Business & Tech Uh-Oh: Reddit Says It Will Start to Paywall Some of Its Subreddits The free ride might be over soon for Reddit lovers, as the company’s CEO said on a Thursday ‘Ask Me Anything’ that they might start charging subscriptions for certain Subreddits.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Reddit Made a Profit for the First Time Ever Reddit turned a profit last quarter for the first time in 20 years; Burning Man is out shaking the tin cup for money; and Bay Area kids may need to bundle up Thursday for trick-or-treating, according to the forecast.
Business & Tech Some Longtime Reddit Moderators Possibly Got Quite Rich Today Following the Company's IPO The long-awaited Reddit IPO happened Thursday afternoon, and shares in the company soared 48%, closing at $50.31 per share by the end of the day — well above the initial price of $34.
Business & Tech Judge Allows Suits to Go Forward Charging That Facebook, YouTube and Reddit Profit From Extremist Content Several lawsuits stemming directly from a 2022 mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York grocery store, which contend that social media platforms actively engage and profit from individuals spreading and consuming hate speech with deadly consequences, can move forward, a judge has ruled.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Reddit Has Filed for Its IPO Protesters calling for a ceasefire managed to get into the SF hotel that Biden is staying at; your Golden Gate Bridge toll may be going up again; and the 19-year-old SF-based social media site Reddit has filed for its IPO.
Business & Tech Hacking Outfit Demands $4.5M Ransom From Reddit, Threatens to Leak 80GB of Confidential Data A ransomware group known as BlackCat or ALPHV is reportedly trying to extort $4.5 million from Reddit, and they have glommed on to the recent user controversy and boycott over recently announced pricing for Reddit's API.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: SFO Employs First Cat In Its Wag Brigade There was a standoff outside the Coliseum BART station on Sunday that shut down the station briefly; Reddit users are in revolt over a new policy around third-party apps; and SFO is employing its first cat in the Wag Brigade.
Business & Tech Reddit Moderators Revolt Over Company’s Lax Misinformation Policy Some of the most popular subreddits on Reddit have “gone dark” this week in protest of the company’s hand-off policy with misinformation and anti-vaxxer online bullying, and Wednesday, Reddit did at least ban one of the worst offenders.
Business & Tech Reddit's Five-Second Super Bowl Ad Outshines Bigger Spends By Uber Eats, DoorDash Following a week in which Reddit was center stage in one of the biggest stories in the country — the Gamestop thing — the San Francisco company decided to buy five seconds of ad time to talk about that, in text.
Business & Tech Reddit’s Super Generous Work From Home Policy Sparks Bay Area Exodus Fears With people already bolting from the Bay in droves, Reddit is among the first tech companies to pay workers the same salary if they move somewhere cheaper.
SF News Covidiot Files: Mill Valley Mom Brags On Facebook About Traveling To Tahoe After Son Tests Positive Stupidity reigns in California as it does elsewhere in the U.S. as too many people seem to not understand what "quarantine" and "potentially deadly virus" mean, or they are simply too stupid to care.
Business & Tech Reddit Finally Bans 'The_Donald' Subreddit One of President Trump's most ardent online fan clubhouses, the subreddit called "the_donald" on Reddit, has been once-and-for-all shut down as Monday, with the SF-based social media company citing multiple policy violations.
Business & Tech Reddit Relocates Its Headquarters to Mid-Market Home of Uber and Square Reddit has just leased a bunch of new office space at 1455 Market Street, a.k.a. the building where Square and Uber both occupy a fair amount of square footage.
SF News Reddit Tests Out Monetary Tips Starting With One Infamous SF User A Redditor known only as shittymorph, famous for his bait-and-switch trickery with comments about a late-90s wrestling match, is now accepting cash tips.
SF News Reddit Finally Tries To Ban Nazi Subreddits With New Anti-Violence Policy Reddit, the angry internet's most favored bulletin board and scream chamber, announced late Wednesday that they were taking a new if extremely belated stand against hate, white supremacy, and violence. In updating their
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area Safeway Manager Does Reddit AMA, Explains Why Self-Checkout System Is So Bad And Lines Are Always Long An anonymous "mid-level manager" at a Bay Area Safeway store did a Reddit Ask Me Anything this week, and in it he admits that he's baffled at the choices Safeway corporate makes when
SF News Reddit And Facebook Ban Neo-Nazi/Hate Groups It took the events in Charlottesville, apparently, to get platforms like Reddit and Facebook to wake up to the real threats of neo-Nazi groups, and like a number of other tech companies taking
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In-N-Out Worker Reveals Restaurant Secrets In Reddit AMA In-N-Out Burger's secret menu, which is not a secret anymore, has been a fascination of the internet since around the beginning of the internet. But there are more secrets to the much beloved,
Arts & Entertainment Reddit Co-Founder and Serena Fiance Turns To Reddit For Parenting Advice This blog is ready to bestow unofficial “King and Queen of San Francisco” titles to all-time Grand Slam tennis champion Serena Williams and her Reddit co-founder fiancé Alexis Ohanian, possibly the greatest heteronormative
SF News Hallelujah! Serena Williams Is Definitely Moving To The Bay Area Olympic gold medalist, Grand Slam-winner, and certified nail technician Serena Williams has accepted a position on the board of SurveyMonkey and will indeed be settling down in the Bay Area with her husband,
SF News Serena Williams Challenges Dolores Park Tennis Players To A Match Serena Williams surprises fans at a public court, challenges them to a match in street clothes 🐐🎾🎥: https://t.co/z8JgzAwEb2 pic.twitter.com/e47Ot5ktA9— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) February 27, 2017 Truly anything can
SF News Reddit Bans Alt-Right Subreddit Over Revealing Of Personal Information In their unenviable, continuing quest to rid the site of its "most toxic" troll population, Reddit has just shut down two related subreddits, r/altright and r/alternativeright, over the repeated practice of
SF News Serena Williams Announces Engagement To Reddit Co-Founder In Reddit Post Serena Williams wins, love to love! Although it wasn't long ago that the tennis star was linked to Drake, it seems she's found romance with a sexy techie: Alexis Ohanion, 33, an entrepreneur,
SF News Reddit Will Crack Down On Its 'Most Toxic' Trolls; CEO Still Apologizing For Editing Comments Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced Wednesday that the site plans to take action against its "most toxic" users in a sweep that could end up being a virtual bloodbath in the Trump-supporting subreddit
SF News Reddit CEO Admits To Editing Comments In Trump-Related Subreddit Stoking the flames of conservative rage, conspiracy theorist exasperation, and Trump supporter ire, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman admitted Thursday to secretly editing a series of comments attacking him in the r/the_donald
