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Twitter Widens Blog War

Jul 16, 2009
Twitter seems only to have grown more furious at the tech blog that published its internal documents, accusing TechCrunch of lying and hinting at legal action. Bizarrely, TechCrunch is refusing to fight back. TechCrunch this week published internal ...

Tesla Gets $465 Million from Feds

Jun 23, 2009
The Department of Energy has made it official: Tesla Motors will, in fact, get $465 million in government loans to fund its Model S sedan. Chalk another one up for founder Elon Musk's improbable dream of a mass-market electric car. Having amply ...

Yahoo Nukes Man's Photos Over Obama Comments

Jun 9, 2009
Flickr user Shepherd Johnson was browsing the official White House photostream one night when he decided to post a politically-charged comment. Then another, then another. Soon, without warning, Yahoo's photo-sharing service deleted his account, ...

Yahoo's New Top Flack: Cuddly and Awake

Jun 3, 2009
Yahoo's PR operation has been a disaster of late. Its former top flack maybe leaked an ex-employee's nasty performance evaluation; another was caught sleeping during a shareholder's meeting. So...

Facebook Breast Ban Ended by Cancer Case

May 29, 2009
An outcry from breastfeeding mothers wasn't enough to get Facebook to lift its ban on "exposed breast" earlier this year. But a breast cancer awareness campaign has finally ended the absurdly...

Mark Zuckerberg Hates His New Facebook Privacy Policy, Too

Dec 11, 2009
Facebook's CEO has urged his users to carefully review the new "privacy" settings pushed on them by his social network. He should have taken his own advice: He's apparently locked down his photos since we rifled through them last night. Under...

Facebook CEO's Private Photos Exposed by the New 'Open' Facebook

Dec 10, 2009
Facebook controversially forced profile pictures into public and pushed users to share candids with the whole world. So now we're blessed with pics of the social network's young CEO shirtless, romantic, clutching a teddy bear, and looking...

Facebook Gets Shrill With Twitter Backer Over Privacy

Dec 10, 2009
Facebook's Brandee Barker set her fight with a Twitter-investing ex Googler to "public;" CNET staff jockeyed for a free street turkey; and Serena Williams got ready for her nail-baring closeup. The Twitterati got scrappy. Facebook flack Brandee Barker...

Why Diddy Is the Perfect New Mascot for AOL

Dec 10, 2009
newVideoPlayer("/diddy_aol_valleywag.flv", 500, 375,""); AOL has put Sean Combs very publicly in the middle of its directors and managers. A company banking on formulaic, mass-produced content could do worse than the rap mogul, who wished AOL shares...

Craigslist's Dirty Secret

Dec 10, 2009
This is pretty huge, at least for those who buy the myth of angelic Craigslist: eBay has effectively confirmed that cyber cherub Craig Newmark screwed over an early employee to enrich himself, then tried to cover it up. Valleywag was the first to...




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