Two weeks after Uber decided it was "worth" $10 billion, the number has already climbed to $17 billion. And San Francisco's taxi industry buckling under all that cash. DeSoto Cab's president recently declared he "would be surprised if the cab industry survives another 18 months in The City."

One success never guarantees another: Chad Hurley, who helped bring the world YouTube, is bombing once again. His video-sharing service MixBit is dead following legal threats by Kanye West, and the parent company, Avos, is firing almost everyone. Updated:

Everyone's former favorite "daily deals" site from several years ago just posted terrible news for investors: a net loss of $183 million for 2013.

This probably would have been a better move before the entire company started to implode, but I'm no businessman: LivingSocial CEO Tim O'Shaughnessy is quitting his dying company.

First it was going, now it's gone: the social music website we all messed around with a couple years ago (I think that's when—right?) is now going off to the great website in the sky.

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.

After Chad Hurley and Steve Chen invented YouTube, they walked away with a bundle of cash and got to work making new websites. Unfortunately, these websites were the exact opposite of YouTube, in that no one wants to use them—now another is headed to the junk pile.

Despite having the best company name in the style startup game, Fashism, is taking a trip to the big incubator in the sky. Not even a joint investment from Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore could save the outfit-sharing service. Full email below:

The company that used to make standard issue hardware for suits, geeks, and spoiled college kids is, as long expected, sliding into oblivion: BlackBerry will lay off 4,500 employees after a quarterly loss of almost $1 billion. No one wants the phones.

After pushing stale meme-themed packages and offering up its own property for weddings, we've now maybe reached the point at which they just stop caring about everything: today's featured deal is a trip to a part of the United States ravaged by one of the worst floods in history.

Two summers ago, Turntable.fm, a place to virtually listen to music with your friends, was everyone's favorite website. Many hours of American Office Productivity were sucked away. Then, we all moved on to new distractions—but Turntable sealed a $7 million investment round, and gradually torched it.

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.

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.

No one likes flash deal sites anymore: the fad is over among people who buy things, and the ripoff is apparent for people who sell. We all want out—except those stuck running the sale operations, and an internet meme lady from several months ago.

Over $6 million in venture capital has been handed to Grubwithus, a company that thinks it can make money by arranging meals between strangers. It looks like that bet was probably wrong.

Deals sites stopped being fun some time ago, and now the companies that staked their entire existence on local coupons are feeling the burn. And then there's LivingSocial, which is feeling the burn because it's setting its own shirt on fire.

Pour one out for the staff of Spinner and AOL Music—the entire operation is shuttered as of today, after 14 years.

More bad news for everyone's least favorite social gaming company: the FarmVille empire's former prince is AWOL, right on the heels of his hyped new release.

Earnings numbers are in for Facebook playground Zynga, and holy cow, they're profitable even post-IPO disaster. But under the surface, they're dying. Quickly. People are fleeing FarmVille by the millions.