SF News Twitter Earnings 'Leak' On Twitter, Trading Halts, Stock Crashes Twitter (TWTR) is being called its "own worst enemy" by Wired after some not-great first-quarter earnings "leaked" (according to Twitter) in the form of a few tweets. As a result of the bad
SF News Out With The Old: Apple Will Replace AT&T In Dow Index Despite it remaining a telecommunications giant, AT&T will be losing its long-held place on the Dow Jones industrial average to Apple as of March 19, as the New York Times is
SF News [UPDATES] Twitter Opens On New York Stock Exchange At $45.10 [UPDATE BELOW] Twitter is about to go public on the New York Stock Exchange (which opens at 9:30 a.m. Eastern/6:30 a.m. Pacific time). Shares are priced at $26,
SF News Richmond, California Just Gave Wall Street A Big Middle Finger This morning in Richmond, California the city council of the small Bay Area city voted 4-3 to follow through with an unprecedented plan that will rescue local homeowners from a plague of underwater
SF News Look Out: Here Comes The Twitter IPO If you have friends who work at Twitter, or if you have friends who concern themselves with such things, be prepared to be hearing an earful about the long-term profitability and valuation of
SF News No One Wants In On Zynga Stock Zynga, the social gaming company responsible for CityVille and FarmVille and countless other time wasters went public today, but no one on Wall Street seemed to want to get in on the game.
SF News Hundreds from Occupy SF Converge On Market Street Protesters with Occupy SF gathered tonight at 101 Market Street in front of the Federal Building. According to Twitter, around a hundred or so people were on the scene. Justin Beck said the
SF News Dow Jones Plummets, Kind Of Recovers, Over Greek Crisis We don't own any stocks, ourselves, but if you or someone you love is an i-banker or day trader you may have heard about today's flurry of panic on Wall Street, in which
SF News Rupert Murdoch to Buy Yahoo!? So, you didn't like Microsoft, did you? Well, how about News Corp.? In an attempt to rejuvenate Yahoo and fend off Microsoft's advances, Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate is reportedly in talks to purchase
SF News Yahoo Dares to Say No to the Great Microsoft It looks like Sunnyvale-based Yahoo plans on rejecting the $44.6 billion rose Microsoft offered it earlier this month. A move that would have merged the two tech giants won't happen, it seems,
SF News Day Around the Bay -- 8.8-foot-long Smart Fortwo cars in SF. Squash. [Chron] -- No surprise: Gap Inc. sales suck. (Hint: Burn all billboards promoting horizontal pastels.) [Examiner] -- Hayward murder-suicide.[Chron] -- Barry Bonds bash.
SF News Ted Nugent Helps Us Remember The 1960s The Wall Street Journal ran this piece by Ted Nugent yesterday. If you're at all inclined to check it out, do so soon, because the password protection will kick in at some point.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Insane in the Membrane The famed Hayes Street Hill that's so tough to run up when jogging is a piece of cake to go down when cycling. Unless you have no brakes, as here. Dude has a
Arts & Entertainment Real Estate Crunch More Evil Than Napster: Metallica Guitarist Reduces Mansion Price Playing the role of Shawn Fanning, minus the curls, the real estate retraction appears to be stealing theoretical dollars from the pockets of a member of Metallica. According to The Wall Street Journal
misc The Worst Is Yet To Come? Trying to figure out what your house is worth in today's real estate market is only slightly less difficult than practicing haruspicy to predict what will happen next week. Articles like the one
SF News Spies Like HP Another thing they tried was sending out e-mails with encrypted software that would track back and report to HP where that e-mail was forwarded. So, they'd send someone a vaguely alluring e-mail and
SF News Watching You Watching You Watching You Hewlett Packard takes us back to 1981 with the recent revelations that they hired private eyes (clap clap), to watch their board -- they saw their every move. (It is totally time for
SF News The Rich Get Richer in Real Estate Although the closest the WSJ gets to the Bay Area is Los Angeles -- which saw an 88% surge in inventory compared to a year ago -- a little digging around reveals that
misc SFisting: Our Famous Local Sex Podcasters, For Reals While we loved the SF Bay Guardian's podcasting piece last year, we felt kinda like the Chron needed a pat on the head and a cookie when they ran yet another lame duck
SF News SFist checks out the 510: The Vibrant Economy Edition See "East Bay: More Affordable, But Only Compared to Its Neighbors" (January 18, 2006) and "California's East Bay Area Offers Relative Bargains" (January 19, 2006). SFist is always interested to read about bargains
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Cries Freedom! Last week, the Governator put an abortion loving lesbian in charge of his Administration. The Right was not amused (neither was the Left, but that's neither here nor there in terms of this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique Splurges like a Hog We ordered a $100 steak at Olivetto. Bistecca alla Fiorentina, it was described, "Niman Ranch Beef Porterhouse Steak with 'bianca di Spanga' beans and Spinach, White Truffle Butter (for two). $100" We found
misc Math Is Hard You know, public schools just can't win. Up here in San Francisco, it's a constant "our schools are failing and segregated," so affluent upper-middle-classers have to spend gajillions of dollars on private schools
Arts & Entertainment Letters to the Editor We always there was something disingenuous about the conservative letters they publish in the Chron! The Contra Costa Times discovered that an enterprising Republican named Kyle Vallone had written at least 200 fake
SF News Bloggers Unite! We initially passed this press release from the Author's Guild along to Gothamist Jen so that she could get the scoop on Gawker and FishbowlNY. Why? Because it looks like the Author's Guild