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22 February 2016 / SF News / Eve Batey

Monday Morning Roundup: Startups Ignore Downturn


  • Your weekend ICYMI: A tourist fights for his life following a mugging-related stabbing, a Yelp staffer writes an angry "open letter" about working there and gets canned, an ICE agent drives off with his gun on top of his car, strip clubs are finding new ways to pimp themselves, Twitter doesn't work for "normal people," and CA bartenders might have to get special training to recognize drunks.

  • Your Saturday and Sunday links.

  • Can Facebook make VR social? [Wired]

  • Someone paid over $42K for Steve Jobs' beat up old watch. [Cnet]

  • The number of listed condos for sale in SF is now running 61 percent higher versus the same time last year. [SocketSite]

  • Protest planned at CCSF to commemorate Alex Nieto and Amilcar Perez-Lopez, both students who were shot and killed by SFPD. [IndyBay]

  • The Port of Oakland has reached an agreement with bankrupt operator Outer Harbor Terminals that will have it pay two months rent and continue Oakland vessel and cargo operations through March. [SF Business Times]

  • The [New York Times] frets that startups are burying their heads in the sand over the coming (or is it here?) downturn.

  • How SF skyscrapers can fight their own fires. [CBS5]

  • Projects that demolish any residential units won't be eligible for SF's proposed affordable housing bonus program. [SF Examiner]
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SFist tipster Keith Simpson spotted this defaced traffic direction sign at 6:30 Monday morning on Second and Clementina. He kindly snapped a few shots as he rode by, then sent them in

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New Bill Would Require Bartenders To Cut People Off

You don't have to go home but you can't stay here - because you can't hold your liquor, you big lush. Known as the Responsible Interventions for Beverage Servers Training Act, Assembly Bill

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