After giving the top, million dollar prize in a recent hackathon to a former employee and blatant cheater, Salesforce is apologizing the only way it knows how: with lots and lots of cash and stupidity.

The bullshit industry has never boomed harder: Harvard biz student Ryan Allis, the "CEO" of a "company" called "Connect," wants you to know about a "conference" he's organizing. He was kind enough to spam everyone he knows and try to swindle his classmates.

Twitter’s IPO filing lifted the veil on all manner of investors who wished to keep their good fortune out of the public eye, like secretive Hollywood investor Suhail Rizvi. A new lawsuit from a Brooklyn dad revealed another: his ex-wife, two degrees removed from Jack Dorsey.

Rap moguls and startups collide once again in this new commercial for Fancy, a Pinterest competitor. The ad, a low budget affair that shows Damon Dash introducing Fancy to Cam'ron as a way to sell $450 jerseys, debuted yesterday on WorldStarHipHop—an atypical launching pad for tech marketing—and has already been viewed almost 4 million times.

The most absolutely awful thing about the story of Nick Starr is not that he exists, but that there are surely more people like him: the Seattle IT drone threw a Facebook fit when he was asked to take off his face-camera at a cafe. "I would love an explanation, apology, clarification...or her termination."

Nucleic rapper Kanye West, embodiment of the New Uncanny, appears to have found himself in the same position as many an entrepreneur before him: long on ideas and short on financing. And what better place to look for funds right now than the frothing coffers of Silicon Valley?

Tech jobs are often hard, thankless, and generally unpleasant—but rarely do you see a company tell you, straight up, it's going to be miserable. The next systems admin for geeky web comic Penny Arcade certainly has their work cut out of them.

Code.org—a tech non-profit backed by Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and other top brass—wants to improve computer science education for young women and minorities. And hey, that's great. But it wouldn't be a Zuck joint without something insidious: the group will hold private data about kids for years.

Snapchat's 23-year-old founder continues his goodwill campaign: in a video deposition clip obtained by Business Insider, Evan Spiegel says his only regrets about forcing out his partner is "the generosity" of letting him work for free.

Researchers found 20 million fake Twitter accounts for sale this summer, reports the Wall Street Journal. That would mean almost 9% of Twitter's monthly active users are fake—nearly double the 5% figure cited in its IPO filing.

When you've got a proven history of colossal failure as a startup founder, it's best to avoid silly, swaggering videos that make light of this fact—remember, you're playing with someone else's money. But three years ago, Fab.com's creators did exactly that—and with the attitudes you see here, it's no wonder they're failing again.

Former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown has looked out his 35th floor window at the St. Regis and decided he doesn't like what he sees. In his latest Willie's World column for the San Francisco Chronicle, Brown admonishes local techies for fueling class warfare in the streets.

The more we learn about Clinkle—a mobile payments app so fantastic, so splendorous, that the startup hasn't deemed our species worthy of any details—the duller it seems. Another way to pay with our phones—super. But what's lackluster for us is miserable for them: according to a new post on Quora, working for the joint's infamously young boss is hell.

Here's an image that Snapchat co-creator Evan Spiegel will hope disappears: his girlfriend, model Lucinda Aragon, will attempt to woo ABC's "The Bachelor" in the upcoming season. Zuckerberg and Priscilla look like two Quakers by comparison.

It's 2013, and David Karp, David Pogue, and Katie Couric are now coworkers. Think about that. They're not sharing a stage at some boring conference or wacky variety show: they're part of the same baffling mission, and emblematic of just how confused and irrelevant Yahoo! has made itself.

Sean Glass, the Park Avenue-raised, Dalton-educated son of music mogul, is trying super hard at his "job" to make the New York tech community look cool.

Randi Zuckerberg's holiday over-shares haven't always ended up in her favor. But it's still awfully presumptuous to demand that everybody else "Stop Sharing on Thanksgiving." Like so much of her near constant social media activity, this humble suggestion ends up being a plug for her book:

The New York Times says Twitter is "providing lawyers to help fight evictions" as part of its tax break agreement with San Francisco. Isn't that like asking Peter Thiel to donate to a college scholarship fund?

Tech workers: they're just like the rest of us. Despite all the bluster of renewed innovation and the fiery spirit of Mayer-ism, Yahoo! Mail remains a calcified piece of shit—and naturally no one at Yahoo! wants to use it. AllThingsD got its hands on an internal memo, and boy do they seem upset.