The Bay Area's tech elite have discovered a new way to get loud and in your face: founding "dad rock cover bands." Basically, their music gig is doing what other people have done before, kinda like their startups.

Airbnb is finally making good on the food end of the bed and breakfast deal, as the sharing economy hotelier has begun testing a program that would have the site's hosts throwing dinner parties for strangers.

There's a reason why Marc Andreessen is an esteemed venture capitalist, and you're not. Consider the savvy of his investments, the impossible sheen of his dome, the wisdom of his tweets—and, despite apparently having never read a book, just this morning he summarized human progress in just 17 parts.

Things couldn't be better for Zappos: ever since they were acquired by Amazon for $1.2 billion, the online fashion retailer has been growing like crazy. And to help further balloon their workforce by 28 percent this year, the company has rolled out a system forcing applicants to become "friends" with Zappos employees:

Clinkle, the payments app run by a tyrannical 22-year-old Stanford grad, is cloaked in roughly the same amount of mystery as the island in Lost. A source tells Valleywag that the app, which raised between $30 million in venture capital without a product, may deliver the same disappointing ending.

There hasn't been a single piece of good news from Fab.com in a very long time. Layoffs, mismanagement, plummeting morale, and executive reshuffles have erased Fab's early rep as a cheery decor startup with tons of money in the bank. Now, the bad can't get much worse: we're hearing Fab is already starting to shut down.

The great tragedy of the pre-Internet era was that My So-Called Life superfans had no way of keeping the teen drama on the air. But we now know where the laconic bad boy, an ambling Zen koan in corduroy, might have ended up: an "early investor" in a "hot" human resources automation startup. Swoon.

Continuing the string of safety incidents surrounding Uber, a driver was arrested in Los Angeles Monday for allegedly kidnapping a drunk female passenger after she woke up in a motel room and found her shirtless driver.

Now that the taxi industry has been disrupted all the way to its deathbed, Silicon Valley has set its sights on a new prize: municipal buses. And Chariot, an "Uber for the rest of us," says it has the secret sauce to shake up the government stranglehold on busing.

Two weeks after Uber decided it was "worth" $10 billion, the number has already climbed to $17 billion. And San Francisco's taxi industry buckling under all that cash. DeSoto Cab's president recently declared he "would be surprised if the cab industry survives another 18 months in The City."

Google is launching a new collection of frames and shades for Google Glass, designed by fashion icon Diane von Furstenberg. The DVF | Made for Glass collection looks more like regular spectacles than previous iterations—even if the titanium and shield frames are decidedly retro. Just one problem: there appears to be a computing protrusion jutting out from the corner?

Remember Tentwenty, the anonymous local app rife with tech gossip (in the Bay Area)? One of its users was right about Andreessen Horowitz leading an inside round in Zenefits, even calling the $500 million valuation. So, when can we expect that Square credit card?

Uber might be slashing prices and squeezing their drivers while battling Lyft, but that's no excuse not to move into posh new offices in San Francisco's "it" Mid-Market neighborhood. Their new headquarters are located in the same building as Square, with Twitter as their neighbors. The Chronicle charitably describes the space as "the man cave of a tasteful bachelor."

Forget fickle teens, the hottest demographic in tech right now is The Unwired. Google is investing $1 billion to $3 billion on a fleet of satellites to beam down Internet access on developing countries and other assorted areas without broadband. Before this satellite project, Google had tried the same thing with drones and balloons.

While most San Franciscans are struggling to get to and from work today following Muni's sickout, which left approximately 67% of city's buses parked in the yard, a line built explicitly to serve the Mid-Market tech corridor where Twitter's headquarters are located was up and running all morning.

The only thing more expensive than a duplex is a triplex, and that's exactly what Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss just shelled out for, the New York Observer reports: just an ordinary, 4,300 Manhattan condo for two 32-year-old men to both live in.

Facebook may not like its corrosive effect on the types of news that gets shared online, but its influence is growing stronger. WhatsApp, its $19 billion messaging miracle, already sends more traffic to USA Today's sports blog than Twitter.