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
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Salesforce Tower In The Fog Oh hai 👋 @Salesforce 👀 through the @KarlTheFog. pic.twitter.com/K8ymwwzYTB— Courtney Rogin (@courtneyrogin) May 23, 2017 Local photog Courtney Rogin shot this pretty glimpse of the incomplete crown of Salesforce Tower just as
SF News A 9-Story LED Light Sculpture Will Top The Salesforce Tower A $4 million dollar, four piece integrated light installation that took three years to design will top the Salesforce Tower. Plans for the art piece, designed by 61-year-old Dogpatch artist Jim Campbell, were
SF News Exorbitant Tech Company Intern Pay Appears, Tragically, To Drop It's no secret that the "unpaid internships" even the most qualified of us might have been offered in years past have been replaced at many tech companies by rates nearly twice America's median
SF News Salesforce Tower Officially Tops Off; Top Floor To Be Event Space Available For Community Use This morning Salesforce Tower had its ceremonial topping off, which included a press conference with the mayor, several supervisors, the developer, and CEO Marc Benioff, and the hoisting of the "final" steel beam
SF News $30 Million Campaign To Reduce Family Homelessness Enjoys Large Donation From Marc Benioff, Private Sector A program announced today whose aim is to curb the number of families experiencing homelessness will benefit from a private-public partnership that includes donations from number of tech companies and luminaries, from Zendesk
SF News Disney And Salesforce Dropped Twitter Bids Because Of Trolls At least in the case of two high-profile suitors that briefly explored the possibility of acquiring Twitter, it was the platform's infamous culture of bullying, trolls, and generally aggressive idiocy that turned them
SF News To Keep Tech Shuttles Running, Companies Are Backing Moderate Candidates For Supervisor To ensure that tech shuttles can continue to roll along, business-as-usual, companies such as Salesforce and Y Combinator are among more than 24 contributors to a political action committee backing moderate candidates for
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch Bono Bash Donald Trump During Last Night's Dreamforce Concert U2 was the headliner for Dreamforce's big central concert event Wednesday night at the Cow Palace, and Bono took the opportunity to have a conversation of sorts with a video projection of Donald
SF News Again, Don't Try Driving Through SoMa: Dreamforce Kicks Off Today Salesforce's answer to Oracle's Openworld conference, which itself recently shut down/effed up traffic in part of SoMa as it annually does, happens all this week, and given all the rest of the
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 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 Marc Benioff: 'Unicorn Mania' Is 'Dangerous For Our Silicon Valley Economy' Salesforce CEO and billionaire philanthropist Marc Benioff isn't showing a lot of charity to privately funded startups valued at $1 billion or more before being taken public, a group colloquially named unicorns. “The
SF News Salesforce Employee Found Dead In Livermore Lake After Company Trip The body of missing Salesforce IT worker Raghavendra "Raghu" Indugula, 31, was found in Lake Del Valle last week, just outside Livermore, as KPIX/CBS 5 is reporting. Indugula was on a team-building
SF News Video: Uber's Travis Kalanick Asks 'Am I Going To Be Part Of The Future Or Am I Going To Resist It?' Uber's C.E.-bro Travis Kalanick has been on what reads to many as an apology tour, appearing on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, posing for a piece of corporate portraiture in
SF News Salesforce For Sale? SF's Largest Tech Employer Works With Bankers To Field Takeover Offers Salesforce.com Inc., San Francisco's largest tech employer and host of that really big conference called Dreamforce, has begun to work with financial advisers after receiving takeover offers, Bloomberg reports. Sources say that
SF News Burning Man Employment Opportunity For Salesforce Admin With Wild Side Are you a Salesforce.com certified admin with a yen for experimental living and the "ability to live and work in the harsh physical environment of the Burning Man event location on the
SF News Eight Transbay Property Owners Vote To Approve Special Tax; Lawsuit May Still Be Coming Those of you paying attention will remember that there was some major brouhaha between downtown developers and City Hall after the Board of Supervisors voted to approve a previously agreed-upon special-assessment tax for
SF News Here's How The Salesforce Convention Might Screw Up Your Life Yes, you just recovered from the crowds at Oracle OpenWorld, we know. But now an even bigger event, Salesforce's Dreamforce convention is here through Saturday October 18 to snarl things right back up
