SF News 2001 All Over Again?: Apple, Twitter, Square, Yahoo Stocks Hit New Lows This Morning Though late-morning and afternoon trading on Wall Street has seen all four stocks bump up a bit, this morning looked really dismal for the local tech sector as the stock prices of Apple
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 Trump Vows To Force Apple To Manufacture Things In U.S. As the man who would be President, Donald Trump, continues to spout generalizations and make blanket promises that a certain segment of Americans want to hear, he has a new one aimed at
SF News Use Tinder? You Have A Secret Internal Desirability Rating! Sean Rad, the 29-year-old CEO of Tinder who now infamously didn't know the meaning of the word "sodomy", now tells Fast Company he has an "above average" desirability rating. What's this? Internally, it's
SF News 60% Of Women In Tech Are Sexually Harassed (And More Numbers To Make You Throw Up) via GIPHY A new study of more than 200 women in technology reveals a hypocrisy with which many will be woefully familiar: A booming industry built on the promise of a new world
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Techies Credit Strength To German Energy Soda In the popular imagination, hackers and coders subsist on Soylent alone. However, according to a trend piece over at KQED, a new beverage of choice is the source of strength for technologists in
SF News Brain Drain: Game App Lumosity Will Pay $2 Million For 'Unfounded' Cognitive Benefit Claims Lumosity, a series of brain-training games founded in 2005 and based right here in the App-alachia of San Francisco, has agreed to pay $2 million for making false claims that its many offerings
SF News More Shkreli Fallout: KaloBios Files For Bankruptcy You saw this coming if you were paying attention: After the NASDAQ delisted the stock of SF-based KaloBios and halted trading of it last week in the wake of CEO Martin Shkreli's arrest,
SF News Google Glass 2.0 Is On Its Way, And It Won't Be Marketed To Consumers Alphabet is not giving up on Google Glass. As the company said earlier this year, the road has not gone off a cliff for the much reviled facecomputer, and now 9 to 5
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 Google Partners With Ford For Self-Driving Car Manufacture Google well, technically Alphabet has struck a non-exclusive partnership deal with Ford to build its first production run of autonomous vehicles, as Yahoo Autos is reporting. This marks a shift for Ford, which
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 Judge Bars Uber From Imposing New Contract Denying Drivers Access To Class Actions Uber Technologies Inc. has been barred by US District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco from imposing a new and reworded contract that is “likely, frankly, to engender confusion" in Chen's words. Bloomberg
Arts & Entertainment The Irony!: Three Big Tech Companies All Had <i>Great Gatsby</i>-Themed Holiday Parties This Year A lot of people, including SFist, were quick to call 2014's bubble-riffic round of tech company holiday parties "excessive," which has perhaps prompted them to be a little more low-key about talking about
SF News Yahoo Shareholders Propose Plan To Cut 9,000 Jobs Activist shareholders who have held significant sway over internet company Yahoo have now proposed plans to radically downsize its workforce of 10,700, presenting an alternative to the board's decision last week to
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 Marc Benioff: 'Unicorn Mania' Is 'Dangerous For Our Silicon Valley Economy' Salesforce CEO and billionaire philanthropist Marc Benioff isn't showing a lot of charity to privately funded startups valued at $1 billion or more before being taken public, a group colloquially named unicorns. “The
SF News Out Of Order: Twitter Tests Non-Chronological Feed Twitter time is out of joint. A number of users have been selected to test a new feature, which some already consider a bug, finding their precious tweets presented according to an algorithmic
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,
SF News Average SF Tech Wages Up 12.8% To $176K (With Bonuses, Stock Options) The average wages for industries in the United States went up by 3.1 percent for 2014 to reach $51,364 according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Chronicle ran last
SF News Uber Tests Color-Coded Windshield Bars To Help You Get In The Right Stranger's Car Are you my Uber? The technology company (often mistaken for a transportation company) is no stranger to this confusion. As their service grows, and grows and grows, Uber realizes that users in busy
SF News Adieu, Yahoo? Anonymous Sources Say Company May Sell CEO Marissa Mayer's weary Internet giant has gone from Yahoo! to Yahoo??? as anonymous sources tell the Wall Street Journal the company may sell its core business. Meanwhile, Yahoo Inc. maintains its valuable
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 Facebook Disables SF Woman's Account Because Her Name Is Isis Isis Anchalee, the female platform engineer who was at the center of the #ILookLikeAnEngineer campaign earlier this year, made a public outcry via Twitter this week about the fact that Facebook had locked
