SF News Why Won't Twitter Announce Its Diversity Numbers? File under a positive trend, but depressing news: Facebook is the latest tech company to reveal its workplace diversity demographics and the breakdown is as white and male as data recently released by
Arts & Entertainment Why Facebook Likes Don't Equal A Life That friend who is always running 10 miles in the morning and posting about their seemingly carefree, glamorous lives? It's probably mostly lies. The great short film above illustrates the negative correlation between
SF News Uber Valued at $18.2 Billion, Now One Of The Biggest Companies In Bay Area With a new valuation on Friday that came with a $1.2 billion influx of cash, Uber is now second only to Facebook in terms of the pre-IPO investment sum that it has
Arts & Entertainment The 21 Least Amazing 'Viral' Posts That Never Blew Anyone's Mind One of the more tiresome, repetitive, and egregious trends clogging our feeds these days is the scourge of the purposefully share-worthy headline. You would think that by now people would stop falling for
SF News Twitter Gets More Facebook-y With Rumored 'Whisper Mode,' Group Chats In a new interview with Bloomberg, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo hints that the ubiquitous public-conversation venue will offer something akin to Facebook's private group chat function, and an in-between "Whisper Mode" option for
Arts & Entertainment Madame Tussauds Unveils Barefoot Mark Zuckerberg Wax Figure Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has had his image cast in wax by the famed Madame Tussauds. But the giant doll of this typical Missionite is missing something significant, and we're not talking about
SF News Jerk.com Called Out For Dickish Personal Data Practices A formal complaint filed by the FTC on Monday alleges Jerk.com and its proprietor/ Napster co-founder John Fanning took personal data from 73 million Facebook users, called them "jerks" and then tried
SF News Twitter Is Just A Quirkier Facebook Now Rumors that Twitter would completely re-do its look for the benefit of the less tweet-savvy folks came true today as the company began rolling out a new design and profile look meant to
SF News Greenpeace Shames Twitter And Pinterest Via Blimp Greenpeace flew a blimp over Silicon Valley today to champion tech companies that have gone emerald green and shame those who are more of a tea green. The latter? Amazon, Twitter, Netflix and
SF News Bored With Reality, Facebook Buys Virtual Reality Startup For $2 Billion Facebook announced Tuesday that it would blow through another $2 billion in cash and common stock to acquire start-up Oculus, makers of Oculus Rift head-mounted virtual reality display. In a Facebook post today,
SF News Zuckerberg And Kutcher Working Together To Create The Terminator Elon Musk, SF resident Mark Zuckerberg, and Ashton Kutcher just put $40 million into Vicarious FPC, a secretive artificial-intelligence company working toward creating a computer that may be able to think like you,
SF News Facebook Funding $200,000 Cop's Salary On Tuesday, the city council in Menlo Park, Calif. unanimously approved Facebook's offer to pay $200,000 per year for a "community safety police officer." According to experts, the plan will make Facebook
SF News You'll Never Guess What Facebook Lets You Block Now, But The Answer Could Save Friendships In a move that really should have happened sooner, Facebook will now let you block articles and content from individual sites that you'd just rather not see in your news feed anymore. It
SF News Facebook To Buy Messaging Service WhatsApp For $19 Billion In Menlo Park today, the 800-pound social networking gorilla announced today that it would acquire popular messaging app WhatsApp for a cool $4 billion in cash and $15 billion in Facebook stock. The
Arts & Entertainment San Franciscans Are Allergic To Relationships, Says Facebook Here's a heartwarming statistic dredged up from Facebook's data mines: San Franciscans are the least likely people in the country to commit to a relationship. (Or commit to updating their relationship status, at
SF News Facebook Embraces Gender Spectrum In a coup for all Ts, Qs, Is, and everyone else on the non-gender-normative spectrum, Facebook has finally decided that one is allowed to be more than just "Other." The site has just
Arts & Entertainment And San Francisco's Newest Billionaires Are... SFLuxe published its third annual "Bay Area Billionaires" list. Some of you didn't make the cut. Pathetic. But still, what a list it is! Larry Ellison made it the to the top, of
SF News Facebook, Google, Other Tech Companies Reveal Vague Outlines Of NSA Surveillance Requests In a group of simultaneous and totally cryptic public reports, tech companies including Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Apple all disclosed for the first time Monday the scope and number of requests they responded
Arts & Entertainment Find Out How Many Days of Your Life You've Spent on Facebook If you've ever wondered just how many minutes, hours and days have been stolen from your life by Facebook, it's time to face the nonthreatening, pale blue truth head-on. Now, a tool developed
SF News Facebook Announces Paper: A New App To Consume Your Attention Thursday morning the social networking behemoth announced Paper, a new app meant to rearrange the way you consume news. Or your Facebook news feed, at least. The app, which started as a replacement
SF News Facebook Sued For Creeping On Your Private Messages On Thursday, two concerned Facebook users filed a lawsuit against the social media mammoth, alleging they violated users' privacy by scanning individual members' private messages in order to gather data to use for
SF News Willie Brown Has Some PR Advice For The Tech Industry; NYT Discovers The Tech Boom Backlash Willie Brown's Sunday column in the Chron turns out to have been kind of prescient with regard to the tech industry's growing PR problem. Just as he was suggesting that tech company's start
SF News Facebook Changes Course Re: Decapitation Videos The latest hot-button issue for Facebook, as discussed yesterday, is beheading videos, and today Facebook issued a new statement clarifying that, well, maybe not all beheading videos will be appropriate for the site.
SF News You May Now Watch Decapitations On Facebook In what's being described as a "horrible, distasteful" move, Facebook has reversed its ban on videos showing decapitations. The social media company initially had placed a ban on beheadings, but decided to allow
SF News [Updated] You Can't Update Your Facebook Status Right Now It's Monday and you're actually going to have to deal with your work inbox, since Facebook is refusing let anyone to update their status now. Or let them do much of anything else
