SF News Facebook, Other Tech Companies Step Up To Help Nepal, Matching Donations For Relief Effort A number of tech companies stepped up in the wake of the disastrous earthquake in Nepal over the weekend, but so far Facebook seems to have emerged with a surfeit of generosity, as
SF News Instagram And Tinder Hook Up For Seamless Stalking Instagram and Tinder are natural bedfellows. First, Tinder already integrates with Facebook, which owns Instagram, so basically it's all in the same incestuous family. And second, with the right degree of determination and
Arts & Entertainment This Is Why I'm Not Retweeting You It's been said often enough regarding our current cultural moment: We've all become a little too desperate for the immediate validation provided by Facebook Likes, comments, and retweets. For various media types and
SF News Most Teens Actually Still Using Facebook Remember how two years ago everyone was saying "the kids don't use Facebook anymore because it's uncool and their moms are on there?" Well, it turns out that isn't really the case, at
Arts & Entertainment Check Out Facebook's Cool New Frank Gehry-Designed Headquarters With Its Massive Green Roof A big chunk of the Facebook team is finally getting to move into their cool new Menlo Park headquarters, dubbed MPK20, today. And as Wired reports, that means they'll be getting to stroll
Arts & Entertainment Shocker: Facebook's Ad Guidelines Are Dumb, Blocks Hubba Hubba Revue Ads In a move that surprises no one whatsoever, Facebook's labyrinthian rules regarding ad content are so dumb that they wound up blocking their own, approved material. It's like some sort of Silicon Valley
SF News Facebook's New Rules Include Bans On Nipples, Revenge Porn, And Descriptions of Sex Acts After doing a bit of flip-flopping on issues like beheading videos and drag queen names this past year, Facebook has just updated their Community Standards, effective today, clarifying some of their previous policies
SF News These Four San Franciscans Are Among Forbes' 20 Richest People The World Wealth. Power. The four San Franciscans to make the élite Forbes list of the 20 richest people in the world have both and more. So, drumroll please! Your money-havers are Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey
SF News 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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
Arts & Entertainment 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,
Arts & Entertainment 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
Arts & Entertainment 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
SF News 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
SF News 2014: The Year Facebook Started To Figure Out How It Hurts People In a further example of the ways in which Facebook's corporate team can be a little short-sighted about human existence, the company got a very public drubbing over the holiday week after web
SF News $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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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,
