SF Politics President Biden Returns to Bay Area Thursday for (Of Course) Fundraisers President Joe Biden has a two-day stint in San Francisco and Silicon Valley this week, attending fundraisers reportedly being hosted by Marissa Mayer and Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla.
SF News Is Marissa Mayer In Line To Be Uber CEO? She Defends Kalanick: 'I Don't Think He Knew' Marissa Mayer, the former CEO of Yahoo, took the stage at the yearly Stanford Directors' College at Stanford Law School yesterday and defended embattled Uber founder Travis Kalanick, whom she calls a friend.
SF News Marissa Mayer Is Super Psyched To Finally Get To Use Gmail Again As noted last night Yahoo's (last?) CEO, Marissa Mayer, is jobless following the company's completed acquisition by Verizon. So what's she going to do now, besides checking her bank balance for that estimated
SF News Day Around The Bay: Marissa Mayer Has Left The Building (At Yahoo) Ghost Ship suspect Max Harris was arraigned in Oakland today, and he's expected to be entering a plea alongside co-defendant Derek Almena on Thursday. [NBC Bay Area] And friends of Harris who gathered
SF News Verizon Combining Yahoo And AOL Brands Into New Company Called 'Oath,' God Knows Why Billion+ Consumers, 20+ Brands, Unstoppable Team. #TakeTheOath. Summer 2017. pic.twitter.com/tM3Ac1Wi36— Tim Armstrong (@timarmstrongaol) April 3, 2017 "In the summer of 2017, you can bet we will be launching one of
SF News After Internal Investigation Into Hacks, Yahoo Denies Marissa Mayer Millions In Bonus And Stock Awards An update regarding the internal, independent board committee investigation of two massive Yahoo hacks, released yesterday along with a 10-K financial filing for the company for 2016, reveal a little more about who
SF News No, Yahoo Is Not Gone, And Yes, Marissa Mayer Is Still Its CEO An SEC filing from today reveals two seemingly major changes to what is left of the onetime web giant Yahoo, but the reality of the situation is less major shake up than corporate
SF News Day Around The Bay: Lawsuit Alleges Marissa Mayer Tried To 'Purge' Men From Company Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Undocumented SF State students are sharing their stories in
SF News Yahoo Secretly Created Spyware To Scan All Incoming Email For Feds At the request of the US government, Yahoo engineers last year secretly built custom software to scan all of its users' incoming email in real time — and then made that data available to
SF News Marissa Mayer Says She's Not Going Anywhere Following Yahoo Sale To Verizon When news broke over the weekend that Web 1.0 company Yahoo would be sold to Verizon, the New York Times reported that this likely meant the end of CEO Marissa Mayer's reign
SF News Tech Titans Voice Support For Gov. Jerry Brown's Controversial Plan To Speed Housing Development A gaggle of powerful members of the tech sector have banded together to support an effort, spearheaded by Governor Jerry Brown, to override local planning reviews and affordable housing requirements for new developments,
SF News Marissa Mayer's Final Yahoo Payout Slashed By Millions In Recent Months We all know that Yahoo is in its twilight, with allegations of mis-management by CEO Marissa Mayer, significant layoffs across the company , and a bizarre inspirational handbook. But as the big purple beast
SF News Yahoo's Million Dollar Employee Handbook Of Inspirational Platitudes "Yahoos are unbowed and committed to going back to our roots and getting Yahoo to kick ass again." — from Yahoo's "Big Red Book" It's not clear who, exactly, is calling a work of
SF News Yahoo Shareholders Propose Plan To Cut 9,000 Jobs Activist shareholders who have held significant sway over internet company Yahoo have now proposed plans to radically downsize its workforce of 10,700, presenting an alternative to the board's decision last week to
SF News Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Gives Birth To Identical Twin Girls Though rumors continue to swirl around the company she helms, Marissa Mayer has something to smile about today: The Yahoo CEO announced early this morning that she gave birth to identical twin girls.
SF News Marissa Mayer's Yahoo Severance Would Be Way Less Than Reported In meetings last week, Yahoo's board decided it won't be spinning off its valuable shares of Chinese e-commerce gargantuan Alibaba. The company will instead measure a plan to sell off its own core
SF News Adieu, Yahoo? Anonymous Sources Say Company May Sell CEO Marissa Mayer's weary Internet giant has gone from Yahoo! to Yahoo??? as anonymous sources tell the Wall Street Journal the company may sell its core business. Meanwhile, Yahoo Inc. maintains its valuable
SF News Yahoo Spent $70K To Dress Execs As Wizard Of Oz Characters At Company Party, And Marissa Mayer Was Dorothy Somewhere over the rainbow in Marin County, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer dressed herself as Dorothy and her staff as the rest of the characters from “The Wizard of Oz” in an elaborate, expensive
SF News Should Twitter Buy Yahoo? If you're reading this site, it's likely you have an idea of what Twitter does. Yahoo is a little harder to figure out (even, it appears, to those inside the organization). So why
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 Scathing NYT Profile Says Marissa Mayer Messed Up With Yahoo Those who aren't hanging on to Yahoo stock may not have been paying attention when their stock price tumbled this past July, and again in September. Both tumbles, which it's since recovered from,
SF News Palo Alto Fire Chief Uses Emergency Alert System To Notify Everyone About Pancake Breakfast Charity pancake breakfasts are a time-honored tradition at fire departments nationwide. And for good reason: who doesn't love charity and pancakes? Emergency alerts that go straight to your cellphone, on the other hand,
Arts & Entertainment Denise Hale Schools New Tech Neighbors In a city where the dominant industry seems hell-bent on shutting women up, one San Francisco grand dame is speaking louder than ever-and taking SF's tech community to task. "They bore the hell
SF News Yahoo Unveils New, Improved Logo Ever since Marissa Mayer became Yahoo's CEO 14 months ago, she's already completed several extreme makeovers: a new Flickr (which we like very much), a new policy that forces employees to come in
SF News Yahoo Moving Into The Chronicle Building, Hopes To Bring Back Flashy Billboards Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been working hard to make over her company's image from aging web dinosaur to hip new tech property. As part of that plan, the Sunnyvale company is reportedly
