SF News Google Ventures, Other VC Firms Invest $120 Million In $700 Wi-Fi Enabled Juice Machine Silicon Valley may well be running out of juice, as streams of venture capital dry up and some San Franciscans root for a cooling-off period. But investors like Google Ventures (GV, as it's
SF News Uber CEO: IPO Currently Planned For Never Because Market Is 'Irrational' Marc Benioff, billionaire philanthropist and noted unicorn skeptic, said last year that “The unicorn mania that’s going on, that’s dangerous for our Silicon Valley economy." As opposed to crazytalk private investments
SF News Up To Code? Tech Bootcamps Face Fines For Operating Without Licenses San Jose-based Coding Dojo wasn't supposed to be a school at all. As CEO Richard Wang explained to SFist last fall, the private postsecondary school's founder, Michael Choi, was managing several startups including
SF News The On-Demand/Shut-In Economy Is Definitely Slowing Down, If Not Dying With the shuttering of SpoonRocket last week, the recent news that Instacart was slashing its fees and commissions to drivers, and the December closure of rideshare also-ran Sidecar, there's been plenty of talk
SF News Twitter Briefing: Company Will Maintain 140-Character Limit Twitter may have 99 problems, but 140 characters ain't one. The company will maintain its signature limit on tweet length, as CEO Jack Dorsey recently announced on the Today show. "It's staying," said
SF News Segway Patent Complaint May Lead To Ban On Most Hoverboard Imports Thanks to the Consumer Product Safety Commission and countless reports of spontaneous combustion, we know that hoverboards are wildly unsafe to ride. Now we learn that they're even unsafe to import into the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SpoonRocket Shuts Down On Same Day That UberEats Launches Standalone App On-demand meal delivery service SpoonRocket announced today that it is shutting down, effective immediately. The Berkeley-based company, reports TechCrunch, was unable to secure additional funding and when a last-ditch effort at negotiating an
SF News For Success, Startups Look To Crazy New Metric: Profitability In a survey of 929 tech and healthcare startup executives, Silicon Valley Bank has made a shocking discovery. Just 64 percent felt business conditions would improve this year, writes Wired, representing an 18
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Teens React To Windows 95 Here's a fun little video to get you over that mid-afternoon slump and simultaneously make (most of) you feel really, really old. Fine Brothers Entertainment got a bunch of teenagers and sat them
SF News How Many San Franciscans Are Rooting For The Tech Economy To Tank? As they sometimes do with towns they consider their curious backwater cousins, the New York Times has taken up the current state of San Francisco, macro-psychologically, today in yet another piece about the
SF News LinkedIn CEO Gives His $14 Million Stock Bonus Back To Employees LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner would like to add millions to the coffers of employees in his professional network. Combing through some filings, Re/code discovered a generous move on Weiner's part, which the
SF News Single Mother Alleges Mistreatment And Unjust Dismissal By Yelp Following shortly on the heels of last month's open letter to Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman accusing him of paying his employees less than a livable wage, a single mother working in Yelp's sales
SF News Zenefits 'Grew Too Fast,' Will Lay Off 17% Of Workforce New Zenefits CEO David Sacks, the company's former COO who replaced co-founder and CEO Parker Conrad after his resignation following revelations of compliance issues, is attempting a turnaround. To perform that, Sacks claims
SF News Facebook Employees Keep Crossing Out 'Black Lives Matter' And Writing 'All Lives Matter' At Company HQ Something is rotten in Menlo Park. On the public wall slash internal message board thing at Facebook headquarters, modeled on the digital "wall" of the social network, Facebook employees have taken to crossing
SF News Corporate Shuttles Avoid Environmental Appeal, Stops Capped At Current Number Like a contemporary cable car, the corporate tech shuttle — a symbol of San Francisco but with slightly different connotations — has again been preserved. The Chronicle reports that a political deal was finalized to
SF News SoMa Corner Billboard Becomes Oracle Of Tech Bubbles Past And Present This billboard advertising space at the corner of 9th and Folsom has, it seems, been a kind of harbinger of a bubble ready to burst in the past or, at the very least,
SF News Selling The Farmville: Zynga To Offload SF Headquarters San Francisco-based mobile games-making something something unprofitable Zynga has one trick left up its sleeve: the sleeve itself, which the company now plans to sell. As Bay Area real estate blog The Registry
SF News Van Shuttle Service Chariot Heralds New Mission Route Check the app, lords and ladies: Your "Chariot" awaits. The two-year-old network of about 90 14-seater vans that are only elegant when compared with Muni — which is maybe the point — is coming to
SF News Apple Will Fight Court Order To Hack Into iPhone Of San Bernardino Shooter Apple is vowing to fight a court's order issued last week telling them to help feds build a "backdoor" to the iPhone belonging to one of the shooters in the San Bernardino terrorist
SF News Yahoo's Million Dollar Employee Handbook Of Inspirational Platitudes "Yahoos are unbowed and committed to going back to our roots and getting Yahoo to kick ass again." — from Yahoo's "Big Red Book" It's not clear who, exactly, is calling a work of
SF News Uber Protest Less Disruptive Than Imagined With Just 200 Of 1,500 Expected Drivers The "Uber Drivers United" representative whose call to protest the company's recent fare cuts — from 10 to 45 percent in 100 North American cities such as San Francisco — might have been tooting his
SF News Twitter Getting Sold To Marc Andreessen? Shares of Twitter are up over nine percent as of this writing Monday morning all over a rumor that investor Marc Andreessen is going to step in and save the day, along with
SF News Now You Can Flag Nextdoor Posts For Racial Profiling "Love thy neighbor" isn't typically the guiding principle on Nextdoor.com, the private, free social network for neighborhoods which launched in San Francisco in 2011. Since then it's raised, per Crunchbase, over $200
SF News Labs For Healthcare Startup Theranos Present 'Immediate Jeopardy To Patient Safety' The first results from an investigation into Palo Alto-based healthcare technology startup Theranos are in, and they aren't favorable for the health of the formerly whinnying Silicon Valley Unicorn. The blood-sampling technology upon
SF News How Uber Knows If Your Driver Is Speeding Or Playing With Their Phone "How's my driving?" Oh please, Uber already knows. The company doesn't need for you to call a number listed on an old-fashioned bumper sticker to tell them that one of their drivers is
