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Tech business drama
185 links saved from 2007 to 2026; 177 with a note, 79 in a Weekly Thing.
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- techcrunch.com 12, theverge.com 9, businessinsider.com 7, gigaom.com 7, bloomberg.com 6
2026
2025
- Forced every engineer to take sales calls. They rewrote our entire platform in 2 weeks : r/Entrepreneur
- Stack overflow is almost dead
- Pocket is Saying Goodbye: What You Need to Know | Pocket Help
- Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's 2024 Letter to Shareholders—Annotated
- Minnetonka-based E-Commerce Firm Digital River to Shut Down
2024
2023
- Did I Make a Mistake Selling Del.icio.us to Yahoo?
- Disney CEO mess: Inside story of Iger and Chapek
- Amazon shuts down DPReview
- The Demise of Silicon Valley Bank - by Marc Rubinstein
- SimCity launched a decade ago, and it was so disastrous it killed the series
- Inside CNET’s AI-powered SEO money machine
- Amazon Smile gets a frown
2022
- On company size
- Layoffs.fyi - Tech Layoff Tracker and Startup Layoff Lists
- Minneapolis tech firm Code42 lays off 15% of workforce
- Bright Health Group to Lay Off 99 Employees
- Stripe to lay off 14% of staff as CEO says he made 'two very consequential mistakes'
- Elon Musk’s Texts Shatter the Myth of the Tech Genius
- Ad Tech Revenue Statements Indicate Unclear Effects of App Tracking Transparency
- A message from Coinbase CEO and Cofounder, Brian Armstrong
- Peloton announces large losses in Q3 2022 earnings report
2021
- Let's Buy the US Constitution
- Why This St. Paul Startup CEO Moved to Dallas
- An Open Letter to Airbnb. The pitchforks are coming by Jared A. Brock
- Welcome to Libera Chat
- Shopify to lose three of its top seven executives
- Fry’s Electronics is shutting its doors for good
- IBM Blockchain Is a Shell of Its Former Self After Revenue Misses, Job Cuts: Sources
- Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce
2020
- Tony Hsieh’s American Tragedy: The Self-Destructive Last Months of the Zappos Visionary
- How Microsoft crushed Slack
- Quibi is shutting down
- ongoing by Tim Bray · Bye, Amazon
- The inevitable has happened.
- O’Reilly’s events business - O’Reilly Media
- Google cancels its 2020 I/O developer conference
- Susan Fowler on the Aftermath of Speaking Out Against Uber
- Ted Stein on Twitter: "Unintended Tesla app purchases, explored."
2019
- TWTR: Enough Already
- Foxconn finally admits its empty Wisconsin ‘innovation centers’ aren’t being developed
- Without deal, WeWork would have been out of money next week, sources say
- WeWork Founder Adam Neumann Is Still a Billionaire After Bailout
- GitLab reset --hard bad1dea: Biz U-turns, unbans office political chat, will vet customers
- Disgraced Google Exec Andy Rubin Quietly Left His Venture Firm Earlier This Year
- WeWork Is Unloading Adam Neumann's Cronies—and His Private Jet
- Is We Work a Fraud? - Henry Hawksberry
- How Adam Neumann’s Over-the-Top Style Built WeWork. ‘This Is Not the Way Everybody Behaves.’
- Inside Kickstarter’s year of turmoil—and a union effort that could be a first for the tech industry.
- Travis Kalanick wrote an awesome letter to Uber employees. They never saw it.
- The WeWork IPO
- WeWork Co-Founder Has Cashed Out at Least $700 Million Via Sales, Loans
- A Unicorn Lost in the Valley, Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel
- Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff
- Kickstarter will not voluntarily recognize its employee union
- The once-hot robotics startup Anki is shutting down after raising more than $200 million
- Uber Questions
- Uber's IPO Is Historic, Despite Its $10 Billion Loss
- Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing
- AT&T Suspends YouTube Ad Spending as Boycott Over ‘Pedophilia’ Videos Scandal Widens
- HQ2: Understanding What Happened & Why - The Big Picture
- Vaping Giant Juul Explains Everything Wrong With Our World
2018
- Verizon Admits Defeat With $4.6 Billion AOL-Yahoo Writedown
- OpenText to Acquire Liaison Technologies, Inc.
- Citi's Mark May: Amazon relies on robots; less temporary holiday hires
- Tesla quietly drops “full self-driving” option as it adds $45,000 Model 3
- The Decline of OpenID
- Mike Bollinger is stepping down from TECHdotMN
- Strap on the Fitbit: John Hancock to sell only interactive life insurance
- Larry Page Is a No-Show With Google Under a Harsh Spotlight
- Funding not secured: Musk's explanations about taking Tesla private does not work
- Google Struggles to Contain Employee Uproar Over China Censorship Plans
- WhatsApp founder plans to leave after broad clashes with parent Facebook
- The Numbers Behind WeWork’s Growing Empire
- Toys R Us to close all 800 of its U.S. stores
- Uber and Lyft drivers' median hourly wage is just $3.37, report finds | Technology
- Satan Makes His Pitch to Amazon.com
- The Fall of Travis Kalanick Was a Lot Weirder and Darker Than You Thought
2017
- Silicon Valley Is Sneaking Models Into This Year’s Holiday Parties
- Tesla misses the mark on Model 3 production - by a lot - Oct. 2, 2017
- Microsoft Teams is replacing Skype for Business to put more pressure on Slack
- Code42 to Focus Exclusively on its Rapidly Growing Business in the Enterprise and Small Business Markets
- TECHdotMN The Nerdery's CEO Tom O'Neill Is Stepping Down
- Statement by Freada Kapor Klein and Mitch Kapor on the Resignation of Dave McClure
- Exclusive: Dave McClure resigns as general partner of 500 Startups funds
- Uber CEO Kalanick advised employees on sex rules for a company celebration in 2013 ‘Miami letter’
- withoutbullshit.com
- My Interview at Uber
- RethinkDB: why we failed
2016
2015
- Schafer: Target still trying to catch up after mistaken Web strategy
- Atlassian JIRA splits into JIRA Core, JIRA Software, JIRA Service Desk
- You literally cannot pay me to speak without a Code of Conduct - Rachel Nabors, award-winning cartoonist turned digital storyteller.
- Almost None of the Women in the Ashley Madison Database Ever Used the Site
- Why I Stopped Angel Investing (And You Should Never Start)
- In big move, Accenture will get rid of annual performance reviews and rankings
- How EA lost its soul
- Carnegie Mellon Reels After Uber Lures Away Researchers
- TECHdotMN Where Did Dornquast Go? An Interview With Code42's Interim CEO Mitch Coopet
- Gigaom Fired Staff After Struggling With Debt
- The Way We Hire Is All Wrong — Backchannel
- The Real Story Behind Jeff Bezos's Fire Phone Debacle And What It Means For Amazon's Future
2014
2013
- Merger Of Advertising Giants Brings Together Largest Collection Of People With No Discernible Skills - The Onion
- Zynga to Lay Off 520 Employees and Shutter Offices
- Investor Chamath Palihapitiya Says Were At An Absolute Low Point In Startup Quality
- The Death of Upcoming.org
- Yahoo Kills Upcoming, Archive Team Saves the Day
- As player numbers crater, EA will shut SimCity Social, other Facebook games
- As Tech Wealth Explodes, Silicon Valley Poverty Spikes
- LivingSocial Receives Emergency $110M Debt Infusion From Existing Investors With Oppressive Terms
- If This Report Is True, LivingSocial Is In Far Worse Shape Than We Thought
2012
- TechForward Wins $27M In Lawsuit Against Best Buy Over Stolen Trade Secrets
- The last day
- IT workers largely shielded from economy's woes
- JPMorgan Trading Loss May Reach $9 Billion
- Kickstarter hides failure
- How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
- Not your father's IBM
- Groupon looking like Pets.com of current tech boom
- We're Done With Kickstarter
- Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs
- Research, no motion: How the BlackBerry CEOs lost an empire
2011
- I'll tell you why movie revenue is dropping
- Rip Rowan - Google+ - Stevey's Google Platforms Rant I was at Amazon for about…
- Don Norman: Google Doesn’t Get People, It Sells Them
- Google-Plus is about money
- Customer Reviews And Social Commerce Platform Bazaarvoice Files For $86M IPO
- Groupon Doomed by Too Much of a Good Thing
- R.I.P. OpenID: Janrain Raises Millions to Do Just the Opposite
- AOL Hell: An AOL Content Slave Speaks Out News
- The Privacy Startups: Creating A Company In Four Hours
- New Daily Deals Study Finds Red Flags For The Industry
- The Way I Work: David Karp of Tumblr
- Groupon IPO: Pass on this deal
- Rimage 2.0
- Rackspace Shutting Down Slicehost
- How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy
- Anatomy of a Crushing
- The End of Blogging
2010
- Paypal shut my account today because my business donated money to wikileaks. : WTF
- PayPal Announces It Will No Longer Handle Wikileaks Donations
- 09/23/10 - Split Rock Co-Founder Allan - Dow Jones Financial <b>...</b>
- Capella disputes report of low loan-repayment rate
- Gameworks closes Block E location
- Google Purchase Shuts Down reMail
- 2009 venture investments lowest since 1997, cleantech fell 52 percent (MoneyTree report)
2009
- EtherPad to Shut Down After Google Acquisition of Parent Company AppJet
- Mint Data Shows Online Retail Rebounding
- Trouble At Twitter: U.S. Visitors Down 8 Percent In October
- VC investment for MN plummets in Q3
- Sorry, Sidekick users: it’s probably time to say a good-bye for good to all your contacts
- The next generation bends over
- Twitter's Future Foretold
- Wall Street Journal Creating New “LinkedIn Killer” Called WSJ Connect
- Delicious Library for iPhone runs afoul of Amazon's API terms, pulled from App Store
- Great Example of the Pressure of Quarter to Quarter Earnings
2008
- The Gold Rush is On
- Report: Microsoft to cancel Gates+Seinfeld ads
- Big companies are where small companies go to die
- We Can't Figure Out How To Make Money On Web Video, Either
- It Gets Worse: Joshua Schachter Leaving Yahoo
- Flickr Founders Leave Yahoo
- Technorati Raises $7.5 Million, Crashes
- Don't tackle your own good news
- GameStop stops selling Microsoft Zune due to insufficient demand
- Dont Look For BFFs When Pitching For VC Dollars
- The Motley Fool: Will Microsoft be brave enough to bail on Zune?
- Twitter cans another engineer
- If I worked at CNET, this layoff memo would make me want to quit
- Fox Business Loses Domain Name Battle Due To Laziness
- WordPress Founder: 25% Of Blogs Are Spam