SF News Peninsula Gun Lover Arrested for Making Threats on Senator Leland Yee's Life Everett Basham, 45, a noted Silicon Valley engineer who just got a personal endorsement from Steve Wozniak, was arrested Tuesday for making assassination threats on the life of Senator Leland Yee. Yee, meanwhile,
SF News Delightful Police Blotter Items From Atherton, California: America's Fourth Richest Zip Code Just a short Prius drive away from the Silicon Valley campuses of Facebook and Google lies Atherton, California: America's fourth richest zip code, where the median home price last year was a startling
SF News GOP Should Get Hip To Geeks, Says Nate Silver Statistical it-boy Nate Silver has done what he does best and turned his always on-point analysis on the Bay Area's tech industry. Over on his FiveThirtyEight blog today, Silver debriefs the Republican party
SF News Atherton, Hillsborough Top Priciest ZIP Codes List New York City's Upper East Side and the Silicon Valley towns of splendor and wealth in California dominated Forbes' 2012 Priciest ZIP Codes List. Atherton (#3), Hillsborough (#5), Los Altos Hills (#7) all
Arts & Entertainment Meet The People Who Will Be Run Out Of Town Due To 'Start-Ups: Silicon Valley' Bravo's ode to a handful of Silicon Valley skid marks will commence on November 5. While we will watch the first episode, and get back to you, it looks like it will have
SF News How To Live Like A Voluntarily Homeless Silicon Valley Entrepreneur It can be hard out there for budding young entrepreneurs. Between the lunches at coffee shop offices and the constantly upgrading MacBooks, expenses start to add up. That's why one cost-cutting potential Zuckerberg
SF News Infamous Silicon Valley Hoaxster Takes Con Act To GOP Convention Shirley Hornstein, noted in today's morning links as the notorious hoax artist outed by TechCrunch for using photoshopped pictures of herself with celebrities to climb Silicon Valley's greasy social ladder, has apparently already
SF News Zynga Shares Tank, No One Wants To Draw Something Locally based Facebook game production house Zynga got the tech tweeters talking after the company announced a $22.7 million second quarter loss this afternoon. In their report, Zynga blamed the loss on
SF News Marissa Mayer's Pay Package Is Larger Than Your Average Valley CEO's In addition to being able to birth live young, Yahoo's new den mother has another thing she can hold over most other Tech CEOs in Silicon Valley: her salary. In a regulatory filing
SF News Marissa Mayer's Other Big Announcement: I'm Pregnant Hot off the heels of Marissa Mayer's big news, the freshly annointed Yahoo CEO made another glass ceiling-shattering announcement yesterday evening: she's roughly seven-months pregnant. As the former Google VP revealed to Fortune,
SF News Nerds' Newest Ventures: 'Hacker Hostels' While the newly rich continue to gobble up overpriced real estate in San Francisco proper, the budding young entrepreneurs who continue to flock to Silicon Valley, heads all filled with Zuckerberg dreams, are
Arts & Entertainment Worried You Might Be A Brogrammer? There's A Handy Quiz For That If you're one of the many dudes suddenly questioning where you fit on the Geek-Bro spectrum now that Brogrammers have come along to testosterone things up, you can fret no more. A Chicago
SF News Breaking: HP Laying Off 27,000 In Massive Cutbacks According to AP reports this afternoon, Palo Alto-based Hewlett-Packard is slashing 27,000 jobs in an effort to save over $3 billion annually. The huge loss of jobs comes nine months after the
SF News Just Days After Rocky IPO, Investors Sue Facebook As Facebook's stock fell just days after trading, three investors filed suit against the company today, along with underwriters Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, accusing them of withholding damaging information about the social
SF News Silicon Valley Software Exec Busted For Embezzling LEGOs Thomas Langenbach, a vice president for software giant SAP's Palo Alto lab, was busted using counterfeit bar code stickers to get himself huge discounts on LEGO toys at local Target Stores. Langenbach was
SF News Yahoo CEO Steps Down, Announces Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis After dodging accusations of resume padding, Yahoo's barely-there CEO Scott Thompson announced over the weekend that he is stepping down from the post he's held for barely four months. While Yahoo declined to
SF News Yahoo CEO Still Not Sure Who Changed His Resume, Spurned Bartz Spits Acid After Yahoo stakeholders at activist hedge fund Third Point called out Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson for a padded resume last week, Thompson has taken to pleading ignorance in the matter. His latest defense
Arts & Entertainment Meet The Cast Of Bravo's New Silicon Valley Reality Show Bravo unveiled a new batch of must-see shows for the fall season. One in particular, Silicon Valley, produced by Randi Zuckerberg, Mark's sister, will take place here in the Bay Area. (Regarding the
SF News Hahaha: Zynga CEO Wants Employees to Return Stock Zynga CEO Mark Pincus is funny. Why? Well, according to the Wall Street Journal, he wants his early employees to return some of the stock they own before the company's initial public offering.
SF News Yahoo "F--ked Me Over," Says Carol Bartz In her first interview since being fired as CEO of Yahoo on Tuesday, colorful Carol Bartz didn't hold back when discussing her former employers. "These people fucked me over," she said to CNN.
SF News Mark Zuckerberg's Sister Quits Facebook One of Facebook's earliest employees, Randi Zuckerberg, sister of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, resigned from the social networking company. Randi "is leaving her position as director of marketing at the Palo Alto-based website after
SF News New Apple Boss: Gay Scoring a major coup for the gay agenda, new Apple boss (and future CEO if Steve Jobs never returns from his medical leave of absence) COO Tim Cook will mark "a new era
SF News Steve Jobs Won't Return To Apple, Says Slate Aside from publishing what history will look back on as the single most misguided and thoughtless arts & entertainment article ever written, we almost always respect Slate. So when they post a piece
SF News Steve Jobs To Take Medical Leave Of Absence Raising concerns again about his health, 55-year-old CEO Steve Jobs will take a medical leave of absence while remaining involved in “major strategic decisions” for Apple. Yikes. Jobs announced the decision in the
SF News HP CEO Resigns After Allegations of Sexual Harassment First, Hewlett-Packard had one of the worst CEOs of all time, GOP Senate candidate Carly Fiorina. And now, according to SFGate, current HP CEO and President Mark Hurd has resigned effective immediately. Why?
