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more about #valleywag more comments → Shadowlayer: Seems pincus here has sent a whole bunch of "friends" to spam the place... more » Alaska Miller: It's like telling a city bus to stop only at Burger King instead of McDonald's and expecting everyone to pay extra for free ice cream. more » Monty: What is more interesting than search engines paying for content is that this could ultimately save the news media business. Ignoring the concern to J... more » Magister: What happens when you look for a foreign or local story? I assume the Fox O&Os will be part of the equation, as will their Australian and UK paper... more » sweetpickles: Yes. You'll find the same news at other sites by searching through Google. This isn't only about Murdoch walling off his sites, though. This is about ... more » Hello Mister Walrus: I think this is really audience-specific. I work for a bank, so if I had to choose between Google + no WSJ and some other search engine that is 97% as... more » Gabriel Snyder: And notice in that first search that while News Corp. is saying it can live without Google, it's also buying up ad keywords like "lieberman public opt... more » manchops: but have you tried googling: "Andrea Peyser + sex goddess?" I mean, hello? more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Perfect. And if they take even one step in the direction of "You can't quote our stories" they will drive themselves so far into irrelevancy ... more » SanFranLefty: Publisher of our local fish wrap/Sharon Stone's ex piles on Mayor McDreamy and his demands to dictate all press interviews: [www.sfgate.com] more » Aatom: "if people want to enjoy a fundamental baseline of serious news media in this country, they will have to pay for it, somehow." I agree with this, but... more » drunkexpatwriter: But.... unless I'm missing something, while the original links won't turn up on Google, any story of any real interest will be linked to by a host of ... more » marcsiry: This marks the day that "branding" was officially rebranded as "wanking." more » Shadowlayer: First one to send me a book with his/her tweet farts gets a bullet between the eyes... Kidding, you'll get a golf ball (NRA took my gun, said I was "... more » Shadowlayer: BTW, Chow if you're reading this, your book is on teh torrentz now more » -
#meltdowns
What the Hell's Wrong with Gavin Newsom?
Besides his Patrick Bateman hair, obviously. The San Francisco mayor and obvious prick went into hiding after mysteriously quitting the governor's race, and his silence-breaking TV interview was a mess.
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#fameballs
Meghan McCain Swears She'll Quit Twitter If You Can't Deal With Her Boobs
Meghan McCain says she plans to "get the fuck off Twitter" since so many users of the microblogging service are hating on a maverick picture she posted of her maverick cleavage. Oh, please. She's a fameball. She's going nowhere. More » -
#meltdowns
Diva Tech Reporter Throws Ridiculous Fitt
Sarah Lacy is famous for bombing an interview at a huge geek conference, and for being "smoking" hot. That's not all her fault; Silicon Valley is notoriously sexist. But the tech reporter's latest tantrum only plays to the diva stereotype. More » -
#meltdowns
Watch Schlubby Dennis Kneale Cry, Over a Blackberry
Dennis Kneale is in a purportedly bitter, cursing feud his internet critics. Just wait until the CNBC anchor's blogger enemies revisit this video of Kneale, pre-TV-makeover, crying like a baby because he's without a BlackBerry. More » -
#leaks
Tesla Motors Moneyman Revs His Mouth on Camera
A mysterious video of a Tesla investor talking about a rumored investment in the company has popped up on YouTube. Valleywag has identified the blabbermouth: Victor Morgenstern, chairman of a Chicago private-equity fund. More » -
#principles
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Taxpayer Money
Clever libertarians don't just rail against government spending: They do something about it. Facebook investor Peter Thiel took $8 million from New York's pension fund — while setting himself up to avoid millions in taxes. More » -
#confirmed
Google to Lay Off 200 Employees
Make it official: Google's not immune from the bad economy and plummeting ad market. We've been hearing for weeks that Google would have layoffs. Google is cutting 200 employees today, the company now confirms.
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#meltdowns
Nouriel Roubini Copters His Way Back Home
Who's the most popular guy in the midst of the worst economic crisis in decades? Why, none other than Nouriel Roubini, New York University's own Dr. Doom. He just got back from a world tour. More » -
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#confirmed
Apple Source Confirms 50 Layoffs in Sales
A source in Apple's enterprise group confirmed the company had layoffs today. Fifty salespeople lost their jobs — even as the blogosphere collectively scoffed at the idea that layoffs were happening. More » -
#meltdowns
CEO's $500,000 Salary Burns Startup Into Fire Sale
8020 Media hoped to revolutionize the magazine business. Instead, it has circled down the drain, ending up in the hands of shadowy investors after a new CEO with a Condé Nast résumé looted the startup. More » -
#layoffs
You've got pink slips: AOL axes 700 of 7,000. Memo!
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#onlineadvertising
Layoffs at Federated Media Signal Blogs' Ill Health
John Battelle is the salesman for a host of indie sites, from the futuristic Boing Boing to the Web-obsessed TechCrunch to mommyblog Dooce. What does it say that his company, Federated Media, is canning workers? More » -
#layoffs
Google's Loss of Innocence: 100 Jobs Cut
The Magical Kingdom of Larry and Sergey has laid off 100 full-time recruiters, a tipster tells us. Inevitable, given the economy. But a crushing blow to Google's self-image as a kinder-than-thou employer. More » -
#livejournal
The Russian Bear Slashes a Social Network
The bubble in social networking has burst, decisively. LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut 12 of 28 U.S. employees — and offered them no severance, we're told. -
#startups
Why Halsey Minor Can't Have Nice Things
Dotcom mogul Halsey Minor, the CNET founder, has spent freely on real estate, artwork, and startups. He's having trouble keeping them all. The latest bauble to run aground: San Francisco magazine publisher 8020 Media. More » -
#schadenfreude
A Six-Figure Car at Silicon Valley's Repo Man
The first reaction of those who dwell in California's cradle of technology to the recession was blithe indifference — Wall Street's problem, not theirs. How swiftly they learned otherwise. A tipster sends in photographic evidence. -
#blinditems
You're Fired, Er, No You're Not
Sequoia Capital, the backer of Apple, Yahoo, and Google, ordered its startups to slash their payrolls this fall. We hear one CEO fired people so enthusiastically he had to retract some of his pink slips. More » -
#meltdowns
Facebook employee unloads company gear on eBay
Times are tough at what was Silicon Valley's hottest startup last year. So tough that one Facebooker is auctioning off a company-issued Jack Spade laptop bag. -
#forecasts
Get ready for a three-year recession
Everyone's ready for the Greatest Depression to be done. Economists think it will be over by the middle of next year. What if it isn't? More » -
#obituary
The death of CNET's media-conquering dreams
CBS is laying people off at CNET — no surprise, since the entire media business is fitfully contracting, and after a merger, cuts are a given. But it signals the end of CNET's grandiose ambitions.
