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HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’ Proves That Life Can Be Stranger Than Fiction
Life can be stranger than any fiction the writers of HBO’s Silicon Valley could ever come up with, as former Twitter CEO and show consultant Dick Costolo has said in the past. Case in point: The...
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Why Brexit is Bad for Tech Companies in the UK (And Everywhere Else)
Tech stocks got as beaten up as everyone else following the news that the UK would leave the European Union, with big players like Google, Microsoft, and IBM cratering by between 4-5%. Brexit is also...
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HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’ Ends Third Season With An Accidental Success Story
What a journey for the Pied Piper guys, whose fictional startup in HBO’s Silicon Valley show has been through hell and back again. As the finale of the show’s third season opens, Pied Piper has a lot...
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Our Fears of a Tech Downturn in 2016 Were Overblown
This essay originally appeared in Data Sheet, Fortune's daily tech newsletter. Sign up here. As we headed into 2016, we thought it would be an ugly year for tech deals. That much was clear after...
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How AMC’s ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Celebrates Women’s Contributions to Computing
Watching the story of two female tech entrepreneurs on TV shouldn’t be surprising--but it is. That’s exactly how Halt and Catch Fire, a two-year-old AMC show heading into its third season later this...
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Why We Can’t Stop Watching Movies and TV Shows About the Tech Industry
The AMC television series Halt and Catch Fire, now in its third season, explores the personal computer revolution in the 1980s, but it’s far from the only TV show or movie to explore the tech industry...
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Here’s What Happens When Lawyers Discuss HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’
Take a few lawyers, give them microphones, and ask them to discuss HBO’s satirical tech-focused series, Silicon Valley. The result is a very cautious and thorough consideration of the myriad of legal...
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Here’s Why S.F. Residents Won’t Be Voting on Taxing Tech Companies After All
Taxing the rich tech companies to give back to the poor of San Francisco won’t be happening through a recently proposed tax, but was it even a good idea to begin with? On Monday, the “Homelessness and...
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Where Are Silicon Valley’s Republicans in This Presidential Race?
Silicon Valley isn't exactly swarming with Republicans, but there are a few big names, and it’s a faction that's stayed noticeably silent in this year's general election, pundits say. As the...
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AMC’s ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Exposes the Challenges of Building a Startup
As the Mutiny gang heads into the third episode of AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire’s new season, they’re already facing some challenges. Ryan Ray, a talented and passionate engineer, has just told his bosses...
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Startup Tensions Swirl in AMC’s ‘Halt and Catch Fire’
Mutiny, the young fictional startup at the center of AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire television series, is growing up. It has acquired a smaller competitor, Swap Meet, and is now tasked with blending the two...
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Why This Best-Selling Author Refuses to Write About Silicon Valley Again
Hollywood and its audience are increasingly fascinated by Silicon Valley, but author Michael Lewis isn’t so much. “It was the hardest damn book I ever wrote,” Lewis said of his Silicon Valley-themed...
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Partnerships Erode in AMC’s ‘Halt and Catch Fire’
Mutiny, the fictional online chatroom startup in AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire television series, is trying to continue forward after it acquired a competitor, Swap Meet. But of course, things are bumpy....
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Startups and Big Companies Vie for Attention at Annual ‘Disrupt’ Conference
A version of this post titled "A celebration of startup ‘disruption’" originally appeared in the Startup Sunday edition of Data Sheet, Fortune's daily tech newsletter. Earlier this week, more than...
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Startup Founders Fight for Control in AMC’s ‘Halt and Catch Fire’
Mutiny, the fictional chatroom startup in AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire television series, continues to grow, but its founders are growing apart. As the sixth episode of the series’ new season opens,...
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An Editor at The Verge Was Also on Apple’s Payroll for Two Months
Yesterday, Nilay Patel, co-founder and Editor in Chief of technology webmagazine The Verge, revealed that Verge editor Chris Ziegler had left the publication and accepted a position at Apple. That's...
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Today’s Startups Aren’t Just Building Tech to Sell to Other Industries
A version of this post titled "Today’s startups are playing in the big leagues" originally appeared in the Startup Sunday edition of Data Sheet, Fortune's daily tech newsletter. If you think that tech...
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AMC’s ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Shows Not All IPOs Are Fairytales
Big changes are afoot for the characters at the center of AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire. As the third’s season’s eighth episode opens, Mutiny, the online chat room startup, embarks on its initial public...
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Why Technology Kills Diversification and Leaves Investors Exposed
Frustrated that you can’t properly diversify your portfolio anymore and are unwillingly taking on more risk? Blame the Internet, or perhaps just globalization. A new study lays out the “precipitous”...
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Trump vs. Tech: It’s Going to Get Rockier
President-elect Donald Trump met with selected tech leaders on Wednesday. Warm words were said, smiles were exchanged, and hatchets were--perhaps--buried. But will Wednesday's thaw in the Trump-tech...
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