Arts & Entertainment Starting January 16th, Instagram Can Use Your Photos In Ads [Update] Yesterday Instagram shared an unfiltered privacy policy update with current users, which basically says starting on January 16th they can now use any photo on anyone's Instagram account for any advertisement they want.
SF News Local Man Flips Out On Facebook Shuttle Driver, Yells at Him To Get Out Of Muni Stop As we've discussed before, there is a quiet war happening every day between our very own Muni buses and those corporate shuttles from Facebook, Google, Genentech and the like which enjoy stopping in
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Buys Pied a Terre in S.F.'s Hipster 'Hood There have been plenty of Mark Zuckerberg sightings around S.F.'s Mission District this year, in Dolores Park and elsewhere. Well, it seems he wasn't just couch surfing: Buzzfeed confirms that the
SF News Mayor Lee Adviser Calls Ross Mirkarimi A "Wife Beater" Former press secretary turned Ed Lee adviser Tony Winnicker, slammed not only the four supervisors who voted to reinstate Ross Mirkarimi — saying that they sank "to a new low" — but also the progressives'
SF News Facebook's First Commercial: 'Chairs Are Like Facebook' Right after hitting one billion active users this week, the eight-year-old social media company has released its first commercial spot. The message their ad agency Wieden + Kennedy came up with? Chairs are like
SF News Behold the Secret Corporate Shuttle-Stop Map of S.F. We're all well aware of the Google, Facebook, Apple and other shuttles ferrying their workers to and from the Peninsula so that they don't have to suffer the pains of Caltrain shuttles which
SF News Instagram Deal Could Lose $273 Million Thanks To Facebook's Plummeting Stock The $1 billion price Facebook agreed to shell out for Instagram back in April might turn out to be more than 25% lighter by the time the deal finally goes through. That deal
SF News Frank Gehry To Design Facebook's Swank New Engineering Office Anointed with a tree-topped roof garden—all the rage at Twitter—Frank Gehry (Guggenheim Museum, Walt Disney Concert Hall) will design Facebook's new 3,400-employee engineering office in Melo Park, Calif. According to
SF News Facebook Stock Price Sinks To New Low It's a tough post-IPO world out there for Facebook, apparently. Right before more than 271 million additional shares of the company's stock came up for sale today, the company's stock price hit it's
SF News Behold: Mark Zuckerberg Shirtless This is BREAKING news, folks: A Facebook employee who's been bro-ing it up with CEO Mark Zuckerberg this summer "accidentally" posted a photo to his Facebook page that included a topless Zuck. It's
SF News World's Cutest Dog Embroiled In Facebook Nepotism Scandal Boo, the tiny Pomeranian widely accepted as the world's cutest dog (or at least a very convincing Beanie Baby), had his fame called into question this week when it was discovered that his
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Falls Off Billionaire Top Ten List As Facebook's share price took another tumble last week, Mark Zuckerberg got knocked off a list of the world's ten richest techie billionaires. He temporarily lost $423 million of his personal, on-paper fortune
SF News Facebook Earnings Not Impressive, Say Investors While Facebook continues to grow at a modest rate, Wall Street types were dismayed by the unimpressive rate of that growth in a new earnings report, sending the stock price tumbling yet again.
SF News Facebook HQ's Yoga Teacher Fired For Banning Facebook In Class Last month, a local yoga instructor with a perfectly reasonable no-phones-in-class policy suddenly found herself getting the boot from a weekly gig at Facebook's cushy Menlo Park HQ thanks to complaints from one
SF News Google Slapped With $22.5 Million Fine for Privacy Violation The Federal Trade Commission is trying to have our backs when it comes to privacy and the data we are all, every minute, inadvertently sharing with our Google and Facebook overlords. On Monday,
SF News After Gay Co-Founder Gets Hitched, Facebook Adds Adorable Same-Sex Marriage Icons To Timeline Blessed be the July 4th week news dump. Let's see, so far we've got TomKat and aliens, Anderson Cooper (finally!) coming out as gay, and now we have news that the fine folks
SF News Facebook's Ugly IPO Mess Blamed on One Guy at Morgan Stanley So, Facebook shares are still at about $32, which isn't quite as bad as a couple of weeks ago but still 15% below the IPO price of $38. Today the Wall Street Journal
SF News Sex Offenders Fight for Their Right to Facebook Is Facebook an inalienable right? It's certainly a pleasure that no modern human who desires to has any problem wasting many, many minutes of their precious lives poring over. And now convicted sex
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mark Zuckerberg Forgets To Tip, Eats McDonald's While On Roman Honeymoon At the risk of finding ourselves becoming Mark Zuckerberg's financial apologists, the tabloids are out to nail the bajillionaire Facebook CEO for being cheap (again). His offense this time? Stiffing the waitstaff at
SF News Zuckerberg Wedding Was 'Cheap,' Says Tacky Newspaper While we throughly enjoyed gushing over Priscilla Chan's lovely Claire Pettibone wedding number, the Zuckerberg nuptials apparently did not fit the expectations of online wedding crashers who would rather see a big budget
SF News Shortly After Instagram Buy, Facebook Launches New Camera App Facebook launched its fourth iPhone app today, the Facebook camera. The app is solely focused on pictures, and will allow users to upload a bunch of pics at the same time as well
Arts & Entertainment Priscilla Chan Bought Wedding Dress Under Fake Name, Saves Children's Lives Powerful yet starved socialites, we're done with you. (Not really!) Please step aside and collect your schwag bag on the way out. We have a new obsession, and her name is PRISCILLA CHAN.
SF News Just Days After Rocky IPO, Investors Sue Facebook As Facebook's stock fell just days after trading, three investors filed suit against the company today, along with underwriters Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, accusing them of withholding damaging information about the social
SF News Gossip Mongers Discuss Mark Zuckerberg's Marital Finances Despite seeming relatively normal, as far as the weddings of the rich & loaded go, Mark Zuckerberg's post-IPO nuptials drew plenty of speculation about whether the Silicon Valley wunderkind strategically timed the ceremony
SF News Media Descends On Facebook's Less-Than-Stellar Second Day Trading After closing 23 cents above its record-breaking IPO price of $38 on Friday, Facebook's stock dipped 11 to 13 percent to $33.87, at least as of early this morning. Patience will most
