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The first person to hack the iPhone is working on self-driving cars - and he just raised money from a big investor

Hotz is best-known for his previous life as a hacker with a talent for breaking into devices. He cr…

James Cook   


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The next time someone tells you robots are going to destroy our jobs, show them this

Here is an even better one. It shows how the film camera industry was destroyed by the digital came…

Jim Edwards   


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Marc Andreessen predicted GoPro's current problems back when it filed to go public

In February 2014, the day after news broke that GoPro had filed to go public, Andreessen …

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Why a top Silicon Valley VC firm just invested in a company that makes chewable coffee

Earlier this year, another venture capital firm, Trinity Ventures, made a big bet on Bulletproof. K…

Biz Carson   


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Andreessen Horowitz is investing in a 'smart drugs' startup

"The new capital will allow us to accelerate clinical research and development on nootropics, to do…

Sam Shead   


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Pinterest, last valued at $11 billion, is expected to make about $169 million this year

Pinterest is also proving to have strong influence over online shopping behavior, which is a good s…

Eugene Kim   


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IT'S OFFICIAL: BuzzFeed gets $200 million from NBC

"BuzzFeed has built an exceptional global company that harmonizes technology, data and superior edi…

Maya Kosoff   


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BuzzFeed pays Facebook millions of dollars to promote its clients' ads

In 2011, BuzzFeed's cost of revenue was $662,436. In the first half of 2014 alone, it spent $5,818,…

Matt Weinberger   


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Report: NBC is investing $250 million in BuzzFeed

Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that NBCUniversal was in preliminary talks with BuzzFee…

Maya Kosoff   


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Some of tech's biggest investors are funding a police-proof marketplace that lets you sell literally anything

"I use Etsy is because that's what is primarily considered a market leader in what we know as peer …

Rob Price   


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Despite its shortcomings, the USA Freedom Act is considered a historic moment

The Freedom Act was built as an answer to the sunsetting clauses of the Patriot Act, which was sign…

Cale Guthrie Weissman   


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Soon, a 1-person startup will be worth $1 billion

* Professors I respect explained to me that the data suggest the reverse - on average mor…

Roy Bahat, Bloomberg Beta   


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Andreessen Horowitz has invested $20 million in a British company that builds 'virtual worlds'

Improbable is just the latest in an increasingly long line of British tech companies benefiting fro…

Rob Price   


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This was one of the moments Steve Jobs realized he could change the world

"What hit me about it was that here was this machine that very few people designed - about four in …

Eugene Kim   


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Here's how Jonah Peretti came up with the idea for HuffPo

You can see this at Buzzfeed: a lot of its content is meant to appeal to a very specific group of p…

Sam Colt   


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What People Don't Understand About Food Replacement Startup Soylent, According To A VC Who Led A $20 Million Investment

"Many investors decided not to invest in GoPro because they saw it as a camera company, and camera …

Taylor Lorenz   


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Apple's Software Is In A 'Nosedive' That Is Deeply Concerning For Its Future, Says Long Time Apple Supporter

I suspect the rapid decline of Apple's software is a sign that marketing has a bit too much power a…

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The Trick To Understanding New Media: Nobody's In Charge

Mobile devices have made the browser less relevant. During the first era of push, everybody used a …

Matt Rosoff   


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Suddenly, Google Looks Shaky

Google is a search company, but the searches that it actually makes money from are the searches peo…

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The Next Major Computing Platform We'll All Be Using Will Make Smart Phones Seem Trivial

"This is the last medium. We're at the very beginning of it, but version 147 is The Matrix or Total…