Twitter's CFO has stepped down and been replaced by former Goldman Sachs banker Anthony Noto. Noto recently helped take Twitter public, but was branded "Anthony No Dough, Anthony Don't Know" during the dot-com bubble by ignoring financial data and hyping disasters eToys and Webvan.

How's this for a metaphor for what's going on in San Francisco? Directly outside City Hall yesterday, a pleb-filed Muni collided with a luxury tech bus. It's the rich and the poor—the private and public sectors—butting heads again before a mayor increasingly giving favors to Silicon Valley. [Photo: defabulous]

This is definitely worse than your worst Tinder horror story: Whitney Wolfe, Tinder's former VP of marketing is suing the hookup startup after what she describes as a spree of misogyny and sexual harassment at the hands of its CMO Justin Mateen.

The health insurance sector is what happens when companies no longer try to avoid seeming evil (think Facebook in 10 years). That's why Oscar, a venture-backed health insurance startup, has seemed to appealing—but one Valleywag reader's story is almost enough to make you miss Aetna.

Bitcoin is now legal in California. Gov. Brown signed AB 129 into law Saturday, legalizing cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Dogecoin. However, COINYE West—the Kanye West-branded cryptocoin—was not sanctioned over trademark concerns with the rapper.

Silicon Valley's "sharing economy" startups are known for skirting the law, but now they're blatantly violating it. Days after San Francisco's City Attorney asked Apple to ban three "predatory" parking apps from the App Store, MonkeyParking is refusing to shut down, claiming auction off public parking is "free speech."

Imagine a company that records every detail of your biography, can recognize your face, tries to listen in on you through your phone, and stores countless messages between you and your friends. Now imagine this same company intentionally making you sad. It happened.

Here's what can go wrong if you have a startup as a neighbor: sometimes they'll evict you when their next round of funding comes in, or you might just have to listen to their bullshit every day.

Silicon Valley famously spent years refusing to talk about its diversity problem. But in the last month, some of the nation's biggest tech companies became more transparent about their demographics: Google, Facebook, Yahoo—even LinkedIn—all released diversity reports. However, Twitter is refusing to get with the times.

The problem with treating the truth like a dirty secret is that it leads to situations like today's, where a CNBC panelist brought his own show to a halt after stating the obvious: "Tim Cook is fairly open about the fact that he's gay at the head of Apple, isn't he?" Silence.

Travis Kalanick, chief executive of Uber and Ayn Rand superfan, thinks regulation is for suckers, and his company has been slow to expand background checks and tighten the screening process as it ravenously expands. Surprise: people are beating Uber's weak rules.

Now that techies are hacking homelessness through code and GoPro chest cams, real organizations are recruiting tech's help (dollars) with words the Valley will understand: "Disrupting Poverty." [Photo: @ProfJeffJarvis]

Why should our pensions and mutual funds be the only ones lucky enough to gamble on Silicon Valley's most inflated startups? Thanks to multiple changes in the University of California system, taxpayers now can invest in emerging tech companies too.

Silicon Valley insiders like Ron Conway fought hard for the Jobs Act, lobbing hashtag after hashtag at Washington's paper belt. Now, thanks to the magic of deregulation, venture capitalist already benefitting from low interest rates and irrational exuberance in tech stocks can have an easier time raising funds.

Uber is celebrating its progressive values by growth hacking their way into your heart. During Pride weekend in San Francisco, the sharing economy startup will offer UberWEDDINGS: a quick and shameless way to share your life with your loved one.

Outside of Google I/O yesterday morning, San Francisco's usual squad of anti-tech protesters assembled to air their usual list of grievances against the Valley giant. They may have traded their clown costumes for Star Wars outfits, but the rallying calls were all the same: no more evictions, Google's buses are hurting Muni, and the company perpetuates inequality.

Some things are too precious to last in this brutal world, and Washboard, a startup that mailed you quarters to do your laundry, is one of them. It is, against all odds and after only a week in business ("business"), shutting down.

Joaquin Almunia is considered one of the most powerful regulators in tech because of his role as the European Union's antitrust chief. But now that the EU has decided not to let Google run roughshod over consumers and competitors, Almunia, who is texting buds with Google chairman Eric Schmidt, finds himself an awkward position.

Water is wet, the night is dark, the sugar is sweet, and according to a new internal report, the social network employs mostly men, who usually look the same. At the top of the org chart, 93% of leadership positions are caucasian or Asian.

Last night, dozens of people in starched collars and prom dresses convened at a Manhattan helicopter pad, to watch helicopters land, and to celebrate a startup made for ordering said helicopters. Silicon Alley hasn't mastered the SF startup party, but it certainly still knows luxury.