SF Politics Breed Zings Elon Musk, Saying He ‘Got a Ton of Tax Breaks in California and Decided to Take That Money and Run’ SF Mayor London Breed had choice words for Elon Musk’s moving Tesla headquarters to Texas in a new Bloomberg interview, and even ribbed Marc Benioff a bit.
Business & Tech OMG Elizabeth Holmes Showed Up In Court Looking Pregnant, Again As Elizabeth Holmes stares down a prison term of an indeterminate amount of years, she remained smiling as she showed up in court Monday for an evidentiary hearing that's a last-bid attempt by her attorneys to get her a new trial. And, she seems to be possibly pregnant yet again.
Business & Tech Kanye West is Buying Right-Wing Social Media Site Parler, What Could Go Right? Increasingly incoherent and unraveling rap star Kanye West’s latest bid for attention has him buying the wingnut-haven social media site Parler, though financial terms were not disclosed, and might not even exist.
SF News Elizabeth Holmes Sentencing Set For Nov. 18; Prosecution Witness Who Expressed Remorse Angered By New Subpoena A prosecution witness who showed up at Elizabeth Holmes's doorstep in August seeming to express remorse over his testimony in her trial has lashed back at her attorneys over a new subpoena of his phone and email records.
Business & Tech Meta Announces That Metaverse Avatars Will Soon Gain Legs — Also, They'd Like to Sell You a $1,500 VR Headset "It's painful how hellbent Mark Zuckerberg is on convincing us that VR is a thing." That's a TechCrunch headline on an article about Meta's VR developer conference this week, at which the company unveiled a new $1,500 headset for use in the still very beta metaverse.
Business & Tech SEC Launches Probe Into Those ‘Bored Ape’ NFTs and the Company That Makes Them While the crypto bros lose their shirts over those monkey jpegs that they dreamed were worth $300,000, the Securities and Exchange Commission is opening an investigation into those NFTs’ creator, Yuga Labs.
Business & Tech 13 Best Vets & Veterinarian Pet Hospitals in San Francisco With more dogs per capita than children, San Francisco is among the most pet friendly cities in the country. Surprisingly, SF actually has a shortage of vets, so finding a pet hospital with
SF News Female Lyft Driver Describes Harrowing Encounter With Passenger, Fleeing Onto Freeway A Lyft driver in San Jose says she was forcibly grabbed from behind by an aggressive passenger, which led to her swerving dangerously while going 70 miles per hour and pulling off a busy freeway.
Business & Tech Bay Area Billionaire Marc Andreessen Claims Modern California Is Like the Fall of the Roman Empire The man who bought the most expensive mansion in California history now says the state is “the ruins of a once great civilization,” comparing conditions to the fall of Rome, but perhaps ignoring the role of an incompetent wealthy ruling class in that analysis.
Business & Tech Meta Is Downsizing Its Offices, Prefers to Call This ‘Vibe Planning’ Amidst a hiring freeze and a plummeting stock price, Meta says it is downsizing and rearranging its offices, a process they bizarrely refer to as "vibe planning."
Business & Tech Elon Musk Now Says He'll Buy Twitter At His Original Price, But He May Still Be Negotiating Ugh, the stupid saga drags on, and late Monday, Elon Musk did an about-face and said 'No, no, JK! Forget about the last four months, I actually do want to buy Twitter.'
SF Politics Newsom Razzes Elon Musk Over Tesla Taking $3.2 Billion in California Subsidies Gavin Newsom is happy to rub Elon Musk’s face in how many billions of dollars Tesla has taken in state subsidies, declaring there is “no Tesla without California.”
Business & Tech Facebook Takes Down Influence Campaigns Originating In Russia and China Regarding Ukraine War Meta/Facebook says that it has discovered and removed "the largest and most complex Russian-origin operation" to influence social media users since the war in Ukraine began, as well as a separate, smaller, more inept campaign out of China.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Musk Gets Deposed By Twitter Thousands of motorcyclists gathered on Saturday in Stockton for a massive funeral for Hells Angels founder Sonny Barger, Elon Musk is getting deposed today by Twitter's attorneys, and temps in SF will cool off before warming back up by the weekend.
Business & Tech Gap Inc. Lays Off 500 Employees at Corporate Offices In SF and NY The layoff announcements continue this week with San Francisco-based Gap Inc., which managed to have a stellar year amid high consumer spending in 2021, followed by a serious slump so far this year.
SF News State of California Sues Amazon for Price Manipulation, Anti-Competitive Practices State AG Rob Bonta claims he has the proof that Amazon forces other websites to maintain artificially high prices, and that’s how Amazon maintains the lowest prices, and that he’s going
Business & Tech SF-Based Twilio Lays Off Around 850 Employees In Effort Toward Profitability It's more bad news on the tech-layoff front Wednesday as San Francisco-based cloud-communications software firm Twilio announced in an SEC filing that it would be laying off 11% of its global staff, or around 800 people.
Business & Tech Twitter Whistleblower Testifies About Breaches, Vulnerabilities on the Platform Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, the Twitter whistleblower and former security exec there who surfaced three weeks ago to tell the world that all is not well within Twitter's security systems, testified before a Senate Committee today.
Business & Tech Developer Barreling Forward With $1 Billion Van Ness Office-Condo High-Rise, Despite Office Market Being in Toilet The 47-story development at 30 Van Ness is actually going to be called Hayes Point. And its developers are being called crazy for building office space in the current slump, but they’re rolling up the Brink's truck anyway.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes Files Motion For New Trial After 'Remorseful' Prosecution Witness Shows Up at Her House Convicted Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes and her attorneys are again trying to keep her out of prison, this time based on what they say is new evidence from a former Theranos employee and key witness for the prosecution.
Business & Tech Santa Clara County Sues Rihanna’s Lingerie Brand Over Allegedly Deceptive Recurring Monthly Fees People who bought bras and underwear from Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty label were allegedly enrolled in a recurring monthly fee program without their knowledge, according to a lawsuit from the Santa Clara District Attorney’s Office.
Business & Tech Juul Labs Settles Lawsuit From 33 States Over Marketing to Teens For $440M Formerly San Francisco-based e-cig maker Juul Labs has just settled one of a slew of lawsuits that it's still facing over the marketing of its products to young people, and over the potential harms of its products.
SF News 49ers Forced to Notify Nearly 21,000 People That They Had Their Personal Data Obtained by Hackers The names and Social Security Numbers of nearly 21,000 people got into the wrong hands, as the 49ers quietly acknowledged in notifications to those folks that their information was breached in a February ransomware attack against the team.
Business & Tech Yes Indeed, Twitter Is Finally Getting That Edit Button Starting Today (For Some) The long-demanded, recently rumored edit button is finally a reality on Twitter, though it’s going to roll out slowly, and you’ll only be able to edit the tweet within the first 30 minutes after you post it.
Business & Tech 15 Best Interior Design Companies in SF Known for our architecture, San Francisco has been named among the world's 50 prettiest cities (Flight Network) and in fact as the #1 most beautiful city in the USA (Gogobot). From Victorians to
