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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F. Company to Buy Pringles in $1.5B Deal Noted nut purveyors Diamond Foods, based in San Francisco, plan to purchase Procter & Gamble's Pringles for $1.5 billion. And we couldn't be prouder. Pringles are the best selling snack chip in
SF News Twitter Tax Break Issue Causes a Stir, Could End Up on November Ballot As the Board's Budget and Finance committee gets set to review the Twitter Tax Break (neé "Payroll Expense Tax Exclusion in Central Market Street and Tenderloin Area") this Wednesday, rumblings are afoot. A
SF News AT&T to Buy T-Mobile for $39 Billion Poor-reception phone carrier AT&T will purchase T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom for a cool $30 billion, it was announced over the weekend. While a regulatory review is in order, AT&T
SF News Starbucks in Talks to Acquire Peet's Coffee According to DealReporter, the superior Peet's Coffee & Tea is in talks with inferior Starbucks to sell itself to the Seattle-based coffee giant. "Though neither company has commented on the reported deal, Peet's
SF News Twitter Now Serves Over 1 Billion Per Week Five years after founder Jack Dorsey unleashed the first tweet ever - "inviting coworkers," is all it said - Twitter now racks up an estimated 1 billion updates a week. "Five years after
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <em>Top Chef: Just Desserts</em> Winner Yigit Pura Names New Pastry Shop In a recent interview with Food & Wine, Yigit Pura, San Francisco-based pastry chef and winner of Top Chef: Just Desserts, revealed the name of his upcoming pastry shop. He shall chrsiten it
SF News Castro Trader Joe's Deal Officially Dead Sad news, folks. (Or, if you hate change and/or traffic, good news.) Supervisor Scott Wiener has word that the much ballyhooed plan to get Trader Joe's to the Castro is dead. Via
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink NIMBY Watch: One Guy Keeps Tenderloin Cafe From Having Outside Seating, Nevius Steps In [Updated] Update (3/21/11): The conflict has been resolved! Everyone's favorite columnist, Andy Rooney C.W. Nevius, came out with an article this morning about Little Bird Coffeehouse's ongoing fight to obtain a
