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Before Warby Parker came around, you had to build your own glasses until your hands bled—remember that? Now, buying corrective lenses is fun and (relatively) cheap, and Warby sells the startup chic de rigueur. So chic, it appears, they can get away with paying crappy salaries.

For the first time in the company's history, Twitter is profitable.

The new American Dream was going so well: drop out, make an app for sending emojis that disappear after 5 seconds, and collect your check. But it turns out the app gold rush is broken for almost everyone.

Startup Land only says something poignant about itself by accident, and this time is no exception: the grand prize in an upcoming venture capital sponsored hackathon is a chance to degrade yourself in a booth full of money.

The pending Silicon Valley wage-fixing settlement is a dud, but the upshot is a trove of private executive emails put into the public record. New court documents, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, show the leadership at Google in a fit over a very new rival.

Secret, the anonymous gossip app, just raised $25 million in venture cash. According to the New York Times, this values the company at over $100 million.

Last month, Uber boasted that its drivers command a median salary of $90,000 per year. This is not totally honest. Justin Singer wades into the financial morass, and says the truth about how much Uber drivers make is very far from simple.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Uber's latest investment round values the company at $18.2 billion—the second highest imaginary price tag for a startup in history. Number one? Facebook.

The internet service we use to follow celebrities and call people racist just broke some bad news to Wall Street: Twitter is still unprofitable, and not enough people are even willing to try it out.

After a protracted legal battle, Reuters reports Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe will settle a lawsuit claiming they conspired to pay their employees far less than they deserved. These companies got a very good deal.

What a mensch! The 22nd richest man in the world was paid just a single buckeroo in 2013, Bloomberg reports, according to Facebook's latest regulatory filings. That's so cool of him, except it's also misleading boardroom propaganda, and you shouldn't fall for it.

Gossiping is good business: Secret, the anonymous chatter app du jour, just raised $8.6 million in venture funding. Investors are betting folks outside the tech corridors of California and New York—like the busted Twitter employee above—will be hooked next.

Money has no meaning. What is money? Put money in a bowl and drizzle with milk and granola for a tasty healthy treat: the New York Times says Candy Crush's parent company will seek a $7.6 billion IPO.

Twitter, which is not a profitable company and enjoys a cushy tax break from the city of San Francisco, has purchased two wood cabins to be installed within its cafeteria, the Marin Independent Journal reports.

We already know Google interns rake it in, but what about their high-pedigreed peers? They're also doing very, very well—how's $7,000 a month sound?

The three guys up there—the co-founders of WhatsApp and their investor—just made billions and billions of dollars. The photo was taken right after they sealed the deal. Smile! But even the people without any power at the company will walk away with possibly hundreds of millions of dollars.

Eric Schmidt used to be the CEO of Google, and now he's not. But the company just decided to reward him with $106 million—100 in stock, six in cash—as an annual bonus. That's about $80 million more than the CEO of Goldman Sachs. It's also fucked up and insane.

The boy king of NASDAQ has earned $3.4 billion dollars for himself this year alone, Bloomberg, reports, owing mostly to Facebook buoyant stock prices.. It's barely February.

Thanks to Facebook stock closing higher than ever, Bloomberg reports the company's COO is now one of the youngest female billionaires on the planet.