Newly filed court documents show Jennifer Allen won't recant: her attorneys say she's sticking with her story
Jenn Allen Not Backing Down on Michael Arrington Rape Claims
Another Wired editor has been lured over to industry he once covered. Senior editor Michael Copeland will be heading up "content strategy" for Andreessen Horowitz, the VC firm he wrote about just two months ago for Wired. Heckuva cover letter, Copeland. Welcome to the Startup
30 Years Ago, the Next Silicon Valley Could Have Been in Vermont
There's Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Beach in Los Angeles, Silicon Alley in New York, Silicon Hills in Austin and lately tech boosters in New Orleans have been trying to get the name Silicon Bayou to stick. Everybody wants their region to be the next destination for science and…
Twitter closed a deal with Viacom in its big push for TV ad dollars. Since you can already find video highlights on Twitter, the sponsored clips amounts to "not much more than sticking an ad (for a product) on an ad (for a TV show)." The partnership will debut at the MTV Video Music Awards. Is no orgy of self-promotion…
PandoDaily Uses Journalist's Death to Discuss Some Software Bullshit
Pando, taken as a large green corpus, is generally tasteless. But is this a nadir? I think so: here's a post using the saddening death of famed journalist Michael Hastings to muse about a fucking startup.
You monsters. Shame on you. A Facebook billionaire wants to nudge
Investors Say Fab.com Is Worth $1 Billion
That's really the magic number now, huh? AllThingsD reports that the super-chic chair and bauble site just raised $150 million dollars, bringing its valuation to a billi. “I don’t consider us a success yet," says Fab's co-founder.
When Steve Jobs presented the initial design for his donut-like headquarters to the Cupertino City Council, in 2011, he described the building as a reaction against suburban office parks. “We’ve come up with a design that puts 12,000 people in one building; which sounds a bit odd,” he said. “But we’ve seen these office parks with a lot of buildings, and they get pretty boring pretty fast. We’d like to do something better.” The question, though, is better for whom?
Everything That Rises Must Converge
#Yeezus drops today. Check out the @ACLU's analysis of #privateprisons in @KanyeWest's "New Slaves" via @RapGenius: http://t.co/0hdgbNiiKE
— ACLU National (@ACLU) June 18, 2013
