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Facebook Shuttle Drivers Approve Union

Facebook shuttle drivers who are employed by bus contractor Loop Transportation have approved a labor contract lending them higher pay and improved working conditions, the San Francisco Business Times reports. 87 drivers at

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Angel Investor Snoop Dogg Makes It Rain With Philz Coffee Investment

When he isn't sipping on gin and juice, it's Philz mint mojito iced coffee for angel investor and rapper Snoop Dogg. Marketwatch reports that the artist, who has recently gone by such stage

Now Facebook Lets You Choose An Account Executor For When You Inevitably Die

Facebook will outlive us all, or so the company suggests with a new policy that allows users to select a "legacy contact" to manage their accounts when they die. "Until now, when someone

Day Around The Bay: SF Not Safe For LGBT People?

First it was drag queens, and now Native Americans have been the target of a Facebook crackdown over "fake" names, which actually are not fake. And it looks like this dates to around

Day Around The Bay: Sean Parker and Facebook Donate To Rand Paul

There are now, allegedly, over 75,000 people on the waiting list for "Tinder for educated elites" The League. But is it really that exclusive? [CBS 5] Remember this lawsuit where some guy

Arts & Entertainment

Video: A Song For Everyone Who's Facebook-Stalked Their More Successful Friends

With Facebook friends like yours, who needs enemies? You can torture yourself just fine with posts from your highly successful pals. Stay up late again checking out pictures of their beautiful house/significant

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Humorous Video Suggests That Facebook Is The New AOL

AOL has "become unfashionable," a time-traveling woman from 2015 told an inhabitant of 1995 in the (charming!) premiere episode of VH1 series Hindsight. I think we can all agree that she's not wrong,

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Artist Smears Mark Zuckerberg With Poop-Paint Portrait

This shit is art. KATSU, a well-known, New York-based hacker, vandal, and graffiti artist who has repeatedly lampooned technology in his work, has now used his own feces to paint a portrait of

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Virtual Reality Porn Is Coming To Facebook's Oculus Rift

You knew this day was coming: virtual reality porn will soon be available on your Oculus Rift. Utherverse, the self-proclaimed "world's only 3D social network," unveiled at the XBIZ conference in Los Angeles

Mark Zuckerberg's New Book Club Sold Out Its First Title On Amazon

Mark Zuckerberg is not like us. For example, when it comes to New Year's resolutions, the Facebook CEO actually achieves things. And in the five short days of 2015 so far, he's already

$35 Billion Instagram Valuation Overtakes Twitter, Approaches Uber

$35 billion. That's how much Citigroup says the photo-sharing network Instagram is now worth, according to the New York Times. Facebook owns the company, which it purchased two years ago for $1 billion

Disrupt The Halls: Pics From 2014's Excessive Tech Holiday Parties

It's not just about who has the bigger tree and the better eggnog. Tech companies in SF are, once again, competing to delight their workers in a holiday party proxy war. Yahoo recently

Zuck Attack: Why Is Brazil Trolling Facebook Founder's Facebook Page?

Brazilians, for some reason which I'll say at the outset no one seems to know, have been sending an astounding number of likes, stickers, and comments to Mark Zuckerberg's timeline, TechCrunch reports. Is

Day Around The Bay: World AIDS Day

Today is World AIDS Day, and the Chronicle has some columns from the epidemic and the first day of remembrance in 1988. [Chronicle] A man died in an SF county jail on October

New 'Facebook at Work' Service Means Business, Not Pleasure

Could Facebook be your new friend in the office? Zuck and co. hope so. Unsatisfied with its 757 million daily users' average of 40 minutes per day looking at drunken photos of friends

Twitter Launching New Features Next Week, Unveils Bland Strategy Statement

As was rumored earlier this year, Twitter is adding some features to make it both more Facebook-like, and easier to use for new users, as they announced in a public presentation Wednesday. Also,

Facebook COO Leans Out Of One House, Into A 9200 Square Foot New One

Sheryl Sandberg, who is the COO of Facebook, author of Lean In, and does a better job than Gwyneth Paltrow at making you feel lazy, recently sold her house in Atherton for 9.

The Tech Company Egg Freezing Debate: Great Perk, Or Terrible Message?

Women nearing the decline of their best baby-making years have long-undertaken the practice of having their eggs frozen, a procedure that can cost of well over $10,000. Now companies like Facebook and

Zuckerberg Ponies Up $25 Million To Fight Ebola

Likely influenced by his benevolent doctor wife Priscilla Chan maybe she's really changing him, you guys! Mark Zuckerberg announced this morning that he's donating $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation

Facebook To Launch Secret-Esque App For Anonymous Trolling

Facebook has been a little too much in the news lately, but here goes: The company that just a couple of weeks ago was insisting that everyone could only use their legal names

Teamsters to Zuckerberg: 'Let Shuttle Drivers Unionize'

Fast on the heels of this story last week about the long hours and miserable lives of corporate shuttle bus drivers, the Teamsters decided to reach out to Mark Zuckerberg himself in a

Facebook Changes How It Will Experiment On You

Two apologies in one week! Crazytown. Fast on the heels of apologizing to the LGBT community and everyone else for their "real-name" policy, Facebook has issued a statement apologizing for that debacle over