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The markets are imploding and Washington is dickering. What is Silicon Valley doing? Thinking about cupcakes, cutbacks, and cushy relationships with sources. Google's Larry Page is so out of touch that he went to D.C. to whine for more bandwidth for all of his Googlephones to come. And fabulously wealthy VC Tom Perkins? He's bringing his megayacht home, the better to sell it some even more nouveau rich guy to buy. Has he looked up Kevin Rose, we wonder? (Photo by sanfranannie)
A week that melted us down
The markets are imploding and Washington is dickering. What is Silicon Valley doing? Thinking about cupcakes, cutbacks, and cushy relationships with sources. Google's Larry Page is so out of touch that he went to D.C. to whine for more bandwidth for all of his Googlephones to come. And fabulously wealthy VC Tom Perkins? He's bringing his megayacht home, the better to sell it some even more nouveau rich guy to buy. Has he looked up Kevin Rose, we wonder? (Photo by sanfranannie)
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A week in which there was nothing wrong with that
After announcing a multimillion-dollar campaign featuring Jerry Seinfeld, Microsoft canned the comic's commercials with founder Bill Gates. Not "canned" as in "fired," but "canned" as in "put away for later." Maybe. eBay's also thinking about dumping StumbleUpon, the social something-or-other site it bought last year for $75 million. Facebook users want to trash the site's redesign. Sarah Palin seems to have deleted her hacked Yahoo Mail account. Amidst all of this relinquishing of things material and immaterial, some of our colleagues threw a party on a rooftop in New York. Here's an archive of the live coverage, via a Justin.tv feed: More »
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A week in which we didn't cheat on Taurus and Fondue
TechCrunch50 was rigged. Rigged to make you fall in love with Taurus and Fondue all over again! Blah Girls founder Ashton Kutcher is working hard to keep up with the dynamic duo in this picture. We know, being an entrepreneur is risky — even Google cofounder Larry Page once hedged his bets early on, and now he's sponsoring space ships. Just don't overwork those engineers, get your teams working together, and keep your core audience happy. And remember to relax. So go crash tonight's Girl Talk concert at Yahoo and do the robot, Bill Gates-style. (Photo by TechCrunch50-2008)
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Lazy from the heat
It's 92 degrees Fahrenheit here, and we haven't had a break all week. Our holiday Monday was disrupted by the accidental announcement of Google's new browser, Chrome, via a comic strip delivered a day early to a German blogger. The comic proved unreadable except to programmers, but 4chan Photoshops of it were huge. X-Files star David Duchovny turned himself in for rehab after acknowledging his ... um, porn addiction? That was funnier than the new Microsoft ads starring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. It was more serious than any of the coverage of the Republican national convention — our most clicked video was the footage of dancing delegates. From which we gather that it's not 92 in Minneapolis. (Photo by Jason Calacanis)
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A week that left us feeling burnt
Bad Googler! No biscuit! We love Google's spin on our free-meals exposé this week: A detailed statistical analysis has revealed that some cafes are less heavily used for dinner, and so they're very scientifically closing them. The reality: A feud between Google and its food-service contractor, Bon Appétit, has led to such massive turnover in the ranks of Google's cooks that Larry and Sergey are struggling to put food on the table. No wonder they, and much of the rest of Google, have headed to the desert for Burning Man. Just two questions: Who's cooking their camp chow? And who's going to fix Gmail if it breaks down again this weekend? (Photo by Jason Calacanis)
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A week we could have kissed
Will John McCain pick former eBay CEO Meg Whitman as his running mate? We can guess what a McCain-Whitman platform looks like: No new taxes, but higher listing fees. Valley Democrats, deeming the election a formality, are already lining up to be Obama's CTO. We think Robert Scoble's angling for the job, but Obama would be wise to consider how Seagate has fared as the sponsor of Scoble's videos. Who's going to get all these plum political positions? We'll read about it in tomorrow's papers — if there are any left. (Photo by AP/Dharapak, photoillustration by Paul Boutin)
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A week we'd never lie about
Sheryl, Sheryl, Sheryl. It's been quite a week, for us and for Facebook's COO. Sheryl Sandberg isn't the kind to yell, like the 10 tyrants we featured this week. She's much more subtle than that. Or at least we thought she was, until she botched product marketer Ben Ling's high-profile return from Facebook to Google. Sheryl, sounds like you need some advice on how to end a relationship. May we suggest talking to Pownce's Leah Culver? (Photo by tifotter)
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A week in which we caught Olympic fever
We tried almost everything anyone suggested to find a cure for our Olympic fever, even watching Chinese state television in silence and hacking into YouTube before figuring out exactly how we are going to watch the summer games online. Gavin Newsom's too busy in Africa bumping uglies with his new wife to care, but such is life when you are rich. Newsom didn't propose via Google Street View, but his buddies Larry Page and Sergey Brin did ferry guests to the wedding — new wife Jennifer Siebel had better hope the marriage lasts, because otherwise, guess who's side the Mountain View search giant will take. Speaking of infidelity, Apple is selling iPhones with Windows Mobile devices, PayPal is spending more time with other lovers besides eBay, and Google seems about ready to dump that cheap slut AOL.(Photo by Tiff)
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