- Your weekend ICYMI: A man who thought he was getting into his Lyft was robbed, sea lions have been at the Wharf for 26 years, the Oakland Walmart has abruptly closed, new photos of the SF of yesteryear have been released, the driver of a tour bus struck and killed a pedestrian, a UCSF study said e-cigs don't help smokers quit, and you should expect protests across the Bay Area today.
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Your Saturday and Sunday links.
- The 1-year-old subject of a Bay Area Amber alert was found safe Sunday night. [ABC 7]
- Today's MLK day, so transit is scheduled differently and many businesses and city services are closed. [SF Gate]
- An abandoned, dilapidated building on Mare island mysteriously went up in flames Sunday. [Bay City News]
- "Either something is actually going on with the housing market or us media people are just so sick of writing the same headline about rents being up that people are starting to write alternative predictions out of sheer spite. Is the bubble bursting?" [Mission Local]
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Search continues for NorCal ski instructor who disappeared on Thursday. [Associated Press]
- Truly wireless headphones aren't quite there yet, says the [Wall Street Journal].
- Airbnb is high on Aptos' Mushroom Dome Cabin. [ABC 7]
- Other media companies are girding their loins to compete with Netflix. [Wall Street Journal]
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AOL might stop calling itself AOL, because they want people to know they own the Huffington Post and TechCrunch. [Business Insider]
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Yellow Cab's declaration of bankruptcy might get them out of millions of dollars owed due to lawsuits. [SF Examiner]
- The [SF Chronicle], which gave Sean Penn his start in journalism, derides his El Chapo interview.
- Periscope super-fans gathered in SF to talk about how fun Periscoping is. [re/code]
