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In 30 years as a tech reporter, Kara Swisher had a front-row seat to Silicon Valley’s obliteration of the media. In ‘Burn Book,’ she shares what she learned from covering Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Larry Page, and the other tech titans. 
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If you secretly harbor the idea that Snapchat is frivolous or somehow a fad, it’s time to re-examine your certainties. In fact, in various large and small ways, Snap has quietly become one of the world’s most innovative and influential consumer technology companies.
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Marissa Mayer has got to go. That's the whole point of a 99-page presentation submitted today to Yahoo's board. The Golden Girl of tech took over the fledgling business in 2012 to much fanfare.
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Jack Dorsey fancies himself a philosopher. He fancies himself an artist. He fancies himself a fashion designer. And he fancies himself the kind of man who can run two multibillion-dollar companies at the same time. Between those ambitions and that beard, Dorsey sounds a bit like the most interesting man in the tech world. Which might be, at this point, exactly what Twitter needs.
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The ride-on-demand app company's disasters made it onto the front pages of The Washington Post, USA Today and the New York Times - all in one day.
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Last week, Sarah Slocum, a San Francisco-based tech writer, wore Google Glass to a bar and was cursed out and assaulted by two women who ripped the Glass off her face. In Facebook post responding to the attack, Slocum called it a “hate crime,” but the media response has ranged from hostile to dismissive. Newser's Matt Cantor referred to Slocum as a "Glasshole" and New York magazine's Adam Martin called her argument an "overly fraught discussion of some idiocy that happened on the kind of drunken night you would usually want to forget.
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In recent years, San Francisco has become the capital of what someone described to me as “three-business-card life.” People might give a lot of their time to one startup while keeping a substantial equity share, and maybe a nominal job...
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Silicon Valley moguls provided the brainpower and financing for a company that could make Cory A. Booker, the Newark mayor and United States Senate candidate, very rich. Mr. Booker personally has obtained money for the start-up, called Waywire, from influential investors, including Eric E. Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman. A year after its debut, Waywire has already endured a round of layoffs and had just 2,207 visitors in June, according to Compete, a Web-tracking service. The company says it is still under development.
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Several companies are building robots that might eventually drive cars, give quadriplegics physical functionality or even replace soldiers on the battlefield. The starting price for one that can pick up things, fold laundry, open doors and serve dinner is $400,000.
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Marissa Mayer, who was Google's first female engineer and its 20th employee when she joined that company in 1999, was named CEO of Yahoo earlier this week. Who exactly is this woman Silicon Valley is raving about. Here are 11 facts about Mayer you might find interesting.
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Marissa Mayer, one of the top executives at Google, was named CEO of Yahoo yesterday, making her one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley and corporate America.
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Love reality shows? Loathe Silicon Valley? Or visa versa? If that's the way you feel, then the wait for this upcoming Bravo series seems interminable. "Silicon Valley" which is filming now, mostly in San Francisco, where the Valley has unofficially extended to, does not air until next winter. Which gives the five 20-somethings the show is following plenty of time to take a dip in their "Villa" pool.
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Twitter’s first three months under the empire of Elon Musk. Twitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the platform against impulsive billionaires who wanted to use it for their own ends — then one made himself the CEO
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The ailing Internet giant is up fro grabs, and lots of well-known entities are interested.
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Ms. Mayer was hired as chief executive to transform Yahoo from a dull web portal into something new and exciting. But instead of bold, her tenure has been mostly boring.
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Spending seven days learning to use, and getting used to, the Apple Watch proved to be a mostly rewarding experience.
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Tim Cook's Businessweek essay clarifies his sexual orientation to the public, but also raises some issues about how, why and where he spoke up.
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Headphone use has hardly ever raised eyebrows. So why did Google Glass spark a recent conflict at a San Francisco bar?
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Book critics are divided over the quality of Dave Eggers’s highly anticipated novel “The Circle,” which has started a debate on whether technology is invading our lives.
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This weekend, as you brunched in beautiful weather and desperately tried to dodge the Fashion Week traffic, San Francisco's startup scene was consumed by yet another TechCrunch Disrupt and its attendant hackathon. One of the demos? Something called “TitStare.” The name, unfortunately, is pretty self-explanatory.
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Years ago, few people conflated technical prowess with physical fitness. The archetypical techie of the early 90s, for instance, was Dennis Nedry, the portly computer programmer in Jurassic Park played by Wayne Knight, a.k.a. "Seinfeld‘s" Newman. In real life, tech titans like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs would never be mistaken for underwear models. Twenty years later, though the image of the Red Bull-fueled, pizza-consuming, pencil-necked techie lives on, it’s balanced by another strain: The tech Master of the Universe who is not only proficient in Objective-C, but can run a sub-3:30 marathon as well and regularly bikes hundreds of miles over the weekend.
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Computers, smartphones and other gadgets have made life easier, but now tech firms are worried that they may be harming people. “We’re done with this honeymoon phase and now we’re in this phase that says, ‘Wow, what have we done?’," says Soren Gordhamer, who organizes an annual conference about the pursuit of balance in the digital age.
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Yahoo's CEO pick surprised everyone. Now for the hard part: Fixing the company. Marissa Mayer is Yahoo’s seventh CEO in five years. Her best shot at reviving the company may be an area not conquered by her former employer Google: mobile.
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Cell phones in the toilet, foul balls to the chest, new uses for old payphones, that annoying Gotye song, a Silicon Valley reality show and light up prayer mats that let you know you're facing Mecca. We don't make this stuff up. Find out what people are talking about online this week and join the conversation, preferably from somewhere else besides a toilet seat.
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