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- Want to heat some sappy songs? [SFist]
- Facebook's earnings, announced Wednesday, "smashed all expectations" as mobile ad sales shot up. They also announced a three-for-one stock split "to create a new class of non-voting shares." [Reuters] [New York Times] [USA Today]
- Stanley Roberts takes on people who walk along the street without looking up from their phones. [KRON 4]
- [Bloomberg] goes behind the scenes at Apple's controversial China iPhone factory.
- San Francisco’s housing pipeline now totals a record 63,400 units. [SocketSite]
- Cash homebuyers in the Bay Area may be paying more per square foot than non-cash buyers, a potential warning sign of an overheating housing market. [SF Business Times]
- Navy vet Haydn Williams was instrumental in the creation of the World War II memorial on the National Mall. He died last week at 96 in his San Francisco home. [SF Chronicle]
- Report says SF’s high wages “even out” SF’s high rents. [Curbed SF]
- A city-employed gardener claims he was unfairly chastised at work for letting the grass at a San Francisco baseball field turn brown despite calls for under-watering because of the drought. [SF Examiner]
