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Marissa Mayer's First Day at Yahoo Involved Google Balloons, Layette

Marissa Mayer's first day at Yahoo on Tuesday came replete with a layette (above) gifted to her by her new worker bees, and giant balloon bouquets (below) from former Google colleagues. "13 balloons

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Marissa Mayer To Head Yahoo

Well, this is shocking: Noted Google VP Marissa Mayer, 37, was just anointed CEO of Yahoo. New York Times reports: "The appointment of Ms. Mayer, who was employee No. 20 at Google and

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Behold, Google's Nexus 7 Tablet

Here Google's Cheryl Pon's hands show off apps on the new Google Nexus 7 tablet, which was introduced last week at the Google I/O conference at Moscone Center. (Side note: If you

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After Gay Co-Founder Gets Hitched, Facebook Adds Adorable Same-Sex Marriage Icons To Timeline

Blessed be the July 4th week news dump. Let's see, so far we've got TomKat and aliens, Anderson Cooper (finally!) coming out as gay, and now we have news that the fine folks

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Google Supercomputer Network Figures Out There Are Cats On YouTube

What do you and 16,000 computer processors hooked up to Google's secretive machine learning neural network have in common? Well, you and the neural network both have something resembling a human brain,

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Microsoft Tablet 'Kicks A**,' Writes Apple Fanboy In Amazing Tech Article

This is one of the greatest pieces we've ever read on Microsoft. Let's back up: On Monday, Microsoft announced that they will begin producing and selling a Surface Tablet to compete in the

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Yoga Studio, Rooftop Garden, Micro-Health Kitchen: A Look Inside Twitter's New Headquarters

Noted local photographer Troy Holden shared with SFist these photos of the new Twitter headquarters. The recently-opened digs at the old SF Mart feature a rooftop garden (where employees can lounge in the

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Behold: Twitter Headquarters' New 'Micro Health Kitchen'

We here at SFist are suckers for Twitter's astute office interiors (here are some photos of their old headquarters at Harrison and 4th), so it only makes sense that we ohhh/ahhh'd after

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Watch This Now: The Dangers of Vertical Video Syndrome

Today Laughing Squid brings to you what is perhaps the single most important PSA you will see in your brief lifetime. We are, of course, talking about Vertical Video Syndrome, the aesthetic-killing plague

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Shortly After Instagram Buy, Facebook Launches New Camera App

Facebook launched its fourth iPhone app today, the Facebook camera. The app is solely focused on pictures, and will allow users to upload a bunch of pics at the same time as well

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Afternoon Palate Cleanser: An AT&T Infomercial from 1961

We've come a long way, folks. They thought they'd come a long way in 1961 when they had things like automatic dialing phone, the first video phones, and satellite communications. But imagine having

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Facebook Names A Price: $38 Per Share

Facebook will unleash its historic initial public offering at $38 a share. Billed as the largest internet IPO in history, the deal should garner the social networking mammoth around "$16 billion in proceeds,

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Steve Wozniak Would Invest In Facebook, No Matter The Price

Famed Apple engineer/cofounder and living teddy bear Steve Wozniak said that, if he does plan on buying, he would purchase coveted shares in Facebook when it goes live this week, no matter

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Russian Journalist Focus Of This Morning's Attack On Ustream

Each morning we watch/listen to KRON 4 Morning News via Ustream. Imagine our sheer terror at not being about to hear anchorwoman Justine Waldman for a good chunk of the morning after

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Mark Zuckerberg Will Save California!

The messiah Mark Zuckerberg is poised to save California and its impending financial ruin. More or less. How so? Facebook will have to pay so very many millions in taxes after the initial

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Young Tech CEO Calls Facebook 'The Most Important Company Of Our Lifetime'

Darian Shirazi — a former front-end software developer for Facebook who now runs Radius, a small-to-medium business sales intelligence company located here in San Francisco — talked to Bloomberg West recently. During the interview, the

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Facebook To Debut Around $30 Per Share, $80 Billion Valuation

As Zuckerberg and Company gear up for their big debutante ball, when they'll spend the next two weeks meeting with investors and shopping their stock around, the company has released an estimated price

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Video: Berkeley Freshman's Rad Automated Dorm Room

Now, this is the roommate we always wanted in college. UC Berkeley freshman Derek Low turned his dorm at aesthetically-jarring Unit 2 into something special and magical. Low fashioned his drab room on

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MC Hammer Pays A Visit To San Quentin

MC Hammer paid a visit at San Quentin recently to talk to a group called The Last Mile, a group of five prisoners, led by two (free) venture capitalists who teach the men

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Behold The Magic Cube, A Full-Sized Laser Keyboard

If only for the fact that it brings lasers into the game, we are more than intrigued by The Magic Cube, an operational QWERTY keyboard that works by using really bitchin' lasers. Made

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Apple Working On 7-Inch iPad Mini?

Apple is working on an iPad mini, or so says the rumor mill. How mini, you ask? An average yet still very satisfying 7 inches. It will run a bit longer than the

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Yahoo Layoffs To Start This Week

Thousands of loyal Yahoo employees will receive layoff notices starting this week. Research and marketing department will be the first to get hit, reports All Things D. "The ultimate goal, said multiple sources,

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Google Drive Coming This April

Google will finally offer a new online storage service, rumored to be called GDrive, which will unveil itself at the start of April. Says who? Om Malik, that's who. And he's right about

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NYC Man Sues Apple Because Siri Doesn't Understand Him

Those of us with an iPhone 4S boasting Apple's personal-assistant Siri, we understand the frustration when the nice lady inside our phone doesn't grasp a word we're saying. However, one New York man

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Video: Watch The New iPad Unboxing

Part of what makes Apple's fandom so rabid is the act and art of opening up a new Apple product. Like mainlining heroin, it's a quick high that the buyer can never reach