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
SF News Silicon Valley Exec Found Guilty Of Stealing LEGOs Thomas Langenbach, a VP at software giant SAP's Palo Alto lab, has been convicted of running an elaborate scam to steal LEGO toys from local Target stores. It is quite possibly the white
Arts & Entertainment John McAfee Biopic In The Works A script following the antics of eccentric millionaire John McAfee, who may or may not have been doing some illicit substances while holed up in Central America and who may or may not
SF News Silicon Valley: Just A Bunch Of Elitist Union Busters? Remember that despicable and elitist piece by PandoDaily's Sarah Lacy about how the BART strike was crippling the nascent tech boom on Mid-Market? Well, it's inspired a much better informed retort from Kevin
SF News Obama Arriving In The Bay Area For Pricey Fundraisers President Barack Obama will be in the Bay Area starting today. He'll attend receptions in Palo Alto and Portola Valley today and give a speech on Obamacare at the San Jose Fairmont Hotel
Arts & Entertainment Video: Silicon Valley Nerds Rap Badly About Venture Funding We're not sure if this counts as funny, but we suppose it's funny to those involved the way similar efforts by a college fraternity to make a viral video are funny to those
SF News People Are Already Banning Google Glass The cyborg-ification of the human race at the hands of Google is nearly upon us via Google Glass, and lawmakers, cities, casinos, and at least one Seattle dive bar aren't having it. Do
SF News Yahoo's Marissa Mayer Births New Maternity Leave Policies At Yahoo, where CEO Marissa Mayer famously bailed on her own maternity leave and then immediately told everyone to start getting their asses to work, the company has plopped out a new set
Arts & Entertainment Hide Your Startup: Valleywag Is Back It's been four years since Valleywag, the blog-of-record for Silicon Valley gossip and tech industry machinations, folded. Now, Gawker Media has relaunched the site "dedicated to mocking the stupidity, incompetence, and avarice of
Arts & Entertainment 'Office Space' Creator Mike Judge Filming HBO Pilot In Silicon Valley Mike Judge, creator of the original office slacker comedy, will be in Palo Alto today filming scenes for a new HBO pilot about life in the strike-it-rich, startup world of Silicon Valley. After
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
