Winklevoss-Backed Bitcoin Startup CEO Busted by Feds

Sam Biddle · 01/27/14 11:32AM

If there's anything the Winklevoss ubermenschen love more than Harvard and revenge, it's Bitcoin, everyone's favorite speculative funny money. They've been investing in Bitcoin-related startups, and it's already going south: one of their CEOs just got arrested at the airport.

Grow a Spine, Yahoo!

Sam Biddle · 01/24/14 06:18PM

For 20 minutes or so today, Gmail was unavailable, and a million corny tweets flitted in and out of white-collar attention spans. Among them was a short, subtle, teasing message from Yahoo!, ribbing its chief corporate competitor with a simple notice that "Gmail is temporarily unavailable" and a screenshot of an error message. Hours later, it apologized. This is pathetic.

Nitasha Tiku · 01/24/14 10:20AM

Did you know that venture capitalists were not born infant investors with silver term sheets in their mouths? Some had to struggle through the rigors of a "regular jobs" first. This "beautiful, life-affirming" revelation brought to you by TechCrunch.

Nitasha Tiku · 01/23/14 11:22AM

Netflix has threatened to unleash hordes of protesting users in the "draconian scenario" that Net Neutrality laws make it legal for ISPs to impede streaming video. Slower Netflix bingeing sounds more like a doomsday scenario.