SF News Tinder CEO Sean Rad: A Case Study In Why 29-Year-Old CEOs Shouldn't Run Their Mouths A hilarious profile published Wednesday in London's Evening Standard raises a lot of questions about Tinder CEO Sean Rad's intelligence, and his fitness to be a CEO not to mention their PR person's
SF News Square's Dismal IPO Perceived As Referendum On Unicorn Brethren Jack Dorsey developed Square's signature card reader and made waves in the mobile payments world after he was removed from Twitter in 2008. It's been a rocky ride since, but as the Verge
SF News At Least 10 Tech Campuses Threatened By El Niño Flooding First El Niño took your Dungeness crabs, then it brought you thunderstorms in November, and now it threatens to turn the Googleplex into a swamp. According to a new report in the SF
SF News Pilot Tech Shuttle Program Has Become Permanent As Wired rightly puts it, "Few things have come to epitomize San Francisco gentrification anxiety more than private Silicon Valley shuttle buses," and today we can announce that all those hulking, white "Google
Arts & Entertainment In A Move To Compete Directly With Spotify, Pandora Buys Rdio Oakland-based Pandora just announced that it's purchasing the assets of San Francisco-based Rdio for $75 million, contingent on the latter company getting bankruptcy protection. As shouldn't be surprising given the rapid rise of
Arts & Entertainment Oxford Dictionaries Chooses A F***ing Emoji As Word Of The Year It's either the end of civilization as we know it or a terrific step in the academic recognition of the evolving importance of the visual language of emoji, depending on your perspective. But
SF News Dropbox To Exit Lease On Headquarters Near AT&T Park With 11 years to go on the lease of its China Basin office headquarters at 185 Berry Street near AT&T Park, cloud storage pioneer Dropbox is looking to ditch the 200,
SF News Yahoo Spent $70K To Dress Execs As Wizard Of Oz Characters At Company Party, And Marissa Mayer Was Dorothy Somewhere over the rainbow in Marin County, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer dressed herself as Dorothy and her staff as the rest of the characters from “The Wizard of Oz” in an elaborate, expensive
SF News Jesse Jackson Demands Racial Breakdown Of Twitter Layoffs As Last Black Engineering Boss Departs The self-described "only African-American in [engineering] leadership" at Twitter, Leslie Miley, has left the company. As he told the Chronicle this week, Miley's leave-taking was negotiated in September and stemmed from the Apple
Arts & Entertainment Vandal Tags Netflix HQ Sign With 'And Chill' Graffiti Someone turning "Netflix and chill" into graffiti outside Netflix's Los Gatos HQ... pic.twitter.com/7nEre4ouvg— scott budman (@scottbudman) November 4, 2015 According to photos circulating today, a graffiti artist and meme enthusiast
SF News Twitter Trades 'Favorite' Stars For 'Like' Hearts In the Twitterverse, until today at least, a tap of the star icon nominally indicated that something was a user's "favorite." But "faving," as the gesture was abbreviated, came to express much more
SF News Times Article Celebrates Airbnb, Fails To Mention Writer Is Spouse Of Company Investor Marc Andreessen In a forehead-slapping conflict of interest that probably anyone in Silicon Valley could have pointed out to the New York Times, that publication's style magazine, T, lauded a list of five entrepreneurs “harnessing
Arts & Entertainment 'The Hunt For The Unicorn Company' As Told In Medieval Tapestries Hanging today in The Cloisters of New York, The Hunt for the Unicorn Company is perhaps the most famous series of tapestries in human history, numbering seven in total, six of which survive
SF News Yelp Revenues Are Actually Up, But They're Still Losing Money San Francisco-based review site Yelp posted its third-quarter revenue report yesterday, beating analysts' expectations with a reported growth in revenues of 40 percent over the same quarter last year. The company's stock price
SF News Amazon Prime Now Couriers Are Latest To Seek Legal Recourse For Employee Benefits Free two-hour delivery has some high hidden costs for its providers, and Amazon isn't paying those in full, or so alleges a new lawsuit seeking class-action status. Al Jazeera America and Reuters report
SF News Jeb Bush Demonstrates Fundamental Misunderstanding Of Hoodies With SF Tech Schwag The jeb bush dukakis-in-a-tank moment we all knew was coming is finally here https://t.co/qP4OThNDiz— Scott Lucas (@ScottLucas86) October 26, 2015 Jeb Bush doesn't understand how hoodies work. And for some
SF News Twitter Stock Takes Another Dip After Earnings Call, And Square's Numbers Aren't Great Either "We continued to see strong financial performance this quarter," Jack Dorsey said in a statement picked up by CNBC among others. The CEO, who has served in that role for a short three
SF News Video: How Does A 97-Year-Old Woman 'Feel Like A Little Kid'? By Visiting Google HQ. "Can you possibly tell me what, up there, that's so vacant to me, you call a 'cloud,'" Olive Horrell, a 97-year-old great-grandmother, asked at Google's Mountain View headquarters. Horrell's adorable wish — to
SF News Generous, Guilty Jack Dorsey Gives Back $200 Million In Twitter Stock To Employees As CEO of both Twitter and Square, Jack Dorsey has likened a choice between the two companies he co-founded to a choice between his children, according to a source to Re/code. Although
SF News For The Last Time, There Is No 'Techie' Voting Bloc How do all techies vote? With ballots, like everyone else. Here's a better trick question. How do all young people vote? Not in local elections! Sad, but true, and not illegal. Age and
Arts & Entertainment <em>Felicity</em> Co-Creator Returns To TV With Silicon Valley Teen Drama <em>In The Wild</em> "The Real Teens of Silicon Valley," a magazine profile from June of "the almost-adult lives of the [technology] industry’s newest recruits," took some cues from television, as acknowledged in its title. But
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 With His Other Hand, Jack Dorsey Files For Square IPO When Jack Dorsey isn't somewhat inelegantly downsizing Twitter, he's busy filing for an initial public offering on behalf of the OTHER company at which he's CEO: Square! Get ready to trade on that
SF News Facebook Will Now Stop Showing You Photos Of Your Exes And Dead Pets, If You Tell It Not To In addition to testing six new reaction buttons that will let you at least show your empathy for a friend who's in the hospital without using a thumbs-up button, Facebook is finally rolling
SF News UberRush, Literally Uber For Deliveries, Launches Today In NY, SF, And Chicago Today in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, Uber is barging in with a behind-the-scenes service aimed at businesses who wish to deliver their wares, whatever they be, to customers via Uber's vast
