SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Square Says Services Slowly Returning After Outage Square and CashApp are recovering from a Thursday outage; police in Hayward fatally shot a man holding a BB gun outside a Safeway; and a suspect in a San Jose murder trial violently attacked his own attorney in court.
Business & Tech SF-Based Square and Cash App Experience Widespread Outages, Leading to Widespread Headaches If you were trying to pay for something with Square or Cash App today and had a problem, you're not alone. Square, and its Cash App, both apps were experiencing major issues Thursday.
SF News Cash App Founder and Square Exec Bob Lee Identified as Victim In Rincon Hill Stabbing We still don't know the full circumstances of the fatal stabbing that took place on Main Street in San Francisco early Tuesday, but news quickly spread Tuesday afternoon that the victim was a well known tech founder.
Business & Tech Jack Dorsey-Founded Payments Platform Block Is Bolting From Its Mid-Market Office Space Another big tech firm is eliminating its mid-Market presence in San Francisco, with digital payment firm Block saying it will not renew its giant lease at 1455 Market.
Business & Tech Square Is Changing Its Name to 'Block' In a Meta-Esque Move Like Facebook, Square has outgrown its original focus, dealing with payment-processing systems for sellers, and now the company is rebranding as Block, in a nod to its ambitions in the world of blockchain.
Business & Tech Stripe Is Leaving Its San Francisco Headquarters for South San Francisco South San Francisco as the new tech hub? Stripe just made the first move, heading for the biotech office park land where they’ll pay no payroll or gross receipts taxes.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wealthy Residents Of California And D.C. Are Some Of America's Worst Tippers On an episode of KQED's Forum earlier this month that focused on the practice of tipping, participants posited that the more affluent a customer is, the more generously he or she will tip.
SF News Tech Industry Interns Making Upwards Of $10,000 Per Month 💰 state of top tech internship offers, 2016 #talkpay pic.twitter.com/Mkp5XWQyuE— Rodney Folz (@rodneyfolz) April 26, 2016 The Bay Area is an expensive place to live — a fact which tech giants like
Arts & Entertainment Does Rapper And Self-Proclaimed Witch Azealia Banks Control Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey? Querulous recording artist Azealia Banks, whose Twitter feed is a simmering broth of homophobia, nonsense, and the occasional Donald Trump endorsement, may hold in her hands the fate of billionaire CEO Jack Dorsey.
SF News Square's Dismal IPO Perceived As Referendum On Unicorn Brethren Jack Dorsey developed Square's signature card reader and made waves in the mobile payments world after he was removed from Twitter in 2008. It's been a rocky ride since, but as the Verge
SF News Twitter Stock Takes Another Dip After Earnings Call, And Square's Numbers Aren't Great Either "We continued to see strong financial performance this quarter," Jack Dorsey said in a statement picked up by CNBC among others. The CEO, who has served in that role for a short three
SF News Generous, Guilty Jack Dorsey Gives Back $200 Million In Twitter Stock To Employees As CEO of both Twitter and Square, Jack Dorsey has likened a choice between the two companies he co-founded to a choice between his children, according to a source to Re/code. Although
SF News Jack Dorsey Giving Half His Square Equity To New Foundation Helping Ferguson, MO Jack Dorsey is so many things. He's Twitter's CEO. He's Square's CEO. He's a Missourian. And now he's making a name for himself as philanthropist. To recap: When this guy isn't, for example,
SF News With His Other Hand, Jack Dorsey Files For Square IPO When Jack Dorsey isn't somewhat inelegantly downsizing Twitter, he's busy filing for an initial public offering on behalf of the OTHER company at which he's CEO: Square! Get ready to trade on that
SF News Will Square Go Public, Kaput, Or To The Highest Bidder? As somewhat-prodigal Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey prepares to fully return to that company, moving from chairman to CEO, the ramifications for Square, the mobile payments company Dorsey also founded and where he currently
