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GTA V made $7B. Minecraft was worth it.

She also designed the icons used on Facebook for their now-defunct Gifts.

Pop Quiz: Which two companies had their first office at 101 University Avenue in Palo Alto? The answer says quite a lot, I think.

He started X.com. The founders of PayPal were forced by their VCs to merge the two companies, because X.com had a massive cash position, and a banking license.

This isn't just basic cookie tracking. They have an actual profile on you, without your consent, with the people who have you in their address book and even potentially your purcha…

Here's how Zuckerberg's testimony works: 1. When he says he doesn't know, he actually knows. 2. When he says he knows, and that the answer is "more AI," he doesn't actually know.

Facebook and Zuckerberg will tell you that they disagree with Boz's comments. He wasn't fired. He wasn't demoted. He was promoted . His responsibilities were expanded . If that's n…

Not sure why this has been posted here. The app is nearly abandoned and dead at this point. I know we all want alternatives to the status quo, but you're not going to find it among…

So much of VC funding is just about being in the right place at the right time. A lot of these guys seem like geniuses because of winning bets, but that's because nobody talks abou…

Experian et al do not have a two-way channel they can use to run psychological experiments based on your usage data and communications with others. Facebook can, and does. These he…

> Facebook does contribute to efforts to improve our digital lives, including one on youth education at the center I co-founded. Why isn't this disclosed at the top of the article?…

Actually, irrelevant. There would be more articles that are critical of China if newspaper publishers weren't paranoid about losing a shot at a payday buyout from a Chinese media f…

All communities have leaders, whales, whatever you want to call them. Even Bitcoin is now controlled by a small group of mostly Chinese people. Decentralization does nothing other …

Any experience on how well these things run Linux?

This actually seems more damaging and disgusting than all of the Cambridge Analytica news. Facebook employees actively working to help scammers get billions of dollars out of unedu…

Albee started lobbying for the company on Oct. 30 -- two days before his former boss, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, grilled Colin Stretch, the company’s ge…

> The meeting, which is scheduled for 10AM PT, will be led by Paul Grewal, the company’s deputy general counsel. What? Paul Grewal was a judge who presided over Facebook court case…

Alternative headline: for $385M, investors buy option for a large stake in Deliveroo if they don't surpass a valuation 'over $2B.'

Seems like the real Mark Zuckerberg comes out at the end of that article.

I'm not American, and I'm not middle class. Thanks.

"Free and Open Internet" You mean, the network created by the US government for the use of military and research institutions? The idea of the Internet as an anarchist state is a f…

There is only one real tax on the wealthy: a revolution in which all property rights are reset. Everything else is a war between the wealthy themselves to redistribute things in th…

My point is that these are not people who can be trusted to keep secrets.

> Without question Uber has been horrifically served by its board of directors — all of them. Some of them are VCs. If you are raising funding, don't tell them anything confidentia…

> I do represent Facebook on open source matters, but I did not draft the BSD+patents license grant. On what planet is this not a conflict of interest? Why isn't this at the top of…