Valleywag is Gawker's column from Silicon Valley. Edited by Ryan Tate, it carries technology and internet gossip — the news too scurrilous and juicy for the industry's trade rags.
Accidental Billionaire: Priscilla is evidence of misappropriation of Facebook's VC funds in my opinion. She's given a job by his sugar daddy and a temporary work visa? Yeah I... more »
Assault Wookie: Man..there's something about his stride that just screams this. more »
panpaniscus: Okay, so maybe this is totally inappropriate, uncalled for and non-PC, but . . . from personal accounts, why does it seem that "nerdy" guys often tend... more »
twinklewondrkid: Cries of hypocrisy are easily trumped buy how hilarious I think this is. Yes I am on facebook and yes, I have had to fight to keep the site from feel... more »
Yahweh Took My Prepuce: Ah, Palo Alto... beautiful weather, slummy fashion, everyone quietly a polyglot and computer genius. I still don't understand when the hell anyone ac... more »
Usually if an employee quits to pursue another exciting opportunity, it is a time of celebration. Not for Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis. One of his employees sent out a super nice resignation letter. Calacanis' response: "Horribly disappointed in you."
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High revenues and relatively low costs have made TechCrunch 50 the envy of its rivals, competing tech conferences like Demo and the Wall Street Journal's D. If only its founders could stop fighting like rabid dogs. More »
Traveling abroad is dangerous for the media. Take TechCrunch's Sarah Lacy for instance. She's in Rwanda, writing a book or something, when a baboon attacked her breakfast. Thankfully, she works for Michael Arrington, so she has experience handling deranged primates.
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Tech commentator Leo LaPorte and TechCrunch's Michael Arrington were doing yesterday's Gillmor Gang show when Arrington provoked LaPorte over free-product disclosures. LaPorte freaked out and shut down the show, but not before spewing colorful invective at Arrington first.
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Earthcomber, a Chicago startup, filed suit against Loopt, a Mountain View startup, for allegedly infringing on a patent that lets "a system and method for locating and notifying a user of a person, place or thing having attributes matching the user’s stated preferences." Yawn. To spice things up, Earthcomber today added TechCrunch, the blog of blowhard Michael Arrington, to the lawsuit. Why? Ostensibly because Earthcomber's CEO couldn't find Arrington's phone number. So much for locating users. [TechCrunch]
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