Following its uber-hyped launch this summer, Sean Parker's Airtime, the family-friendly version of Chatroulette, has lost the people's interest, which it never really had in the first place.
After The New York Times's Nick Bilton jotted down his observations of his first year living in Silicon Valley, we have two versions of the tech industry's relationship: casual millionaires who don't flaunt their wealth and people who rent tigers and big giant piles of snow for their house parties.
There are temptations at home that do not exist in traditional work spaces. We asked some hyper-productive friends of The Atlantic Wire who work from home to explain their strategies, and what it is they do all day.
At a time when websites are valued in the tens of billions of dollars and banks are rushing to make new companies public, Etsy is a uniquely level-headed startup.
The excitement around Google's reported hiring of Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg and mobile app "lab" Milk, ought to come a disclaimer.
Andy Samberg, Saturday Night Live's prince of Digital Shorts, is getting into the tech startup scene. Samberg is listed as a co-founder of CarnaryHop.com, a newly-launched travel and activity recommendation site.
The big names in the world of tech and startup reporting aren't backing down from their latest war of words about who is doing the best job ruining their industry.
Alexis Ohanian, the dude who co-founded Reddit, helped launch Hipmunk, advocates for free culture, opposes SOPA and serves as an all-around start-up sage, reads a lot of Reddit.
The founders of Blueseed think they've found a way to reconcile their frustrations with the limitations of United States immigration law and the exciting innovations that non-American citizens might be able to offer American tech companies: a boat.
Though Silicon Valley continues to point to its big portfolios and the industry's high valuations, a look at how incubator start-ups are doing shows what's really happening in the tech world.
New York startup-types did not like Y Combinator founder Paul Graham's take on their city
At the TechCrunch Disrupt confab the kids think just think, "It's electric!"
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