Business & Tech Mark Zuckerberg, American Hero on a Dork's Surfboard? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a strange but totally on-brand Instagram video on July 4th of himself holding a big American flag riding an electric foil surfboard on a lake, set to the tune of John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads."
Business & Tech San Francisco Attorney Intends to File 400 Separate Sexual Assault and Harassment Cases Against Uber A personal injury firm in San Francisco has filed 85 separate lawsuits on behalf of women who say they were sexually assaulted, falsely imprisoned, kidnapped, harassed, and/or stalked by Uber drivers, and they say they have over 300 more to go.
Business & Tech In Effort to Placate Employees, Uber Backtracks On Back-to-the-Office Plan Uber is the latest company to offer increasing flexibility for its workforce that has gotten very comfortable with their telecommuting situation.
Business & Tech Facebook's Market Cap Tops $1 Trillion for the First Time After Antitrust Case Is Dismissed Facebook has now joined the ranks of trillion-dollar companies, alongside the only other companies to reach such a market capitalization, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft.
Business & Tech Antioch Wants to Become the Bay Area's Next Big Marijuana Hub The East Bay city of Antioch is aiming to be the "cannabis capital of Northern California" with the approval of two major cannabis cultivation and distribution facilities.
Business & Tech Due to Those Batteries, Tesla Car Fires Require Outlandish Volumes of Water to Extinguish All types of electric vehicles pose problems for firefighters when they crash and their lithium ion batteries go ablaze, but Teslas have routinely required more than 20,000 gallons of water. That does not bode well for wildfire season!\
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Dandelion Chocolate Lays Off Staff, Union Effort Vows Legal Challenge The unionization effort at Dandelion Chocolate may have just been melted down, as “a number” of Dandelion employees were laid off Thursday.But the unionizers say they’ll fight it.
Business & Tech Mid-Market's NEMA Seeks City Approval For Corporate Rentals In what appears to be the first instance of a building owner seeking approval from the city under a new ordinance limiting the number of units that can be corporate rentals, the developer behind the NEMA building downtown is looking to convert 200 units.
Business & Tech Facebook Is Suspending Trump for Two Years, Or Until He's No Longer a Danger to the Republic Facebook says that Trump's punishment for inciting a riot at the Capitol on January 6th will be a two-year suspension, and that suspension will only be lifted if he no longer represents a "risk to public safety."
Business & Tech Twitter Launches Subscription Service That Will Allow Users to 'Undo' Tweets Twitter just announced the launch of its Twitter Blue product, a new subscription service with extra perks for avid users that is rolling out today in Australia and Canada ahead of a wider launch.
Business & Tech Sea Cliff Mansion Set to Be Foreclosed Upon for Second Time In a Year Could Be Yours for $17.5M A six-bedroom home with its own private beach cove, overlooking Baker Beach and the Pacific Ocean in SF's tony Sea Cliff neighborhood, is facing its second foreclosure in a year after failing to sell for the umpteenth time in the last decade.
Sponsored As the Pandemic Appears to Wane, the Number of Homes for Sale Rises Everybody has their ideal dream home in their dream city. Some yearn for a white picket fence in a quiet suburb. Others love the hustle and bustle of a New York apartment. San
Sponsored 6 Marin County Properties with Staggering $25M+ Price Tags Have Come on The Market in the Past Few Months Within the past four months, at least six mega-properties – real estate with listing prices above $25 million – have gone on the market in Marin County. Among the many elite enclaves of the Bay
Sponsored The Historic Feusier Octagon House Is For Sale. Here Are All 3 Of SF's Eight-Sided Homes That Sold Prior All around the world architects use the octagon to beautify their buildings. The Dome of the Rock has a characteristic octagonal plan. The Tower of the Winds in Athens is another example of
Business & Tech Southwest Flight Attendants' Union Lodges Complaint With CEO Following Assault on NorCal Flight Airline passengers are getting angrier and harder to manage, according to a new letter from the union president representing Southwest Airlines flight attendants, which follows on one flight attendant getting two teeth knocked out by a passenger on Sunday.
Arts & Entertainment Guaranteed Income Program for SF Artists Gets Expanded Thanks to $3.5M Gift From Twitter/Square CEO Jack Dorsey Jack Dorsey is continuing to do nice things with his wealth, and on Friday we learned that his charitable group #StartSmall is giving $3.46 million to San Francisco's pilot program to give local artists $1,000 per month in guaranteed income.
Business & Tech Facebook's Cryptocurrency Dreams Are Not Dead; Diem Expected to Launch This Year Remember when Facebook started talking about launching its own crypto coin two years ago called Libra and everyone balked and then it kind of went away? Well, it didn't totally go away, it's now called Diem, and the project is still moving forward toward a launch.
Business & Tech JetBlue Flight Bound for SFO Gets Diverted Due to Unruly, Drug-Snorting Passenger A JetBlue flight from New York's JFK Airport to SFO had to be diverted to Minneapolis on Sunday when an unmasked, reportedly very smelly passenger onboard became unruly, harassing and annoying other passengers.
Business & Tech SF Tech Companies Losing Hundreds of Millions on Office Space They Can’t Rent Dropbox alone dropped more than $400 million on empty downtown office space, as tech companies all over the Bay Area are bleeding billions to rent office spaces that are just cold sitting totally empty.
Sponsored In Terms Of Real Estate Values, One Marin County Zip Code Leapfrogged Bay Area Rankings; Achieved #4 Nationally There is no question that cost of living – from the your receipt at the grocery store all the way up average price tag of property – is high here in California. In fact, of
SF News Detestable Tesla ‘Backseat Driver’ Makes Bail, Buys Another Tesla, Backseat-Drives Again Tesla troll Param Sharma clearly revels in being public enemy No. 1, as he just bought another new Tesla and drove it from the backseat again in front of TV cameras. Also, he would like us to know he is very rich.
Business & Tech [UPDATE] New Top Hire With History of Sexist Quotes Leaves Apple After Uproar A startup star who wrote in his memoir that “Most women in the Bay Area are soft and weak” is Apple’s new ad executive, and Bay Area women who work at Apple would like a word.
Business & Tech Tesla 'Backseat Driver' Nabbed By CHP A man who had been seen multiple times on Bay Area roads happily sitting in the backseat of his Tesla while it drove him places on Autopilot has been arrested by California Highway Patrol. But it sounds like no lessons have been learned.
Business & Tech 44 Attorneys General Are Kindly Asking Facebook Not to Launch Instagram For Kids 44 U.S. attorneys general are asking the company to please, kindly, not launch an Instagram for kids, because of all the significant legal, safety, welfare, and privacy concerns this will raise.
Business & Tech Mark Zuckerberg Has Bought Another 600 Acres on Kauai, and Hawaiians Are Pissed Adding to their already significant land holdings on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan recently closed on another deal adding 600 more acres on the island.
