SF News To Encourage Voting, Over 100 Startups Will Give Employees Election Day Off At least 100 technology startups and venture capitol companies — many of which are run by signatories of an open letter opposing presidential candidate Donald Trump — have vowed to give employees November 8, 2016
SF News Apple Won't Give Computers Or Donations To GOP Convention, As It Traditionally Does, Because Trump CBS 5 calls it a "boycott," which might be an extreme way of looking at it, but yes, Politico reports that Apple will not lend any help to the GOP convention over the
SF News Uber Investor: The Bay Area Bubble Will Pop This Year, And More Than Tech Will Suffer Less than two weeks after investor Mark Cuban warned us all that the Silicon Valley sky is getting ready to fall, another VC is making similar predictions: that the Bay Area is in
SF News Bon Voyage, reCAPTCHA: Now Google Can Tell You're Human Just From A Click No one likes reCAPTCHA and everyone's encountered it before. Now the technique of asking users to type in distorted text in order to weed out bots from humans is headed for retirement. Maybe
SF News Another Private Bus Service Enters The Marina Commute Race, This One With Twitter Money Though we've already bemoaned the pompously named Chariot that caters to Marina folk, everyone seems to want a seat on the bus privatization bus. Now the San Francisco Business Times introduces us to
Arts & Entertainment Was Indie Band Pomplamoose's Tour Diary Sob Story Just Shilling For A Startup? The viral web is full of pleas for attention, affection and (usually monetary) support. So when SFist and other sites like TechCrunch took to the story of the NorCal indie recording artist Pomplamoose,
SF News Here's How Much Tech Companies Are Paying Interns Who Can Code In a list guaranteed to make you do a spit-take, here are some of the absurd "top offers" for undergraduate summer internships at tech companies in the Bay Area. They were tweeted out
SF News New 'Facebook at Work' Service Means Business, Not Pleasure Could Facebook be your new friend in the office? Zuck and co. hope so. Unsatisfied with its 757 million daily users' average of 40 minutes per day looking at drunken photos of friends
SF News Bay Area Tech Company Busted For Paying Indian Workers $1.21/Hour We hear it again and again, especially in the comments of reports regarding Bay Area tech workers: just because you're working for a local tech company doesn't mean you're making Zuck money. But
SF News Report: Tech Shuttle Drivers Have Pretty Miserable Lives No big surprise here, but the drivers piloting the army of tech-company shuttles ferrying people between San Francisco and Silicon Valley are largely underpaid and overworked, as the Chronicle reports. And while the
SF News Apple Recommends Pre-Ordering iPhone 6, Still Has A Few Models Left For In-Store Pickup; Also, The Reviews Are In We don't yet know how rabid the on-the-ground eagerness will be come Thursday night/Friday morning at the downtown S.F. Apple Store (or at Apple Stores around the Bay Area). But Apple
SF News Apple Unveils Watch, New Larger iPhones [Live-Blog] Apple's biggest and most anticipated unveiling in at least two years is happening this morning in Cupertino, and news correspondents from the East Coast have been standing outside the large, mysterious white cube
SF News Will Tech Workers Get Dinged By The IRS For Free Lunches? You know how all the big tech companies employ their own executive chefs and provide lovely lunch and dinner options to their employees every day so no one ever has to leave the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Booze-Delivery App Launches In S.F. Just the other week I was talking about the glut of new food-delivery startups like Instacart, Caviar, and Spoonrocket, and I mentioned the booze delivery services that are already in town like Saucey
Arts & Entertainment Sign Of The Apocalypse: Motorized Unicycles Taking Over SF, TV Reporter Announces "Tech hipsters are using new electric unicycles to get around town" begins this report from KRON4 on what might be the most irritating thing I have seen in a very irritating day. Described
SF News Beware The Rise Of The 'Brogrammer' Sometime in the last ten or twelve years, the stereotypical image of the Silicon Valley programmer has shifted from socially awkward, Utili-kilt-wearing geek to something far more sinister, and fratty, and sexist. Mother
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'SF Playa' Pokes Fun At San Francisco Lifestyle PBR, Dolores Park, Madrone, salted-caramel, guys who wear those brightly colored sunglasses, waiting in line like sheep for ice cream, start-ups, average-size penises — Chris Avery's parody rap video 'SF Playa' pokes fun at
Arts & Entertainment Rent Floating Island, 'Mrs. Doubtfire' House Via Eventup Looking to throw the most precious wedding ever? In need of a location for that indie film on a shoestring budget? Or just looking for a quiet staycation? Look no further than Eventup,
SF News Google At Work On Some Sort Of Home Entertainment System Sigh. Remember Google TV? Yeah, we barely do. Anyway, the Bay Area's most well publicized employer is working on their first real foray into the world of entertainment hardware, with the intent of
SF News No One Wants In On Zynga Stock Zynga, the social gaming company responsible for CityVille and FarmVille and countless other time wasters went public today, but no one on Wall Street seemed to want to get in on the game.
