SF News Oakland Not Just 'Cooler,' It's Also Great for Business? The Guardian tried to tell us Oakland was cooler than San Francisco a few weeks ago, and now Fast Company is selling folks on the idea that Oakland is where it's at for
SF News Young Tech CEO Calls Facebook 'The Most Important Company Of Our Lifetime' Darian Shirazi — a former front-end software developer for Facebook who now runs Radius, a small-to-medium business sales intelligence company located here in San Francisco — talked to Bloomberg West recently. During the interview, the
Arts & Entertainment Week In Women: Equal Pay Day In celebration of Equal Pay Day, which is today — the day that marks when women finally catch up to what men made, on average, in the previous calendar year, we begin the first
SF News Berkeley-Based Annie's, Makers Of Delicious Cheddar Bunnies, Debuts IPO The fine folks at Berkeley-based Annie's are enjoying a huge jump after their trading debut this morning. Annie's makes a slew of organic treats, including the superior-to-Pepperidge-Farm-Goldfish (debate amongst yourselves in the comments,
Arts & Entertainment Sneak Peek Inside The New Twitter Headquarters The fine folks at Twitter—specifically, the benevolent Isaac Hepworth—sent SFist images of their new 10th and Market headquarters now in progress. Among the many niceties the larger, Tenderloin-adjacent office will boast?
Arts & Entertainment Will You Support Small Business Saturday? Although it's sponsored by American Express, and supported by large corporations such as Amazon, Google, Clear Channel and countless others, the 2nd Annual Small Business Saturday will provide the antidote to Black Friday
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Castro Wants Another Starbucks for Some Reason Employing "reclaimed" gobbledygook as a selling point, Starbucks wants to put another damn spore in the Castro, a few blocks away from the bear-frequented Starbucks at 18th and Castro. With takeover plans zeroed
SF News Fearful Apple Trains All New Retail Managers on 'Union Awareness' In an effort to quiet union tinkering by Apple store employees, something that almost happened earlier this year, all new Apple store managers must take "union awareness" classes starting today. In a company
SF News Dick Cheney Speaks at Noon Today at Palace Hotel Former Vice President Dick Cheney will appear in San Francisco today to speak at the fourth annual CLSA AsiaUSA Forum at The Palace Hotel. The event, according to Politico, "involves more than 200
SF News HP Hires Meg Whitman As SFist mentioned yesterday, Hewlett-Packard went ahead and hired former Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman as their new CEO. The HP board went ahead and fired Leo Apotheker after just 11 months on
SF News HP to Hire Meg Whitman? Oh joy, this should be fun. Former gubernatorial candidate and EBay ruler Meg Whitman might (might!) land a new gig as Hewlett-Packard's CEO. The company's board will soon meet to discuss whether or
SF News Pier 38 Businesses, Possibly Pushed Out for America's Cup, Question City's Motives Businesses at Pier 38, the most expensive waterfront Class-A office space in San Francisco, rushed to find new homes after the city red tagged the waterfront space. Notices appeared on Pier 38 businesses
SF News Yahoo Canned Their CEO Too Fast on the heels of the news that front-page editor/vice president Liz Lufkin got a pink slip yesterday from Yahoo!, blogger All Things D (who clearly has an inside source) reports that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mobile Spinach Offers Food Discounts Without Asking Restaurants Mobile Spinach, a Groupon-like site based in San Francisco, offers restaurant deals that seems too good to be true. Which just might be the case. Grub Street reports that the coupon site offers
Arts & Entertainment Angry Artist Besmirches Cafe Royale Via Cartoon Flyers [Updated] There must be something in the air between artists and cafes these days. SFist spotted this flyer the other day, which was plastered on every block in the Tenderloin/Tendernob area. Apparently, a
SF News Like to Stream AND Get Discs Via Netflix? Prepare to Bend Over and Take it in the Wallet Your days of enjoying a combo plan of getting a disc or two via those red envelopes in the mail and streaming content from California-based Netflix are numbered, kids. Starting September 1, the
SF News Passing the Ballot: Amazon.com Wants Californians to Vote on New Sales Tax Law A new law requiring online retailers to collect California sales tax from shoppers has stirred up controversy, and now Amazon.com Inc. is saying they are looking for voters to take the matter
Arts & Entertainment SFist Remembers: Pacific Stock Exchange [Video] Way back in the 1990s, San Francisco was revered (sort of) as a city with which to be reckoned. Why? Because we had a stock exchange, that's why. Back in 1997, you see,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Divis Bi-Rite Opening Pushed Back to 2012 The city's happening -- yes, happening -- Divis/NOPA/Western Addition arrondissement must wait to get their hands on artisan Bi-Rite products. Why? Because they're delaying their Divisaadero store's opening date to 2012,
SF News Apple Now More Profitable Than Microsoft It is done. A new victor emerges from the ashes of our modern day Catholics v. Protestant war. After a bloody feud spanning decades, Apple has now proven victorious over Microsoft, profit-wise. TechCrunch
SF News Fresh & Easy Stop Being Polite, Starts Getting Real Ariel Dovas of Mission Mission draws your attention to Fresh & Easy's mean-spirited (yet accurate) billboard at 16th and South Van Ness. Brrr. Fresh & Easy will open new locations in Bayview and
Arts & Entertainment P-Kok Closes; Kok Opens Funky, fresh Lower Haight boutique P-Kok will close shop at the end of May. Haighteration has the scoop: "Owner Pat Pkok tells Haighteration that she has decided to consolidate the store with the
SF News Little Outcry For Doomed S.F. LGBT & HIV Institutions While the battle cry for jesuit school's radio station gets louder and louder, the outcry over the closure over San Francisco's queer and HIV institutions grows quieter and quieter. (Except for a noted
SF News Google Share Prices Drop In a surprising move, Google's first quarter saw lower-than-expected earnings. This morning, shares were down $39.51 to $539. "But heavy spending on new hires and other investments crimped the bottom line, reports
SF News S.F. Approves Twitter Tax Break The San Francisco Board of Supervisors overwhelmingly approved the controversial Twitter tax break today, a move that (hopefully) will keep the microblogging service from fleeing the city. "The measure passed by the Board
