Business & Tech Crypto Bro War of Words (and Memes) Breaks Out Between Jack Dorsey and Top Silicon Valley VCs There are no good guys, and certainly no women at all, in the latest Silicon Valley high school drama that pits Jack Dorsey and the bigwigs at Andreessen Horowitz arguing over the true meaning of crypto.
Business & Tech Sister of Federal Officer Killed by Boogaloo Extremists Sues Facebook for Letting Them Organize Online The feds say that far-right “Boogaloo” militia types killed federal officer David Patrick Underwood, while trying to pose as Antifa. Underwood’s sister says Facebook gave them the tools to do it, and is suing the company.
Business & Tech Will Elizabeth Holmes Face Stiff Sentence, or Will Judge Go Easy On Her Because of Baby? The specter of the Theranos collapse could linger on both with the upcoming trial of alleged co-conspirator Sunny Bulwani, and with Holmes's sentencing, which could come in mid-2022. But her jail time could be delayed pending an appeal.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes Found Guilty On Four Counts of Fraud, Not Guilty On Four Others, Jury Remained Hung on Three The verdict is in, at least two-thirds of one, for Elizabeth Holmes, and while she'll surely appeal, some time in the clink looks fairly inevitable for the disgraced entrepreneur.
Business & Tech Apple Reportedly Doles Out Special Six-Figure Bonuses to Engineers to Keep Them From Getting Poached By Meta Apple is reportedly giving out unusually big bonuses in the form of stock to select groups of engineers in the company, in an effort to stop some attrition that is happening to Facebook/Meta.
Business & Tech DoorDash Engineers Furious They Have to Deliver Food Once a Month The delivery service DoorDash is requiring employees with cushy desk jobs to perform a couple deliveries every month. Some of the cushy-desk-job types are throwing fits about it.
Business & Tech Fancy Las Vegas Gadget Convention CES Is Still On, Despite Omicron, and Absolutely Everyone Pulling Out Organizers of the usually trend-setting trade show CES are determined to play chicken with surging COVID-19 case rates, but their biggest brands and keynote speakers are dropping out minute by minute.
SF News Court Rules Family Can Sue See’s Candies for Husband’s COVID Death Resulting From Wife’s Workplace Infection A new state appeals court ruling says that a household member can sue a company if the company’s negligence brought a fatal case of COVID-19 into the household, and See's Candies allegedly did just that.
Business & Tech Waymo Car Hits Pedestrian in Lower Haight, Company Claims a Person Was Driving at the Time One of those omnipresent, sensor-topped Waymo vehicles collided with a pedestrian late Wednesday night, but the company insists the vehicle was not in self-driving robot mode at the time of the accident.
SF News Dead Body Found at Fremont Tesla Factory, Police Rule It a Homicide A body turned up Monday afternoon at the Tesla plant in Fremont, and something’s suspicious, because Fremont Police have referred the case to their homicide unit.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Impossible Foods Launches Ghost Kitchen Concept With Dog Haus Restaurants Plant-based imitation-meat darling Impossible Foods is getting into the ghost kitchen game, with an app delivery-only concept called the Impossible Food Shop, and an SF location inside the notorious 60 Morris Street ghost kitchen.
Business & Tech Elon Musk’s ‘Twitter Poll’ Stock Sale Proven a Sham, as He’s Actually Buying Up Shares Like Mad The latest ‘Elon con’ involves a Twitter stunt where his followers supposedly made the decision for him to sell his Tesla shares. But Musk is actually on a buying spree, buying shares for “well below 1% of Tesla's current share price.”
Business & Tech Omicron Scare Likely to Push Back Bay Area Back-to-Office Timeline for Many Despite there being no immediate threat of an Omicron outbreak in the Bay Area and an overall lack of data on the new variant, the general uncertainty around it is very likely to cause big Bay Area tech companies and smaller offices alike to rethink their January return-to-the-office plans.
Business & Tech Square Is Changing Its Name to 'Block' In a Meta-Esque Move Like Facebook, Square has outgrown its original focus, dealing with payment-processing systems for sellers, and now the company is rebranding as Block, in a nod to its ambitions in the world of blockchain.
Business & Tech Twitter Now Says You Can’t Share Other People’s Images Without Their Consent, Confusion Abounds The new post-Jack Dorsey Twitter immediately freaked people out with a “more robust” privacy policy update, and they’re still posting threads to unspool exactly what this all means.
SF News Westfield Mall Gets a Cannabis Store — Without Any Cannabis The Westfield San Francisco Centre has just seen a marijuana dispensary of a sort open in the mall, but there is no marijuana there — just “non-medicated cannabis replicas and empty packaging.”
Business & Tech Jack Dorsey Steps Down as Twitter CEO, Gives Little Reason A year after an attempted ouster by a major investor, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is stepping down from his role at the company, and longtime CTO Parag Agrawal will take the helm in his place.
Business & Tech More Than 600 Google Employees Sign Manifesto Opposing Their Workplace Vaccine Mandate This is merely 600 workers out of 150,000, and you know they’re all just going to cave in eventually, but 600 Google employees won’t go down without a tantrum over the company’s vaccination mandate.
SF News SF Dispensaries Gear Up for Green Wednesday, the ‘Black Friday of Weed’ The day before Thanksgiving is the second-busiest cannabis shopping day of the year, and we recommend you shop early, or pre-order online.
SF News Tesla Fremont Plant Employee Sues Over ‘Rampant Sexual Harassment’ At the Facility An employee at the Tesla Fremont plant says she was routinely groped, catcalled, and propositioned on the job, even by her superiors, in a new sexual harassment lawsuit.
Business & Tech DoorDash Settles for $5.3 Million Over Stiffing Drivers Out of Health Care and Sick Leave New city attorney David Chiu’s first big settlement means cash in the hands of some 4,500 local DoorDash drivers who had tips swiped and didn’t get mandated benefits, with some drivers getting more than $10,000.
Business & Tech Apple Relents and Will Let You Repair Your Own Devices, But Only On the Newest iPhones The long-sought consumer “right to repair” will finally arrive from Apple, but only for iPhone 12 and 13, and you have to buy the tools from them.
Business & Tech Facebook, Desperate to Control Distribution, Looks to Retail Stores — But Will Anyone Shop at The Meta Store? Facebook — because I refuse to call them Meta — is going hard on retail, and eventually we're likely to see stores around the globe selling Portals and Oculus headsets and, like, Meta-branded mugs and T-shirts?
Business & Tech Filings Show Elon Musk’s Stock Sell-Off Was Pre-Scheduled, Likely Unrelated to Twitter Poll The latest Elon Musk Twitter nonsense involved a poll where his fanboys would determine whether he should sell his Tesla stock and finally pay taxes, but regulatory filings show the sale was planned in mid-September.
Business & Tech Feds Sue Uber Over 'Wait Time' Fees Which They Say Discriminate Against the Disabled The Department of Justice has filed suit against Uber over the company's practice of charging fees when drivers have to wait more than two minutes for a passenger to get in their vehicle.
