, 2015 | More Than A Selfie App, Shots Produces Original Videos With Puppets (And Bieber) | Shots has been pigeonholed since birth. First it was dismissed as just a startup funded by Justin Bieber. Then it was laughed at for being an app just for selfies. But after 2 years, $15.2 million raised, and almost 10 million sign-ups, Sho... |
| Aug 7, 2015 | A ‘Bustle for men’ silently starting up in Brooklyn? | A new, venture-backed publication with a staff full of Grantland, Pitchfork and Maxim writers is churning out an SEO-friendly, viral-sounding story about every two hours and no one has noticed?
The mystery site, Inverse, looks like it will ... |
| Jul 29, 2015 | Snapchat’s Newest Business Model: Beach Towels? | The frattiest startup in recent memory just released its latest revenue-building attempt to woo investors, the “Official Snapchat Beach Towel.”
The Venice-based ephemeral messaging app has obviously left its Amazon Prime account in the hand... |
| Jul 16, 2015 | Handy Expands Into Furniture Delivery, Assembly (And Shopping) For A Flat Fee Starting At $49 | There’s been some significant consolidation among the rush of on-demand cleaning and home services startups. Now one of the companies vying to end up on the top of the heap is expanding into a new category. Handy — the New York-based home s... |
| Jun 22, 2015 | FTC asked to block Uber from getting location data in background | Adam Fagen reader comments 60 with 33 posters participating
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A privacy activist group has filed a formal legal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), asking fede... |
| Jun 11, 2015 | Airbnb And The Problem Of Data | Housing activists, San Francisco policy makers and Airbnb are in the midst of another showdown over short-term rental regulation that will stretch into next month and potentially into the November election. The debate centers on enforcement... |
| May 27, 2015 | Gigaom resurrected: 6 media companies that came back from the dead | Deceased technology blog Gigaom rose from the dead to deliver a final message: It has been acquired by a little-known entity called the Knowingly Corp and will be relaunching this August.
Gigaom is far from the first publication to be reviv... |
| May 27, 2015 | Gigaom resurrected: 6 media companies that came back from the dead | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Deceased technology blog Gigaom rose from the dea... |
| Apr 30, 2015 | The Secret About Rich Founders And Ferraris | By now, the outrage machine is in full bore over the shutdown of Valley darling Secret . The once high-flying app, which allowed you to anonymously share details with your friends and the wider world, eventually sputtered in its growth, lea... |
| Apr 8, 2015 | Sydney startup Whizz brings sparkle to the home cleaning industry | The number of on-demand services available in Australia is steadily increasing and the latest startup to launch in this area is Whizz.
Founded by former SkyFii director Mark Bernberg, Julian Tobias and Adam Abrams, Whizz allows users to boo... |
| Mar 2, 2015 | In major goof, Uber stored sensitive database key on public GitHub page | Alex E. Proimos reader comments 116 with 74 posters participating
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| Feb 16, 2015 | How to rock at startup PR | There is a “going public” that comes before going public. It has nothing to do with stock; nothing to do with strike price or the market’s current appetite for tech offerings. This kind of going public is how companies that understand media... |
| Feb 16, 2015 | How to rock at startup PR | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
There is a “going public” that comes before going... |
| Feb 5, 2015 | Uber vs Sprig: 2 different flavors of dynamic pricing | When someone says “Uber,” what immediately comes to mind? If seemingly endless controversies are top of the list, you’re not alone.
Perhaps the biggest one is just two short words: surge pricing.
One of the longest standing complaints of us... |
| Feb 5, 2015 | Uber vs Sprig: 2 different flavors of dynamic pricing | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
When someone says “Uber,” what immediately comes to mind? If seemingly endless controversies are top of the list, you’re not alone.
Per... |
| Feb 4, 2015 | Uber Investor and Rap Genius Cofounder Have the Greatest Twitter Rivalry | The Angel Investor and the Rap Genius (Photos: Eirik Solheim, Getty)
In Jean-Paul Sarte’s classic play No Exit, three strangers die and go to hell—a version of hell where they are simply in a room, fighting and grating on each other’s nerve... |
| Feb 2, 2015 | Once Reviled For A Screed On The Homeless, Greg Gopman Looks To Make Amends | I remember meeting Greg Gopman for the first time several years ago at a Facebook mobile hackathon. He had just moved from Miami and was in full-on hustler mode.
Newcomers to the Valley are a varied sort. Some are idealists, spewing truisms... |
| Jan 28, 2015 | Ello Is Becoming a Real Social Network, Even as Tech Media Pronounces It Dead | Todd Berger and Lucian Föhr, two of the seven Ello founders. (Photo: Berger & Föhr)
Remember Ello? Doesn’t matter—the founders still don’t care if you love them or hate them, they’re just racing to finish up their site. The budding, inv... |
| Jan 28, 2015 | ScottEVest Founder Puts In Bid For SkyMall | It’s back! Venerable SkyMall, that inflight catalog full of stepping stools for dogs and hearing gadgets, may have a second life thanks to the larger-than-life CEO of ScottEVest, Scott Jordan. Jordan, who we interviewed at CES this year, is... |
| Jan 24, 2015 | This Industry Is Still Completely Ridiculous | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010.
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| Jan 19, 2015 | Apple dedicates entire homepage to Martin Luther King, though employees don’t get the day off | Apple has responded to some criticism of its failure to give its employees paid leave for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, by dedicating its entire homepage to the famous activist and removing all products.
The birth of Martin Luther King, Jr. ... |
| Jan 19, 2015 | Apple dedicates entire homepage to Martin Luther King, though employees don’t get the day off | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Apple has responded to some criticism of its fail... |
| Jan 13, 2015 | Clinkle Pivots From Its Soured Brand To “Treats” For Sharing Discounts | Not since Color has a startup been as widely laughed at as the troubled Stanford payments startup Clinkle. So it’s little surprise that the company has changed the name of its app to “Treats”, as well as its direction. After seeing the comp... |
| Jan 11, 2015 | Rumors Swirl That Adam Bain Will Be The Next Twitter CEO, But Costolo’s Not Going Anywhere Yet | Disclosure: I own less than 500 shares each of Twitter, Yahoo, and Aol stock.
The new year always brings new speculative tech predictions. Some of the most common predictions this year are that neither Dick Costolo and Marissa Mayer will ma... |
| Jan 6, 2015 | Twitter pledges to donate $3 million to nonprofits | This comes after the company donated $1 million to building a homeless learning shelter last year
Say what you will about Silicon Valley, and there is plenty bad to say about it, but companies around here do put their money where their mout... |
| Dec 18, 2014 | Bustle Lands $15.5 Million From General Catalyst | Bustle, the lady-centric news site led by Bryan Goldberg (because he knows women) has raised $15.5 million led by General Catalyst. Time Warner Investments, Rothenberg Ventures, 500 Startups and The Social+Capital Fund also participated in ... |
| Dec 18, 2014 | Few Winners In Anonymous Social Networking, And Secret’s Not One Of Them | Is anonymous social networking a flash-in-the-pan trend? A winner-take-all category? Which of the anonymous social networking apps around today are still thriving, and which are practically dead?
These questions come to mind today as one of... |
| Dec 18, 2014 | Ending The Invisibility Of Homelessness | Kevin F. Adler Contributor
Kevin F. Adler is the founder and CEO of NearShot, a media and interaction company based in San Francisco.
Last night in San Francisco, 6436 of our neighbors slept on the streets or in shelters.
The lack of afford... |
| Dec 16, 2014 | Snapchat Plans Music Feature, Acquired QR Scan.me For $50M And Vergence Eyeglass Cam For $15M | Leaked emails from the Sony Pictures hack have uncovered several acquisitions made by Snapchat, as well as plans for a music feature and meetings to discuss partnerships with Twitter.
According to emails between Snapchat, Sony Entertainment... |
| Dec 16, 2014 | Expect A Gentler Valleywag In 2015 | “If I had my druthers, I’d write about AI, and supercomputers, and fusion energy. I don’t really care about who’s fucking whom,” new Valleywag editor Dan Lyons tells me, signaling a tone shift for the tech tabloid. “Even when I did the fake... |
| Dec 9, 2014 | Rev. Jesse Jackson and Apple's Tim Cook Meet Again over Diversity Issues in the Workplace
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Search | In a statement, Apple spokeswoman Kristen Huguet said: "Apple is deeply committed to diversity within our company and the advancement of human rights around the world. We had a productive meeting with Rev. Jesse Jackson and we value hi... |
| Dec 2, 2014 | Zillow accused of “heinous acts of sexual harassment” | A former employee of Zillow (Z) filed suit against the online real estate giant, alleging that she was subjected to “the most heinous acts of sexual harassment imaginable” during her time at the company. Zillow vigorously denies the claims ... |
| Nov 25, 2014 | Beware: Your Supervisor May Soon Read Your Slack Messages | Slack, the workplace communications tool for group chats, will introduce a new feature for its Slack Plus tier of service on January 1—and employees may not like it very much.
Aimed at large companies, Plus has a new “Compliance Exports” fe... |
| Nov 23, 2014 | Uber Über Alles | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010.
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| Nov 20, 2014 | About Those Uber Revenue Numbers | Uber generates lots of revenue. Everyone knows it. The company’s roughly 20 percent cut of ride spend on its platform adds up to big numbers. How big, of course, is the real question.
New data published by Business Insider helps put Uber’s ... |
| Nov 18, 2014 | Uber exec suggests “opposition research” on journalists | reader comments 125 with 78 posters participating
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| Nov 18, 2014 | Home-Assistant Startup Alfred Launches, Paying—Gasp!—Real Wages | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
What do you do for an encore after your big public debut is widely mocked in the press? For local home-service startup Alfred, the answer is apparently to keep plugging along ... |
| Nov 12, 2014 | Shingy Is Our Muse | In a surprisingly candid piece in the New Yorker , AOL’s own Digital Prophet, David Shing AKA Shingy AKA Miley Scissorhands described, with utmost sincerity, a bear wearing a shirt covered in ones and zeroes. The bear was also wearing zebra... |
| Nov 10, 2014 | Coca-Cola Hopes Its Startup Incubator Is The Real Thing | Suddenly major brands are looking to get into the startup funding game, whether we’re talking GE, Yammer or even non-tech brands like McDonald’s. Coca-Cola is another consumer brand looking for an edge by funding new startups. Coke isn’t do... |
| Nov 4, 2014 | THE NEWS WRAP: US subprime loans investigation targets Uber finance partners | Two partners of Uber’s vehicle financing program are under federal investigation in the United States amid allegations they are pushing drivers into subprime car loans.
US regulators started looking at subprime auto lending in the past six ... |
| Oct 30, 2014 | In heartfelt Businessweek essay, Apple CEO Tim Cook says: 'I'm proud to be gay' | Apple chief executive Tim Cook published an essay today in which he proudly declared: “I’m gay.”
“Being gay has given me a deeper understanding of what it means to be in the minority and provided a window into the challenges that people in ... |
| Oct 24, 2014 | Twitter set to open $1M homeless learning center | The company is partnering with Compass Family Services to offer tech lessons to poor citizens
Silicon Valley has been getting all philanthropic recently, and Twitter wants in!
The social network is going to build a learning center, with the... |
| Oct 14, 2014 | MINY membership perk: meet with former News Corp exec [Startup Roundup] | Who’s getting money?
Delvetica, Inc. raised $50,000 in a combined debt and equity round, according to an SEC filing. Delvetica’s product is Glossy.io, the curated, unbundled discovery site for premium magazine content, which we covered last... |
| Oct 10, 2014 | Snapchat and Spiegel’s Interesting Call on the Hong Kong Demonstrations | I don’t mean to pile onto Snapchat in the middle of the #Snappening.
But I thought there was something interesting that went missed in CEO Evan Spiegel’s multi-generational chat with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg this week at... |
| Oct 8, 2014 | Slack explains companies can turn off ‘feature’ that reveals internal team names | Popular corporate messaging service Slack today addressed reports of a security flaw that reveals the internal team names of its high-profile customers, including Apple, Google, Twitter, Microsoft, and Mozilla. According to Slack, this isn’... |
| Oct 6, 2014 | Cirqle Debuts A Photo-Sharing App For Groups That Works Offline | A mobile application called Cirqle – no, not that Circle or that one either – launched last year as a way for users to share and collaborate on photo and video collections in groups, both public and private. Now Cirqle is rolling out versio... |
| Oct 2, 2014 | Facebook apologizes to drag queens, drag kings, transgenders, and LGBT community: We will relax 'real name' policy | Nicole Arce, Tech Times 02 October 2014, 08:10 am
Score one major victory for the drag queens. Facebook bows under pressure and apologizes to the drag community for its "real names" policy.
Chris Cox, chief product officer at Face... |
| Oct 1, 2014 | Facebook apologizes to LGBTQ users, plans “substantive changes” | reader comments 137 with 69 posters participating
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| Oct 1, 2014 | Are We Already Running Out of Useful Smartphone Apps? | Photo via Flickr user William Hook
The image of a San Francisco cabbie's dashboard loaded up with five phones is proof enough that our course towards a sleek, streamlined future courtesy of technology is hardly proceeding frictionlessly. If... |
| Sep 30, 2014 | I spent 48 hours on Ello. This is what I saw | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
If you’ve been on Facebook or Twitter in the last... |
| Sep 30, 2014 | I spent 48 hours on Ello. This is what I saw | If you’ve been on Facebook or Twitter in the last week, you’ve probably heard a lot of people talking about this thing called Ello. If you tried to sign up to see what it is, you would’ve gotten a message back saying, “We will invite you as... |
| Sep 29, 2014 | Hem, Fab’s Pivot Into Home Furnishings, Goes Live In 40 Markets | Three months after Fab.com, the New York-based design/fashion marketplace, acquired Helsinki’s One Nordic and announced its intention to pivot its European business to focus solely on original home furnishings, the company is putting its eg... |
| Sep 25, 2014 | Ello Founder Says VC Funding Is No Big Secret: ‘That’s Silly’ | (Photo via Andrew Magill, with obvious alterations)
Update #1: For anyone wondering when Ello will sell out, Todd Berger has gone on record with Betabeat saying that they “have NO exit strategy.”
Update #2: Brands are showing up like crazy ... |
| Sep 24, 2014 | Orange Partners Its Startup Accelerator With Visa, Moët, And LG | This morning, Orange, a large French telecom, announced that it has secured a number of partner companies to support its fourth startup accelerator batch, forming what it un-ironically and patly calls the Fab Force. The name dings with Micr... |
| Sep 12, 2014 | How MHacks reignited my optimism about hackathons (and the future of Silicon Valley) | In the past few years, I’ve sponsored, hosted, and participated in hackathons all around the United States – even one that spanned 2,000 miles on a bus. However, until this past weekend at MHacks in Ann Arbor, I had never been to a collegia... |
| Sep 12, 2014 | How MHacks reignited my optimism about hackathons (and the future of Silicon Valley) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
In the past few years, I’ve sponsored, hosted, an... |
| Sep 12, 2014 | The Unfiltered Peter Thiel Talks Startups, The CIA And Female Founders | Peter Thiel, at turns smug, acerbic and brilliant, has opinions on most everything. I first met him a few weeks before I graduated from law school and after he had pulled off the sale of PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion. Why did he bother to... |
| Sep 11, 2014 | TechCrunch Disrupts Protest That Was Trying To Disrupt TechCrunch Disrupt | Protesters who attempted to demonstrate outside the TechCrunch Disrupt conference Wednesday afternoon found themselves disrupted instead, after TechCrunch organizers called security—who then called the police—to shoo away the protest.
A gro... |
| Sep 10, 2014 | Path Remains The Most Popular Social Network Nobody Understands | Path CEO Dave Morin admits some of the initial marketing push for Path could have gone a bit differently. The private social network has become the frequent butt of jokes in the tech community as a relative non-entity and an example of how ... |
| Sep 10, 2014 | Tinder Is Raising From Benchmark At A Valuation North Of $750 Million | Mobile dating app Tinder is in talks to raise a big round of funding from Benchmark, according to sources. We’ve heard the deal, which could still fall through due to complications around ownership structure of the company, would value the ... |
| Sep 9, 2014 | Snapchat settles bruising lawsuit with ousted co-founder | Snapchat’s nasty lawsuit with co-founder Reggie Brown has seemingly disappeared.
At least for the time being. Snapchat settled with Brown for an undisclosed sum Tuesday. It was Brown who filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court, claiming th... |
| Sep 8, 2014 | Tinder And IAC Settle Sexual Harassment Suit With Early Employee Whitney Wolfe | Mobile dating company Tinder has settled a lawsuit with early employee Whitney Wolfe, who claimed sexual harassment and sexual discrimination on the part of former CMO Justin Mateen. The settlement puts to bed an ugly “he said, she said” co... |
| Sep 3, 2014 | A Letter To Jennifer Lawrence | Dear Jennifer Lawrence,
You and I don’t know each other, but I work in tech news and, as such, have read a lot of technical speculation and analysis of what happened to you and a group of other women who work in Hollywood over the long week... |
| Aug 27, 2014 | Silicon Valley's invisible workforce is paid peanuts | The perks of working in Silicon Valley are famously generous -- if you're the right kind of worker. Employees at Google (GOOG), Facebook (FB) and other tech companies get such amenities as free gourmet meals, free childcare on campus, free ... |
| Aug 26, 2014 | Uber Is Waging A Vicious, Spy-Tech Ground War Against Lyft | In the war of the car-service apps, Uber has the upper hand. The on-demand transportation company has raised more money, signed up more partners, and landed in more cities than any other competitor, including Lyft.
Now it’s hoping to domina... |
| Aug 20, 2014 | European Investor Admits He Pestered Female Entrepreneur For Sex In “Deal” Email | Pavel Curda, a European angel investor, (now ex) contributor at The Next Web and mentor to several startups, has admitted to sending a sexually explicit, inappropriate email to a woman entrepreneur following a meeting during a conference, i... |
| Aug 12, 2014 | Y Combinator Takes Public Stance Against Sexual Harassment | Ahead of its Demo Day next week, Y Combinator reminded investors in a blog post on Tuesday that it has a zero-tolerance policy for sexual harassment toward founders.
“Don’t even think about doing it,” Y Combinator’s Jessica Livingston wrote... |
| Aug 12, 2014 | Tinder Hires Amazon’s Jerry Heinz To Lead Engineering | In the wake of a sexual harassment scandal, Tinder has some positive news to share around a recent hire. Jerry Heinz, former head of engineering at Amazon for the AppStream product, has recently joined Tinder as VP of engineering, overseein... |
| Aug 12, 2014 | Uber vs. Lyft: the drama, the intrigue, the canceled rides | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Early this morning, ridesharing startup Lyft made a severe (yet unsurprising) claim: that Uber employees have requested and canceled as... |
| Aug 12, 2014 | YC to investors: There will be no funny business toward our female founders | Last week’s anonymous confession in Forbes from a female founder about her fundraising nightmares sent chills down our women’s spines — mostly because the discomfort sounded all too familiar.
And today, Y Combinator partner Jessica Livingst... |
| Aug 12, 2014 | Uber vs. Lyft: the drama, the intrigue, the canceled rides | Early this morning, ridesharing startup Lyft made a severe (yet unsurprising) claim: that Uber employees have requested and canceled as many as 5,560 rides over the past 10 months in order to sabotage Lyft.
The claim shouldn’t shock anyone;... |
| Aug 12, 2014 | YC to investors: There will be no funny business toward our female founders | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Last week’s anonymous confession in Forbes from a... |
| Aug 9, 2014 | Men Initiating Change Is An Important Step Toward Eradicating Tech’s Bro Culture | Telle Whitney Contributor
Editor’s note: Telle Whitney is the President and CEO of the Anita Borg Institute and co-founder of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Connecting, inspiring, and guiding women technologists is her ... |