SF News Google Tops Forbes' Best Employers List According to a variety of sources including your friend who works there, Google is the best place to be an employee. That's even before they build their new canopied campus. Earlier this month
SF News Google Says Glass Isn't Over Yet Never fear, Glassholes. Though many predicted the end had come when Google announced it would halt commercial sales of its wearable technology, according to the Wall Street Journal, the platform and facecomputer are
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
Arts & Entertainment Behold Google's Crazy New 'Canopy'-Covered Campus Designs We've been hearing a lot this week about the city of Mountain View, California and its residents being a little fed up with getting steamrolled by their biggest employer, Google. The New York
SF News Google Plus Thinks Mission-Filmed Ad Will Get Someone To Use It Google+, the social network your one friend who happens to work at Google might kind of use sometimes, has a hot new recruiting plan. Skateboarders plus Mission District equals cool new residents of
SF News Google Exec Donates $10mil To Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch The Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch, a consumer watchdog program, has gotten a sizable donation from a tech exec in order to expand their mission. According to The Chronicle, Google Executive Chairman Eric
SF News Transbay Transit Center To Become The Google Transit Center? Ugh. Alongside Salesforce Tower, the big new transit center taking shape downtown could be getting a corporate moniker, thanks to the sale of naming rights for the center, its rooftop park, or any
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
SF News Google Is Developing Its Own Uber For Driverless Cars Former allies Uber and Google look to be at odds as each plans for a future driven by autonomous taxis. It's going to be a race for several years, but it looks like
SF News Google To DMV: We Can Regulate Self-Driving Cars Ourselves, Thanks At a public workshop attended by state workers, lobbyists, safety advocates, and more than 100 car manufacturers, Google counseled the California DMV not to establish a government process for appraising the safety of
SF News Google Saves Face, Halts Sales Of Glass Google Glass, once heralded as the future, is now set to exist only in the past. As we'd heard was likely a couple months ago, the project is officially being put on hiatus,
SF News Google's Self-Driving Car Is Already Being Built In Detroit Continuing to shift gears from search engine to actual engine, Google's driverless car prototypes first displayed last May are currently "being developed and assembled at a Roush facility" near Detroit, reports the Detroit
SF News Google's Self-Driving Car Prototype Will Hit California Streets In 2015 Needless to say, the DMV is not prepared to deal with Google's self-driving car, which the company just unveiled in its latest prototype form for all geeks to gawk at. As Google announced
SF News Among SF's Top Searches Of 2014 Were Robin Williams, The Giants, And How To Macrame Google has released their 2014 Year in Search, the 14th annual such list detailing the top searches of the year. Both nationwide and here in San Francisco, topics like Ebola, the World Cup,
SF News Video: Eviction Protesters Chase 'Google Grinch' Jack Halprin "Hit the road Jack," was the sung refrain this morning as protesters once again targeted, and chased, Google lawyer and local landlord Jack Halprin. At 6:30 a.m. according to reports from
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
Arts & Entertainment The Man Who Says He Named Google Releases Amazing Kooky Documentary San Francisco eccentric Bob Pritikin isn't just an art collector, former ad executive and hotelier, and "friend of the stars" (his words.) Now he's a documentarian and his subject, as it always has
SF News Bon Voyage, reCAPTCHA: Now Google Can Tell You're Human Just From A Click No one likes reCAPTCHA and everyone's encountered it before. Now the technique of asking users to type in distorted text in order to weed out bots from humans is headed for retirement. Maybe
SF News Is Google Glass Over? God I Hope So. All of our fears of a city or, dear Jesus, a nation crawling with Glassholes appear to be unfounded. As Reuters reports, engineers at Google have fled the project left and right and
SF News Google Leases NASA Airfield In Mountain View The perennial question, "What will Google do with X," gets juicier when X is a NASA airfield of 1,000 acres, several hangars, two runways, a flight operations building, and a private golf
Arts & Entertainment Well-Played: How Google Revised Stephen Colbert's Height Last week, patriot Stephen Colbert blasted Google for misstating his height in searches for "Stephen Colbert height," telling Google co-founder Larry Page, "I demand a retraction, an investigation, an apology and a substantial
Arts & Entertainment Video: Stephen Colbert Googles Himself To Find Google Has His Height Wrong Watch out, Larry Page—Stephen Colbert is on the warpath! And he wants to sue Google. Colbert told his audience last night, "You see folks when I Googled myself this afternoon—as I
SF News A Year Later, SF's Free WiFi For 32 City Parks Finally Kicks Off Well over a year after San Francisco announced a partnership with Google to put free WiFi in San Francisco parks, the service is finally ready for launch. As reported in July of 2013,
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 Audi's Self-Driving A7 Hitting S.F. Streets Thanks To New DMV Permit If you happen to pass an Audi on the road, don't panic if there's no one behind the wheel. On Tuesday, the German car company received the first California permit to test self-driving
