SF News Report: Venture Capitalist Confidence Hits Two-Year Low, High Valuations And Pointless Startups Blamed Just a week after it was reported that venture capitalists were putting more money into startups than ever before, we're hearing that VCs might now be having second thoughts on the matter, and
Arts & Entertainment <em>Silicon Valley</em> Recap: Coding In A Burning Room "This guy falling off a cliff is the first piece of good luck we've had," says Dinesh of the booming Pied Piper live-stream that's following a museum employee who was injured while removing
Arts & Entertainment <em>Silicon Valley</em> Recap: Para-Paranoid In the 8th episode of the second season of HBO's Silicon Valley we open with Russ Hanneman, presumably still sulking since he's sunk below billionaire status. He's arrived at the Pied Piper house
SF News Mystery Donor Drops Off Classic Apple Computer Worth $200,000 A woman who dropped off a classic Apple computer has a $100,000 check waiting for her. The electronic waste recycling firm Clean Bay Area is looking for a woman who dropped off
SF News Breaking: Many Tech Workers Are Being Priced Out Of Bay Area A KPIX headline that's getting splashed around social media since last night proclaims "Even Techies Can't Afford the Bay Area Anymore," but there's a bit more to it than that. As Redfin CEO
SF News Former Startup Castle Residents Speak, Say It's 'Like A Prison' "One of the largest estates in Silicon Valley with everything you need to live and launch your greatest ambitions." That description of the place called Startup Castle in Woodside might be more accurate
SF News Have You Heard About The Startup Castle In Woodside? Because It's Ridiculous And Sexist A huge mansion in tony Woodside has been rebrand the Startup Castle, as of about a year ago, and it's offering "monk-like" lodging for startup bros in a bizarre, stately setting, straight out
SF News Yahoo! Goes After Former Former Employee For Leaking Secrets Yahoo! has filed a lawsuit against a former staffer who, they say, broke her confidentiality agreement and leaked corporate secrets. The complaint by the tech giant alleges that Cecile Lal, a former senior
SF News Google's Canopied Campus Dreams Dashed By Mountain View City Council It was just around midnight last night that the Mountain View City Council rebuffed Google's new attempt at town domination. This means that Google's recently revealed dreams of creating a game-changing piece of
Arts & Entertainment 'Business Town!' Is Richard Scarry 2.0 For Silicon Valley Business Town! is a brilliant, if derivative, Tumblr you should totally follow. Obviously, the style is all Richard Scarry, the illustrator whose most popular work, Busy Town, featured anthropomorphic animals in workaday jobs.
Arts & Entertainment <em>Silicon Valley</em> Recap: Bros Disclose Fun fact. In Season 2's intro, a Sim City style cartoon of Silicon Valley, we've got a few new "easter eggs." The @Yahoo building got quite a makeover between Seasons 1 and 2
Arts & Entertainment Silicon Valley Comic Con Announced In Dorky Video With Stan Lee And Woz Have a hole in your heart where WonderCon once was? Hopefully this can fill that void. In a charmingly dorky video shared on Friday, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and comic book legend Stan
SF News Survey Says: San Jose Is Happier Than San Francisco How happy are we all today? Happier than we were yesterday, maybe, because the weekend beckons. But are those of us in SF or the East Bay less happy that the folks in
Arts & Entertainment <i>Silicon Valley</i> Season 2 Premiere Recap: Series A As Silicon Valley enters its second season, the Emmy-nominated HBO show and the TechCrunch Disrupt-winning company it follows face related challenges. Can Richard Hendriks (Thomas Middleditch) reach, in the words of one investor,
Arts & Entertainment Whoops! Writer Confuses 'Silicon Valley' Actor With Indian Actor On 'Big Bang Theory' Over at Salon, TV critic Sonia Saraiya weighed in on the Women in Tech conversation in discussing the upcoming season of HBO's Silicon Valley and celebrating the addition of a new female character
SF News After Praising Moronic Indiana Law, Jeb Bush Comes To SF To Fundraise Why bother! And this isn't even an April Fool's joke. While his brother G.W. spent zero time in the Bay Area during his historically disastrous eight years in the White House, Florida
SF News Kleiner Perkins Did Not Discriminate Against Ellen Pao Based On Gender, SF Jury Finds In a trial that has captivated and examined Silicon Valley — with thumbs refreshing Twitter feeds at a fever pitch this afternoon — a San Francisco jury has found that Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, which
SF News Twitter Systematically Denies Job Promotions To Women, Says Lawsuit Twitter is the latest Silicon Valley giant to be hit with accusations of gender discrimination, with a former employee claiming the company's policies systematically hold women down. Tina Huang filed the suit on
SF News Hillary Clinton Talks About Creating A 'Nice Warm Purple Space' Of Bipartisan Cooperation At Silicon Valley Conference Yesterday in Silicon Valley, Hillary Clinton sat down on stage for an interview with Re/Code's Kara Swisher, who opened with the joke, "I was just interviewing President Obama and I'm looking forward
Arts & Entertainment Upskirt Oopsie: Magazine Cover On Silicon Valley Sexism Called Out For...Sexism This week's cover. Will post first thing in the morning. pic.twitter.com/UIgR97sHS9— jim impoco (@jimpoco) January 28, 2015 Alas, poor Newsweek. Once the Pepsi to Time's print newsweekly Coke, in recent
Arts & Entertainment CNN Explores The Druggy, Trippy, And Poly Side Of Silicon Valley Geekdom "Polyamory is a form of optimization," says product manager Miju Han in what is just one of many words of disruptive wisdom shared in a new CNN mini-doc web series titled "Sex, Drugs
SF News Can Silicon Valley Be Made Less Awful? Pando Daily Thinks So. Pando Daily, the Silicon Valley blog that claims it's there to "speak truth to the new power" but which ends up mostly being an angry-making, inside-baseball Uber-hate fest, is hosting some sort of
Arts & Entertainment Some Silicon Valley Person's Covered Their Home In Real Snow My neighbor trucked in snow for her holiday party last night. #guesswho #mysiliconvalley #paloalto A photo posted by Stefania Pomponi (@stefaniapomponi) on Dec 12, 2014 at 1:05pm PST Plummeting through an Instagram
SF News New 'Judgmental' Map of the South Bay Will Amuse, Offend Conflating judgment with casual racism, here's the latest installment of "Judgmental Maps" in the Bay Area. The humor series has included this take on San Francisco, which flagged the Castro, simply, as "Rainbow
Arts & Entertainment Life Imitates Art As Hewlett-Packard Hires Flo Rida For Event, Just Like On <i>Silicon Valley</i> Remember when on Episode 4 of Silicon Valley eccentric billionaire Peter Gregory threw a toga party benefit and hired Flo Rida to perform? Well, that just happened in real life last night, in
