SF Politics Elon Musk Says Vote GOP, Right As GOP Vows Boycotts Of Advertisers Who Leave Twitter It’s not surprising that Elon Musk continues his right-wing turn by tweeting that people should vote Republican in the midterms. What’s surprising is that people think he’s doing so out of principle rather than self-interest.
Business & Tech Reports: Facebook Parent Company Meta Planning Mega-Layoffs, ‘Many Thousands’ May Get the Ax This Week The long-feared Big Kahuna of tech-boom layoffs, massive cuts at Meta companies Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, could arrive as soon as Wednesday, and it’s beginning to feel a lot like 2001.
Business & Tech Elon Musk’s Twitter Begs Some Laid-Off Employees to Return, Amidst Botched, Delayed $8 Blue-Check Rollout The Elon Musk era stumbled out of the gate and stepped on a few rakes this weekend, as the skeleton crew still around was forced to delay the new $8 blue check system, and management are begging some freshly canned staff members to return.
Business & Tech Twitter Layoffs Cut Across Many Divisions; Musk Is Whining About Activists Whom He Blames For Advertiser Exodus The layoff sweep at Twitter was nothing if not chaotic and cruel, and after months of speculation and hollow denials about what was to come, employees are left either holding the bag or waiting to find out what their severance packages look like.
Business & Tech Twitter Building Shuttered Until Monday as Employees Get Emailed Pink Slips; Lawsuit Filed Over Layoff Notification Twitter employees in San Francisco, New York, Dublin and elsewhere got their emails Thursday night and into Friday morning informing them whether or not they still had jobs with the company.
Business & Tech AOC Says Her Twitter Account Was ‘Bricked’ After Musk Criticism, Possibly the Shape of Things To Come While Twitter employees are working 12-hour days under the threat of termination, their boss Elon Musk is engaged in trolling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and possibly limiting features on her account.
Business & Tech Lyft and Stripe Both Lay Off Hundreds of Employees, Citing Economy A day ahead of expected layoffs at Twitter that will thoroughly gut the company as we know it, San Francisco-based Lyft announced the laying off of 13% of its workforce, and South San Francisco-based Stripe is cutting 14% of its workforce.
Business & Tech Musk Reportedly Laying Off 50% of Twitter Staff, Layoffs to Begin Friday Black Friday is coming a few weeks early at Twitter, as reports come in that Elon Musk will lay off 50% of the company starting Friday, which hardly bodes well for the new paid blue-check system which is supposed to launch Monday.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Had a Zoom Meeting Last Night With Nonprofits About Hate Speech Chief Twit Elon Musk apparently had a hastily planned meeting with seven nonprofits via Zoom on Tuesday night, and it left them feeling some type of way about how hate speech and elections will be handled, going forward, at Twitter.
Business & Tech Musk Said to Be Demanding 12-Hour Shifts In First Week at Twitter; Has Set Up 'War Room' of Cronies to Lead Transition It can't be very fun to be inside Twitter HQ this week — and dad jokes aside, new Chief Twit Elon Musk is apparently presenting himself as a taskmaster seeking to test employees' devotion to the company, their skills, and their work ethic right out of the gate.
Business & Tech Twitter to Charge $20/mo Subscription For Blue Checkmarks; Musk Polls Users About Bringing Back Vine As we await word on how swift and widespread layoffs may be at Twitter, Chief Twit Elon Musk is making moves and hinting at others — and still acting like a child with a new toy he may break any second.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Promises Facebook-Style 'Moderation Council' to Make Content and Ban Decisions at Twitter New Chief Twit Elon Musk announced Friday that he will be allowing some content moderation to happen at Twitter after all — but it won't be staff doing it, it will be an independent "content moderation council" like Facebook has.
SF News Will Trump Be Allowed to Mouth Off on Twitter Again Before the Midterms? We're counting down the minutes or days before Donald Trump is welcomed back on Twitter by new Chief Twit Elon Musk. Because what's a 246-year-old democracy worth when you'd rather be "saving humanity" through unfettered dialogue and free speech.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Top Twitter Execs Fired as Musk Takes the Helm The Elon Musk Era at Twitter has officially begun, a second fatal pedestrian crash happened in the Sunset, and 41 of the 47 Alameda County sheriff's deputies put on leave over their psych evaluations are now back on active duty.
Business & Tech Have You Had a Lot of Uber Drivers Cancel Trips On You Recently, Or Refuse to Take You Somewhere? Are You a Driver? We'd Like to Hear From You Rideshare services, while still private companies with their own profit motives and foibles, have become like utilities we take for granted. But the days of quick and easy Uber rides seem to be gone since the pandemic.
Business & Tech Aww, Elon Musk Says He Bought Twitter For the Good of Humanity, Doesn't Want It to Become a 'Free-For-All Hellscape' Elon Musk says his intentions are really pure and selfless in deciding to buy Twitter for $44 billion and take it private, and he's doing this "to help humanity, whom I love."
Business & Tech Elon Musk Shows Up at Twitter HQ With a Porcelain Sink, Which Is His Way Of Saying He’s Serious About Closing Deal Unfunny prankster Elon Musk is in town, making a show of symbolic moves that indicate that he really is going to acquire (and probably ruin) Twitter in the next few days.
Business & Tech Major Investor Says Meta 'Needs to Get Its Mojo Back,' Says Pivot to the Metaverse Was Too Hasty Another shoe may be dropping for Facebook/Meta, and for CEO Mark Zuckerberg, as a key investor in the company speaks out publicly, on behalf of investors, saying that the company needs to dial back its investment in the metaverse and lay off about 20% of its employees.
Business & Tech Instacart Calls Off Its Planned IPO, as Tech Stocks Are Tanking Across the Board A much-ballyhooed Instacart IPO has been put on the shelf, as tech companies that boomed during the pandemic are now suffering a cruel correction.
Business & Tech Now Elon Musk’s Proposed Twitter Takeover May Be Subject to a National Security Review Musk’s Twitter takeover is largely financed by Saudi and Qatari money, and given Musk’s curious pro-Putin turn, national security officials are wondering what these international oligarchs might be getting in return here.
SF Politics Wealthy SF Recall Backer Pumping Millions to DeSantis and J.D. Vance, Hyping That Ukraine Needs to Surrender One of the most prominent funders of all three big recall campaigns is now the MAGA movement’s San Francisco money man, and David Sacks is also on a curious kick preaching that Ukraine needs to surrender to Putin.
Business & Tech Prince Harry and Kevin Hart Were Both In SF Wednesday Talking About Their Business Ventures This has been a big week for tech conferences and celebrity sightings in San Francisco, and Wednesday brought both comedian-turned-venture-capitalist Kevin Hart and royal-turned-entrepreneur Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex.
Business & Tech Serena Williams at TechCrunch Disrupt Says She Doesn't Ask Husband Alexis for Business Advice Serena Williams was at TechCrunch Disrupt at the Moscone Center on Wednesday, discussing her future as a San Francisco-based venture capitalist, and what she looks for in founders.
Business & Tech 14 Best Thai Massage Spas in San Francisco (2022) According to Pew Research, San Francisco has the second-highest percentage of Thai people in the United States — behind only Washington, D.C — and the fourth-largest overall Thai population in the country. Thus, it is not surprising that our city has some great Thai massage spas.
SF News Supervisors Demand Scooter Crackdown, Want Them Banned From SF Sidewalks Complaining of a “scourge of e-scooter sidewalk riding,” the SF Board of Supervisors passed a resolution Tuesday demanding that scooter companies add geofencing technology to keep people from riding the damned things on sidewalks.
