Public opinion of Uber has been sliding a bit this year, but internal morale is still high—and booze-infused ski trips probably help.

Silicon Valley could not scramble away from Tom Perkins fast enough this week, after one of the founding fathers of venture capital tried to compare class tension directed at San Francisco's 1 percent with what's now basically considered the beginning of the Holocaust.

Especially when it's getting you in hot water. The above tweet is presumably from today's New York Department of Financial Services hearing on the legitimacy and future of Bitcoin as currency, and should have been thought over more carefully.

Last night, Bloomberg West's Emily Chang treated us to one of the greatest TV interviews in recent memory, as she sat down with venture capitalist-cum-cartoon villain Tom Perkins. He not only stood by his Nazi-invoking defense of the rich, he clearly gives no fucks about being an inhuman oligarch. Here are all the best (worst) moments.

Tom Perkins, the self-proclaimed "King of Silicon Valley," went on Bloomberg TV to apologize for, but then try to legitimize the offensive letter to the editor he recently wrote to the Wall Street Journal. How does the 1 percent defend itself? By bragging that it could buy a six-pack of rolexes.

Traffic accidents can happen anywhere, to any company. But a California attorney contends that a recent Uber fatality isn't like other accidents—the app itself makes drivers a danger on the road.

Google isn't just a scapegoat. Data-centric journalist Chris Walker plotted an array of data against a map of San Francisco's Google Bus stops, and shows just how these shuttles can help change a neighborhood.

Perhaps BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem, who was arrested and charged with money laundering today, should have taken the advice he gave during a speech at the Bitcoin Conference in 2013.

Last night, some sharp-eyed CBS viewers spotted reformed playboy investor and nature-spoiler Sean Parker next to Sean Lennon—in what appears to be Sean Lennon's mom's seat. What.

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.

Silicon Valley has never been known for its appreciation of subtleties. Case in point: eminent venture capitalist Tom Perkins, who co-founded mega-firm Perkins Caufield & Byers, just wrote one of the most disgustingly tone deaf statements on class tensions we've ever seen.

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.

The original Hot or Not, which launched in 2000, was the precursor to today's ratings apps—a website that let strangers judge pulchritude by profile pic alone. It's so old, Mark Zuckerberg ripped off the idea to get Facebook rolling. So how did the newly relaunched version get to no. 13 in Apple's App Store? With the help of good old fashioned email spam.

Sheryl Sandberg's international best-seller, an odyssey of corporate-approved quasi-feminism, will get a very strange big-screen adaptation, Deadline reports.

Uber is a company that doesn't care about being hated. It flips off regulators, thinks taxi cabs are obsolete, and when it comes to other smartphone car services, plays very dirty. And the sabotage is happening right at the top.

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.

Last week, two Princeton researchers used an epidemiological model to predict that Facebook will soon lose 80 percent of its peak user base. Slate called the methods "fatally flawed" and everyone forgot about it until Facebook decided to be a total spazz.

Ten tech firms including Google and Facebook "pumped a combined $61.15 million into efforts to influence federal regulators and lawmakers in 2013," up almost 16 percent. The only way to wield more influence would be if they become the politicians themselves.

Hey, remember this guy? Among critics of Silicon Valley's virulent arrogance, you wouldn't expect Steve Case, whose own hubris ran alongside the implosion of AOL-Time Warner. But here we are in 2014, and the former CEO is a clarion voice of reason.

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.