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1.

LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value (www.businessinsider.com)

1012 points by danso 2016-02-05 | 635 comments

2.

GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart (www.businessinsider.com)

808 points by easyd 2016-02-06 | 973 comments

3.

U.S. to ground Boeing 737 Max 8 (www.businessinsider.com)

716 points by wine_labs 2019-03-13 | 617 comments

4.

Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘record’ cyberattack (www.businessinsider.com)

658 points by bishnu 2016-09-23 | 440 comments

5.

Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M, but the money was gone (www.businessinsider.com)

649 points by turtlegrids 2019-03-06 | 331 comments

6.

Emails From Schmidt And Sergey Brin Show Agreements Not To Hire Apple Workers (www.businessinsider.com)

581 points by sgy 2014-03-23 | 321 comments

7.

'Siri I'm getting pulled over': New shortcut can automatically record the police (www.businessinsider.com)

529 points by cascom 2018-10-03 | 310 comments

8.

Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent (www.businessinsider.com)

525 points by starmftronajoll 2019-04-18 | 297 comments

9.

Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended by Consumer Reports (www.businessinsider.com)

507 points by temp 2016-12-23 | 424 comments

10.

Google says Nest’s built-in mic not listed in specs was not meant to be secret (www.businessinsider.com)

490 points by temp1928384 2019-02-20 | 268 comments

11.

“Rest and vest”: engineers who get paid and barely work (www.businessinsider.com)

487 points by SQL2219 2017-08-06 | 318 comments

12.

InVision has no physical headquarters and all 700 employees work remotely (www.businessinsider.com)

482 points by aviv 2018-10-07 | 225 comments

13.

Google nabs Apple as a cloud customer (www.businessinsider.com)

471 points by ra7 2016-03-16 | 216 comments

14.

Intel was aware of the chip vulnerability when its CEO sold off company stock (www.businessinsider.com)

468 points by MollyR 2018-01-04 | 85 comments

15.

Airtable gets $52M in funding (www.businessinsider.com)

459 points by prostoalex 2018-03-15 | 191 comments

16.

Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments Over Ethical Concerns (www.businessinsider.com)

429 points by mewthree 2018-04-10 | 243 comments

17.

Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks (www.businessinsider.com)

426 points by coloneltcb 2018-06-01 | 552 comments

18.

210 Zappos employees – 14% of the staff – take buyouts after CEO ultimatum (www.businessinsider.com)

425 points by jhonovich 2015-05-08 | 309 comments

19.

Uber employees used the platform to stalk celebrities and their exes (www.businessinsider.com)

405 points by kevcampb 2016-12-13 | 236 comments

20.

The Story Of Larry Page's Comeback (www.businessinsider.com)

403 points by wozniacki 2014-04-24 | 130 comments

21.

Students learn more effectively from print textbooks than screens, study says (www.businessinsider.com)

393 points by ALee 2017-10-18 | 172 comments

22.

Tesla Smashes Earnings And Revenue Expectations (www.businessinsider.com)

385 points by Pasanpr 2013-05-08 | 182 comments

23.

In 2004, Zuckerberg Broke Into a Facebook User's Private Email Account (2010) (www.businessinsider.com)

377 points by ljk 2018-04-08 | 110 comments

24.

Rents are plunging in the most expensive U.S. markets (www.businessinsider.com)

371 points by apsec112 2016-11-26 | 335 comments

25.

We're hearing about troubles at Nest (www.businessinsider.com)

369 points by marvel_boy 2016-02-15 | 252 comments

26.

Google accuses Uber of creating a fake company in order to steal its tech (www.businessinsider.com)

356 points by golfer 2017-05-03 | 170 comments

27.

Walmart will soon have robots roaming the aisles in 50 stores (www.businessinsider.com)

354 points by hourislate 2017-10-26 | 316 comments

28.

Microsoft is now the leading company for open source contributions on GitHub (www.businessinsider.com)

343 points by gjmveloso 2016-09-15 | 184 comments

29.

Sergey Brin: Come to Silicon Valley to scale a business, but not to start one (www.businessinsider.com)

342 points by prostoalex 2016-06-27 | 188 comments

30.

Apollo Global is buying Rackspace for $4.3B (www.businessinsider.com)

339 points by notmyname 2016-08-26 | 164 comments

31.

Apple, Google criticised for Saudi Absher app that tracks women (www.businessinsider.com)

334 points by tonyztan 2019-02-12 | 315 comments

32.

Powerless investors vote overwhelmingly to oust Mark Zuckerberg as chairman (www.businessinsider.com)

327 points by SirLJ 2019-06-04 | 268 comments

33.

Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at tech companies (www.businessinsider.com)

324 points by fluxsauce 2018-07-26 | 514 comments

34.

Adblock Sold to Mystery Company (www.businessinsider.com)

298 points by huntermeyer 2015-10-02 | 166 comments

35.

Hacker Who Helped Expose Steubenville Could Get More Prison Time Than Rapists (www.businessinsider.com)

287 points by soleimc 2013-06-07 | 75 comments

36.

Atlassian gets IPO share price of $27 (www.businessinsider.com)

285 points by prostoalex 2015-12-10 | 149 comments

37.

John McCain wants to outlaw encryption that the US government can't crack (www.businessinsider.com)

285 points by declan 2015-11-18 | 188 comments

38.

Jeff Bezos explains the perfect way to make risky business decisions (www.businessinsider.com)

283 points by bookbild 2017-04-12 | 108 comments

39.

The military tested bacterial weapons in San Francisco in 1950 (www.businessinsider.com)

279 points by tomkwok 2015-07-10 | 137 comments

40.

Use a Fake Location for Cheap Airfare (www.businessinsider.com)

276 points by ZeljkoS 2014-10-19 | 121 comments

41.

Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices (www.businessinsider.com)

275 points by doener 2018-03-03 | 254 comments

42.

A 75-Year Harvard Study Finds What It Takes To Live A Happy Life (www.businessinsider.com)

265 points by awwstn 2013-05-16 | 169 comments

43.

The FBI 'is manufacturing terrorism cases' on a greater scale than ever before (www.businessinsider.com)

255 points by ccvannorman 2016-06-10 | 136 comments

44.

Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a crisis of food shortages (www.businessinsider.com)

246 points by deegles 2018-01-19 | 283 comments

45.

A large slab of ice is breaking off an Antarctic glacier (www.businessinsider.com)

239 points by mjfern 2017-01-10 | 118 comments

46.

EPA photos show what US looked like before pollution regulation (www.businessinsider.com)

236 points by dankohn1 2017-10-08 | 183 comments

47.

The Insane Law That Lets Authorities Read Any Email Over 180 Days Old (www.businessinsider.com)

234 points by elleferrer 2013-06-07 | 49 comments

48.

How startup Fab died (www.businessinsider.com)

233 points by prostoalex 2015-02-06 | 127 comments

49.

Facebook 'mistakenly deleted' years of Mark Zuckerberg's old Facebook posts (www.businessinsider.com)

233 points by crones 2019-03-30 | 87 comments

50.

Casino high-roller database stolen through a thermometer in the lobby fish tank (www.businessinsider.com)

230 points by jonnybgood 2018-04-15 | 74 comments

51.

Startup CEOs who gave up fortunes to turn employees into millionaires (www.businessinsider.com)

230 points by whyleym 2014-09-04 | 138 comments

52.

We Think We Know What Elon Musk's Hyperloop Is (www.businessinsider.com)

228 points by wtracy 2013-05-31 | 159 comments

53.

Linus Torvalds Says Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram Are 'A Disease' (www.businessinsider.com)

228 points by whalabi 2019-04-04 | 127 comments

54.

A bot has successfully appealed $3M worth of parking tickets in the UK (www.businessinsider.com)

225 points by dpflan 2016-02-20 | 97 comments

55.

Bloomberg News Pays Reporters More If Their Stories Move Markets (www.businessinsider.com)

222 points by Jerry2 2018-10-07 | 81 comments

56.

Failed Startup's Final Income Statements Reveal Grave Error (www.businessinsider.com)

221 points by xadxad 2013-04-24 | 153 comments

57.

How Diane Greene Transformed Google's Cloud (www.businessinsider.com)

219 points by dwynings 2016-06-20 | 95 comments

58.

The 10,000-hour rule is wrong and perpetuates a cruel myth (www.businessinsider.com)

217 points by dannylandau 2017-03-13 | 114 comments

59.

Startups that were massively funded that died in 2017 (www.businessinsider.com)

216 points by altstar 2017-07-09 | 107 comments

60.

Tom Clancy has died (www.businessinsider.com)

214 points by BruceM 2013-10-02 | 85 comments

61.

Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India (www.businessinsider.com)

212 points by Oatseller 2015-10-27 | 159 comments

62.

Insiders say Google was interested in buying Snap for at least $30B last year (www.businessinsider.com)

211 points by SirLJ 2017-08-03 | 96 comments

63.

Tim Cook says Facebook's collection of user data 'shouldn't exist' (www.businessinsider.com)

210 points by SirLJ 2018-03-25 | 126 comments

64.

The Story Of A Failed Startup And A Founder Driven To Suicide (www.businessinsider.com)

210 points by chaz 2013-04-05 | 67 comments

65.

Paul Vixie thinks more people should be running their own DNS servers (www.businessinsider.com)

204 points by indigodaddy 2019-03-29 | 151 comments

66.

China's social credit system blocked 11M flights and 4M train trips (www.businessinsider.com)

203 points by jeffreyrogers 2018-05-23 | 129 comments

67.

Inside Medium's Meltdown (www.businessinsider.com)

200 points by JumpCrisscross 2017-02-12 | 118 comments

68.

WikiLeaks offers $20,000 for information on former DNC staffer's murder (www.businessinsider.com)

199 points by adamnemecek 2016-08-10 | 228 comments

69.

The two faces of Airbnb (www.businessinsider.com)

198 points by nkurz 2015-11-01 | 145 comments

70.

Tesla: The Origin Story (www.businessinsider.com)

195 points by coloneltcb 2014-11-11 | 35 comments

71.

Steven Strogatz on chaos theory, game theory, and why math isn’t boring (www.businessinsider.com)

192 points by stpapa 2016-11-27 | 65 comments

72.

Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the internet, 'fake news,' and net neutrality (www.businessinsider.com)

191 points by sumitrshah 2017-05-08 | 46 comments

73.

Claude Shannon’s method for formulating and solving problems (www.businessinsider.com)

190 points by ColinWright 2017-08-28 | 24 comments

74.

SpaceX Has Pinpointed the Problem That Caused the Falcon9 to Crash Land (www.businessinsider.com)

189 points by 51Cards 2015-01-15 | 103 comments

75.

Zenefits cuts nearly 50% of workforce (www.businessinsider.com)

187 points by elsewhen 2017-02-09 | 132 comments

76.

Three signs you have a management problem. And that problem might be you (www.businessinsider.com)

187 points by philipDS 2011-04-11 | 27 comments

77.

TV Is Dying, And Here Are The Stats That Prove It (www.businessinsider.com)

184 points by 001sky 2013-11-24 | 188 comments

78.

Evan Spiegel's Email Memo (www.businessinsider.com)

178 points by tomashertus 2014-12-17 | 106 comments

79.

Why Did Yahoo Buy Summly? (www.businessinsider.com)

176 points by scholia 2013-04-09 | 92 comments

80.

Stressful lives of older tech workers (www.businessinsider.com)

173 points by rmason 2017-09-27 | 152 comments

81.

Saudi Arabia runs online database of women to track them, stop them running away (www.businessinsider.com)

173 points by myinnerbanjo 2019-02-01 | 90 comments

82.

Lyft adds a new app for drivers (www.businessinsider.com)

171 points by wyndham 2017-05-26 | 103 comments

83.

Uber blocks employees at work from chatting on Blind App (www.businessinsider.com)

167 points by mayoralito 2017-02-25 | 80 comments

84.

Always-on Alibaba office app fuels backlash among Chinese workers (www.businessinsider.com)

165 points by lnguyen 2018-08-03 | 84 comments

85.

Grad Student Who Took Down Reinhart and Rogoff Explains Why They're Wrong (www.businessinsider.com)

164 points by BruceM 2013-04-22 | 93 comments

86.

GitHub is apparently in crisis again (www.businessinsider.com)

162 points by walterbell 2016-02-04 | 148 comments

87.

Tim Cook explains why you don’t need a college degree to be successful (www.businessinsider.com)

161 points by wolfgke 2019-03-08 | 176 comments

88.

Some Excel users pop F1 off their keyboards (2012) (www.businessinsider.com)

158 points by raldi 2017-09-22 | 216 comments

89.

Largest Homeless Camp In US is in Silicon Valley (www.businessinsider.com)

156 points by jalanco 2013-08-31 | 154 comments

90.

I Tried Hacking Bitcoin and I Failed (www.businessinsider.com)

155 points by mdelias 2013-04-12 | 96 comments

91.

Facebook relaxed rules to give companies special access to user data (www.businessinsider.com)

155 points by ss2003 2018-07-02 | 17 comments

92.

James Damore has an above decent chance of winning his legal case against Google (www.businessinsider.com)

152 points by SirLJ 2017-08-11 | 274 comments

93.

Jackfruit could save millions from starvation (www.businessinsider.com)

151 points by hemapani 2015-09-21 | 118 comments

94.

Leo The Homeless Coder Is Still Homeless (www.businessinsider.com)

150 points by talhof8 2014-05-27 | 102 comments

95.

Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop (www.businessinsider.com)

149 points by fahd777 2018-08-29 | 77 comments

96.

Hotel 22: The Dark Side of Silicon Valley (www.businessinsider.com)

149 points by ghosh 2014-11-28 | 120 comments

97.

Venezuela devalues the bolivar by 95% and pegs it to ‘oil-linked’ cryptocurrency (www.businessinsider.com)

149 points by sonnyblarney 2018-08-20 | 126 comments

98.

Google siding with Saudi Arabia, refuses to remove government app tracking women (www.businessinsider.com)

148 points by SirLJ 2019-03-02 | 67 comments

99.

Leaked email shows how Cambridge Analytica and Facebook first responded in 2015 (www.businessinsider.com)

146 points by node-bayarea 2018-03-24 | 30 comments

100.

Teenage tech prodigy wants to fix Bitcoin's energy consumption problem (www.businessinsider.com)

145 points by alexsicart 2018-09-29 | 7 comments

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