Tech companies promised to hire graduates of a new San Francisco job training program in exchange for tax breaks. The question is, how do you break into the same tech world that cast you out — or wouldn’t normally welcome you in the first place.
Free food is now an expected perk at all the shiny new tech companies. A former Google chef says, “They had no budget, it was foie gras and Kobe steaks every day.”
OK, so this is total geek inside-baseball, but Facebook convinced TechCrunch that you could send photos to your friends with the new “Fax This Photo” feature. They meant it as a lesson about getting your facts from the source before you publish a story, but all it taught me is that faxing photos would be awesome. My favorite part of the story is that only TechCrunch employees could see the feature on their pages; Facebook is creepy like that.
The Boring couple was just trying to live their boring life when Google Street View ruined everything. Google won the lawsuit and now millions of people have seen the Boring house. UPDATE: A reader emails to say that a Boring victory is still possible because a judge has not issued a “motion to dismiss.” The Boring story continues…developing… View Image ›
A fake Twitter competitor dreamed up as a hoax to rile the Twitter-esque Plurk. Posts purporting the company had actually purchased Plurk eventually caused the real founders to speak up. Read More ›
A popular search engine for video that uses speech-recognition software to enhance results. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation and Google are both rumored to be looking into buying the company before it goes public. Read More ›
