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A 17 year old named Eric Calisto is about to learn a valuable lesson in dealing with disappointment. He's asking Google to use a logo that he created on their site on December 2, his birthday, and urging people to call, email and fax Google with their support.
Not going to happen.
But he may make a few dollars on those ads.
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In these perilous economic times, the layoff memos often follow a familiar refrain: "We have cut costs by 20 percent. That gives us an additional year's runway. Or two." But while yes, companies can cut costs and prolong their survival, when it comes to startups, just because they can doesn't mean they should.
I'm speaking here of venture-backed startups, which represent a small minority of companies. The sole purpose of most companies is to create a steady income stream for their owners and...
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We make fun of everything here, even death. But it's still too soon to laugh over the three SiPort employees gunned down by a coworker, or the misguided teenager who overdosed live on Justin.tv. That...
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Layoffs suck. At least we're still alive. But still: Next week, I'll handle Valleywag all by myself while Owen takes an overdue vacation. Week after that, I'll be gone and Owen, my partner in...
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"Merman" shares a birthday and a favorite musician — Jimi Hendrix — with chubby-but-hardrocking guitarist Paul Allen, the Microsoft co-founder behind Seattle's Experience Music Project...
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"15 people laid off there today," says a tipster via email. "On a FRIDAY... Ouch. Have confirmation it?s across the board (sales, product, development etc.)" If my info is correct that...
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"Spammers and scam artists are abusing Microsoft's live.com and livefilestore.com properties to redirect visitors to sites that peddle fake pharmacy products, porn and Nigerian 419 scams." That's how...
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An unproar in the world of tech blogs is uncovering a broader fault line between writers and advertisers. Om Malik's GigaOm and his other blogs have dropped their outside ad-sales firm, Federated...
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Anne Wojcicki, the wife of Sergey Brin, is exceedingly pregnant — and Brin himself has been spotted at the maternity ward. What will their baby look like? Wojcicki's genetic-testing startup,...
