SF News IKEA Is Buying SF-Based TaskRabbit Lest IKEA customers spend precious weekends and vacation days assembling inexpensive furniture based on wordless instructions, the company has announced it will buy San Francisco-based on-demand task-doer service TaskRabbit, i.e. the Uber
SF News Verizon Combining Yahoo And AOL Brands Into New Company Called 'Oath,' God Knows Why Billion+ Consumers, 20+ Brands, Unstoppable Team. #TakeTheOath. Summer 2017. pic.twitter.com/tM3Ac1Wi36— Tim Armstrong (@timarmstrongaol) April 3, 2017 "In the summer of 2017, you can bet we will be launching one of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cowgirl Creamery Sold To Huge Swiss Milk Processor Eight months before their company's 20th birthday, Cowgirl Creamery owners Sue Conley and Peggy Smith have sold their nationally distributed cheese business to a larger Swiss dairy company, Emmi, which six months ago
SF News Google And Priceline The Leaders In The Clubhouse As Potential Yelp Buyers With the reports that Yelp is looking to sell itself, the speculation is bubbling up over who might be its new owner. One report puts two Internet giants at the top of the
SF News Now Yelp Might Be For Sale What's that sound? The "market correction" or bubble pop or whatever you want to call it may be getting nearer as big companies are wondering if it's time to cash out including this
SF News Should Twitter Buy Yahoo? If you're reading this site, it's likely you have an idea of what Twitter does. Yahoo is a little harder to figure out (even, it appears, to those inside the organization). So why
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Priceline Buys OpenTable for $2.6 Billion San Francisco-based OpenTable is becoming part of the Priceline Group in a deal announced Friday, sending the share price of OpenTable stock up 50% in morning trading, to $104. Priceline agreed to pay
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Starbucks Fans Revolt Over New La Boulange Pastries Elsewhere in the country it seems that the pastry offerings from Bay Area-based La Boulange, which replaced Starbucks' previous baked-item array over the past year in different regional rollouts, are too small and
SF News Yelp Walks Away from Google Deal That's right, folks. According to TechCrunch, Yelp founder Jeremy Stoppelman walked away from the all-but-signed deal to sell the company to Google for a reported $550 million. Given that there is no other
SF News Google to Acquire Yelp? Google is apparently in serious talks to acquire Yelp, the user-generated, local-business review site so beloved by Humphry Slocombe and certain antique and book store owners. The deal would do good things for
