Business & Tech Elizabeth Warren and Mark Zuckerberg Face Off In War Of Online Words After some comments by Mark Zuckerberg at an internal Facebook meeting in July leaked out Tuesday in which the CEO spoke candidly about his concerns for a possible Elizabeth Warren presidency, Warren responded pointedly on Twitter — and it didn't end there.
Business & Tech Kamala Harris: Twitter Should Suspend Trump's Account Over Whistleblower Threats Senator Kamala Harris has upped the ante in her campaign rhetoric targeting the president, calling on Monday night to have Twitter suspend Trump's account over comments he made regarding the Ukraine scandal whistleblower.
Business & Tech Appeals Court Upholds FCC's Net Neutrality Rollback, But Says States Can Still Write Their Own Rules While upholding the FCC's move to repeal the Obama-era neutrality rules, the U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. said that the FCC overstepped in trying to block states from creating their own open-internet rules.
Business & Tech Under New CEO, Juul Drops Ballot Measure Campaign After Spending $11.6 Million On It Embattled e-cigarette maker Juul Labs is no longer going to be running ads in support of Prop C, the local ballot measure it bankrolled to overturn San Francisco's ban on vape products.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Tweet About Tesla Workers Unionizing Deemed Illegal By Judge Elon Musk and his electric car company were in the wrong when they fired a worker involved with labor organizing at Tesla's Fremont plant, and Musk broke the law with a tweet about the effort, according to an administrative law judge in California.
Business & Tech Study Finds That Black and LGBTQ People Still Have Rideshare Drivers Cancel On Them More Often Despite changes to the information drivers see before they accept a ride, drivers for Uber and Lyft still appear to be biased against picking up black and LGBTQ people according to a newly published study.
Business & Tech Why Bay Area Company CrowdStrike Figures Into Trump's Impeachment-Worthy Ukraine Call A Sunnyvale-based cybersecurity firm called CrowdStrike that has figured into a right-wing conspiracy narrative has now bubbled up into the unprecedented July 25 phone call that President Trump had with the newly elected president of Ukraine.
Business & Tech Fremont Policeman's Tesla Needed Charge-Up During High-Speed Chase A Tesla Model S patrol car owned by the Fremont Police Department as part of a test program was running low on juice during a recent high-speed pursuit of a suspect vehicle with a felony warrant attached to it.
Business & Tech Juul CEO Steps Down; Layoffs Are In Store The CEO of Juul Labs, Kevin Burns, has stepped down and been replaced as the company continues to weather serious legal and political storms this year.
Business & Tech Do Not Upgrade To iOS 13: Latest iPhone Software Update Plagued By Bugs Apple has had a decent track record in recent years when it comes to its iOS updates, but the latest is being described by reviewers as "rushed out the door," "super messy," and "a clusterf**k." Be warned!
Business & Tech This Photo Of Mark Zuckerberg Looking Trump In the Eyes Is Everything Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — whom I'd be inclined to call beleaguered if it weren't for the willfully monotonous way in which he's weathered all of his company's scandals over the last two years — went to D.C. this week to mend some fences.
Business & Tech Gig-Worker Bill Signed By Governor, Rideshare and Delivery Apps Unhappy As expected, Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 5 into law today, meaning that, at least in theory, companies like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash will not be able to relegate the majority of their workforces — the drivers — to contractor status.
Business & Tech ‘Gig Worker’ Wage And Benefits Bill Passes Both Chambers Of Legislature, Likely To Become Law The gig may be up for the so-called unicorn startups who’ve coasted on crazy cheap labor, as California is poised to become the first state in the nation to make companies classify independent contractors as employees.
Business & Tech Apple Unveils iPhone 11, Uses Free Apple TV+ To Sell More iPhones CEO Tim Cook unveiled some more details and trailers for Apple TV+, as well as a new 10.2-inch iPad, Apple Watch Series 5, and the new iPhone 11 models that are just supercharged versions of the X models that came out in 2018.
Business & Tech FDA Pens Strongly Worded Letter to Juul About Claims That Vaping Is Safer Than Cigarettes Swiftly on the heels of incendiary national news stories about the growing number of cases of serious vaping-related lung illnesses, the FDA issued a warning letter to SF-based Juul Labs saying the company has already violated federal regulations with its marketing claims.
Business & Tech Almost Every State Except California Is Coming After Google In Antitrust Action A coalition of attorneys general from 50 U.S. states and territories formally announced an investigation into possible antitrust-violating practices by Google/Alphabet with regard to advertising. The only states not participating: California and Alabama.
Business & Tech Lyft Hit With Sexual Assault Lawsuit From 14 Different Women Lyft has allegedly received more than 100 rape and assault claims in California alone, and the victims say the company "chooses to stonewall" on prosecuting drivers. Now 14 women are suing.
Business & Tech Acknowledging Recent Hacks, Twitter Turns Off Ability To Tweet Via Text Twitter is addressing a potential vulnerability that has been abused by some hackers in the last week, and the company announced on Wednesday that it is temporarily shutting off the ability to tweet via SMS.
Business & Tech New Book Describes Travis Kalanick Meltdown Amid 2017 Uber PR Crisis In a new book about Uber's rise, there's a scene in which CEO Travis Kalanick is writhing on the floor of a marketing executive's home repeating, "I'm a terrible person."
Business & Tech Hackers Seize Jack Dorsey's Twitter, Make Bomb Threats, Praise Hitler Some hackers compromised Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's Twitter account on Friday and used the platform to make racial slurs, bomb threats, and otherwise be grossly offensive.
Business & Tech CDC Issues Broad Warning About Vaping, and SF-Based Juul Is Not Having the Greatest Summer Some 200 people have come down with serious respiratory illnesses in recent months that are linked to street-purchased vape products. The CDC has now taken the unusual step of issuing a warning about vaping, despite there being no single product that's been identified as the culprit.
Business & Tech Uber's Half-Billion-Dollar Marketing Campaign Reportedly Hasn't Helped Its Reputation Uber laid off 400 people on its marketing team last month, and a big reason for that is likely the fact that efforts to turn around public sentiment about the company don't appear to have worked. Like, at all.
Business & Tech Now 15 Years Old, Yelp Is Gung-Ho on Letting Its Users Shape Their Search Yelp — the crowd-sourced review forum virtually everyone visits before heading to a new eatery — is (finally) giving users the ability to personalize their profiles to appease certain dietary and lifestyle needs.
Business & Tech 50 San Francisco Blocks Are Now Being Surveilled By 1,000 Private Security Cameras What began as a network of just six cameras in Union Square has grown to cover entire neighborhoods in SF in a private-security surveillance network that's been tapped by law enforcement on a daily basis.
Business & Tech Uber Driver Caravan Descends On Company HQ, Joined By Pete Buttigieg That convoy of Uber and Lyft drivers that drove up from Southern California to stage a demonstration in Sacramento on Wednesday made their way, predictably, to protest outside Uber's SF headquarters on Tuesday.
