Business & Tech Facebook Lifts Ban on Political Ads, Because Everything's Good Now? The indefinite ban that Facebook placed on political advertising right after the November election has been lifted, calling to question whether a) Facebook really needs this money, and b) the country is in the clear when it comes to the spread of misinformation about political figures.
Business & Tech Twitter Will Let Influencers and Adult Performers Charge to See 'Premium' Tweets Twitter just announced two big new features on Thursday, one that allows users to create a "Super Follower" status in which followers can pay for premium content, and one that creates Facebook-esque groups based on shared interests.
Business & Tech Guy Who Flew ‘Suck My Nuts Robinhood’ Banner Over SF Tells His Story The GameStop “meme stocks” sensation has blown over, but the fellow whose “Suck My Nuts Robinhood” banner provided an amusing epilogue to the tale explains the details of the stunt.
Business & Tech Fry's Electronics Officially Calls It Quits After several years in which its once vibrant, quirky stores were filled with rows of empty shelves, and following several store closures around the Bay Area, Fry's Electronics has officially announced it's shutting down for good.
Business & Tech SF-Based One Medical Reportedly Allowed Ineligible Patients and Work-From-Home Staff to Get Vaccines SF-based healthcare startup One Medical is the latest organization being called out for unethical practices in the distribution of still very limited supplies of COVID-19 vaccine — allegedly including giving vaccine shots to friends and family of company leadership, and patients in their 20s.
Business & Tech Despite Threats, Elon Musk Expanding Fremont Tesla Plant, Not Abandoning It The world’s no-longer-richest man was apparently bluffing when he threatened to move his East Bay Tesla plant out-of-state, as the plant has just submitted permit requests to expand.
Business & Tech Report Shows Facebook Rarely Tagged Trump’s Lies as ‘False,’ Showed Different Versions of Fact-Check Labels to Different Users An outside company has analyzed reams of Facebook data, and found that ‘false’ or ‘disputed’ tags were shown to some users, but not others, possibly based on geography, and almost never slapped on Trump posts.
Business & Tech Small But Angry Mobs Show Up Outside Robinhood Headquarters in Menlo Park, Animal Feces Thrown In the wake of the GameStop debacle of two weeks ago, some angry Robinhood customers have taken their anger offline and shown up at the front door of the company's headquarters on the San Francisco Peninsula.
Business & Tech Twitter Insists Trump Is Permanently Banned, Even If He Runs Again Trump cannot ever return to Twitter again and his deleted tweets are truly gone forever, but those very tweets are haunting him bigly at today’s impeachment trial proceedings.
Business & Tech Reddit's Five-Second Super Bowl Ad Outshines Bigger Spends By Uber Eats, DoorDash Following a week in which Reddit was center stage in one of the biggest stories in the country — the Gamestop thing — the San Francisco company decided to buy five seconds of ad time to talk about that, in text.
Business & Tech The State of Cannabis 2020: How Cannabis Consumers Responded to Crisis In 2020, cannabis consumers and the industry navigated the same tectonic changes facing all of America and the world: Covid-19 infections and the challenges of quarantine, massive demonstrations for racial justice, and a
Business & Tech Yelp Reportedly Downsizing Its SF Headquarters; 14 Floors Of 140 New Montgomery Up For Grabs All 14 floors that Yelp occupies at the historic Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. Building at 140 New Montgomery have been made available for lease this year, in another of a cascade of moves that have shaken up the once hot SF office market.
Business & Tech Uber Acquires Alcohol-Delivery App Drizly For $1.1 Billion Once again showing that the company's priorities have shifted since the pandemic began, Uber has just purchased Boston-based booze-delivery app Drizly, so that you can make sure to get a side whiskey brought to your door with your burger and fries.
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Business & Tech Apple's War With Facebook Continues as New Privacy Controls Will Stop Apps From Illicitly Tracking Our Movements Apple issued an 11-page report on Thursday titled "A Day in the Life of Your Data," and announced plans to roll out a new layer of privacy control this spring that will prevent iPhone apps from tracking our movements without our knowledge.
Business & Tech Facebook Oversight Board Issues Its First Rulings On Misinformation, Hate Speech The nascent Oversight Board established by Facebook last year to serve as a "Supreme Court" or final arbiter for thorny content moderation questions has just issued its first five rulings.
Business & Tech Uber Lays Off 15% of Postmates Staff, Just Two Months After Buying the Company Nearly 200 Postmates employees got pink slips Monday in the wake of being acquired by Uber, but top Postmates executives will get “multimillion dollar exit packages.”
Business & Tech UCSF Team Finds Cancer Drug That Is 30 Times More Effective At Fighting COVID Than Remdesivir A research team at UCSF has landed on a potential game-changing treatment for COVID-19, though it is a cancer drug made by a Spanish firm that is not yet approved for any uses in the United States.
Business & Tech Facebook Oversight Panel Deciding Fate of Trump's Account Is Taking Public Comment Facebook's long promised but still barely operational Oversight Board — the so-called "Supreme Court" of content moderation — is taking on the case of Trump's locked account. And they want to hear from you.
Business & Tech Trump Pardons Anthony Levandowski, Convicted Thief of Autonomous Vehicle Trade Secrets Former Alphabet employee, Marin County resident and self-driving technology wunderkind Anthony Levandowski was one of 143 people to receive a last-minute pardon from Donald Trump on his way out of the White House.
Business & Tech Feds Allege Elizabeth Holmes Destroyed a SQL Database That Proved Her Theranos Product was Garbage Prosecutors subpoenaed an internal Theranos database they say proved executives knew their blood test product was a sham. That database was promptly destroyed, according to a new filing.
Business & Tech Airbnb Cancels All D.C. Reservations Ahead of Inauguration Guarding against taking any blame for providing shelter to domestic terrorists, Airbnb announced Wednesday that it would be canceling all reservations at properties owned by Washington D.C. hosts during inauguration week — as well as all reservations through Airbnb-owned HotelTonight.
Business & Tech Facebook Tells Employees to Stop Wearing Company-Branded Apparel, For Their Safety Following the bans on President Trump and "Stop the Steal" content, Facebook is telling its employees not to wear company-branded swag out in public, lest they incur the wrath of Trumpers.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Now Allowing Users To Out Businesses and Restaurants for Violating COVID-19 Guidelines The San Francisco-based company synonymous with publishing crowd-sourced reviews on local businesses will now allow users to post complaints about businesses violating COVID-19 safety protocols.
Business & Tech Pro-Trump Protest at Twitter HQ Fails to Materialize There was much ado about nothing Monday morning outside Twitter headquarters, where police and journalists waited for a deluge of pro-Trump protest chaos that never came.
