The best part about being a rich old white lady (and there are many!) is you can say things like this about startups in a new interview with Vanity Fair: “They bore the hell out of me."

As a lovely followup to recent discussions of gender inclusivity in tech, here's the first presentation from the AOL-owned TechCrunch Disrupt 2013 startup conference: an app called Titstare, presented by two grinning Australian dudes, exactly as tasteless as it sounds.

Last year, software code repository GitHub " />received a big, greasy, $100 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz. To spend on, you know, the things that really matter.

Wall Street Journal reporter Heather Haddon says Senate candidate Cory Booker is stepping down from the video startup Waywire "amid controversy," and will donate all his shares to charity. But which controversy forced him to resign?

Just imagine the scene: news breaks that one of the most influential figures in the history of technology is having an affair with an underling. But instead of choosing one of the many photos Amanda Rosenberg herself uploaded, People magazine apparently seizes the first snap of a woman in Google Glass it can find.

In the future, you'll be able to call a limousine, whenever you want one! That will be fun—but perhaps not so fun is the quiet abolition of tipping that some smartphone chauffeurs claim Lyft and Uber are pushing. Now the dispute is heading to court.

You might think Burning Man is a silly, dust-caked hallucinogen playground for people who should never be naked. You'd be right. But it's more than that: Burning Man 2013 proved to be a place for reconciliation between the Winklevii and the co-founder of Facebook.

"Are we going to build an ad business? Yes, at some point. Do we need to do it tomorrow? No. Do I think we’re going to be able to do it in a really cool way? Yeah, I think so. We have something that nobody else has at scale, and that has value."-A familiar CEO refrain, this time from the founder of the secret-sharing app Whisper.

Washington's fading "local deals" portal, darling of the year 2010, is officially one step above holding a bake sale: you can now throw your wedding at LivingSocial's digs. Event planning is the ultimate pivot.

Dave Morin, spammy app guy and interpreter of God's will, has finally realized virtual stickers aren't going to make Path profitable. His radical idea: ask people to pay for a yearly subscription to Facebook Lite.

If you can't beat Mark Zuckerberg, you can at least look better with your shirt off.

Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer is very proud of her new logo up there—she made it herself over the weekend! And somehow made the company look more dated than ever. It also represents a Yahoo! that has little idea what it's doing, if it's doing anything at all.

In a week, the next breathless gathering in Silicon Valley's Liturgal Calendar begins: TechCrunch Disrupt 2013, a $3,000-per-ticket gala of business owners, investors, and their wannabe retinues. For entertainment? "Startup Battlefield," where tech hopefuls compete for money and attention. But what happens after? Often, death.

Oracle founder and island owner Larry Ellison had a vision for yacht racing: it would be a sport so insane and magnificent, only the kings who ruled other kings could afford to participate. But in his pursuit of perfection, The Wind God went too far—his America's Cup racing team just got penalized for cheating.

What's Marissa Mayer been up to other than posing in Vogue and buying sinking startups? The company just sprinted through not one, not ten, but 29 brand new logos, and the final choice is nigh. This is leadership you can believe in.

Sometimes, beneath the sleaze and oblivion, you get the sense that techies do want to help others. But without basics like empathy, reason, or humanity, the startup community struggles to help its fellow man—and we wind up with things like this, a business analysis of the homeless shopping cart.

Just before Labor Day weekend, TechStars cofounder David Cohen published an anonymous email from a concerned cofounder about his or her hellish experience with an unnamed "accelerator"—one of those boot camps that takes equity in a young startup in exchange for a small amount of capital and the promise to whip it into shape—as well as its utterly deranged managing director.

First they came for the perks. Quirky, the product development startup that raised $68 million last September, just sent out a memo delaying the week off it promised employees in October until Thanksgiving. Between that and laying off its chief revenue officer, we're sure the "damn good party (and talent show!)" consolation prize will be a boozy affair.

This isn't a joke, please help. I've repeatedly read this press release rewrite, and cannot tell you what "loggly" is, other than the fact that it's "A Splunk Competitor," which "Raised $10.5M For Cloud-Centric Approach To Log Management." What.