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  • #geocities

    How to Blow $3.5 Billion

    Yahoo finally shuttered Geocities today. Acquired in 1999, Geocities was one of the costliest dot-com duds of of all time: $3.5 billion for an ugly, cash-bleeding homepage hosting service. And to think Google's founders were simultaneously begging server funds. More »
    10/26/09
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  • #valleywag

    Google CEO Has Money for 'Dear Friend' of His Sometime Girlfriend

    We heard Eric Schmidt was done with girlfriend Kate Bohner around the time he was seen again with his ex Marcy Simon. But a tipster showed us how Schmidt has been funneling some cash in Bohner's general direction. More »
    10/19/09
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  • #fieldguide

    Drue Kataoka: Inexplicable Fameball Priestess of Silicon Valley

    It's hard to explain Drue Kataoka. There's the hair. The intimate spiritual moments with aged Silicon Valley dons. And this new music video about net neutrality, co-starring Facebook fameballer Randi Zuckerberg. Think of Kataoka, perhaps, as Silicon Valley's Julia Allison. More »
    10/02/09
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  • #feuds

    Blood Rivalry Over Electric Cars Now Fueled by a Billion Taxpayer Dollars

    Elon Musk and Hendrik Fisker are mortal enemies in the green car business. Yet the feds just split a billion dollars between the two companies. If that sounds like a bad idea, blame Al Gore. More »
    09/28/09
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  • #realestate

    Pimped-Out Venture Capitalist Riding High Again

    Tom Perkins has been a barometer of plutocratic spending amid economic meltdown. That barometer is now signaling a comeback, if only for the real estate market, as Perkins scoops up a royal penthouse atop the San Francisco skyline. More »
    09/23/09
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  • #venturecapital

    Silicon Valley's Mass Delusion

    The Brits at the BBC checked in on the Silicon Valley economy, and found this horrific scene: People quitting perfectly good jobs and investing perfectly good money under the delusion that boom times are here again. Ouch. More »
    09/17/09
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  • #foursquare

    Code Theft Allegations Can't Stop iPhone Bubble

    Foursquare has raised its first venture capital investment, and it couldn't have been easy: There are persistent rumors the social networking company stole its code from Google. Plus, it wanted to invest the money in a domain name. Ooof. More »
    09/08/09
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  • #tardy

    Rolling Stone Finally Taking Late, Doomed Shot At RollingStone.com

    It must pain Jann Wenner to see his other properties start succeeding where flagship Rolling Stone squandered possibilities and descended into irrelevancy: online. Now that US Weekly's site has heat, Wenner's finally starting to line up RS's strategy of "whatever." More »
    08/30/09
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  • #geeklove

    'In Lieu of Gifts, Please Give Us Free Venture Capital'

    Drue Kataoka and Svetlozar Kazanjiev have come up with a novel way to hit up their wedding guests for cash: explain the cash will be used to generate even larger sums of cash, via the internet. More »
    08/26/09
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  • #deals

    The Trouble with Taking Charity

    Adrian Holovaty has sold his hyperlocal news startup to MSNBC.com, allowing the programmer to cash out and keep his staff employed. For most entrepreneurs that would be unalloyed good news. But Holovaty isn't just any entrepreneur. Just ask his critics. More »
    08/17/09
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