• Visa is warning all consumers who have swiped cards at gas station point-of-sale terminals that their credit information and card numbers could be compromised. The company has identified a wide-ranging scheme that appears to stem from a sophisticated cybercrime outfit. [CBS SF]
  • Fast-growing local flower business Farmgirl Flowers is decamping to either South San Francisco or the East Bay next year due to SF's new gross receipts tax. CEO Christina Stembel says she is also considering a move out of California in the long term because of the cost of doing business here and her already slim profit margin. [SF Business Times]
  • The woman who was fatally stabbed over the weekend in Potrero Hill was a lifelong Bay Area resident and a mother of seven children under the age of 14. [Chronicle]
  • Lawrence Bittaker, one of the infamous “Toolbox Killers” who kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered five teenage girls in Southern California in 1979, died at San Quentin on Friday at age 79. [CBS SF]
  • City officials in San Francisco are scrambling to address the PR problem of Oracle OpenWorld leaving for Las Vegas. [Chronicle]
  • A 43-year-old Napa man remains at large after being suspected in a shooting that injured two people outside a bar early Friday. [Bay City News]
  • One-month-old Castro Indian restaurant Bhoga already lost its executive chef who is suing the restaurant for unpaid wages prior to the restaurant's November 20 opening. [Hoodline]