SF News Castro Valley Woman Calls Amazon Driver a B**ch, Gets Beaten, Driver Arrested An Amazon delivery driver in the East Bay took out some anger on a 67-year-old customer Thursday evening, all of it caught on video, and the driver has since been arrested.
SF News Amazon To Start Testing Fleet of Electric Delivery Vans in San Francisco This week, Amazon announced the company will start testing its current fleet of cartoonish-looking EVs in San Francisco, adding to the growing number of clean-energy delivery cars and public transport vehicles driving on our streets.
Business & Tech Amazon Buys Recology Site in SF for $200 Million, Scuttles Plan to Make it Housing Recology just sold its 900 7th Street waste maintenance facility to Amazon, who plan to make it a six-acre delivery warehouse facility in San Francisco.
Business & Tech Amazon’s Cartoonish Self-Driving Taxi Prematurely Debuts in Union Square Zoiks! The new Zoox self-driving taxicab from Amazon was spotted in SF this past weekend, more than a week before its scheduled public debut.
Business & Tech While National Economy Tanked Last Quarter, Apple, Alphabet, and Facebook Made Bank Despite a historic economic downturn in which the American economy contracted more than it ever has in one quarter, four big tech companies — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook — saw huge profits and extremely healthy second quarters.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Whole Foods Workers May Stage Sickout Tuesday To Demand Hazard Pay Following in the footsteps of Instacart gig-workers who are staging a virtual strike today and refusing to accept new orders, some Whole Foods workers are calling for their cohort to call in sick on Tuesday, March 31 amid a pandemic that has left them on the frontlines of essential businesses.
SF News Amazon Wants To Get Your Booze Delivered ASAP In San Francisco Amazon has filed for a license in San Francisco to deliver beer, wine, and spirits via its Prime warehouse in Dogpatch, competing with apps like Postmates, Drizly, and Saucy.
Business & Tech Amazon Go a No-Go As Supes Vote To Ban Cashless Stores The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to ban all retail outlets in the city that don't accept cash as payment. The move to quell a growing trend of cashless stores and restaurants is meant to ensure access to all stores by low-income residents.
SF News Target Griping Might Kill Masonic Boulevard Whole Foods Fears of Amazon competition might kill San Francisco's eighth Whole Foods location before it even has a chance to open its doors, as the battle between big box and online retail spills onto
SF News Concord Unites With Four Bay Area Cities In Bid For Amazon's New Headquarters As online marketplace mega giant Amazon continues its search for a location for its brand new second headquarters, five Bay Area cities have joined together to make one big bid for their attention.
SF News Google Glass Be Damned, Amazon Is Reportedly Working On Alexa-Enabled Glasses Looks like Amazon's going to try to succeed where Google and Snapchat have more or less failed. Alexa, remind me to tell Bezos to cool it for a minute. According to a report
Arts & Entertainment Amazon Greenlights SF-Based Series 'Tong Wars', Wong Kar-Wai To Direct San Francisco is getting some of its big-budget TV location cred back after the disappointing cancellation of Netflix's local darling series Sense 8. Amazon is stepping into the void, according to Variety, ordering
Arts & Entertainment 'South Park' Opens 21st Season By Screwing With Everyone's Alexa South Park had its 21st season premiere Wednesday night, and amid jokes skewering white nationalists and home improvement shows, Trey Parker and Matt Stone brilliantly did something no satire show has yet succeeded
SF News Oakland, San Jose Both Want To Be In The Running For New Amazon HQ Cities across the country are hoping to win the local economic lottery windfall that will come from a new 50,000-person Amazon headquarters after the rapidly growing company announced Thursday that it intends
SF News Netflix Guy Wants To Give You All The Movie Theater Tickets You Want For $10 A Month A cineplex subscription service dropped the price of a monthly MoviePass to $10. Will you please now leave the house and go to an actual movie theater? Bloomberg brings us news of Mitch
SF News Day Around The Bay: Amazon Goes On Big SF Hiring Spree In an attempt to distract as as Muni shuts down the underground on nights and weekends for weeks on end, they just posted these photos of bearded hipsters testing Muni’s first light
SF News Behold The Bizarre Towers That Amazon Has Designed To House Delivery Drones The future has arrived. Amazon has begun to design towers to house their delivery drones. We're all mere steps away from having groceries, drugs, and vegan Thai food delivered by drones. Seattle-based online
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters Pens Idealistic Note To Jeff Bezos About The Future Of Whole Foods Never one to miss an opportunity to proselytize, local-sustainable evangelist Alice Waters took to Twitter over the weekend to pen the note below, signed "with hopefulness," asking Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to please
SF News Amazon Brick-And-Mortar Book Store Coming To Walnut Creek In August One of the more curious aspects to Amazon’s wholesale slaughter of the brick-and-mortar retail book industry is Amazon’s apparent desire to revive the brick-and-mortar retail book industry. To that end, the
Arts & Entertainment Apple Introduces Echo Rival HomePod And More At WWDC17 The long anticipated Apple rival to the Amazon Echo and Google Home, dubbed HomePod, has arrived. The centerpiece unveiling at Monday's WWDC keynote presentation, the HomePod is a predictably good looking and well
Arts & Entertainment Amazon Gives In, Prime Content Will Finally Be Available On Apple TV This Summer It looks like relations have warmed between Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook, and Amazon and Apple have reportedly reached a truce in their two-year-long cold war over Apple TV and Amazon Prime content.
Arts & Entertainment Amazon Put Alexa Inside A Camera So She Can Give You Fashion Advice (And Maybe Spy On You) Behold the Amazon Echo Look, which the company is billing as a "hands-free camera style assistant," but which could, before you know it, end up being a creepy talking robot that watches your
SF News Verizon Combining Yahoo And AOL Brands Into New Company Called 'Oath,' God Knows Why Billion+ Consumers, 20+ Brands, Unstoppable Team. #TakeTheOath. Summer 2017. pic.twitter.com/tM3Ac1Wi36— Tim Armstrong (@timarmstrongaol) April 3, 2017 "In the summer of 2017, you can bet we will be launching one of
Arts & Entertainment 'Budding Prospects', Amazon's New Weed Comedy Set In Northern California, Premieres Pilot One of the new shows in Amazon's pilot season is Budding Prospects, based on the 1990 novel of the same name by TC Boyle, and it centers on three guys from San Francisco
SF News Amazon Files Patent For Parachute-Drop Delivery, Perfect For End Times via GIPHY Amazon's plans for widespread, mainstream drone delivery are — please forgive me — up in the air. Still, the company continues to tantalize news media with demonstrations — here's the Verge on their first
