Over a week after fucking up your privacy, Snapchat says it's "sorry" for a security hole that put your phone number in the open. All it took was universal umbrage!

After a bazingo exit, the possibilities for a startup founder seem endless. You could form a mafia with your old coworkers, you could design bourgeois apps for your pals. If the mood strikes, you could charge a small Hawaiian island on your credit card. Whatever floats your yacht. Ever the outlier, OMGPop founder Charles Forman is trying his luck in Hollywood.

No sooner had Marissa Mayer pledged her allegiance to content (and advertising!) at CES than she put David Pogue to work. On stage this afternoon, the new head of Yahoo Tech "magazine" just wrapped up an interview with Nick D'Aloisio, the insufferable entrepreneur that Mayer made a multimillionaire before his 18th birthday.

There's been a lot of talk about easing tensions in San Francisco of late. Ron Conway wants to squash it, Mayor Ed Lee begged it hush up. Now Google is giving it a shot . . . in the most socially awkward way possible: a private employees-only ferry named The Triumphant.

The only thing more laughable than protestors demanding that tech corporations pay San Francisco $1 billion/year for illegally using public bus stops is Mayor Ed Lee's proposed solution. His plan calls for companies like Google to pay a pitiful $1 per bus stop squat.

"Jelly" has been a closely guarded secret since it was first teased by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone on April Fools Day. It's managed to pull in hugely prominent investors and awed press, based on literally nothing more than the word "Jelly." Now, it has revealed itself. It's a way to ask your friends questions.

Y Combinator, that mecca for hardcore hackers running on pure Paleo and possibility, has lost one of its own to the dead pool. The door-to-door laundry service Prim, which let San Francisco denizens mimic the perks of their corporate brethren by barking "DO MY LAUNDRY" for $25/bag, is no longer in business.

After its repeated New York blood-lettings, erstwhile design superstore Fab.com is pretty much putting Europe out of its misery: Tech.eu reports the site will now only sell custom-made furniture across the pond.

In a recent interview with Forbes as part of their "30 Under 30" bonanza, the mag sat down and talked Facebook diplomacy with Evan Spiegel, the young, sorta-sociopathic chief executive of Snapchat. He tried to look cocky-confident, but with the truth out, he just looks like a cock.

How to get a "30 Under 30" nod from Forbes, in the coveted finance category: provide a documented history of being a bad boss at a company that has never released a single product, or even acknowledged what its product is. Congratulations, Clinkle CEO Lucas Duplan.

Earlier this week, a number of Associated Press readers reported that accessing AP stories from their smartphones "automatically redirected" them to the download page for games like Candy Crush. Even readers who hadn't clicked on the ad, ended up in Apple App Store anyways.

An app that lets you send disappearing pictures and videos now has an at least very slight influence in our American democratic process, The Hill reports.

Apple has added language to its corporate charter promising to diversify its board. "It's all white men," said Jonas Kron, director of shareholder advocacy at Boston-based Trillium.

If money is the root of all evil, inflated venture-backed paper valuation is probably the root of acting like a Silicon Valley dick: friends say Snapchat's David Kravitz, part of the startup's inner circle, needs to do a social media disappearing act.

When life gives you death threats from teenagers, you make yourself a media resurrection. Enter this heart-warming tale of Mark Zuckerberg, a humble billionaire who learned to stop worrying and love that his stock price depended on revenue from mobile advertising.

"It takes a few days for things to return to normal, but we're officially back!," says the recently exiled lyrics crew. Sure enough, RG links are popping back up on Google, and the foot-in-mouth Yalie founders say they're "sorry for being such morons."

Silicon Alley during the morning commute. Photo submitted by anonymous Valleywag reader.

The $3 billion boy, Evan Spiegel, had a very good New Year's Eve. He allegedly partied at a lavish L.A. company fete with Taylor Swift and coworkers, looking back on a meteoric 2013. His millions of users, however, had their phone numbers stolen—and so far, he doesn't think he owes anyone an apology.