- SFist pal and contrib Laura Beck's dad disappeared near Oakland's 12 Street/City Center BART Station on Tuesday. Please be on the lookout for him. [SFist]
- Even more Pacifica cliffs are crumbling into the sea. [KRON4]
- Several suspects stole more than $10,000 in merchandise from a Union Square store on Tuesday night. [KRON4]
- Macy’s Super Bowl fireworks fuckup might have ruined it for everyone. [SF Chronicle]
- Video of smash and grab at Nourish Cafe. [Richmond SF]
- Man who found Super Bowl tickets sells them, gives money to Tenderloin schoolkids. [ABC7]
- A California Highway Patrol officer is credited with preventing a distraught woman from jumping to her death Tuesday evening from the eastern span of the Bay Bridge. [CBS5]
- A new report on police staffing levels appears to fly in the face of a Board of Supervisors resolution passed last year that said the San Francisco Police Department should hire more officers to match The City’s growing population. [SF Examiner]
As I was assembling today's post, I thought (not gleefully! I was here for the last bust and I know how much it can impact everyone) I wonder if this is the post I'll look back on and say "that was when I knew the bubble was popping?" Here's why:
- The legal challenges confronting San Francisco digital HR giant Zenefits are rippling across the nation. [SF Business Times]
- LinkedIn's CFO is "surprised" that his company's market capitalization dropped by nearly $14 billion this month. [SF Business Times]
- Yahoo has notified 107 employees in its Sunnyvale headquarters that they will be laid off. [SF Chronicle]
- Twitter's in real trouble. They showed no user growth at all in a fourth-quarter report released Thursday [Associated Press], in fact, their monthly active user base fell from 307 million to 305 million, far below analysts’ projections [SF Chronicle]. An analysts says that "Twitter is not moving forward when everybody else is growing, which makes it look like the business is failing." [CNet] Even their execs don't use the service much [Wired]
- Facebook distances itself from board member Marc Andreessen after he says that "Anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic for the Indian people for decades." [Cnet]
- Two of the most prominent investors in ride-hailing service Lyft Inc. quietly sold $148 million in shares of the company in recent weeks. [Wall Street Journal]
- According to a survey released Wednesday, nearly half of respondents in the San Francisco Bay Area said the tech industry is hurting the middle class. [Cnet]
