Blog Profile / Valleywag
| URL : | http://valleywag.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Technology | |
| Posts on Regator: | 2356 | |
| Posts / Week: | 8.6 | |
| Archived Since: | February 17, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Mike Arrington Responds to Abuse Claims: 'All of The Allegations Are Completely Untrue'
TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington has strongly denied a host of recent public allegations from an ex-girlfriend, former colleagues, and former friends that he has a history of violent behavior toward women. The string of claims began...Show More Summary
Google's Most Glamorous Employee Now Head of World's Least Glamorous Company
Google VP Marissa Mayer has appeared in Vogue and Glamour; she shut down a good portion of San Francisco in order to install a massive Dale Chihuly glass sculpture in her home, where she hosted legendary ragers. Now, after 13 years at Google, she's been tapped as CEO of drab content chum bucket Yahoo. More »
It's Mark Zuckerberg's 28th Birthday
Boy King Mark Zuckerberg turned 28 today, striking fear and loathing into the hearts of everyone who is not a 28-year-old billionaire. Facebook will go public this week in an IPO that could value the company as high as $100 billion. More »
What Else Has Mike Daisey Lied About?
Monologuist Mike Daisey, we've all learned, is an excellent liar. Now, let's see what else Daisey has lied about in his decades-long career, besides many of the facts in his story about investigating Foxconn. Here's one. More »
Steve Jobs Playwright Lacerates Stephen Fry Over Brutal Apple Factories
Stephen Fry, the British actor and vocal Apple admirer, defended the company on Twitter against accounts of brutal working conditions in its contract factories. This did not sit well, at all, with Mike Daisey, creator of a critically-acclaimed...Show More Summary
I Can't Stop Looking At This Weird Chinese Girl Dancing In An Apple Store
This whole video of teens dancing at a Hong Kong Apple store is entertaining. But go to around 1:06 and check out the moves of the girl in white. Her face is like the face someone would make while carving an ice block into a statue of a machine gun, with a chainsaw. More »
The Creepy New Facebook for the Staggeringly Rich and Powerful
You can only join the exclusive new social network TopCom if you're among the 200 richest people in the world. Then again, if you're on hand in Davos Switzerland when TopCom is unveiled by scary software compant Tibco, there's a pretty good chance you're in that group. More »
Hackers Attack Israeli Stock Exchange In Escalating Mideast Cyber-Throwdown
The websites of Israel's stock exchange and national airline were hit by hack attacks today after weekend threats from the pro-Palestinian hacker 0xOmar. It's the latest volley in the escalating hacker-on-hacker pissing-match currently drenching the Middle East in leaked credit card information. More »
How a Human CEO Programmed Mark Zuckerberg
When Facebook was only 6 percent as popular as it is today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg wanted to upgrade his personal operating system with leadership features. So Earth's richest cylon decided to shadow his human friend and mentor, Washington Post CEO Donald Graham. More »
Yahoo's Animated Corpse Has a New CEO, And He's a Huge Nerd
Gigantic internet zombie Yahoo announced it's installed Scott Thompson as CEO, replacing the scary lady who cussed. Thompson was president of noted precious antique destroyer PayPal, isn't big on journalism, and dresses like Mitt Romney's less cool older brother. More »
Reddit Tracks Down Adoptee's Family, And His Biological Sister's Boobs
It's a holiday miracle: users of the popular nerd hive Reddit tracked down an adoptee's birth parents in a matter of hours. They also found and skeezed over his biological sister's topless pictures. Awkward. More »
Sasha and Malia Are Banned from Facebook
The Obama White House can be terrible at leading the nation. It's been incredibly soft on Wall Street and often horrible on basic human rights. But it can stand proud on its family Facebook policy! At a time when American parents help sneak their legally underaged kids onto Facebook, Sasha and Malia Obama are quite sensibly told to stay away from the social network. More »
Facebook Hires Experts To Explain Human Emotions
Last week, national experts traveled to Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, California, to convey hotly anticipated knowledge to the social network's engineers. The computer programmers "listened intently," according to a reporter who...Show More Summary
Facebook Declares War On Sleazy Revenge Porn Site
Facebook is trying to shut down IsAnyoneUp.com, a sleazy porn site built around posting the Facebook profiles of its often-unwilling subjects. But the site's owner says he's not going anywhere. More »
Mark Zuckerberg's Girlfriend Just Near-Married Him
Priscilla Chan has always taken her relationship with Mark Zuckerberg seriously; she famously sealed a contract of dating rules before moving to be near him in California. But the medical school student just got more serious than ever before, listing Zuckerberg as her "partner" on Facebook - and adopting Zuck's mother as her own. More »
2011's Top Hashtags Are Perfect Snapshot of Internet's Power, Inanity
Twitter's assembled a nice set of lists documenting the topics, places and hashtags that dominated the site this year—and wouldn't you know, it tells you basically everything you need to know about the internet. More »
Mark Zuckerberg Wants $10 Billion By Summer
The tech bubble is burst, but Facebook is moving to quickly revive it: The social network is planning to go public as soon as April at a valuation of more than $100 billion. More »
Apple Prepares to Crush Apple Store Unions
Starting today, Apple Store managers will have to undergo euphemistically-titled "union awareness" training, to learn about attempts by employees to unionize. It's safe to say Apple doesn't want unions getting in the way of their creepily efficient customer service. More »
How Your Bullshit Anonymous Hacking Threats Get Made
Each day seems to bring a scary new video from the hacktivist collective Anonymous threatening some spectacular attack, then everyone freaks out. This week, Anonymous is threatening to disrupt the Iowa Caucuses. After a month of Anonymous scares, we call bullshit. More »
The Groupon IPO Will Be Huge (God Help Us)
Groupon goes public tomorrow, and the financially frightful coupon startup should be a stock market hit: With about 10 times more prospective buyer than shares, the stock priced today at $20, up from an expected $16 - $18. So it looks like the tech bubble, inflated heretofore by private investment deals, is going public. How exciting. More »