Arts & Entertainment Former Googlers/Twitterers Kickstarting Icebreaker Card Game Socializing is difficult, and personally, I try to avoid it. When I do find myself — however accidentally — at a gathering with others, I start in with the usual pleasantries. A bit about my
SF News Self-Driving Car Engineer Now Wants To Make Big-Rig Trucks That Drive Themselves An SF-based startup called Otto is aiming to let truck drivers take naps on the open highway while still being able to continue hauling their loads, via robot drivers. It's the brainchild of
SF News New Union Square Apple Store To Open Gigantic Sliding Glass Doors Saturday Apple fanboys and girls will want to set their iCals and synchronize their Apple Watches, because Apple's gleaming new Union Square retail store at 300 Post Street will open this Saturday, May 21st,
Arts & Entertainment Twitter Will Exclude Links And Photos From 140-Character Limit "Big if true," as they say on Twitter. Bloomberg reports that the microblogging service or whatever we're calling it now won't include the characters taken up by links and photos as part of
SF News Layoffs At Tech Companies Double What They Were Last Year At This Time Can we all admit, finally, that the tech bubble has indeed burst, or at least floated off and disappeared somehow as bubbles do? It may be less of a pop-up than just a
SF News Openly Gay Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel Comes Out As Trump Supporter Local smartest-man-in-the-room VC Peter Thiel has apparently applied his contrarian tendencies to this election year as we learn today that he's signed on to be a delegate for Donald Trump. Like some of
Arts & Entertainment Facebook Plans $4.4 Million Solar Canopies, $1.3 Million Noodle Bar For HQ After a year at its new, Frank Gehry-designed headquarters, Facebook looks to be making their house a home. As Curbed reports on building permits sleuthed by Buildzoom, the company, which often leaves areas
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SF News Zynga HQ Officially Worth More Than Zynga It's official: The Zynga headquarters is now worth more than Zynga. We learned in February that the maker of Farmville intended to sell its Design District office building for was what assumed to
SF News Cupertino Mayor Says Apple Kicked Him Out Of HQ Cupertino, California: Pop, 58,302 Souls, plus 1 Gigantic Company. That, of course, would be Apple, and in an interview highlighting the seemingly frayed town-gown relations, so to speak, between the company and
Arts & Entertainment YouTube To Launch Major Cable TV Alternative Called Unplugged In 2017 YouTube, and parent company Alphabet, has been undergoing a major overhaul of its underlying technical architecture in preparation for the launch of a subscription based, bundled TV service, as Bloomberg is reporting. It's
SF News Twitter Stock Hits Another All-Time Low At the very second Twitter stock hit a new, all-time low of $13.90 per share today, a brief moment observed by CNet and others from which the share price has partially recovered
SF News Like It Did For Uber Drivers, Treasurer's Office Orders Airbnb Hosts To Get Business Licenses Earlier this month, roughly 37,000 drivers for Uber and Lyft were mailed letters from San Francisco City Treasurer Jose Cisneros indicating that, as contractors, they must apply for business licenses to operate
Arts & Entertainment Instagram Is Testing Out A New, Whiter Look Instagram сменил дизайн на чёрно‑белый#эфир https://t.co/HPbevQcl4M pic.twitter.com/TC6aPAKKlc— The Village (@villagemsk) April 27, 2016 Your Insta might look a little different soon, according to a leaked
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Amazon Prime Now And FIVE Other New Food Delivery Startups Enter Crowded Local Market At this point, San Francisco needs another food delivery app about as much as we need another Super Bowl, but that isn't stopping a new gaggle of startups from entering the fray. As
SF News Has Twitter's Slowed Growth (And Layoffs) Brought Apartment Rents Down? Many of us not in the tech industry saw Twitter's small round of layoffs last fall, and their decision in January to sublet some of their office space in their Mid-Market headquarters as
Arts & Entertainment Video: Mark Zuckerbro Explains 'The Facebook' In 2005 In 2005, Facebook was in its infancy and Mark Zuckerberg was in his early '20s — a period of young nerdbro-dom he signifies with a traditional red solo cup. Of course, the Facebook we
SF News Lots Of Tech Talent Trying To Leave SF For NY Compared to last year, many more of the tech-employed are trying to flee the Bay Area, and of those looking to relocate, about half are hoping to move to New York. This is
SF News Tech Writer Kara Swisher Announces Plan To Run For SF Mayor... In Seven Years Tech journalist and Re/code co-founder Kara Swisher has spent two decades sniffing around board rooms and harassing tech executives and venture capitalists over Instant Messenger, and now she's looking to pivot into
Arts & Entertainment Eff-Ing In SF, Vol. 6: Completely Forget About Your Girlfriend With Automated Gift Delivery "Roses are red, violets are blue, and we'll send them both to your girlfriend for you." Okay, while not in those exact words, that's the basic pitch behind a suite of services such
SF News As Uber Settles With SF & LA For $25 Million, Lyft's Class Action Settlement Is Denied On-point SF ad vandalism (what was Lyft thinking?) pic.twitter.com/SabcKYmTwf— Chad Woodford (@cjam) March 31, 2016 In terms approved by the Superior Court of California, within 60 days, Uber Technologies will
Arts & Entertainment New App Wants To Be The Airbnb For Hot Tubs, Backyards Have we reached peak app in this our pretty clearly bubbly tech economy of 2016? Some people are still going to tell you no, but I'm here to tell you, and them, about
Arts & Entertainment Behold: 100 Female, Queer, And Non-White 'Techies' In Portraits And Interviews "Techie" has become a narrow, and quite often, a narrow-minded term. That's why Helena Price, a startup worker turned photographer, put out the call for stories from "underrepresented" techies — a group she identified
SF News Are Tech Workers Starting To Flee SF For Jobs In Cheaper Towns? The Bay Area costing what it does, and technology being a slightly more transplantable line of work than, say, farming or mining, a variety of pundits are once again wondering whether the Bay
SF News Not A Newsflash: Techies Hate Trump San Franciscans like to think of themselves as an enlightened bunch — from the love-parading nudists to the techno-utopian seasteaders, we know what's up. However, in recent years, the reputation of the quintessentially Bay
