Arts & Entertainment What The Current SF Tech-Class War Has In Common With 'Downton Abbey' With the American premiere of the fourth season of Downton Abbey on Sunday (we know, you and your clever friends downloaded it via Britain months ago) came a new round of reviews in
SF News Google Now Ferrying Employees To Work By Boat After catching plenty of backlash (both warranted and misguided) for their shuttle buses, Google is now experimenting with a new way to get workers from San Francisco to Redwood City: by skipping the
SF News S.F. Can't Profit From Shuttle Buses Monday saw an agreement between the SFMTA and the privately contracted shuttle buses that ferry tech workers up and down the Peninsula. But while the agreement marks the first government regulation of the
SF News Meanwhile, In Oakland: 'Die Techie Scum' I've lived in Oakland for 33 years and never seen this kind of hate. It doesn't help anyone. pic.twitter.com/lZE2JU2Omv— Bill Budge (@BillB) January 3, 2014 Video game programmer and designer
SF News Stanford Tries To Burn Michigan State With Snapchat Logo At Rose Bowl The notoriously loopy Stanford marching band created a stir at yesterday's Rose Bowl game after (incorrectly) forming the Snapchat ghost during halftime. Why? Well, company founders, Evan Spiegel and Robert Murphy, created the
SF News Current Economic Boom Surpasses Dot-Com Boom In Half The Time Call it the Early Twenty-Teens Tech Boom, or whatever you want to call it, but it has officially surpassed the late-'90s Dot-Com Boom with no slowing in sight. In fact, as Ted Egan
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Portland Restaurants, Tech Cafeterias Are Eating Up All Of S.F.'s Cooks 2013 had more than a few stories about skyrocketing rents and the potential exodus of the creative class, but yesterday's Christmas edition of the Chronicle exposed another group that can no longer afford
SF News Angry Protesters Block, Smash Google Bus The Gbus minus window. pic.twitter.com/qfMnzFgiLf— Craig Frost (@craigsfrost) December 20, 2013 In another display of ire directed toward vehicles that haul Google employees to and from work, a smattering of
SF News Tech Investor's Ballot Initiative Wants To Split California Into Six States Tech investor Tim Draper — a VC behind such brands as Skype and Hotmail — has a bizarre ballot initiative ready for consideration, one that would not only split California into six separate states but
SF News Twitter Rents Out S.F. City Hall For Holiday Party Listening to @dickc toasting to 2013. Proud of Twitter! #celebrate pic.twitter.com/kZdDx57a67— Jessica Verrilli (@jess) December 20, 2013 As if there wasn't already growing feeling that the Mayor was secretly in
Arts & Entertainment Slate's Answer To Growing Tech Backlash: Move Silicon Valley To Cleveland Notoriously contrarian Internet publication Slate has a new solution to the growing backlash between local tech companies and the local citizens who seem to have a problem with them. Using last week's anti-eviction
SF News Free Wi-Fi Now Available On Market Street From Castro To The Embarcadero As part of the city's efforts to embrace technology as a democratizing (rather than polarizing) force, Mayor Ed Lee announced today the first step in a long-awaited municipal Wi-Fi service. Starting today, you'll
SF News Google Execs Shamed For Getting Government Discount On Fuel For Private Jets When Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page and chairman Eric Schmidt fire up their private jets for long weekends in Tahiti, they've been doing so with improperly discounted jet fuel via a
SF News Several Suggestions For Where Tech Jerks Can Donate Their Tech Money This Holiday Season Christmas should be a time for giving, and generosity of spirit, as most of understand. But since Greg Gopman, and presumably many of his tech-industry friends, find the scene on Market Street "grotesque"
SF News Startup CEO Trashes SF's Homeless 'Degenerates' Let's all bid Greg Gopman of AngelHack adieu from Baghdad by the Bay. This place, it seems, is just too gross for him. See, the noted maker could be the second coming of
SF News Could Uber Be Bigger Than Facebook Someday? That's the idea being chattered about in venture capital circles, and the chatter is becoming much louder after the leak of some recent financials from Uber that show it could be on track
SF News 'This Is A City For The Right Kind Of People,' Screams (FAKE) Google Employee To Protester [Update] In a video taken at Monday morning's Google bus protest in the Mission District, SF Bay Guardian reporter Joe Fitz Rodriguez captured a heated exchange* between an alleged Google employee and a protester.
SF News Anti-Eviction Protesters Block Google Bus In The Mission [Update] The revolution has begun, comrades. Over in the city's tony Mission District at 24th and Valencia, a group of protesters braved the chill to block a Google Bus from moving its merry band
SF News Mysterious Google Barge Now Under Investigation The ongoing saga of Google's mysterious barge/Glass showroom/"technology learning center" continues this week with news that the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission announcing that they've launched a formal investigation
SF News It's Official: This Boom Is Bigger Than The Last Boom, At Least For Office Space In the past three years alone, as the Chron is reporting via a new report by CB Richard Ellis, tech companies have leased 40% more office space than in the entire five-year period
SF News Techies Hate It When You Call Them That, Say Techies In Coffee Shops The preferred terms, according to one techie interviewed by the Chronicle while working at a Four Barrel Coffee in the Mission, are: "hackers," "makers," or "coders." The dreaded t-word is not only insulting,
SF News Mysterious Google Barge Is Officially A Floating Retail Store About a month after news broke that Google's mystery barge in the San Francisco Bay was more like a fancy Google sailboat, a few more details have emerged about the floating heap loaded
SF News Willie Brown Has Some PR Advice For The Tech Industry; NYT Discovers The Tech Boom Backlash Willie Brown's Sunday column in the Chron turns out to have been kind of prescient with regard to the tech industry's growing PR problem. Just as he was suggesting that tech company's start
SF News In New Trial, Samsung Ordered To Pay Apple $600 Million The latest chapter in the years-long battle between mobile device makers Samsung and Apple concluded today with a federal court jury in San Jose ordering Samsung to fork over a total of $598
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, At The Warriors Game... YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley — currently being sued by Kimye for having the gall to film the notoriously private couple's engagement party at AT&T Park — listens to a special lady friend during
