SF News Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli Released From Prison, Now Smirking in Halfway House Reviled Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli served only four years of his seven-year sentence, but remember that he was not in prison for being a Pharma Bro, but instead for being a Securities Fraud Bro.
SF News Billionaire-Backed Security Cameras Everywhere In SF Finally Getting Set of Rules For How They Can Be Used A full 10 years and 1,000 surveillance cameras later after a cryptocurrency mogul started putting security cameras all over town, we’re finally getting a set of rules on how they can and cannot be used.
Business & Tech Facebook Releases Report On Which Posts They Remove and Censor, Turns Out Most Aren’t Political Facebook held a conference call Tuesday to discuss which posts they most often remove and why, which was inconveniently timed after the weekend’s Buffalo mass shooting video was still on the platform.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Netflix Lays Off 150 Netflix is laying off 150 employees following its dismal first quarter, San Jose has just seen its third homicide in a week, and SF is moving forward to establish a public bank.
Business & Tech Musk Claims Twitter Deal ‘Cannot Move Forward’ Because of Fake Accounts, Probably Just Trying to Drive Down Price Another infantile tweetstorm from Elon Musk claims his Twitter purchase “cannot move forward” because of the prevalence of fake accounts, but analysts suspect he’s trying to drive down the price or back out entirely.
Business & Tech Venture Capitalist on Current Startup Environment: 'This Is a Proper Correction' If you work for a tech startup — or even if you work for Uber or Twitter — you may be having the layoff blues right now, or the arguably worse layoff anxieties that come with weeks upon weeks of bad news, rising tensions, and inter-office innuendo.
Business & Tech Netflix Tells Employees They Can Seek Other Jobs If They Object to Content Eight months after a kerfuffle over a Dave Chappelle special and some other subsequent internal conflicts, Netflix took a stand and told its employees last week that they can bugger right off if they have personal objections to content being hosted on the streaming platform.
Business & Tech Surprise! Elon Musk Now Getting Wobbly On Buying Twitter, Claims Deal Is 'Temporarily On Hold’ The erratic billionaire may be trying to back out of his stunning bid to take over Twitter, now claiming he is concerned about “spam/fake accounts,” but analysts suspect he's just getting cold feet and that he may not actually be able to line up the money.
SF News Report: SFPD Already Using Surveillance Video From Self-Driving Cars An internal SFPD document obtained by VICE News shows that not only can the SF Police Department pull the camera video from autonomous Waymo and Cruise cars, but more chillingly, that they have “already done this several times.”
Business & Tech Twitter CEO Ousts Two Top Execs, Freezes Hiring, Cuts Spending Ahead of Musk Takeover In what may be a bid to right the ship after a disappointing quarter, or a gesture toward trying to hold on to his job when Musk's purchase of the company closes, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal fired two top executives and laid out cost-cutting measures in a memo to employees this week.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Will Let Trump Back on Twitter, Saying Permanent Bans 'Fundamentally Undermine Trust' In the Platform So even though Musk claims to want what's good for democratic society, he's happy to hand the megaphone back to the man who's bent on destroying it.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Smoothie-Making Robot Arrives at Metreon, Robot Asks To Be Tipped A new smoothie-swinging robot is bringing the Metreon into the Age of Ultron, but oddly, the Stepford smoothie robot asks to be tipped for its services.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Will Appoint Himself CEO of Twitter (Temporarily), He Apparently Told Investors The new CEO of Twitter under Elon Musk will be Elon Musk, according to people familiar with his investor briefings, though he says for now that he will only be an interim CEO.
Business & Tech Airbnb Ending Their Refunds for COVID-19 Cancellations You will no longer get a refund if you cancel your Airbnb reservation due to COVID-19 after the end of this month, which happens to coincide with the launch of the company’s forthcoming "guest travel insurance product.”
Business & Tech Some Apple Employees Once Again Whining About Being Called Back to the Office Three Days Per Week A group of Apple employees are yet again making noise about their displeasure with being called back to an in-person office three days per week — the horror!
Business & Tech Tesla’s Value Is Nosediving While Elon Musk Pursues Twitter Takeover Elon could have bought Twitter for $44 billion three times over with the $150 billion in market value Tesla has lost since he pulled this Twitter stunt, as Tesla stock has been plummeting all week.
Business & Tech Two SF Crypto Bros Charged for Fraud Over ‘Auto Trader Bot’ Whose Results They Were Just Faking by Hand A pair of blockchain founder types claimed their crypto bot was producing “jaw dropping,” “eye-popping,” and “insane” profits. An SEC charging document says they “fabricated the performance results.”
Business & Tech Another Racial and Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Filed Against Tesla On Friday, a female employee filed a lawsuit alleging that electric vehicle juggernaut Tesla failed to properly respond to widespread racism in its facilities.
Business & Tech PayPal to Close Its Downtown SF Offices In June Another company has announced that it's vacating its San Francisco offices, citing a shift to a more remote workforce.
Business & Tech Layoffs May Loom at Elon Musk's Twitter, Analysts Say One analyst predicts Musk might lay off 20% of Twitter’s workforce, as the company is still not profitable every quarter, and interest rates could rise on the borrowed money he’s using to finance the deal.
SF News Warren Buffett Auctioning Off Lunch With Him in Benefit for Glide, One Last Time 2022 will offer your final opportunity to pay millions of dollars for a steakhouse luncheon with Warren Buffett, as the billionaire investor says he’s doing this Glide fundraiser for the final time.
Business & Tech Will Elon Musk Move Twitter to Texas? Will He Give Trump His Account Back? Questions Abound. Elon Musk fanboys on Twitter are all elated that their King of Twitter may soon be the full Owner of Twitter. But employees are probably worried.
Business & Tech [Update] Elon Musk-Twitter Deal Is Done; Twitter to Be Taken Private Twitter's board has accepted billionaire Elon Musk's offer to take the company private, after two weeks of intrigue and the creation of a "poison pill" meant to kill the deal.
SF Politics Watch: Former President Obama Speaks at Stanford About Dangers of Disinformation Former President Barack Obama gave the keynote address at a conference on disinformation in the digital age today, and he delivered some pointed words about the miasma of lies we were pummeled with in the Trump era, and are still being served in our newsfeeds.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Says He Has the $46.5 Billion Lined Up to Buy Twitter Outright, But Investors Remain Skeptical of This Whole Deal Elon Musk’s original “best and final offer” language from last week has softened to “seeking to negotiate” language, but he says he now has funding secured for the deal to take Twitter private (a canard he has pulled before).
