Mobli, a shameless Instagram ripoff, was just supposed to be another hobby for bored famous people. With inexplicable investors like Serena Williams, Tobey Maguire, Lance Armstrong, and Leo DiCaprio, the app was one more harmless vanity project among many. But then the second richest man in the world came along.

Earlier this week, Tinder's director of marketing Whitney Wolfe posted an Instagram from NBCUniversal. "Mindy project cast rehearsing their lines for January's tinder episode," wrote Wolfe, followed by a series of weeping-with-laughter emojis.

First as tragedy, then as farce: a tipster close to the company tells us the undead social network canned "massive number of people from their LA office today. Entire departments." A "New MySpace" rep hasn't confirmed the number, but the firings are real.

If you recall Nick D'Aloisio, it's likely because of the time he spammed Gizmodo to the point of tears, and then sold his dinky app company to Yahoo! for millions of dollars. Then we all forgot about it. Now, the Wall Street Journal says he "has changed the way we read." Really!

Jawed Karim—the boring YouTube cofounder, not the one being sued by Kanye West—just left his first video comment in eight years. The one-liner takes a knock at Google, the company that earned Karim $64 million and the chance to literally live next door to Mark Zuckerberg.

Professional sibling Randi Zuckerberg usually only appears in the dim lower strata of our digital consciousness when she's fucked something up: maybe it's a canceled Bravo reality series, or a privacy gaffe. And yet, she was paid to write two books. Here's the only part that matters.

Twitter's austere approach to its initial public offering was not enough to placate San Francisco's have-nots. A coalition of tenant advocates, seniors, workers, and students gathered outside the company's Mid-Market headquarters today, in the middle of Twitter's stock market debut, to draw attention to corporate tax breaks and what the group claims is Twitter's role is "displacing thousands of families, seniors, and working people in San Francisco," according to a press release.

Not long after Dave Morin laid off 20 percent of his employees in October, Path began hemorrhaging valuable staffers.

When the inevitable Twitter movie inevitably beams into theaters, no one will play Dom Sagolla. It's not because he doesn't want to be part of the story: for the past several years, he's toured the world as a self-proclaimed inventor of Twitter. He's not. So why hasn't anyone ever called him out?

Twitter didn't make a bunch of dudes "paper" billionaires today without a helping hand from the government. But Senators John McCain and Carl Levin decided this is the week to burst their IPO bubble. The stock option tax loophole that let Twitter take an estimated $154 million tax deduction, they declare, "ought to be closed."

Twitter's IPO motto may be "less Facebook, more LinkedIn." But it's repeating a crucial mistake that, in Facebook's case, led to class action lawsuits for selective disclosure. Only this time, it's Goldman Sachs instead of Morgan Stanley.

It's Facebook Twitter IPO day! After months of SEC reviews and roadshows and profiteering, FB TWTR will finally take its place in the Nasdaq NYSE menagerie. Time to start digging up your backyard bullion stash, right? Wrong. For the average guy the Facebook IPO is strictly Like Fave, don't touch.

On the night before Twitter's IPO, Jack Dorsey proves, once again, how much he loves getting press.

Google finally offered a statement about its mystery barges, telling TechCrunch they are "‘an interactive space’ to teach people about its technology." People of Earth, head seaward to learn about your new leaders.

In the annals of frat backstabbing, few things rank as high as Evan "L.A." Spiegel kicking his friend Reggie Brown IV out of Snapchat, a "$4 billion" company. This is Winklevoss-level shit, and new court documents show just how flagrant the treachery was.

With all that disrupting, Silicon Valley can get a little topsy-turvy sometimes. No revenue leads to higher value and, now, movie-based office themes are officially announced before the product that's supposed to be built there.

Early last month, Google wrote a seemingly innocuous, jargon-filled blog post about figuring out when a search ad on a consumer's smartphone leads to buying an item in real life—conveniently glossing over the fact that it's doing that by "tracking consumers’ smartphone locations all the time, wherever they go, even when they’re not using a Google app," reports Digiday.