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Sean Parker: "I Don't Check My Facebook Messages That Often"

In an email this afternoon, Sean Parker, who became a billionaire solely because of his shares in Facebook, said he hadn't received questions about the unnatural disaster brewing outside his West Village home because: "I don't check my Facebook msgs that often." » 2/21/14 5:20pm Yesterday 5:20pm

Facebook Will Keep Your Profile Public When You Die

The ever-looming specter of death is bad enough—but imagine Facebook not being able to monetize your data after you've kicked the bucket? That's a real tragedy—so now, Facebook is going to make sure the things you've accidentally exposed to the internet will remain that way, forever. » 2/21/14 3:38pm Yesterday 3:38pm

Did Sean Parker Mess Up 10th St. Just to Get Fios in His $20 M. Home?

Did Sean Parker Mess Up 10th St. Just to Get Fios in His $20 M. Home?

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Former Facebook president Sean Parker may be almost as disruptive to his New York City neighbors as he was to the California redwoods. A tipster told Valleywag that the outspoken billionaire turned 10th Street in Greenwich Village into a "total clusterfuck" today in order to have Verizon FiOS installed at his $20… » 2/20/14 11:15pm Thursday 11:15pm

A Tiny Group Will Become Hugely Rich from Facebook Money

A Tiny Group Will Become Hugely Rich from Facebook Money

The three guys up there—the co-founders of WhatsApp and their investor—just made billions and billions of dollars. The photo was taken right after they sealed the deal. Smile! But even the people without any power at the company will walk away with possibly hundreds of millions of dollars. » 2/20/14 5:59pm Thursday 5:59pm

Buzzfeed and Facebook Are Like Cersei and Jaime Lannister

The law of platforms puts boundaries on appropriate interaction between Facebook (a means for content distribution) and Buzzfeed (a content manufacturer). But, somehow, the two tech companies keep getting caught in an unholy alliance, including a little love from Facebook's $19 billion WhatsApp acquisition. » 2/20/14 12:45pm Thursday 12:45pm

Rebirth of the Shitheads: Silicon Villains Get a Second Chance

Rebirth of the Shitheads: Silicon Villains Get a Second Chance

Every morning some startup founder rises and thanks our species for its short attention span. If we didn't forget the innumerable failures of yesterday, who would ever fund their close cousins today? The same goes for the people behind the debacles—people like our old friends Peter Shih and Greg Gopman, who are already … » 2/20/14 12:03pm Thursday 12:03pm

The Winklevii Launched A Bitcoin Index Called "Winkdex"

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who misspelled Gandhi on a PowerPoint at the last Bitcoin conference, have decided to bring some precision to the rough-and-tumble world of cryptocurrency. Today they launched a Bitcoin version of the S.&P. 500 called WinkdexSM "to reflect the accurate price of Bitcoins." » 2/19/14 6:00pm Wednesday 6:00pm

Facebook Buys Messaging App for $19 Billion in Blockbuster Deal

Facebook Buys Messaging App for $19 Billion in Blockbuster Deal

Put the Snapchat co-founders on suicide watch: Facebook is buying WhatsApp, a smartphone messaging service that's enormously popular around the world, for $16 billion, plus $3 billion in restricted stock units for employees, making it one of the biggest tech deals in history. » 2/19/14 5:11pm Wednesday 5:11pm

Google Asks Glass Users To Please Stop Being So Fucking Creepy

Chevy never has to issue reminders to drivers to not deliberately steer trucks into playgrounds, but people who choose to wear $1,500 computers on their faces need an extra lesson in how to be a member of society. First up: don't be a weird asshole. How generous of Google! » 2/19/14 2:16pm Wednesday 2:16pm