SF News 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.
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News BREAKING: Facebook Issues Mea Culpa To Drag Queens And Others Over 'Real Name' Policy [Updated] Three weeks after SFist broke the story about Facebook's "real-name" crackdown on drag queens and performers a story that made headlines literally everywhere, because the internet loves drag queens it appears that the
Arts & Entertainment Ello Backlash Already Begun? The S.S. Ello, which was calling “all aboard” in the last few weeks, has set sail and might well be headed for rough waters if the first thunderclouds of adverse internet reaction
SF News Anti-Facebook Social Network Ello Sees Major Spike In Sign-Ups I, like a number of my friends, have been itching for some alternative to the mind-altering, all-consuming world of Facebook, now that the company has proven itself to be less than progressive when
SF News Space Race 2.0: Facebook Matches Google Balloons With Internet Drones Facebook will match your balloon and up you a drone. Just as Google put a brave face on its Project Loon, the mission to blanket the world in internet broadcast from high-altitude balloons,
SF News Reporters Disturb Mark Zuckberg's Neighbors To Report That Mark Zuckerberg Disturbs His Neighbors ABC7 alerts us to the fact that the Zuckerberg renovation disruption we told you about yesterday is one of NINE residential construction projects going on in the Facebook founder's Dolores Heights neighborhood, which
SF News Mark Zuckerberg's San Francisco Neighbors Have Just About Had It With Him Underdressed-dressed billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, have spent the past 17 months renovating their 1920's Dolores Heights (what?) home and show no signs of stopping. The Chronicle's Matier &
SF News Is Someone Seriously Calling Themselves The 'Real Name Police' For Facebook? Someone who has nominated themselves to be Facebook's "Real Name Police" has launched a Twitter account (only three followers so far) to show others how to report drag queens using stage names to
SF News Zuckerberg Has Always Believed That We're Only Entitled To One Identity Whether you accept that Facebook's "real name" policy is vital to them doing business or not, CEO Mark Zuckerberg made it clear years ago that he has no patience or sympathy for people
SF News Drag Queens, David Campos Meet With Facebook Over Real-Name Controversy [Updated] A group of San Francisco drag queens have arrived in Menlo Park and are currently sitting down with Facebook executives to discuss the controversy over forcing them to use their legal names a
SF News Facebook Grants Meeting To Drag Queens Regarding Name Policy [Updated] The story that SFist broke last week about Facebook cracking down on drag queens and other performers who use drag names in place of their real names has spread all over and even
Arts & Entertainment Drag Queens, Other Performers Outraged As Facebook Forces Them To Use Their Real Names [Updated] Facebook has recently launched a new crackdown on people using stage names, adopted nicknames, or drag names as their primary profile names, forcing local drag queens and Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to suffer
SF News Rend Your Garments And Weep: Facebook Goes Down Yet Again [Updated] Remember when Facebook went down on August 1? Well, it's happened again, as of around 12:41 p.m. PT. What the hell are you going to do, instead? Work, like some sort
SF News 14-Year-Old Fatally Stabbed Over Rumored Social Media Dispute A freshman at San Francisco's Sacred Heart Preparatory School was fatally stabbed yesterday, over what the school's head football coach says were "social media issues." 14-year-old Rashawn Williams was stabbed by an as-yet-unidentified
SF News Facebook And Twitter Tweaking Timelines And It's Sure To Be Annoying Apparently people on Facebook don't know what the Onion is or can't bother to look past a headline to realize the story they're outraged about is satire. BBC News reports that now Facebook
SF News Facebook Shuttle Drivers Speak Out About Low Pay, Long Days, And Feeling 'Held Hostage' Sitting behind the wheel of one of San Francisco's primary targets of protests, annoyance, and all-out aggression, you'd think these two Facebook shuttle drivers interviewed by USA Today might plead "Please stop attacking
SF News Facebook Donated $10K To Anti-Gay Candidate In Utah The political-lobbying arm of Facebook recently made a cash donation of $10,000 to anti-gay-marriage Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes's re-election campaign, sparking some fury in the LGBT community. Reyes is currently fighting
SF News Ex-Facebook Guy Confirms Frat-House Vibe Of Company's Early Days In New eBook This should come as a shock to absolutely no one, but in the early days of Facebook, a very fratty, and uninviting-to-women vibe prevailed at Facebook HQ, which included a mural that dubbed
SF News After A Brief Outage, Facebook Returns To Suck Away Your Productivity [Updated] A nation of slacking workers released a collective gasp Friday morning, as Facebook started throwing error messages, displaying "network errors," and telling users "Sorry, something went wrong." There's no news yet from the
SF News Westboro Baptist Church To Protest 'Fag Media' Next Month At Facebook, Google, And Apple The infamous idiots of the Westboro Baptist Church, who always know a good media-attention-whoring opportunity when they see one, are turning their homophobic attention to the entire tech sphere next month and will
