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China To Google: Take Geography 101

So Google thought they were smart by redirecting China users to their Hong Kong website. Oops....

TechWankers Sells Biat.ch For Undisclosed Sum

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Google is really a porn search engine

TechWankers’ first post was in December 21, 2009. Yet it managed to get fully indexed onto...

How To Be First In Line For iPad Release

By Joe

Forget camping in line for the upcoming iPad release. The Techwankers are here to share our tips on getting to the head of the line.
Hot Chick:

No brainer here. Hire a hot chick (or get a hot friend if you are cheap) and bring her to the line in the morning. Let her tell everyone in…

[ More ] April 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Silicon Valley

Breaking: Techcrunch acquires Techwankers

By Joe

After a late night meeting, we can now officially confirm that the holy bible of tech blogs, Techcrunch has acquired Techwankers. At present, we cannot disclose the financial details (but both myself and Wanksta are buying the drinks tonight over at Blue Chalk in Palo Alto).

We got Michael Arrington (founder of Techcrunch) to provide the…

[ More ] April 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Silicon Valley

Why White Men Should Not Rap

By Joe Super smart geek Paul Tarjan is escaping leaving Yahoo! So he made a smart and funny geek humor video. But seriously Paul – you should have gotten a friend that could sing (i.e no one in tech) to rap this for you.
[ More ] March 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Silicon Valley

Techwankers State Of Play. Banned By Techcrunch, Google.

By Joe

Its been about 3 months that we started Techwankers, so we thought we’ll share some data on our current state.

People we’ve pissed off:
Techcunch : we are banned from posting any comments. (This was right after our post on MG Siegler).
Google: our contents was not to their approval.
Revenue:
Enough for  10 cases of ramen at Costco. (Shout…

[ More ] March 27th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Commentary

Google To China: “Together we can rule the galaxy as father and son”

By Joe

Google’s stand with China’s censorship is probably its best PR stunt (so far). If anyone think Google is doing it out of ‘doing good’ – then its just naive thinking. Google is a business with profit targets and growth requirements. By forcing the censorship into the public news – they are essentially trying to get…

[ More ] March 23rd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Commentary, Silicon Valley

China To Google: Take Geography 101

By Joe

So Google thought they were smart by redirecting China users to their Hong Kong website. Oops. With all the brains and PhDs at Google, someone forgot to tell them that Hong Kong was handed back to China in the 90s. Very smart.
Oh wait…Google is the world. Google to China: “Together we can rule the galaxy…

[ More ] March 23rd, 2010 | 4 Comments | Posted in Commentary, Silicon Valley

Is Techcrunch MG Siegler A Techwankers Writer?

By Joe

We get a lot (3 is a lot) of  hate fan mail here at Techwankers. One recent one was from a Techcrunch reader that raised the question if MG Siegler is also a writer on Techwankers. We were surprised that someone made a connection between us and the holy grail of tech blog.

The Techwankers writers…

[ More ] March 21st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Commentary, Silicon Valley

Google Is The Emprie – “Obi Wan, You Are Our Only Hope.”

By Joe

We are all sold into the ‘Don’t Be Evil’ motto of Google. And we happily use their products – its great – but mainly because it is FREE!!
Well, as this video clearly shows, Google is slowly getting us ‘hooked’ on their crack. And like all drugs – it’ll get you in the end. Nothing is…

[ More ] March 19th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Commentary

Breaking: Gina Bianchini Fired

By Joe

So techcrunch just reported that Ning’s Gina Bianchini have been ‘relieved’ as Ning’s CEO.

We want to reach out to Gina – there is always an opening here at techwankers. Brains and T+A – we welcome it. Although we never knew what you  contributed over at Ning, we don’t care. I am sure we can find…

[ More ] March 15th, 2010 | 2 Comments | Posted in Commentary, Silicon Valley

Facebook Friend Whores

By Joe

If you are reading this blog – then it is very likely you are on facebook (they are slowly becoming the new evil empire).

One thing I absolutely HATE are people whom I briefly met or never met trying to friend me. These are the sad people of society. Their main objective to grow a large…

[ More ] March 12th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Commentary

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