SF News Yahoo CEO Reportedly Joked About Layoffs At Company-Wide Meeting Our report that Yahoo was going to lay off 1000 staffers in the next month or so was met with a collective yawn from readers — a sign, perhaps, of the company's lack of
SF News Yahoo To Reportedly Ax 'At Least' 10% Of Its Workforce Over Next Few Months Oh, Yahoo. The long-struggling tech giant has been having wave after wave of layoffs in the last few years, with 14% of its workforce dumped over the course of 2015, alone. According to
SF News 2016's Prospects 'Less Optimistic' After Tech Stocks Take Market Hit The stock market's first day of trading for 2016 did not go so well for several local tech companies, with Alphabet, Facebook and Netflix all taking big hits in a trend that left
Arts & Entertainment Mike Monteiro Offers To Insult SF-Hating VC Guy In Exchange For Charitable Donations You know that withering, book- and fine carpet-loving Englishman who's woefully stuck in dreary San Francisco and wishes he could see some culture and trees again someday? Well, Benedict Evans, known previously to
SF News VC Guy Incites Twitter Ire By Saying There Is Nothing To Do Or See In San Francisco In yet another example of the ways in which the newer denizens of New San Francisco don't exactly appreciate the place, local tech jerk Benedict Evans took to Twitter last night to vent
SF News Are Tech Employees' Salary Demands Creating A 'Talent Crisis'? It feels good to be wanted. It's a feeling that employees in the tech industry know well, and with a new survey suggesting that hiring for coding talent in the first six months
SF News Actual Knight Won't 'Lower Standards' To Hire Women At Silicon Valley VC Firm Chivalric venture capitalist and literal knight Sir Michael Moritz sat down for an interview just called out by Vanity Fair with Bloomberg's Emily Chang, who pointed out the simple fact that Sequoia Capital,
Arts & Entertainment Anonymously Written Tech-Skewering Art Book Gets Actual Publisher My favorite page from "Iterating Grace" See more here: https://t.co/QMGEJRqFvL pic.twitter.com/zlfa7ZY81i— John Susoeff (@jsusoeff) June 9, 2015 Remember this odd book of letter-pressed, handwritten-like reproductions of epigrammatic
SF News Nihilist Gay Group Adds Threatening Anti-Tech Fliers To Divis, Was Behind Last Crop In Mission Gay Shame, a group that describes itself on Facebook as "a Virus in the System.... committed to a queer extravaganza that brings direct action to astounding levels of theatricality," has now peppered the
SF News Uber Investor Says High Valuations For Private Tech Companies Are 'Fake,' Warns Of 'Correction' Bill Gurley is well-known as a Silicon Valley investor, with dough in Uber, DropBox, SnapChat, and others. He's also gaining a reputation as a guy who is unafraid to speak critically about these
SF News Twitter Layoffs Affect At Least 240 In SF In a letter to the California Employment Development Department, Twitter's Human Resources Department clarified that their current mass layoff a layoff is considered "mass" in CA if it's 50 or more people will
SF News Twitter Laying Off 8% Of Workforce, CEO Says 'This Isn't Easy. But It Is Right.' [Updated] Made some tough but necessary decisions that enable Twitter to move with greater focus and reinvest in our growth. http://t.co/BWd7EiGAF2— Jack (@jack) October 13, 2015 "New" Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey
SF News Twitter Rumored To Be Having Big Layoffs Next Week On Monday we learned that Twitter was making co-founder Jack Dorsey officially the CEO again, and that the company was immediately ditching plans for an expansion into some extra office space on Market
SF News Day Around The Bay: Tech Businesses Hide Their Political Donations Looking beyond just a tech bubble, the global economy may be serious danger, again. [Washington Post] Tech businesses are doing everything they can to hide their political donations. [Chron] New management comes to
SF News More 'No Tech Zone' Signs Appear; Perpetrator Revealed As Artist Who Wants Us To Get Off Our Phones Though many jumped on the notion that that "No Tech Zone" sign that showed up in Alamo Square two weeks ago purporting to levy a $300 fine for people caught using mobile devices
SF News Life After The Boom: What Will Happen When This Bubble Bursts Earlier this week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its largest intraday loss in history. With it, several major Bay Area stocks sunk low. Shares of Twitter dipped below their IPO price, and
SF News First Week Of Colbert's 'Late Show' Will Feature Elon Musk And Travis Kalanick by Jack Morse Not content to disrupt the way we move from Point A to Point B, tech CEO's Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick will be disrupting our late-night comedy in the coming
SF News Ellen Pao Resigns From Reddit 'By Mutual Agreement,' Leaving Post As Interim CEO According to an announcement made this afternoon on Reddit by board member and Y Combinator President Sam Altman, Ellen Pao, who has been the interim CEO for the San Francisco-based network of "subreddit"
SF News What Is Google's Sidewalk Labs And How Will It 'Improve City Life'? This week Google co-founder Larry Page announced the launch of a new "moonshot" company being fully funded by Google called Sidewalk Labs, with the broad and vague mission to "improve life in cities
SF News [Updated] Highlights From The Google I/O Developer Conference Keynote If you're wondering who all those nerds are in the vicinity of the Moscone Center today, it's a legion of developers who are currently getting a peek at the next version of the
SF News Silicon Valley Fashion Week: So Hot Right Now In San Francisco we're more slaves to technology than to fashion. But a new fashion technology summit called "Silicon Valley Fashion Week?" hosted by Mission-based Betabrand and held not on the Peninsula but
SF News New Service Turns Random Stanford Students Into 'Nerd' TaskRabbits Stanford isn't just a stellar institution of higher learning. It's a sterling brand, with amazing alums as ubiquitous as Cardinal sweatshirts. And now harnessing the school's star power is a service called Nerd,
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
Arts & Entertainment Behold Google's Crazy New 'Canopy'-Covered Campus Designs We've been hearing a lot this week about the city of Mountain View, California and its residents being a little fed up with getting steamrolled by their biggest employer, Google. The New York
SF News Apple Watch To Be Unveiled, For Real This Time, March 9 Invitations have gone out for Apple's next big unveiling event, on March 9, with the cheeky and obvious tagline "Spring Forward" as the sole clue about what the focus of the event will
