Rising Rents Shot San Francisco Eviction Rates Up 170% in Three Years
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The Best Argument Against the Existence of Airbnb
Despite its legal troubles, Airbnb is a stellar tool for urban visitors, and a lovely alternative to hotel ripoffs. But it's also, as Jon Wheatley explains firsthand, an extremely easy way to become a landlord who just wants to turn a quick profit. And that's the last thing we need more of.
If Your Startup Is a Store at LaGuardia, You're in Big Trouble
No one is exactly sure what Zady, a gabbed-about shopping startup with $1.35 million in venture backing, "does." Ostensibly, it's a just another design-y place to buy ethical jeans, notebooks, and other bourgeois horse shit—but it's murky. So the startup is making a brave move: opening a store in an airport.
Silicon Valley Named 13th Best Conservative City in America
If Colorado Springs isn't your style, you're looking for better burritos than those in Boise, and still want the cold, masculine grasp of conservatism
Henry Blodget Wants To Know
Since being banned from Wall Street, Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget uses his blog to ponder life's mysteries. What's the deal with Jews
Snapchat's $4 Billion "Value" Causes Grown Man to Question His Sanity
It's hard to keep your wits about you
Buy Your Teen's Way Into Y Combinator
This weekend, Bing Nursery School, an elite institution for precocious little 2-to-5-year-olds, is holding its 25th Annual Harvest Moon Auction with all proceeds going toward student scholarships. As you might expect from a nursery school where Stanford University connections count so heavily, a handful of the items …
This Is The Best Possible Job in Tech Right Now
OK, fair: we make fun of Brit+Co for being a venture capital-backed Brownie
Jeff Bezos' Wife Gives Book About Her Husband a One-Star Amazon Review
If you're going to write a book about eCommerce's most powerful, diabolical chrome-dome, you better stick the details—stray from the truth, and MacKenzie Bezos is going to fuck up your average review score.
If Justin Bieber Is a "Lead Investor" Then Tech Titles Have No Meaning
Last week, Lenovo, a Chinese multinational corporation that sells personal computers and other electronic devices, hired actor-capitalist Ashton Kutcher as a "product engineer." Not a celebrity spokesperson, venture capitalist, or even the more laissez-faire "creative director" (à la Alicia Keys and BlackBerry, but a product engineer. Today, Fortune reports that Justin Bieber is the "lead investor" in a "new teen-focused social network" called Shots of Me.
Horribly Offensive Halloween: Amazon.com Edition
Will Vendramini, seen here in brownface in a "homeless guy" costume, is not actually homeless. In fact, he's an art director at Shopbop, a division of Amazon. Sid Lee, a VP at Shopbop, is not homeless either—but the six-figure-earning exec sure thinks it's a hoot.
The Most Powerful Gay Man in Silicon Valley Stays Quiet on Being Gay
Everyone knows Tim Cook is gay. Valleywag said it in 2011
Watch Mike Arrington Talk About Trading Favors for Blog Posts
In 2011, TechCrunch founder and Bully-in-Chief Michael Arrington
Turns out, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo does have a sense of humor
If anyone knows where "the creepy line" lies, it's Eric Schmidt. And he says the NSA has crossed it by spying on Google's data centers. "The steps that the organization was willing to do without good judgment to pursue its mission and potentially violate people’s privacy, it’s not OK,” Schmidt told the Wall Street…
Twitter's Dick Costolo Didn't Get the Dick Joke
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo used to do improv at Second City and likes to say stand-up comedy taught him everything he knows about business, but his joke reflex fell painfully flat yesterday. (The full NSFW Storify is below.)
Elon Musk Buys Mansion Across from Mansion He Already Owns
Why would you ever have one mansion when you can have two of them, right next to each other, you schmuck? Common sense like this is why Elon Musk is a billionaire, and you aren't.
Airbnb and Uber's Latest Lobbying Tactic: Donate to Bill De Blasio
Both Airbnb and Uber—shining stars of the sharing economy or efficient middlemen, depending on how you look at it—have chosen to use New York as a model city for making sure lawmakers rule in their favor
Google's Mystery Barge Is... a Private Party Boat?
This is both the craziest and lamest outcome for the three floating
Fab.com Co-Founder Quits the Company
Fab co-founder Bradford Shellhammer, known for his lavish personal life
A THIRD MYSTERY BARGE HAS BEEN LOCATED. I REPEAT A THIRD GOOGLE BARGE FLOATS AMONG US. The Daily Mail spotted the third barge next to the Treasure Island one in the San Francisco Bay. By and Large, LLC
eBay's Halloween Costume Suggestion for Interracial Couples? Blackface
Halloween seems to bring out the inner bigot in fashion designers, football coaches, and Hollywood C-listers. Apparently it has the same effect on technology corporations as well. Google some version of "Halloween costumes for interracial couples" and this incredibly offensive eBay page with two people in blackface will…
Jon Stewart: Google Mystery Barge Is the Start of a Bad Horror Movie
Every curious citizen has a theory about what's hidden inside Google's mystery barges and Jon Stewart is no different. Last night on The Daily Show, Stewart sliced through the fervent speculation with a voice of reason: "Let's be clear, it's not normal for an internet search engine to launch secret ocean vessels."
Coursera, a startup that offers questionable educational value, has partnered with U.S. State Department in order to spread manifest MOOC destiny around the globe.
A Super-Close Look at Google's Mystery Barge
Whether it's a data center, Google Glass store, or floating stage for an Eric Schmidt orgy on international waters, one thing's for sure about Google's mystery boats: they're creeping
Poor Billionaire: Oracle Cuts Larry Ellison's Paycheck
After so long, a rare moment of tech exec sanity: Bloomberg reports Oracle's board rejected its yacht-cheating
