SF News Zuckerberg Ponies Up $25 Million To Fight Ebola Likely influenced by his benevolent doctor wife Priscilla Chan maybe she's really changing him, you guys! Mark Zuckerberg announced this morning that he's donating $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation
SF News The New York Times Warns That Silicon Valley Bubble Might Be Ready To Pop And Ruin Us All The bubble! The tech bubble! The Silicon Valley bubble! There's so much bubble talk that we expect some pundits to start traveling like Glinda the Good Witch (UberBubble rides, coming soon to a
Arts & Entertainment New Terrible Dating App Dubbed 'Tinder Without the Poor People' by Eric Wuestewald Let's be honest: Even in a city with the second highest percentage of millionaires in the country, finding that special someone can be exhausting. You've tried the yacht parties, the
SF News Hear The Secrets Of The Real-Life 'Wolf of Wall Street,' For Only $75 (And Up) Jordan Belfort needs your help. See, he mis-spent his 20s and 30s perpetrating a now-famous fraud while amassing millions of dollars for himself on a certain New York City roadway. But luckily, by
SF News Investor Peter Thiel Thinks There's 'A Lot Of Pot Smoking' Going On At Twitter, Twitter Responds [Updated] Eccentric billionaire angel investor Peter Thiel who was used as the basis for the eccentric billionaire investor character Peter Gregory on HBO's Silicon Valley appeared on CNBC to talk about how he feels
SF News Westboro Baptist Church To Protest 'Fag Media' Next Month At Facebook, Google, And Apple The infamous idiots of the Westboro Baptist Church, who always know a good media-attention-whoring opportunity when they see one, are turning their homophobic attention to the entire tech sphere next month and will
Arts & Entertainment <i>Silicon Valley</i> Recap: 'You're Gay For My Code' In last night's Silicon Valley, the gang comes to San Francisco for the TechCrunch Disrupt conference and many jokes are made about how few women there are in tech. Also, Erlich proves himself
SF News Atherton Is Still, Pretty Definitively, America's Most Expensive Zip Code Home prices in Atherton, already sky high as of last fall when Forbes declared it America's toniest zip code, continue to climb, in part because Forbes published that article. As SFGate's real estate
Arts & Entertainment 'Silicon Valley' Recap: Richard vs. Precocious Kids This week's episode brings us that glorious clip from the original trailer of Richard getting slapped by that suburban 10-year-old who tells him to "Get the f**k out of here," and it
Arts & Entertainment 'Silicon Valley' Recap: 'It Is Pretty Raunchy, Though' [NSFW] In last night's episode of HBO's Silicon Valley, actor TJ Miller, who plays Erlich, once again proved himself to be the show's greatest comedic asset, and we finally get to see fictional rival
Arts & Entertainment HBO's 'Silicon Valley' Will Return For a Second Season After only three episodes have aired, HBO has announced plans for a second season of Mike Judge's techie-thwacking comedy Silicon Valley. According to Variety, the show drew in just shy of 2 million
Arts & Entertainment 'Silicon Valley' Episode 3 Recap: Small Is The New Big "Because if we can make your audio and video files smaller, we can make cancer smaller. And hunger. And AIDS." This week's episode opens with those words, from Hooli's evil overlord Gavin Belson,
Arts & Entertainment 'Silicon Valley' Episode 2 Recap: How To Become An A**hole To kick off the second episode of the new HBO comedy from Office Space/King of the Kill genius Mike Judge, we have a very sad five-person "launch party" in the Palo Alto
Arts & Entertainment 'Silicon Valley' Episode 1 Recap: Welcome To Palo Alto The Bay Area's starring role in the zeitgeist was boosted again last night with the premiere of HBO's Silicon Valley, the second new HBO show this season to take place here. But unlike
Arts & Entertainment Mike Judge's <i>Silicon Valley</i> Tells The Hard Truths About The Startup World This post is brought to you by HBO. There's no denying startups and Silicon Valley are contentious issues these days, but Mike Judge is no stranger to it. Inspired by his own experiences
SF News Greenpeace Shames Twitter And Pinterest Via Blimp Greenpeace flew a blimp over Silicon Valley today to champion tech companies that have gone emerald green and shame those who are more of a tea green. The latter? Amazon, Twitter, Netflix and
Arts & Entertainment Full Trailer From Mike Judge's 'Silicon Valley' Arrives To Skewer Tech Culture Here it is, folks, the first full trailer from Mike Judge's HBO comedy Silicon Valley. Lots of white dudes (broken up by the excellent Kumail Nanjiani), an Asperger's joke, large sums of money
SF News Venture Capitalist's 'Six Californias' Plan Moves Forward, Is Still A Terrible Idea Venture Capitalist Tim Draper's plan to divide California into six states (including one just for Silicon Valley) got the OK to move forward from California Secretary of State Debra Bowen this week, despite
SF News Facebook To Buy Messaging Service WhatsApp For $19 Billion In Menlo Park today, the 800-pound social networking gorilla announced today that it would acquire popular messaging app WhatsApp for a cool $4 billion in cash and $15 billion in Facebook stock. The
Arts & Entertainment Mike Judge's 'Silicon Valley' Actually Looks Good After Bravo's colostomy bag of a reality show, disastrously produced by Randi Zuckerberg, and Amazon's ho-hum Betas, Mike Judge (Beavis and Butt-Head) takes a stab at the tech world with Silicon Valley. The
SF News Snipers Attacked A Silicon Valley Power Station Last Year And Nobody Told Us Around 1 a.m. on April 16th last year, a team of attackers cut phone lines and took out 17 power transformers at a PG&E substation south of San Jose, nearly
SF News Techies Need A Real Come-To-Jesus Moment, Says Silicon Valley Prayer Leader In Silicon Valley where tech is god and venture capitalists are prophets, one devout Christian and former tech CEO is hoping to bring the good word to the godless heathens of the tech
Arts & Entertainment Mike Judge's 'Silicon Valley' Hits HBO In April Continuing the Home Box Office network's Bay Area fascination, the simply titled Silicon Valley from the mind of Beavis and Butthead and Office Space creator Mike Judge will debut on cable and borrowed
Arts & Entertainment Apple's New 'Spaceship Donut' Campus Goes Up For Approval The great and glorious Apple mothership in Cupertino, California is set to become an actual mothership. Or is it a space station? In any event, it is round, and vast. The building, which
SF News TechCrunch Conference Disrupted By Boob Gazing, Lame Dick Jokes Noted Silicon Valley tech blog and press release machine TechCrunch launched their annual Disrupt conference in San Francisco over the weekend with an "incredibly popular" Hackathon session during which hopeful entrepreneurs present new
