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The True Cost of Your Uber Ride Is Much Higher Than You Think
Investor reports reveal riders only pay 41 percent of the full cost of each ride, with investors footing the remaining 59 percent.
The More We Quantify Our Bodies, the More We’ll Want to Hack Them
Nootropics startups are banking on the idea.
Amazon Wants to Show You More Startup-Made Products
It’s not so much about brand recognition as it is about even having a presence in a crowded product landscape.
Amazon Competitor Jet.com Says You Gotta Spend Money to Lose Money
The man behind Diapers.com is THIS thirsty for Amazon’s customers.
10 Years Ago Today, YouTube Launched as a Dating Website
Its founders offered women $20 each to upload videos of themselves to the fledgling site.
Fantasy eSports site Vulcan raises $12 million
The fantasy site for betting on professional video gamers has Silicon Valley investment from Sequoia
Ellen Pao Was Not Discriminated Against by Kleiner Perkins, Jury Finds
Weeks of courtroom testimony led the jury to bring down the verdict on Friday.
Are We Already Running Out of Useful Smartphone Apps?
Games and novelties aside, there are simply fewer and fewer areas of daily life that remain to be "disrupted" by utopian-minded Silicon Valley geeks. The golden age of the app may be coming to an end.
Crowdfunding Is About to Go Bananas
The idea is to democratize capital, making investment more accessible to more people while also making fundraising easier for startups, which previously had to rely on clubby Silicon Valley connections to raise money.
Why It’s So Disconcerting That SnapChat Is Now Worth Half a Billion Dollars
The economy of cool triumphs once again.
How Silicon Valley Could Save (or Delete) Education
Our college education system is busted. State universities are horribly underfunded. Education's expensive. Robots want your future job. But it’s cool, because Silicon Valley is on the case.