That was relatively quick! After lots of angst and arguing, Recode reports the anti-gay CEO of the Mozilla Foundation just stepped down. What can't online dating accomplish?

It's official. Google completed its controversial two-tiered stock split, insuring that top executives like Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt control the voting power. Now all they need is immortality and they're good to go.

You know the balance of power has tipped when British royalty wants to become the next Ashton Kutcher. Yesterday Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, invited the entire London tech scene and their mums to St. James Palace to listen to startup pitches.

Faster at liquidating Facebook shares than a speeding bullet, able to leap across the promotional book tour circuit in a single bound, it's Sheryl Sandberg!

Typically, you might worry about what would happen if Michael Arrington's hands were on you. But the TechCrunch founder and pugnacious VC is equally terrified of physical contact, creating a public germaphobe campaign that's now reached half a decade.

What's gnarlier than a startup office with a pool and ping pong table five blocks from the Santa Monica beach? Using a nice chunk of the $54 million you raised to inhabit a Venice "fortress" once owned by Anjelica Houston.

As tech communities on both coasts grapple with issues of gender inclusion and harassment, casual meetups will be more and more important. But this is definitely one of the worst places you can meet.

The protests against tech corporation shuttle buses have gone from high production value to gross out gags.

Until now, no one adequately embarrassed Silicon Valley on TV. All prior attempts either embarrassed themselves, or fell just short. But Silicon Valley, Mike Judge's HBO foray into the sociopathic pit of Northern California's tech scene is beyond adequate: It gives the fuckers the graceful slap across the face they need.

Before you get too excited wearable technology, keep in mind that it gets abandoned faster than a gym membership. One third of American consumers who own a wearable products like activity trackers or smartwatches stopped using the device within six months.

The anonymous app Secret is good for bragging about polyamorous deviances, lifting the veil on #crushit culture, and now getting a job with a powerful venture capitalist.

Fox has begun casting for Utopia, its "social reality experiment series," where 15 people spend a year in an isolated, undeveloped location and create their own civilization from scratch. What better place to find that kind of hubris than Silicon Valley?

You have to hand it to Startupland. Where else could a company figure out its tax obligations only after the market says it's worth $10 billion? An even better trick is chanting "sharing" all the way to an IPO.

What a mensch! The 22nd richest man in the world was paid just a single buckeroo in 2013, Bloomberg reports, according to Facebook's latest regulatory filings. That's so cool of him, except it's also misleading boardroom propaganda, and you shouldn't fall for it.

If you're both a fan of convenient, local, web-enabled sex and Mozilla's open source browser, your daily routine is about to get interrupted: Firefox users are now greeted by the following protest message when they land on OKCupid.com:

Snapchat investor Bill Gurley thinks anonymous apps like Secret and Whisper are just a fad, telling Business Insider: "I think it's going to be really hard to monetize."

Guests of the Stanford Court hotel in Nob Hill are greeted with a rug exclaiming #HELLO! (hashtag included.) Here and there in the lobby, iPad kiosks languish at just below hip-level. No one interacts with them. The first floor is riddled with these kind of flourishes, implanted awkwardly into what was once your average Marriott.

Sergey Brin is definitely not bored or completely unconscious in this meeting with fellow Google Glass enthusiasts.

Now that Airbnb is a $10 billion soon-to-be-public corporation, the outlaw of the sharing economy is trying to go legit at the expense of its hosts. Literally.