Business & Tech Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp Experience Simultaneous Server Issues It ain't so great having three major social platforms served from the same place when the servers go down!
Business & Tech Jilted YouTuber Arrested for Making Criminal Threats Against Google Personnel Upset that his YouTube channel was shut down, a man drove 3,000 miles across the country to settle a score with Google.
Business & Tech Airbnb Acquires HotelTonight In Hopes Of Becoming ‘The Amazon Of Travel’ The company’s biggest acquisition yet adds a last-minute hotel booking app to its growing arsenal of hospitality offerings.
Business & Tech Teacher Documents How Many Phone Notifications Her Students Get During One Period And It's Stress-Inducing We are raising a generation of constantly distracted chatbots and an experiment by one beleaguered teacher illustrates this in a most upsetting fashion.
Sponsored This Mother-Son Real Estate Duo Has Handled Nearly $500,000,000 in S.F. Home Sales It is no secret that the San Francisco real estate market is among the world's most desirable. From extravagant mansions priced multiple times beyond your expected lifetime earnings to run down, single-room shacks
Business & Tech Facebook Is Reportedly Receiving Mounds of Sensitive Health Data Via Third-Party Apps Without Your Knowledge After a year of especially terrible press, growing government scrutiny, and eroding public affection, Facebook is staring down yet another potential scandal involving sensitive user data.
SF News Reese Witherspoon Surprised The Current Residents In Her Old Stanford Dorm Room Elle Woods is like, in my room. The Huffington Post reports that actress and clothing company proprietress Reese Witherspoon popped by her former dorm room while on a recent visit to her alma
SF News As Rumors Of Second Massive Round Of Layoffs Swirl, Twitter Reschedules Its Earnings Report Alas, poor Twitter. Once upon a time, it was fun and useful, helping foment political change and providing a home for succinct quips. But those days are long gone, it appears, and the
SF News Britex Fabrics May Move After 64 Years, But Will Remain In SF Asked to share her go-to recommendation for maker-folk from out of town, Project Runway star and local designer Emily Payne shouted out Britex Fabrics, describing it to SFist as "a family-run luxury fabric
SF News San Francisco Gets 'F' Grade For Small Business 'Friendliness' Running a small business in the gilded city of San Francisco is a drag, or so says contractor-for-hire site Thumbtack, which just released a study asserting that because of roadblocks like "regulations," San
SF News Poll: One Third Of Bay Area Residents Say They'll Leave Soon According to a new poll by pro-business policy group the Bay Area Council, 34 percent of Bay Area residents are "likely to move out of the Bay Area in the next few years,
SF News Apothecarium Dispensary To Uproot And Expand To Former Mecca Spot You'll still have no trouble locating an apothecary for all your weed needs on Market Street in the Castro — only now it will be half a block up Market, at 2029, not 2095
SF News Retail Report On Castro District Says No More Coffee, Maybe Enough With The 'Adult' Stores With over 30 vacant retail spaces along the Castro and Upper Market retail corridor, the area's vacancy rate — 8% — is nearly twice the city’s overall average. That's prompted a new 200 page
SF News Scathing NYT Profile Says Marissa Mayer Messed Up With Yahoo Those who aren't hanging on to Yahoo stock may not have been paying attention when their stock price tumbled this past July, and again in September. Both tumbles, which it's since recovered from,
SF News 'Tech Workers Are Not Robots,' Says Mayor Ed Lee In Intriguing NYT Interview In an interview with the New York Times, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee all but french kisses the city's tech industry, the people in it, and all that it embodies. (Understandably so.) Which
SF News Mayor Ed Lee To Walk MidMarket This Morning Talking Twitter IPO Twitter's initial public offering is set to happen as early as this Thursday. It's also set to make some people rich and some people unhappy. Naturally. In an effort to sooth concerns on
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Best Classic Stores In S.F. If you've been following the news lately, San Francisco is a city that doesn't care much for chain stores. We prefer local. And although the recent economic boom has pushed out many stores
SF News Apple Uses Company Other Than FoxConn To Make iPad Minis Taipei-based Pegatron, a manufacturer with whom Apple has had a long relationship, is taking over from controversial manufacturer FoxConn, at least in the manufacture of iPad Minis and the upcoming, less expensive iPhone
Arts & Entertainment 'North of NOPA' Now a Thing? The skidmarks at Coldwell Banker, hawking 2020 Ellis, have helped coin a new neighborhood name. And it's disgusting. Anza Vista/Western Addition is now allegedly called—are you sitting down?—North of NOPA.
SF News Polk Street Parking Evangelists May Squash Bike Lane Plan A contentious clash between cyclists, car-parkers and business owners over the Polk Street Corridor Improvement Project has caused the SFMTA to go back to the drawing board and offer some decidedly less bike-friendly
Arts & Entertainment Thursday: Learn The Business Of Growing Cannabis In S.F. The wildly successful Yerba Buena Community Benefit District’s Arts and Dialogue series gets stoney on Thursday with a panel discussion devoted to the business of growing cannabis in San Francisco. What are
SF News Berkeley's Sit/Lie Measure Fails Berkeley's Measure S, the liberal city's sit/lie measure that would've barred sitting on sidewalks in commercial areas between of 7 a.m. and 10 p.m., tanked by a slim margin last
Arts & Entertainment Hey, What Are You Still Doing In The Office? It's almost 4 o'clock the Friday before Labor Day Weekend. So... why are you still at the office? Presumably, most of you are working 9 to 5, right? And with such doldrums comes
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink More On Eagle Tavern's Glittery Gay Lease Signing First plucked from Facebook and then reported by SFist, the Eagle Tavern's lease will remain in the custody of the gays. The sparkly, festive queer community will retain their noted queer leather and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Just In: The Gays Get To Keep Eagle Tavern This just in: The San Francisco queer community gets to keep the Eagle. Via a very, very excited update on the Save the Eagle Facebook page, "Gays sign Eagle Lease!!!! Party at Lone
