SF News Twitter Lays Off Some Employees Via Voicemail, Locks Them Out Of Email Without Telling Them "I'm one of the unlucky (or lucky) engineers that got laid off from Twitter," aptly named user LaidOffIn140 posted to Reddit this morning. "They haven't even told us yet, but woke up to
SF News Twitter Rumored To Be Having Big Layoffs Next Week On Monday we learned that Twitter was making co-founder Jack Dorsey officially the CEO again, and that the company was immediately ditching plans for an expansion into some extra office space on Market
SF News Is Silicon Valley Simply Too Young To Remember The Last Bubble Bursting? Whether you assume that a "market correction" or bubble pop-pop is around the corner or not depends on which side of the local economic equation you live on. Those of us not currently
SF News More 'No Tech Zone' Signs Appear; Perpetrator Revealed As Artist Who Wants Us To Get Off Our Phones Though many jumped on the notion that that "No Tech Zone" sign that showed up in Alamo Square two weeks ago purporting to levy a $300 fine for people caught using mobile devices
SF News Apple Appears To Be Designing A Smart Ring Now For everyone who thinks the Apple Watch is an unnecessary advance, check out the Apple Ring. A new patent application filed Thursday and noted by Forbes and Techworm, among others, suggests that Apple
SF News In Further Simulacrum Of Life, Facebook To Add Moving Profile Pictures New, GIF-like Facebook profile pictures will be able to move for 7 seconds and then revert to stationary images, as you might have known if you or a friend work at Facebook and
SF News Chicken Daycare 'Qoopy' Is The Startup Parody That Could Finally Wake Us Up It looks like a startup: You've seen the minimalist, mobile-friendly design before. It squawks like a startup: Twitter account? Check. But Qoopy, which purports to be a "waitlist only" doggy daycare for your
SF News New Tesla Model X Equipped With Bioweapon Filtration For The Apocalypse Want to race through a decimated cityscape, Mad Max-style, in your shiny Tesla without fear of being infected by the weaponized virus that has killed off all your friends? You will be able
SF News Horrible People Trying To Launch Yelp For People In an age in which you can write reviews of your bus line and join a dating app exclusively for the tech and business elite, it only stands to reason that someone would
SF News Yes, It Looks Like Jack Dorsey Is There To Stay As Twitter CEO Don't call it a comeback, because Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has already been back, serving as the company's interim CEO since Dick Costolo stepped down in June. But now, as investors like the
SF News Twitter Will Expand Beyond 140 Characters Via Unnamed New Product What's that? Ur tired of dumbing down ur English 2 make it fit w/in Twitter's 140-character limit? Well, there may finally be a change coming to that arbitrary, 2007-era constraint, according to
SF News Startup Doze Monetizes Nap Time For Tired Techies Nap time isn't just for cranky kindergartners anymore. Not exactly. Enter Doze — an actual startup spending real money that's selling twenty-five minute naps for just $20. Where's that capital going? Into EnergyPods, Bose®
SF News Will Uber Be Oakland's Savior, Or Just Become Occupy's Next Target? Reactions have been across the map to yesterday's big news that Uber had snagged the huge former Sears building in downtown Oakland for what will be a new East Bay sister-headquarters come 2017.
SF News Do More Tech Shuttle Stops Lead Directly To Higher Rents And More Evictions? Tensions over tech shuttles live on, surprisingly or unsurprisingly depending on where you stand on the "San Francisco has been destroyed" vs. "all change is good change" spectrum. And now anti-shuttle and anti-eviction
Arts & Entertainment 'No Tech Zone' Sign Appears At Alamo Square, Gets Promptly Removed Someone, possibly a local artist, printed up a rather professional looking street sign that was very professionally bracketed to a lamppost under some parking signs on the eastern edge of Alamo Square Sunday
Arts & Entertainment Video: Behold, The Full-Size Emoji Keyboard For no reason other than making good YouTube fodder, the world now has a full-scale emoji keyboard, featuring every emoji currently in existence, plus a few that aren't even compatible with most devices
SF News Tech Companies Already Recruiting Boy Arrested For Bringing Homemade Clock To School While Muslim I expect they will have more to say tomorrow, but Ahmed's sister asked me to share this photo. A NASA shirt! pic.twitter.com/nR4gt992gB— Anil Dash (@anildash) September 16, 2015 As everyone
SF News Twitter Is All Up In Your Private Messages, Class Action Lawsuit Alleges Twitter has been sliding into your DMs (direct messages between users) or so claims a class action lawsuit reported on by BuzzFeed. Though the company asserts the privacy of these messages, the suit
SF News Facebook Will Get A Dislike Button As Zuckerberg Admits The World Is Not All Like-able For years, as the popularity of Facebook has exploded as not only a space for sharing enviable photos of your beach vacation but also as a place to vent about current events, mourn
SF News Facebook Rolling Out Temporary Profile Pics You know how half your friends made their profile pics rainbow in support of gay marriage 26 million Facebook users did, anyway and at least half of those still haven't changed them back
SF News Gurbaksh Chahal's Domestic Violence Hearing Postponed Amid Scandal A hearing for ad tech mogul Gurbaksh “G” Chahal on charges of domestic violence — specifically hitting and kicking a woman whom he met while on trial for 45 felony counts of similar behavior
SF News Apple Event Fallout: New iPhone Camera Takes Secret Video, Backlash Over Adobe App While the New York Times continues to give slobbery kisses to Apple and its iPhones every chance it gets, there has been some inevitable criticism following yesterday's splashy September product unveiling. First among
SF News Tech CEO Gurbaksh Chahal Reportedly Paid Willie Brown To Make Domestic Violence Charges 'Go Away' After the August 2013 arrest of founder and CEO Gurbaksh "G" Chahal on 45 felony counts of domestic abuse, Silicon Valley ad tech company RadiumOne reportedly sought to "do whatever it takes" to
SF News Apple Unveils Revolutionary Updates To TV, Rose Gold iPhone, New iPad Pro [Liveblog] Announced two weeks ago amid a bit of cultivated mystery, Apple is taking over San Francisco's Bill Graham Civic Auditorium this morning for a larger (in scale) than usual product release. They might
SF News Apple, Google, And Others Settle $415 Million Drawn-Out Anti-Poaching Case By the Wall Street Journal's tally, after four years, 36,215 billable attorney hours, and 3.2 million pages of legal documents, a class-action case concerning wages and "no-poaching" agreements among tech companies
