SF News Stock Market Dips On Obama High Holy Day While women screamed hysterically at the site of Barack Obama making the trek to the White House -- like he was some sort of Rick(y) Schroder! -- the stock market didn't agree
SF News Elite Shuns "Big Box" American Apparel Store on Valencia In what's being billed as the retail "hipster wars" of the Mission, 988 Valencia will soon call sleaze designer American Apparel home. That is, if the scraggly elite of the Mission get their
SF News BART Wants to Reduce Service, Increase Fares Due to a budget shortfall of up to $90 million this year, BART officials are considering slower BART service and increased fares and fees. In addition to a possible fare hike of 10
SF News Google Prunes 100 Jobs In the throes of our failing economy, Google trimmed 100 jobs and close three offices this week. According to reports, 100 full-time recruiters were shown the door. Google also shutdown three engineering offices
SF News What Does the Sale of the Hearst-Owned Seattle P-I Mean for SF Chronicle? We'd typically leave news that one of Seattle's two daily newspapers, the Seattle P-I, has been put up for sale to our sister site to the north. But a segment in the P-I's
SF News Logitech Layoffs With corporate offices in Fremont and Mountain View, Logitech announced it will hand out 500 pink slips to employees this week. The cuts will affect middle management and higher, effectively cutting 15% of
SF News What's to Become of Mission Bay? Now that few can afford to buy, well, anything, what will happened to the promised Mission Bay/South Beach lifestyle? Much like Rincon Hill, We hear vacancies abound over there.
misc Wish Your Were Dead Pool: the Winner We asked you to decide on what Bay Area institution you would like to see die in 2009, and you overwhelmingly chose the Church of Scientology to go bye-bye. (Please don't kill us,
SF News Grim Times for the Unemployed San Francisco Firemen Application Line from Unemploymentality on Vimeo. After companies across the country cut 533,000 jobs in November alone -- with another 3 million more predicted between now and 2010, at
SF News Database: Who is laying off workers in California? Looking for a job? Well, if you have a specific company or California location in mind, you might want to check out this handy (albeit depressing) database, care of the Sacramento Bee, which
SF News Bank of America to Prune Up to 35,000 Job Bank of America (who used to be based in San Francisco) has announced plans to cut anywhere from 30,000 to 35,000 jobs over the next three years. As the company sucks
SF News More Budget Cuts for SF In addition to the major cuts Newsom announced earlier this week (during a rare encounter with the Board of Supervisors, and speaking of rare encounters: Mayor Gavin Newsom is currently speaking over at
SF News Layoffs Begin at Yahoo, Valleywag has the Script Yahoo commences with its 1,500 layoffs starting today. Hundreds of employees were notified, with layoffs continuing until year's end. In an effort to "trim $400 million to shore up the company's finances,
SF News Hank Plante Nails Newsom on Colma-Bought SUV Oh, Hank. When you deliver, you do it in spades. Earlier this week, when Newsom held a press conference in Noe Valley to push the actually impressive Shop SF, an incentive plan begging
SF News 'Shop SF, Get More' Plan Announced to Boost Local Business Before rolling out budget cuts later this week, Mayor Newsom is helping out the local economy by asking you to do all of your holiday shopping here in San Francisco. To tempt you
SF News Stanford Administrators Accept Salary Cut Stanford University, that higher-learning institute that most of us did not get into, is feeling the economic pinch just like their public school plebeian counterparts. Senior administrators at Stanford plan on taking a
SF News Muni Executive Director Defers His Yearly Raise, Bonus As the SFMTA looks deep into the abyss of a budget deficit in the $40 million range, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency chief Nathaniel Ford has decided he wants to halt the annual
SF News It's Official: We're in a Recession A "panel of key analysts" claim that the U.S. in officially in a recession. But you knew that already. The DOW is down 436 points today and (let's face it) things are
SF News Scenes from a South SF Home Foreclosure Rally Several rallies in Northern California happened today calling for lawmakers to help on a moratorium of foreclosures. ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) helped spark the protests, calling on all "mortgage
SF News Choose Your Own Adventure: Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Buy Nothing Day After Thursday's turkey and stuffing festivities have subsided and digested, Friday is when your wallet takes a hit on Black Friday, the day retailers hope to move into the black. But this year,
SF News San Francisco to Suck in 2009 Awful news, everyone! Most Bay Area executives believe that the economy will get worse through 2009. But wait, it gets worse! The Bay Area Council surveyed 509 executives, and the results show that
SF News Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang Stepping Down Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang announced today that he was, finally, stepping down from his role at the troubled internet mammoth. Promoted to the position over a year ago, Yahoo has seen drastic cuts
SF News Valleywag Shutting Down? Not quite. Word from the realm of Twitter (@melissagira): "Just heard: Valleywag is shutting down, per order of Denton." But according to Alley Insider: Rumors are flying that Valleywag will be "shuttered." It
SF News SF Rent Prices: Up, Up and Away You may want to squash those dreams over having your own studio is the TL. Lord knows we have. See, according to Curbed -- who has killed out Monday buzz, one that even
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Arrival of the Wine Stimulus Package We recently had the lovely experience of sitting down with Sean Andrade, certified sommelier, wine educator, and chief vino dude from The Andrade Wine Group to discuss eating on a budget without having
