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
SF News Facebook Looks To Monetize Teenagers' Posts By Easing Privacy Rules Barely a week after we learned that Google Plus is going to start making us opt out of having our thoughts and personal reviews used by corporations in "social ads," Facebook has turned
Arts & Entertainment Haunted House Ups Fright Factor With Start-Up Theme Halloween is coming, and assorted ghouls, goblins, and Miley Cyruses will soon stalk the streets in search of blood. However, the scares this year will come from a different source: a new haunted
SF News Facebook Quietly Ditches Privacy Setting Because You Probably Didn't Know How To Use It Anyway Speaking of Facebook Privacy, the ubiquitous social network is quietly killing off a privacy setting that allowed users to set who could search for their profile and Timeline by name. According to Facebook,
SF News Google Will Splash Your Face On Sponsor Endorsements Unless You Opt Out Google wants to make you the new face of [insert brand name here] via a new revision to their terms of service. Basically, the company plans on taking anything you review or rate
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Buys Neighboring Houses So He Can Set His Own Privacy Settings Silicon Valley boy king Mark Zuckerberg dropped $30 million total over the past nine months to buy up four houses surrounding his five-bedroom home in Palo Alto. Zuckerberg reportedly snatched up the homes
SF News Facebook Temporarily Disables User Account For Gay Kiss Pic Well, the gay blogs are making quick work of this one: A Boston-based porn star posted an innocent photo on Facebook, taken yesterday, of himself kissing his husband, and because it was two
SF News Facebook Dating Ad Features Girl Who Committed Suicide Oops. Facebook had another little PR snafu this week when it was discovered that an ad being promoted on the site by an online dating concern featured the image of a dead girl.
SF News Hacker Updates Zuckerberg's Facebook Wall With Extremely Nerdy Status Last week, Palestinian security expert Khalil Shreateh tried to alert Facebook's security team to a hole in the social network's privacy settings, only to be met with tech support crickets. So Shreateh decided
