Arts & Entertainment Local Tech Journalists Mystified To Receive Anonymous Book Satirizing Tech A cohort of around 12 San Francisco journalists, most of them known for reporting on tech, have received a mysterious book of tech satire full of "tweets" reimagined in elaborate, handwriting-like typeset. The
SF News People Lined Up Overnight To Get Good Seats At Apple Conference Keynote Today Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference descends on SF this week, just two weeks after Google's developer conference, and ticket-holders still line up overnight for these things even when there isn't a big product announcement
Arts & Entertainment Return Of The Coding Jedi: Gurus, Ninjas, Evangelists In Demand As Job Descriptors "How are your lightsaber skills?" asked a Facebook friend in a recent post complete with the above picture. "We're looking for Jedi of all sorts at Google... with open roles in UI/UX
SF News Look Upon Uber's New Mission Bay Headquarters, Ye Mighty, And Despair Feast your eyes upon this monumental vision for Uber's Mission Bay corporate headquarters, which as the Business Times reports, is expected to open by late 2017 or early 2018. We first heard about
SF News [Updated] Highlights From The Google I/O Developer Conference Keynote If you're wondering who all those nerds are in the vicinity of the Moscone Center today, it's a legion of developers who are currently getting a peek at the next version of the
SF News Breaking: Many Tech Workers Are Being Priced Out Of Bay Area A KPIX headline that's getting splashed around social media since last night proclaims "Even Techies Can't Afford the Bay Area Anymore," but there's a bit more to it than that. As Redfin CEO
SF News Soylent Schmoylent: The New York Times Drinks Silicon Valley's Powdered Protein Kool-Aid, Again Though it might as well be, Schmoylent isn't a parody of Soylent, the meal replacement beverage invented in 2013 by a 24-year-old who later constipated himself to keep from flushing the toilet. No,
SF News Inside 'InnCubator': Highly Suspicious Hostels For Techies On HBO's Silicon Valley, T. J. Miller plays Erlich Bachmann, a schlubby entrepreneur with delusions of grandeur and a home on the Peninsula he's renting to young techies and calling an "incubator." Of
Arts & Entertainment YouTube's Kids App Has Some Trouble Filtering Out Beer Ads, Adult Content Apparently YouTube has been catching a lot of flack from parents, family-centric non-profits, mommy bloggers and the like because their newly launched Kids app has done an incredibly poor job of filtering out
SF News 'G' Chahal, The Worst Bad Man In Silicon Valley, Charged With Abusing Another Girlfriend It sadly comes as little surprise to those familiar with Gurbaksh "G" Chahal, a bad bad man if there ever was one, that the 32-year-old tech CEO has been charged with another instance
SF News Silicon Valley Fashion Week: So Hot Right Now In San Francisco we're more slaves to technology than to fashion. But a new fashion technology summit called "Silicon Valley Fashion Week?" hosted by Mission-based Betabrand and held not on the Peninsula but
SF News Now Yelp Might Be For Sale What's that sound? The "market correction" or bubble pop or whatever you want to call it may be getting nearer as big companies are wondering if it's time to cash out including this
SF News Google's Canopied Campus Dreams Dashed By Mountain View City Council It was just around midnight last night that the Mountain View City Council rebuffed Google's new attempt at town domination. This means that Google's recently revealed dreams of creating a game-changing piece of
SF News Microsoft Revealed As Second Company Bidding For Salesforce A week ago it was reported that Salesforce.com Inc., the largest employer in San Francisco's tech sector, was at work with financial advisers after receiving takeover offers. At that time, sources said
Arts & Entertainment 'Business Town!' Is Richard Scarry 2.0 For Silicon Valley Business Town! is a brilliant, if derivative, Tumblr you should totally follow. Obviously, the style is all Richard Scarry, the illustrator whose most popular work, Busy Town, featured anthropomorphic animals in workaday jobs.
SF News Salesforce For Sale? SF's Largest Tech Employer Works With Bankers To Field Takeover Offers Salesforce.com Inc., San Francisco's largest tech employer and host of that really big conference called Dreamforce, has begun to work with financial advisers after receiving takeover offers, Bloomberg reports. Sources say that
SF News Yep, Uber Is Getting In The Delivery Game, Big Time As predicted a year and a half ago, Uber has much bigger plans than being just "everyone's private driver." As Tech Crunch is reporting via some leaked training docs, Uber's in the process
SF News Twitter Earnings 'Leak' On Twitter, Trading Halts, Stock Crashes Twitter (TWTR) is being called its "own worst enemy" by Wired after some not-great first-quarter earnings "leaked" (according to Twitter) in the form of a few tweets. As a result of the bad
SF News Out With The Old: Apple Will Replace AT&T In Dow Index Despite it remaining a telecommunications giant, AT&T will be losing its long-held place on the Dow Jones industrial average to Apple as of March 19, as the New York Times is
SF News ISIS Now Wants To Kill Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey Over Deleted Accounts After an Islamic State-led social media campaign failed to gain traction last week, and after Twitter engaged in an unprecedented counter-offensive by repeatedly suspending or banning thousands of accounts belonging to ISIS supporters,
Arts & Entertainment Behold Google's Crazy New 'Canopy'-Covered Campus Designs We've been hearing a lot this week about the city of Mountain View, California and its residents being a little fed up with getting steamrolled by their biggest employer, Google. The New York
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF-Based Startup Chefs Feed Hopes To Be The Anti-Yelp About three and a half years ago, local restaurant publicists and brothers Jared and Steve Rivera decided to launch an app that collected the food recommendations of chefs the idea being that who
SF News Apple Watch To Be Unveiled, For Real This Time, March 9 Invitations have gone out for Apple's next big unveiling event, on March 9, with the cheeky and obvious tagline "Spring Forward" as the sole clue about what the focus of the event will
SF News Do You Believe In 'Magic,' The Anything Delivery Service? What if I told you that a simple text message could secure you anything your heart desired? Plane tickets emailed to you, dinner delivered, flowers sent to your fiancé. A new SMS service
SF News Transbay Transit Center To Become The Google Transit Center? Ugh. Alongside Salesforce Tower, the big new transit center taking shape downtown could be getting a corporate moniker, thanks to the sale of naming rights for the center, its rooftop park, or any
