SF News Life After The Boom: What Will Happen When This Bubble Bursts Earlier this week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its largest intraday loss in history. With it, several major Bay Area stocks sunk low. Shares of Twitter dipped below their IPO price, and
SF News First Week Of Colbert's 'Late Show' Will Feature Elon Musk And Travis Kalanick by Jack Morse Not content to disrupt the way we move from Point A to Point B, tech CEO's Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick will be disrupting our late-night comedy in the coming
Arts & Entertainment Video: Bidding War Over A Totally Sub-Par, Illegal Mission Apartment The satirical web series Tech Boom!, which I reviewed here last fall, has just come out with a second "season" of five brief episodes, of which the one above may be the funniest
Arts & Entertainment Tech Company A Cappella Groups To Perform In Relative Safety Of Atherton Tonight via GIPHY Though some might consider the performance of cappella pop music to be an inexcusable offense after (if not during) college, at least some employees from leading technology companies like Twitter and
SF News Google Express Shutting Down SF, Mountain View Hubs As Workers Campaign For Union The Google Express is switching tracks, as it were, shutting down on-demand delivery hubs in San Francisco and Mountain View as reports Re/code. The move to restructure comes just as a battle
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Environmental Activists Claim Techie Fave 'Soylent' Might Give You Brain Damage When software engineer Rob Rhinehart wrote a blog post on the lengths he'd go to live "less wastefully", many corners of the internet reacted with anger, dismay, and concern — the Soylent creator seemed
SF News Ed Lee's Big Money Tech Leader Donations, By The Numbers Even though Mayor Ed Lee's reelection bid is virtually unopposed, his campaign has been gathering cash hand over fist. One area from which he's getting big bucks is the tech sector (surprise!), just
SF News Google Now Owned By Company It Just Made Up In the largest bit of corporate restructuring news to ever engage a general audience, Google has created a new parent company called Alphabet which will own Google and a variety of that company's
SF News Map Renames SF Streets After Tech Companies To Make Our Heads Explode The Lyft Embarcadero. Postmates Street. IDGA Ventures USA Boulevard. Those are just a few new names for San Francisco thoroughfares according to the latest shudder-inducing experiment from mapping software company CartoDB. In it,
Arts & Entertainment How To Write About A Failed Startup: A 'Postmortem' Style Guide We can't all be unicorns. 9 out of 10 startups fail, and when they do, 10 out of 10 bereaved founders take to Medium or the company blog to share the news. The
SF News Apple Leasing Its First Major Office Space In SF For Apple's Chief Design Officer and San Francisco resident Sir Jonathan "Jony" Ive, the bothersome chore of being chauffeured to the company's Cupertino headquarters in a Bentley (a commute he revealed in a
SF News The Cars Uber Shows You Before You Hail A Ride Are Bogus “I know this seems a misleading to you," an Uber staffer tells Vice of the Uber cars you see on the app as you prepare to a hail a car, "but it is
SF News Startup Showers Dolores Park With Confetti To Celebrate Acquisition [Updated] Twice, a fashion resale startup based in the Mission District, has a lot to celebrate. After raising over $20 million from the likes of Andreessen Horowitz and IA Ventures, they've recently announced a
SF News Twitter's Frat-Themed Office Party Totally 'Not Reflective' Of Fratty Tech Company Culture Despite holding an office party with Twitter-branded beer pong tables and a sign in Greek- style lettering that read “Twitter Frat House,” Twitter's male-dominated culture is nothing like that of an American college
SF News Twitter Just Killed Off Background Images, Twitterers Revolt Over 'Blinding' Whiteness Gone is the default pastel blue, and gone are all your custom wallpapers on public timelines as Twitter makes the bold decision to make everyone's web feed pages the same, uniform, plain white.
SF News Google Self-Driving Car Involved In Its First Minor Injury Accident One of Google's 23 self-driving Lexus SUVs was rear-ended in recent weeks at an intersection in Mountain View, and three employees who were in the car at the time suffered minor whiplash. The
Arts & Entertainment Valley Speak: Silicon Valley Dictionary Is The Urban Dictionary The Tech World Needs Before Urban Dictionary provided satirical definitions to ridiculous terms, Ambrose Bierce satirized Webster's list of words and phrases with his Devil's Dictionary. Bierce began the project as a newspaper columnist right here in
SF News [Update] One Of Leap's Private Buses Now For Sale On eBay And Craigslist According to the latest and perhaps last tweet from Leap Transit, the private bus startup is still "offline to deal with a regulatory issue." To get technical, Leap received a "Cease and Desist"
Arts & Entertainment Star Of Million Dollar Listing Teaches You To Dress For SF According to certified San Francisco native Justin Fichelson, a local real estate agent jacking up our housing prices and currently taking a star turn on the new SF season of Bravo's Million Dollar
SF News Report: Apple Watch Sales Plummet As Much As 90% The first iteration of a non-essential device is selling poorly according to a new report. Drawing on numbers crunched by Palo Alto-based email receipt tracker Slice Intelligence, Business Insider puts sales of the
SF News Instagram Rolls Out Higher Resolution Photos Of Your Friends' Perfect Lives A photo posted by Lourdes Villagomez (@lourdes_villagomez) on Apr 17, 2015 at 1:48pm PDT The better to see your friends' perfect meals, vacations, and pets, photo sharing service Instagram is in
SF News Gmail Now Lets You Take Back Email You Just Sent Though the feature has been available to those in the know as a public beta option for a while now in Gmail Labs, Gmail has now made their Undo Send feature fully legitimized
Arts & Entertainment New Emoji Coming Soon Include Eyeroll Face, Unicorn Face, And Taco 41 new emoji have been approved by the Unicode Consortium as part of the latest release of the universal picture-based texting array, Unicode 8.0. iPhone users may have to wait until September
SF News Elon Musk's Ultra-High-Speed 'Hyperloop' Is Getting Built As Test Concept This Year Tesla founder and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will see his fantastical dream of a mode of transportation that floats on air in a steel tube and travels just under the speed of sound
SF News What Is Google's Sidewalk Labs And How Will It 'Improve City Life'? This week Google co-founder Larry Page announced the launch of a new "moonshot" company being fully funded by Google called Sidewalk Labs, with the broad and vague mission to "improve life in cities
