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).
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco 4/20 Billboard Promises ‘Get Free NFTs When You Buy Weed’ We have reached Peak 2022 San Francisco, as a fresh, new 4/20 billboard at Mission and Geneva Streets declares “Get Free NFTs when you buy weed.”
Arts & Entertainment Netflix Sees Big Drop In Subscribers, Swears It's Going to Crack Down On Password-Sharing With the waning of the pandemic, Netflix is seeing its big subscriber growth fall off a cliff — and now the company is saying it's really going to get tough on password-sharing.
Business & Tech Twitter Board Adopts 'Poison Pill' Strategy to Fend Off Elon Musk; Another Big Shareholder Also Just Upped Their Stake Twitter's board of directors voted unanimously Friday to adopt a limited duration shareholder rights plan, or "poison pill," that would immediately dilute the shares of any shareholder who bought 15% or more of existing shares — likely thwarting, for now, a takeover bid by Elon Musk.
SF News A Whole Bunch of Electric Vehicle Chargers Could be Coming to SF Gas Stations and Auto Shops The SF Planning Commission moved forward in approving an armada of electric vehicle charging stations — a “public charging network” which could be coming to an auto body shop or gas station near you.
Business & Tech Yep, Elon Musk Is Officially Trying to Buy Twitter in a Hostile Takeover Bid After the welcome mat for Musk to join Twitter’s board disappeared, the billionaire has made a bombshell offer to buy every share of Twitter for himself and own the company privately.
Business & Tech Jokes and Some Outrage Drive Themselves on Twitter In Wake of Driverless Cruise Cab Pulled Over by Cops It has been a long, inevitable road to get to the point where even law enforcement is visibly flummoxed on what to do with an AV that isn't following the rules of the road.
Business & Tech Video: SF Cops Try to Pull Over Driverless Cruise Taxi, Hilarity Ensues All haters of the ersatz training course for robot cars that San Francisco's streets have become are having a field day with a new video, posted earlier this month, showing an autonomous Cruise taxi in the Richmond District getting pulled over by the SFPD with no driver inside.
Business & Tech Now Elon Musk Won’t Join the Twitter Board, Tech World Wonders What His Deal Is Wait, something about a “background check?” Elon Musk suddenly relinquishes his proffered seat on the Twitter board of directors, which could be a nefarious Elon plot, or a sign of his very short attention span.
Business & Tech Oakland's Cannabis Delivery & Dispensary Industry Plagued By Crime; Leaders Fear Loss Of Minority Business Owners Some local leaders say that crime plaguing Oakland's cannabis delivery and dispensary industry over the past few years puts minority business owners at greater risk of closure.
Business & Tech SF Leads the Nation in Workers Who Don’t Want to Return to the Office A Stanford analysis shows a 53% reduction in how much time San Francisco workers are spending in the office compared to pre-pandemic, the largest cutback on office time of any major city’s workforce in the country.
Business & Tech Twitter is Adding an Edit Button Now That It’s the Elon Musk Era There Typo committers rejoice! The long-requested edit button is coming and has been secretly in the works at Twitter for awhile, just as it turns out Elon Musk’s ascension to the Twitter board of directors had been secretly in the works too.
SF Politics Business Leaders’ Poll Claims 70% of Bay Area Demands ‘Get Tough’ Approach on Homelessness A poll commissioned by a local business group contends that 70% of the Bay Area wants to see the homeless population forced into conservatorships (or something) if they won’t take shelter, and claims their results should be seen as “a screaming wake-up call.”
Business & Tech Trump's Truth Social Platform Takes Another Step Toward Implosion With Two Key Resignations Donald Trump's much touted social media platform that he hoped would be a new conservative alternative to Twitter, Truth Social, has just reportedly lost two key executives six weeks after its launch.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Buys a Nearly 10% Stake in Twitter, What Could Go Wrong? The flamboyant Tesla CEO is now Twitter’s largest shareholder, as Elon Musk has scooped up more than 73 million shares of Twitter, valued at nearly $3 billion Friday, but now worth a lot more since the sale went public and the stock went booming.
Business & Tech Search Engine Yahoo! Hit With $15 Million Patent Infringement Bill A federal jury in Oakland says Yahoo has to give a Texas-based software company $15 million for infringing on its quick-search patent.
Business & Tech Apple and Facebook Both Duped By Hackers Posing as Law Enforcement, Handed Over Personal Data Phone numbers, home addresses, and (yikes!) internet browsing histories have been handed right over to hackers who approached tech companies while posing as police, and what’s more, most of the hackers were teenagers.
Business & Tech Tim Cook's Stalker From Virginia Agrees to 3-Year Stay-Away Order The story of a possibly armed and disturbed stalker who had driven across the country to be close to Apple CEO Tim Cook, and who claimed that Cook was the father of her children, has led to a day in court in San Jose.
Business & Tech Uber On the Verge of Cutting Deal With Taxi Fleet Flywheel A shocking alliance between Uber and SF taxicabs is on the table, as cab fleet Flywheel is in talks with Uber to put their cabs on the Uber app.
