• Headline of the Day: Multilingual Silicon Valley futurist and robotics CEO marries trophy husband actor (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). [NY Mag]
  • You know how that Christmas Day wine heist at the French Laundry sounded pretty huge? There's actually a history of similar wine thefts all over the Bay, and one at the Plumed Horse in the South Bay a couple years back might have even been bigger. [Chron]
  • A New Year's Eve fire at Evergood Fine Foods in the Bayview, a big maker of sausage links with national distribution, has shut down the plant for the for the foreseeable future. [Chron, KTVU]
  • Asiana Airlines is successfully fighting the Korean government’s decision to suspend them from flying into SFO following July 2013 crash. [NASDAQ]
  • Did Uber and Lyft's decision to use surge pricing on NYE backfire for drivers? [Examiner]
  • Ukrainian start-up Settle is launching in SF in January, and it lets you order meals before you sit down so you don’t have to wait, which is only a perk for people who take no pleasure in restaurants. Also, remember Apple's rumored OpenTable killer? It was supposed to do that too. [VentureBeat]
  • Ever a fan of strong language, former supervisor Chris Daly has penned an op-ed saying SF is "courting ruin" with the 2024 Olympics bid. [Chron]
  • Yahoo might be trying to buy a cable TV channel. [Bloomberg]
  • The company that runs a bunch of Yosemite hotels and restaurants says they filed trademark claims on the names of places like Badger Pass, the Ahwahnee Hotel, and Curry Village, and any new concessionaire looking to move in will have to pay them $50M to keep the names. [Chron]