Workers in Silicon Valley "bring almost double the amount of money that their counterparts nationwide earn each week," according to new federal data.

Twitter is not a profitable company. Maybe it's on its way to becoming one, or will be someday, but the company's most current numbers show it taking a loss. But as the New York Times makes clear, plenty of myopic, gung-ho investors are trading Twitter like it's Exxon.

If there's anything Silicon Valley enjoys more than money, it's jargon: Buffer, a company that sells an "efficient solution to handle sharing on social media," just published its internal formula for who gets how much money. All in the name of "radical transparency." But is this a "good idea"?

A new $35 million Series D investment round should stave off worries of money implosion at Foursquare: AllThingsD reports the locational app is newly flush, coinciding nicely with a lovely redesign.

For several hours on Saturday, Uber was maybe the most hated company in America. Some of the year's most atrocious weather dumped across the Northeast, and the transit company of the future hit customers with the worst price gouging we've ever seen—it would cost over a hundred bucks just to drive down the block. Get used to it.

We have no idea what Katie Couric is going to do for Yahoo! other than get people talking and writing about Yahoo!, but we do know she'll be paid handsomely for it: TMZ is citing a $6 million per year paycheck. And it's a part-time gig. Yahoo indeed.

It's perfectly fine to be a predatory sleaze after you invest in a company—but expecting a struggling startup founder to hand over cash just for ten minutes of your time is generally frowned upon. That's not stopping these VCs.

One downside of Silicon Valley's ultra-insular groupthink fiesta is that it produces things like "Coin." Coin is a company that sells a product that will solve a fake problem, and soothe a tiny cohort of techie whiners. But when that's all you know, it feels like The Next Big Thing. It's not.

As the internet shit its collective denim pants yesterday upon news of Snapchat's Facebook refusal, there were some outliers—very prominent outliers. You might think two 23-year-olds refusing three billion dollars is lunacy, but these tech insiders think you're the crazy one.

Quora says it has "no near term plans" of attempting to make any money at all, likely because it was founded by two extremely rich people and doesn't need to ever make money. We need to rethink what's considered a "business."

Pinterest and Snapchat have two very important things in common: they were both recently, insanely valued by investors at around $4 billion, and neither of them has made a single dime in the entirety of their existence. How is this not a bubble, and why aren't more people saying this is crazy?

After so long, a rare moment of tech exec sanity: Bloomberg reports Oracle's board rejected its yacht-cheating, island-owning CEO's salary. Shareholders say Larry's not doing his job well enough, so he'll just have to get by with tens of millions of dollars a year.

The all-male directorship at Twitter is rewarding itself handsomely for running a business that makes no money, Footnoted reports. The salary for attending board meetings, while your company bleeds money? Now up to $16 million per year.

Twitter tossed out a little update to its pre-IPO disclosures, and the soon-to-be-public company is still far, far away from profitable.

The next stock market hysteria is here: Twitter's S-1 filing with the SEC, detailing brand new information about the hot ticket company, is now public. It's a money-loser, but will be the biggest financial craze since Facebook—let's dig in.

Do you wish you could live the Silicon Valley VC lifestyle? The glamor? The apps? The yacht racing and indifference to humanity? Thanks to recent legislative changes, you can't actually have money to invest, but it's effortless to fake it—and maybe even scam people!

Thanks to the JOBS Act signed into law this past spring, you don't have to be a Silicon Valley insider to get played by a persuasive Stanford dropout. Now you can legally beg anyone for investment cash, anytime, anywhere. This will be fun for everyone.

Ev Williams co-created Twitter way back in 2006—years before you were using it. He's kept a firm grasp on the company since then, and according to Bloomberg News sources, still holds 15% of Twitter. That means the biggest payout on IPO day.

Haven't you heard? San Francisco is literally hell, a place where crusted-over old guard socialites mix—cautiously—with tech arrivistes. Vanity Fair has a foie gras slab of an article on the uneasy unity of sclerotic blue bloods and geeks. We've found the best (worst) chunks for you. Come on, look at that guy!