http://ganja.gawkerassets.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5910406&view=rss&microfeed=true #bubbles Perhaps you've heard that Facebook is going public this week in a massive IPO that values the company at over $100 billion. There's an apocalyptic air... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5910035&view=rss&microfeed=true #facebook Boy King Mark Zuckerberg turned 28 today, striking fear and loathing into the hearts of everyone who is not a 28-year-old billionaire. Facebook will go... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5904848&view=rss&microfeed=true #theinternet If Facebook had its way, nothing on Earth would be called a "book" without its explicit permission. Now, Mark Zuckerberg's Big Blue Death Star is... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5904784&view=rss&microfeed=true #poets A brilliant neutron star winked out of existence today, when grammar-challenged baseball player Jose Canseco abruptly shut down his wonderful Twitter... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5903875&view=rss&microfeed=true #theinternet Now that Joseph Kony is in jail thanks to everyone tweeting that Kony 2012 video (he is, right?) all future activism will consist of slick viral... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5903756&view=rss&microfeed=true #anonyboobs Hey everyone: Before you send an important email make sure you check to see that you didn't accidentally attach a webcam picture of a topless woman.... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5903569&view=rss&microfeed=true #teenagers Have you ever wondered what teens do all day on their smartphones? We haven't either. But a psychology professor has amassed an enormous database of... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5902386&view=rss&microfeed=true #modernandawkward Google has been placing more and more crap around search results, which is very annoying, but it turns out this crapification may work out... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5901884&view=rss&microfeed=true #wikileaks In this new trailer, the screech of dubstep summons the lucrative 18-34 year-old male demographic to Wikileaks editor Julian Assange's upcoming talk... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5901613&view=rss&microfeed=true #television Motivations are supposed to be pure in Silicon Valley. Facebook, for example, was developed to make the world a better place; its billions of dollars... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5900768&view=rss&microfeed=true #instagram Kevin Systrom, 28, made off quite well when he sold his company Instagram to Facebook, personally clearing a reported $400 million, or $725,000 per... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5900373&view=rss&microfeed=true #deals In by far its largest acquisition to date, Facebook said it will buy photo-sharing service instagram for $1 billion, or about $100 million per Instagram... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5899533&view=rss&microfeed=true #celebrityscience Randi Zuckerberg has been awarded a Bravo reality show, a show that will follow young people trying to become "Silicon Valley's next great... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5899109&view=rss&microfeed=true #privacy We've seen plenty of dystopian tech since 2000. Phones that track and record your every movement. Drones that stalk and kill people. An enormous... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5898921&view=rss&microfeed=true #valleywag Eric Schmidt has either gone through a sudden midlife transformation or is a hopelessly tangled web of contradictions. Either way, the Google... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5898522&view=rss&microfeed=true #mysteries Two years ago, a series of odd billboards greeted passers-by in New York, Atlanta, and the San Francisco Bay Area. They showed a cuddling, smiling... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5898320&view=rss&microfeed=true #hackers It was revealed Friday that hackers had hit the credit card payment processor Global Payments, and stolen potentially millions of Mastercard and Visa... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5896632&view=rss&microfeed=true #fameballs Charles Forman made tens of millions of dollars selling his company last week. And thank God for that: It's been far too long since "fuck you money"... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5896448&view=rss&microfeed=true #ifraud Like a moth emerging from a cocoon, lying monologuist Mike Daisey has reached the final stage of his belabored public apology for making up stuff about... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5895626&view=rss&microfeed=true #valleywag What is it about Wall Street Journal editors that makes tech executives give horrible, self-destructive quotes? They got Google's CEO to say children... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5895590&view=rss&microfeed=true #theinternet On the internet it's not just hard to be alone: It's depressing as hell. Design Observer points us to Screenshots of Despair, a Tumblr that collects... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5895354&view=rss&microfeed=true #privacy It's been almost one year since Eric Schmidt stepped down as CEO of Google, and sometimes it seems like he's experienced a midlife identity crisis.... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5894525&view=rss&microfeed=true #ifraud Monologuist Mike Daisey, we've all learned, is an excellent liar. Now, let's see what else Daisey has lied about in his decades-long career, besides many... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5894216&view=rss&microfeed=true #ifraud I can't blame This American Life for falling for disgraced monologuist Mike Daisey's lies because I fell for them, too. I once confronted Daisey with my... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5893380&view=rss&microfeed=true #rumormonger The former CEO of Time Warner famously called his company's merger with AOL the "worst deal of the century." But at least that was a combination of... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5891675&view=rss&microfeed=true #leaks Twitter Inc.'s been spinning quite a turnaround story in the press lately. The microblogging service "has finally turned a corner," declares the cover of... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5890901&view=rss&microfeed=true #hackers It was revealed today that the notorious Anonymous hacker Hector Monsegnur—a.k.a. "Sabu"—has been cooperating with the Feds for months, and... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5890571&view=rss&microfeed=true #surveillance It surprised no one that Russian President Vladimir Putin was overwhelmingly re-elected on Sunday. But the massive panoptic webcam network he set... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5889947&view=rss&microfeed=true #ipos Whine-aggregating service Yelp went public today, and is currently trading at $24.60 a share, which values the company at around $1.43 billion, according... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5889468&view=rss&microfeed=true #socialnetworks Typical men: As soon as they see something women have, they have to have it for themselves. Like thong underwear and mangagement rings. So it is... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5889312&view=rss&microfeed=true #theinternet Now that teen smoking rates are in decline and rap music has been throughly mainstreamed, the only thing to worry about re: America's Children is... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5888598&view=rss&microfeed=true #wikileaks Julian Assange took some time from his busy television production schedule to leak internal emails the hacktivist collective Anonymous had stolen from... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5888165&view=rss&microfeed=true #pranks The photo agency Pacific Coast News just breathlessly emailed us to say they had exclusive screenshots of Paul Rudd's "hacked" Wikipedia page, above.... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5887697&view=rss&microfeed=true #theinternet Horse_ebooks became a bona fide internet celebrity when organizers of ROFLCON, the premier conference on internet pop culture, asked in January:... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5886003&view=rss&microfeed=true #memes This was the week Facebook turned into the "What People Think I Do" machine. Has there ever been a meme both so ubiquitous and so uninteresting? This is... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5885836&view=rss&microfeed=true #socialnetworks Turns out that just hours before we published our inside look at Facebook's content moderation process, they released an updated version of their... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5884619&view=rss&microfeed=true #theinternet Metastasized Xbox fan message board Reddit is a little less pervy this morning after it explicitly banned all "suggestive or sexual content... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5883670&view=rss&microfeed=true #stevejobs The FBI has released, and posted on its web site, Steve Jobs' 191-page FBI file. Read it here. The file consists of a 1991 background investigation... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5883549&view=rss&microfeed=true #privacy The tech world has been consumed today with news the app Path quietly uploaded users' iPhone address books without permission. Path, in an increasingly... http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5883431&view=rss&microfeed=true #facebook Sometimes you do something on Facebook — comment, post a link, "like" a status message — and it gets totally misinterpreted. And amid the...