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The Valley’s Next Source of Funding? Nigerian Scam Artists
With Venture Capitalist funds quickly drying up with the tightening economy, there’s one group of investors who are newly flush with cash and eager to help: Nigerian Scam Artists.
Nick Denton’s Evil Genius: No One Likes Humor in Tough Times
Nick Denton’s an absolute genius for folding Valleywag. There is absolutely no role for humor in an economic downturn. Who wants to laugh, or laugh at VC’s, billion dollar corporations, or internet celebrities, when their homes, their jobs and their sanity is on the line, anyway?
Google Expands Tracking To HIV, Hepatitis, West African Fever
Google announced an expansion of its Google Flu tracking program to include HIV, Hepatitis, and West African fever. Never one to rest on their laurels, Google plans for new unconfirmed-symptom maps as well, including the “cerebral hemorrhage map” and the “ruptured appendix map”.
Yahoo Girding Itself For Tsunami of Penis Enlargement Ads
With Google pulling out of their deal with Yahoo to serve ads in search results, fans of Yahoo are steeling themselves for an onslaught of spam, as spammers are celebrating with renewed campaigns for their favorite products.
Voter Suppression 2.0 — GOP Turning to Robo-Tweets
In a last ditch attempt at suppressing votes, the McCain campaign has hired a new group to use “Robo-Tweets” to scare off users of social media, 93% of whom have identified themselves as either “mostly”, or “totally” in the tank for Obama.
AOL to Google: “You’re Awesome … I Hate You!”
AOL unleashed another savagely passive aggressive note in its latest attempt at drawing attention to how old, stale, and pitiful its become.
Congress Delays Economic Bailout Package For “Real Emergency”
Congress halted all discussion on the economic bail out package upon receiving a telegram from a Tim Westergreen, alerting them to the real “Congressional Emergency.”
Journalist Goes Missing After Outing Google’s Latest Evil Plan
Pulitzer prize winning reporters Thomas Claburn went missing shortly after he broke the story behind Google’s nefarious 10 to the 100th project. On the surface, Google’s looking to help humanity. In a move that would make Microsoft proud, examining the TOS shows that its planning to do so quite profitably at the expensive of the contestants.
Twitter Readies The Fail Whale For The Presidential Debates
In advance of the US Presidential Election debates, Twitter has unleashed its hottest product to enable people to watch and participate in world wide conversations — as they happen. But what about the Fail Whale? Well, it looks like I didn’t have to worry. The Whale was eager and rarin’ to go, and the Twitter team couldn’t wait.
VC’s Are Livid With Digg: Wanted Cash For Digg “BlackMarket”, Not “More Bongs and Beer”.
Digg VC’s at Highland Capital Partners are absolutely livid at the press conference that Jay Adelson gave today, and one of folk behind the scenes gave us an unprecedent view into exactly why they’re so angry. In a phrase, they want less bongs and more cash.
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