SF News Twitter Likely About To Get Bought, Maybe By Google Or Salesforce Earlier this month we heard that Twitter's board of directors was considering a potential sale of the company, and today the rumor is out that some buyout bids are in, including ones from
SF News Google To Open Youth Education Center In Oakland Fruitvale Village, a transit-adjacent 255,000 square-foot real estate development with 47 housing units owned by a local nonprofit and completed in 2003, is getting a new commercial tenant: Google, the Alphabet, Inc.
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Jasmine Abuslin's Dad Speaks Out Google just launched a new messaging app called Allo, to mixed reviews. [Google] [Wired] [CNet] [Verge] Jasmine Abuslin’s dad spoke out last night for the first time publicly saying, "If those officers
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alphabet Is Now Delivering Chipotle Burritos By Drone In news that is sure to cause college students around the country to choke on their bong water, Google parent company Alphabet today announced that its Project Wing drone division has teamed up
SF News Google's Waze-Based Carpool App Launching In San Francisco, To Compete With Uber Google may have hoped to wade gently into the ride-hailing waters jealously guarded by San Francisco's Uber and Lyft, but news today that its Waze-based carpool app will be expanding to San Francisco
SF News Entry Fees Waived As National Park Service Turns 100 Have any plans this weekend? How about heading to one of our nation's great national parks? In celebration of the 100-year-anniversary of the National Park Service, CBS 5 reports that all entry fees
SF News Google Launches New Video Chat App Google yesterday made a move to expand its toehold into the world of video chatting. Wired reports that the company announced a new video-chat app that is available for download on both Android
SF News Study: Facebook Employees Rank Last In 'Curiosity And Adventurousness' Among Top Tech Companies A study published today looking at worker personality traits across the tech sector has some bad news for Facebook. Its employees were found to rank dead last in "curiosity and adventurousness" — qualities which
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Is Yelping Mad That Google Is Boosting Zagat Links Over Theirs Reviews from Google-owned Zagat are, predictably enough, going to be popping up in your restaurant searches above those from Yelp (and Trip Advisor), as a new mobile search function highlighting the best food
SF News Self-Driving Google Car Was Victim Of Hit-And-Run Part of driving is knowing how to respond to the irresponsibility of other motorists — a lesson learned by a Google self-driving car last month after it was the victim of a hit-and-run crash.
SF News We May Be Getting Google Drone Delivery As Soon As Next Year Google parent company Alphabet is one step closer to realizing its promise of having drones deliver all the dumb stuff you order online right to your doorstep. CNet reports that the company was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Google Chefs To Start Feeding Employees 'Shrimp' Made From Algae Google/Alphabet's fancy on-campus cafeterias are about to get a whole lot more cutting edge in the realm of futuristic foodstuffs. According to Wired, starting in 2017, Google chefs have pledged to start
Arts & Entertainment Author Dennis Cooper Says Google's Blogger Ate His Novel Envelope-pushing novelist Dennis Cooper, known in the past couple of decades both for his sexually explicit fiction involving teenagers as well as genre-bending work like his 2005 book God Jr. that centered on
Arts & Entertainment Oh, God, Is 'Broette' Really A Word Now? Please Say It Is Not Everybody wants to make friends, right? There's nothing wrong with that, nor is the goal to being like-minded people together disadmirable. What concerns me most about the proposed meetup I am about to
SF News Working Women Get Some Digital Representation With Newly Approved Emoji Following a pitch by Google in May, the Unicode Consortium announced that it will add 11 new emoji to the world's smart phone keyboards. Google wrote about the decision today, noting that new
SF News Poll: More And More Tech Workers Say They Plan To Leave Their Jobs To Go Elsewhere In The Country Home to Apple, Facebook, and Google, Silicon Valley is considered by many to be the center of the tech world. And while people travel from all over both to work for and visit
SF News Will Self-Driving Cars Ruin San Francisco? Self-driving cars sound pretty sweet, right? The idea of a safer, more reliable way to travel via automobile has an intuitive appeal — after all, according to the CDC, there are over 30,000
SF News Here's What Facebook, Google, And Apple Employees Really Think About Tech-Shuttle 'Hubs' A significant number of tech employees responded to a recent anonymous SFMTA survey seeking to determine possible locations for new tech-shuttle hubs that would decrease the impact the much maligned shuttles have on
SF News How Google's Self-Driving Cars Manage To 'See' Cyclists Mountain View-based Google often touts the relative safety of their self-driving car fleet, however in most cases the safety of drivers is what comes to mind. Via the company's monthly self-driving car report,
SF News Oakland Man Accused Of Torching Street-View Cars Because He Fears Google Tracking Fearing Mountain View-based Google was tracking him, a man stands accused of attacking street-view cars with Molotov cocktails and shooting up the advertising company's headquarters. So reports the Associated Press, which notes that
SF News [Updated] Google Calendar Struggles To Return To Active Duty Google calendar down, if you have a meeting with me today I probably won't be there... pic.twitter.com/tX3lVxU50D— Julie Dilger (@JulieDil) June 30, 2016 Please scroll down for updates As I
SF News Google Fiber Heading To SF Faster After Webpass Acquisition Building fiber internet is an infrastructure headache — expensive, time-consuming — and so San Francisco web devotees continue to pine for the fast stuff with no clear delivery date in sight. But one provider is
Arts & Entertainment Tourists Flocking To Silicon Valley On 21st Century Tech Pilgrimages Would you travel halfway around the world to take a photo in front of the Facebook sign? No? How about the Android mascot? Well, according to The Mercury News, a lot of people
SF News Everyone Wants To Work At Bay Area Tech Companies, Says New LinkedIn Report No, it's not just their employees' inflated sense of ego — everyone does really want to work at Bay Area tech companies. Or so says a new LinkedIn report, which notes that jobs at
SF News Google Employees Declare 'Lady Day' To Mock Shareholder's Sexism Did you enjoy a nice Lady Day? That symbolic event was celebrated at Google at the end of last week in a concerted response to the sexist comments of an unnamed shareholder in
