Business & Tech Supervisors Slap a Moratorium on Parcel Delivery Sites, In an Obvious Shot at Amazon While Amazon is not named in the “interim zoning controls” on “proposed Parcel Delivery Service uses” the supervisors approved Tuesday, it's crystal clear they’re playing hardball with Amazon’s plans for a Mission Bay delivery warehouse.
Business & Tech Alphabet Hit With Racial Discrimination Lawsuit By Former Diversity Recruiter for Google A former Google employee who was tasked with hiring more Black people to the company, and who was herself fired in 2020, has filed suit against Google/Alphabet claiming she was retaliated against for calling out discriminatory practices at the company.
Business & Tech Detestable L.A. Tesla Owner Performs 50-Foot Jump on Public Street, Damages Multiple Other Cars In a hit-and-run fiasco that a crowd of Tesla fans clearly delighted in, a Tesla owner in L.A. performed a massively dangerous 50-foot leap on city streets, and damaged a few other cars with this stupid stunt.
Business & Tech Apple Services Go Kablooey in Giant Monday Morning Outage Your Apple Maps, App Store, iCloud Mail and auxiliary Apple services galore may have hit the skids for a few hours Monday morning, and while the temporary outage was international, most everything is back up and running.
Business & Tech Facebook Relaxes (and Then Reverses) Its Rules Over Calling for Leaders to Be Killed, Because of Putin Meta made a Putin-specific change to its policy on calling for the assassination of world leaders late last week, then backtracked today for ill-explained reasons.
SF News San Francisco to Sponsor Event Series Later This Month to 'Celebrate' Everyone Returning to Their Downtown Offices A program of outdoor festivities at multiple locations around downtown SF is being planned for the last week of March, and city officials really hope that someone is there to attend them.
Business & Tech Uber To Gouge You With New Gas Price Fee Now That The Oil Industry Is Gouging You They’re calling the new fee “temporary fuel assistance for drivers,” but whatever the name, starting Wednesday you will be paying anywhere between 35 and 55 cents extra for any Uber ride or Uber Eats order.
SF News The Biggest Cannabis Dispensary Chain Yet to Arrive in SF, MedMen, Opens Store in Cow Hollow The largest, nationwide legal marijuana retailer San Francisco has seen yet, MedMen, just opened a Cow Hollow outpost. But the former high-flying Green Rush “unicorn” arrives in SF awash in red ink and restructuring after a high-profile flame-out.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Netflix Shuts Down Service In Russia A dead body was found near the Harrison Street off-ramp from the Bay Bridge on Sunday, a 61-year-old woman was killed in a hit-and-run on International Blvd. in Oakland, and Netflix and TikTok are shutting down in Russia.
Business & Tech Apple Says It Has 'Paused' Product Sales In Russia, But Resellers Are Still At It Apple has "paused" the sale of its products in Russia in protest of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, and Apple Pay has been disabled or "limited" in the country as well.
Business & Tech Google Tells Workers It's Back-to-the-Office Time Starting April 4 There have been some false alarms and variant-related surprises in the past, but it could be that Spring 2022 will usher in a new late-pandemic phase of workers grudgingly returning to cubicles and conference rooms in SF and Silicon Valley.
Business & Tech State Grants First Permits to Waymo and Cruise For Paid Self-Driving Taxi Service The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has granted its first, semi-full permits to Alphabet-owned Waymo and General Motors-owned Cruise to provide autonomous-vehicle taxi service to paid passengers.
Business & Tech Facebook and Twitter Attempt to Stifle Russian Propaganda Campaign; Russia Turns to Chinese-Owned TikTok Social media is again being used as a battleground by Russia as it continues to try to "sell" its invasion of Ukraine to the Russian people, and to sympathizers abroad.
SF News SF’s Only Crate & Barrel, in Union Square, Will Close Permanently March 23 There will be another retail vacancy in Union Square in late March, as the Crate & Barrel at Stockton and O’Farrell Streets will furnish its last home furnishings and close in the next few weeks.
Business & Tech Silicon Valley Chipmaking Giant Nvidia Hit With Cyberattack, Russia Theories Already Flying While there is no credible evidence that Russia has anything to do with a cyberattack on Santa Clara-based Nvidia, the company is being tight-lipped about an attack that “completely compromised” their internal systems.
Business & Tech The Trump vs. Twitter Lawsuit is Happening in San Francisco, And It’s Not Going Well for Trump In a lawsuit literally named Trump v. Twitter, the former president is suing Twitter to allow him back on the platform, but his arguments are going fruitlessly in a San Francisco district court.
Arts & Entertainment Crypto Enthusiasts Promote ‘Bored Ape’ NFTs In Mission District Murals We have entered the phase where Bored Ape NFT promotions sit among the Mission Street murals, at a moment when the NFT collective behind these virtual apes is angling for a $5 billion valuation.
Business & Tech Trump's Twitter-for-Bigots, Truth Social, Launches Without a Working App Remember how Trump's new media company was launching its own social network, dubbed Truth Social, and Devin Nunes left his job in Congress to help lead this company and this new thing they imagine will go toe to toe with Twitter?
SF Politics SF Neighbors Who Wanted Amazon Hub Site to Remain Industrial Now Not Happy That It's Remaining Industrial Recology wanted to build housing on a site that was formerly home to 300 garbage trucks, but neighbors pushed back. Now Amazon wants to keep things industrial, and still, pushback.
Business & Tech State Agency Sues Tesla Over ‘Racially Segregated Workplace’ Where Racial Slurs Are Thrown Around Commonly A California employment agency brought a pretty disturbing lawsuit against Tesla Thursday, alleging not just racial segregation at the Fremont plant, but a workplace where racial slurs were commonly scrawled on walls and spoken out loud by management.
Business & Tech About 40 of Elon Musk’s New SpaceX Satellites Destroyed by Solar Storm A few dozen SpaceX satellites that launched last Thursday have already bit the dust in a solar storm, but thankfully, they’ll be reduced to dust upon reentering the atmosphere.
Business & Tech Robin Williams’ Estate Sues Pandora For $4.1 Million Over Alleged Copyright Violation The George Carlin estate and Andrew Dice Clay are also lodging copyright suits against the streaming service, saying they don’t actually have the copyrights to play these comedians’ works.
SF News That Market Street IKEA Is Now Officially Under Construction The COVID-delayed but still definitely happening San Francisco IKEA store on Market between Fifth and Sixth Streets has started building out, but it’s going to be more of an “IKEA-anchored meeting place” (mall) with other tenants too.
SF Politics Peter Thiel Stepping Down From Meta’s Board, Will Focus on Getting Trumpers Elected in the Midterms The billionaire co-founder of PayPal and Palantir will no longer serve on the board of directors of Facebook parent company Meta, where he had Zuckerberg’s ear for years (or held Zuckerberg’s leash, depending on who you ask).
SF News The Gap Is Opening Four New Retail Stores at Its Rincon Hill Headquarters It’s encouraging news for retail that Gap is opening four new storefronts downtown, but they’re all in office space that Gap Inc. already owns, so this won’t put a dent in any retail vacancies.
