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A New Group of Silicon Valley Techies Are Now Trying to Build A North Bay Village

The project, named Esmeralda, says it is completely separate from the similar "California Forever" proposal from Solano County.

Business & Tech

Silicon Valley Bank Gets Acquired By Something Called First Citizens Bank, Back Operating This Morning

What’s left of the bankrupt and taken-over-by-the-government Silicon Valley Bank has been bought up by North Carolina-based First Citizens Bank, and while we don’t know the price, First Citizens got a hefty discount of at least $16.5 billion.

Business & Tech

Report: Ron Conway Was Among Venture Capitalists Begging For Silicon Valley Bank Bailout

The “small-government libertarians” got their big government bailout this past Sunday, and as observers slag the hypocrisy of founders and VCs who oppose safety nets for everyone else, we learn that local mayor whisperer Ron Conway was helping pull strings to get the bailout.

Business & Tech

Silicon Valley Bank Shut Down By Regulators In Biggest Bank Failure In 15 Years

In what may be a harbinger of more hard days ahead for the tech world in the Bay Area, a prominent lender to startups and one of the 20 largest banks in the country, SVB Financial Group or Silicon Valley Bank, has failed.

Business & Tech

Bay Area Billionaire Marc Andreessen Claims Modern California Is Like the Fall of the Roman Empire

The man who bought the most expensive mansion in California history now says the state is “the ruins of a once great civilization,” comparing conditions to the fall of Rome, but perhaps ignoring the role of an incompetent wealthy ruling class in that analysis.

Business & Tech

Silicon Valley Chipmaking Giant Nvidia Hit With Cyberattack, Russia Theories Already Flying

While there is no credible evidence that Russia has anything to do with a cyberattack on Santa Clara-based Nvidia, the company is being tight-lipped about an attack that “completely compromised” their internal systems.

Business & Tech

Startup Boom Starting to Bust, as Layoffs Sweep Silicon Valley

The robot reckoning may be afoot, as the New York Times finds that startups have laid off more than 8,000 people in the last four months.

SF News

This 'Most Silicon Valley' Job Posting Goes Viral For Its Laughable Absurdity

Are you something of a self-knighted travel agent, one who’s also gifted at long division? Do you, too, possess buckets of athleticism? Can you both bake and ice a (vegan) cake with ease? If you've nodded to all the above, then this Menlo Park-based nanny gig might just be right for you.

Arts & Entertainment

The Final Season Premiere of ‘Silicon Valley’ Airs Sunday, Tech Gags and Laughs Intact

With HBO’s 'Silicon Valley' just a few days away from its final season premiere, we’re left wondering: How will the storylines of Pied Piper and the show's beloved cast of characters all come to an end?

SF News

High-Profile Tech Bro Robert Scoble Faces Barrage Of Sexual Harassment Allegations

The only enduring legacy of the stupid Google Glass fad of 2013-14 is the image of fanboy Robert Scoble wearing the contraption in the shower. While the Glass device has mercifully been more

Arts & Entertainment

HBO's Silicon Valley Reacts To The Most Ridiculous Parts Of The iPhone X Announcement

Funny or Die and Silicon Valley joined forces to stick it to Apple last week with a video poking fun at their surprise announcement of the iPhone X (pronounced "ten" because God help

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Infamous Boondoggle Juicero Suspends Sales, Founder Celebrates At Burning Man

Juicero, the company that introduced the world to a wi-fi-connected $700 juicer, later marked down to $400, which essentially did the same job as a pair of human hands, is finally calling it

SF News

Convicted Silicon Valley Millionaire Molester Speaks Out, Doesn't 'Recall' Abusing Adopted Son

Former millionaire marketing exec Ralph Melvin Flynn pleaded no contest to sexually abusing his adopted sons for years and years. He and his wife Carolyn were each recently sentenced to long prison terms

SF News

Texas Firm Finds It Cheaper To Commute To Silicon Valley By Private Jet Than To Operate There

Lawyers from the Houston-based intellectual property firm of Patterson and Sheridan want the big-money tech clients of Silicon Valley but not the big-money price tags of Bay Area real estate and salary expectations.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Juicero, Makers Of Widely Mocked Wi-Fi Enabled $400 Juicer, Lays Off Staff, Promises Cheaper Juicer

One of this year's many Silicon Valley cautionary tales, Juicero, is entering a new phase and hoping to recover from the damage done by the news media and a certain discovery about their

SF News

Nobody Wants To Be Uber's Next CEO

"You couldn't pay me enough money to take that job" is a response most likely heard when it comes to dangerous (skyscraper window washer), depressing (animal cop), or gross (BART janitor who doesn't

Arts & Entertainment

Video: Every Tiny Tech-World In-Joke Hidden Within The Title Sequence Of 'Silicon Valley'

Part of the reason that HBO's Silicon Valley — which just had its fourth season finale on Sunday — has such a short, rapid-fire opening title sequence is that creator Mike Judge didn't really want

SF News

A Silicon Valley CEO Will Serve 13 Days In Jail For An Admitted Decade Of Beating Up His Wife

A former Apple and Cisco engineer named Neha Rastogi claimed that her husband, Cuberon CEO Abhishek Gattani spent the past 10 years verbally and physically abusing her. He pleaded guilty to the crimes

Arts & Entertainment

No!!! T.J. Miller Announces He's Leaving HBO's 'Silicon Valley'

Truly one of the comic delights of the four seasons of Silicon Valley thus far, T.J. Miller's arrogant stoner character Erlich Bachman will be getting written off the show come Season Five

Arts & Entertainment

Shocker: Company Called 'Silicon Valley Matchmaker' Appears To Be A Pricey Scam

A new exposé from the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit combines two common local gripes — the notorious difficulty of the Bay Area dating scene, and Silicon Valley companies’ constant desire to charge thousands

SF News

Hallelujah! Serena Williams Is Definitely Moving To The Bay Area

Olympic gold medalist, Grand Slam-winner, and certified nail technician Serena Williams has accepted a position on the board of SurveyMonkey and will indeed be settling down in the Bay Area with her husband,

SF News

Lunchtime Links: Pinterest Now Has Their Own 'Not Hotdog' App

Another case of life imitating Silicon Valley the show: Pinterest just launched a food recognition feature for their app, spurring inevitable comparisons to the Not Hotdog app from the HBO show. [SFGate] Following

Arts & Entertainment

'Not Hotdog' App From HBO's 'Silicon Valley' Now Available For Download

Sunday night's episode of Silicon Valley was another winner for the continuously hilarious series, and one that had some of the series' characteristic comic twists involving the sometimes absurd pivots that tech companies

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Ivanka Trump Once Shilled For Juicero

Daily cold-pressed juice we can make at home? Yes, please: https://t.co/jFgquzX3OU #Healthy @Juicero #Juicero— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) March 31, 2016 It seemed that every drop of humor had already been

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Juicero CEO Begs Customers Not To Squeeze Packs By Hand, 'Hacking' $400 Juicer

In a somewhat desperate sounding Medium post, Jeff Dunn, CEO of perhaps unnecessarily internet-connected juicer company Juicero, responded to a recent report that customers could simply squeeze their Juicero pouches by hand rather