SF News Day Around the Bay: SUV Hits Parked DOT Vehicles in Deadly San Mateo Bridge Crash Late disco legend Sylvester's former Twin Peaks condo is on the market; the Ashby BART station flea market may close at the end of June; and a driver was killed when their speeding SUV crashed into parked San Mateo DOT vehicles.
Business & Tech Dreamforce Commits to Three More Years In SF (But Benioff Gives Himself a Loophole to Leave) Salesforce announced they will keep their Dreamforce conference here through 2027 in a windfall for the city’s tourism industry, but Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff gave himself an out, saying Dreamforce will only stay as long as SF “remains safe and secure and trusted.”
SF News Dreamforce Kicks Off Tuesday With Celebrity Speakers, Largest Crowd Since 2019 Salesforce's annual Dreamforce conference, which these days is all about AI, is set to bring in about 45,000 attendees when it kicks off Tuesday in SoMa, which is the biggest crowd it's had since the pandemic.
Business & Tech Salesforce Work-From-Home Party Is Over, Employees Required to Be in Office Three to Five Days a Week SF’s largest private employer Salesforce is bringing the hammer down on its pajama-clad workers who’ve gotten used to remote work, as the company will start requiring employees to work three to five days a week in the office, and they’ll be monitoring security badge scans.
Business & Tech Dreamforce Is Indeed Returning to SF in 2024, Despite Marc Benioff’s Threat to Move Conference Elsewhere Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff will not move his company's Dreamforce mega-conference to Las Vegas or Austin or wherever, despite his own threats that he might, as he announced today that Dreamforce 2024 will remain right here in SF.
Business & Tech Marc Benioff Threatens to Move Dreamforce Conference Out of SF Over Homelessness, Drug Use The annual Dreamforce convention is still set to begin less than two weeks from now, but Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is threatening to move the whole shebang elsewhere if he thinks drug use and homelessness disrupt this year’s event.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Morale Reportedly Meh at Meta Salesforce is fully abandoning the 30-story Salesforce East; Rep. Ro Khanna and others are openly calling for Sen. Dianne Feinstein to resign; and morale is reportedly sinking lower at Meta in Menlo Park.
SF News Yet More High-Rise Windows Crack as Salesforce East Has Second Broken Window Incident In a Week Another storm has brought another set of broken windows to 350 Mission Street, the high-rise otherwise known as Salesforce East, in a story that’s becoming frighteningly common this month.
Business & Tech Salesforce Is Laying Off 10% of Its Workforce, Nearly 8,000 Employees San Francisco‘s largest private employer will be a less-large private employer, as Salesforce dropped a bomb Wednesday morning announcing that they’re laying off nearly 8,000 employees.
Business & Tech Report: Salesforce Set To Lay Off ‘As Many As 2,500’ Employees The latest San Francisco layoff-palooza shoe to drop is a big one, as towering software company Salesforce is reportedly set to lay off thousands, in job cuts that actually already started Monday.
Business & Tech Dreamforce Coming Back With ’Tens of Thousands’ Attending In September, Because What Could Go Wrong Apparently Salesforce is confident enough that COVID-19 will be a non-factor three months from now that they’re bringing back a large-scale Dreamforce, but they’re being a little vague on whether they’ll allow 170,000 people again.
Business & Tech Dreamforce Returns as Much Smaller, Mostly Outdoor Conference in SoMa This Week 170,000 people usually come to Dreamforce, which along with the now departed Oracle OpenWorld would typically clog up traffic all over downtown for several days as conventioneers descended on the city. This year will be much different.
SF News Salesforce to Help Employees Flee Texas Amid Abortion Ban Texas, a state that's becoming increasingly purple, recently enacted one of the most aggressive anti-abortion laws seen in the United States since Roe v. Wade. But Salesforce employees who work in the Lone Star State will have their employer's help in relocating, should they wish.
SF News Dreamforce Is Happening In SF In September, But Will Be Smaller Than Usual Salesforce has announced that Dreamforce is back on as an in-person event this year, though it clearly will not have the usual 170,000 attendees coming to San Francisco.
Business & Tech SF Tech Companies Losing Hundreds of Millions on Office Space They Can’t Rent Dropbox alone dropped more than $400 million on empty downtown office space, as tech companies all over the Bay Area are bleeding billions to rent office spaces that are just cold sitting totally empty.
Business & Tech In Its Biggest Acquisition to Date, Salesforce Buys Slack for $27.7 Billion Confirming the story that was first reported last week about the two companies being in "advanced" talks about an acquisition, Salesforce and Slack announced Tuesday that they are joining forces.
Business & Tech Salesforce May Be Buying Slack, and Slack's Stock Price Is Going Nuts San Francisco-based Salesforce is reportedly in advanced negotiations to acquire workplace messaging app Slack, in the latest of a flurry of year-end mergers and acquisitions.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Salesforce Cancels Dreamforce The SFPD was reportedly enforcing a curfew at a Civic Center tent encampment, the name of the guy who barricaded himself in Glide last week has been released, and the city is reimbursing workers who have money tied up in medical savings accounts.
SF News Dreamforce Street Shutdowns Begin, Avoid That Part of SoMa at All Costs Howard Street between 3rd and 4th Street was shut down Tuesday ahead of next week's kickoff of Salesforce's annual Dreamforce convention. And for everyone who doesn't know the drill, this means it is officially time to avoid driving anywhere near SoMa for the next two weeks.
Business & Tech Marc Benioff Says Capitalism ‘Is Dead,’ Calls Facebook ‘The New Cigarettes’ The Salesforce CEO unloaded on his tech brethren at a TechCrunch Disrupt event last week, and said Facebook is “the new cigarettes.”
Business & Tech Salesforce Steps Into Gun Debate, Drops Customers Who Sell Automatic Weapons Salesforce made a change to the acceptable-use policy for its e-commerce software this week, adding a range of firearms and accessories to the list of products it forbids customers from selling.
SF News Saturday Links: Salesforce Turns 20 With Pitbull Concert A small earthquake rattled East Oakland Friday night, a cat who survived the Camp Fire is found, and Salesforce's co-founders reflect on their humble beginnings.
SF News 'Salesforce Transit Center' Is Now Officially A Thing; SFMTA Head Calls It 'Distasteful' The board of the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) made it official Thursday, granting naming rights for the new Transbay Transit Center to Salesforce. This means that the word "transbay" has actually been
SF News Salesforce Likely To Be Naming Entire Transbay Transit Center & Park After Itself by Jessica Lachenal The Transbay Transit Center may have just found a way out of its current money woes. Salesforce has agreed to sponsor the transit center for 25 years, offering $110 million
Arts & Entertainment Video: Drone Flies Off Top Of Salesforce Tower It's not everyday you get invited to fly a drone from the top of the tallest building in SF, but today was that day. @SalesforceTower pic.twitter.com/PSyq0rnfP9— Eddie Codel (@ekai) June
