SF News Want To Know Which Tech Execs Are Also Eviction-Happy Landlords? Well, protest group the Anti Eviction Mapping Project sure does. On Thursday they released a "dirty dozen" list of executives in the tech sector who they claim have evicted or are in the
SF News Biz Stone Says Nobody At Twitter 'Was Trying To Do Harm' Every single person who had stock in Twitter all had the best of intentions. Whether 'the best' and 'aligned with each other' could be questioned, I guess. But everybody thought that they were
SF News Public Parking Spaces Just Got Less Public With New App A new app, cutely christened MonkeyParking, allows drivers to auction off their prime public parking spots in San Francisco to the highest bidder. Kudos to those of you who want to park your
SF News Ousted Tech CEO And Convicted Domestic Batterer Rails Against Media, RadiumOne Responds After dodging 45 felonies and pleading guilty to two misdemeanor counts of battery and domestic violence, recently ousted RadiumOne CEO Gurbaskh Chahal took to the internet last night to defend himself in the
SF News Sending Up The Sharing Economy There was a time when people sneered at the idea that people would consider renting their homes to unsupervised strangers. And who would have taken a ride in some rando's car a couple
SF News Tech CEO Ousted After Domestic Violence Conviction Tech tycoon and RadiumOne CEO Gurbaskh Chahal has been fired by his company's all-male board of directors after pleading guilty to two misdemeanors for battery and domestic violence. Security footage from Chahal's San
Arts & Entertainment Google Glass Checks-in at Fairmont Nob Hill seems to be the place to openly wear Google Glass without fear of backlash. Take, for example, the Fairmont San Francisco. The hotel's concierge, Tom Wolfe, has been hailed as the
SF News Starting Today, Anyone In The U.S. Can Buy Google Glass [Update: Not Really] After briefly making their $1,500 face computer available to the general public earlier this month, Google has apparently re-opened the sale of Glass to anyone in the U.S. Before going on
SF News Have AirBnB, Lyft, Etc. Made Us More Trusting? Once upon a time, everyone thought that online dating was only going to lead to more serial killers. But now we know better: There aren't any more serial killers than there were before,
SF News LinkedIn Plans To Lease Entire 26-Story Office Tower In SoMa In the latest high-profile office lease, Mountain View-based buttoned-up social network LinkedIn will be expanding to San Francisco proper with 450,000 square feet of office space in the forthcoming 222 Second Street
SF News Google Glass Wants To Help, Announces Contest For U.S. Nonprofits And just to show you that we here at SFist are not always about pouring a piping-hot demitasse of venom on Google Glass, the face computer you hate to hate (because, hey, growing
SF News Ron Conway Honored For Surviving 1906 Earthquake Because the city is running out of people to honor on the anniversary of the 1906 earthquake, this year San Francisco named noted angel investor, tech lobbyist and Ed Lee crutch Ron Conway
SF News Marc Benioff Has A Few Things To Say About Tech Companies Who Don't Give Back, And Zuckerberg's 'Philanthropy' Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, whose company just inked a deal that includes naming rights for what's going to be the tallest building west of the Mississippi, has no patience for his peers who
SF News Tech Reporter Says He Was Assaulted For Wearing Google Glass On Friday, after another Google protest marched through the Mission, Business Insider tech reporter Kyle Russell became the latest victim of anti-Glass sentiment when, he claims, he wore his $1,500 face computer
SF News Another Morning, Another Google Protest In The Mission [Update] Second verse, same as the first. Google employees trying to make their way to work today were slowed down by a group of protesters in the city's impossible Mission District. This time, though,
Arts & Entertainment If Christopher Guest Made A Musical About Facebook, It Would Contain This Song Sweet mother of all that is holy, we are in trouble. At the recent 2014 Social Media Marketing World convention in San Diego, this guy wrote this song. It's about social media. Audience
SF News Female Designer Tells Secret App That Google Acquired Everyone At Her Startup But Her Is it just because she's a woman? Is it because she has "soft skills" like design and marketing that Google doesn't necessarily need? In any event, the saga of "Amy" has the tech
Arts & Entertainment VICE Chimes In On The Many Ways San Francisco Sucks Not content to let New York Magazine have the last word on the topic, VICE has jumped on the SF-hating bandwagon. The points they cover? Nothing to see here, really. Tech bros are
SF News Anti-Tech Zealots Target Google VC Kevin Rose With Angry Note On the heels of last week's barfy tech shuttle protest, Google VC and hero to all canines Kevin Rose woke up Sunday morning to find protesters outside his San Francisco home (carrying a
SF News Greenpeace Shames Twitter And Pinterest Via Blimp Greenpeace flew a blimp over Silicon Valley today to champion tech companies that have gone emerald green and shame those who are more of a tea green. The latter? Amazon, Twitter, Netflix and
SF News Mozilla's Anti-Gay CEO Brendan Eich Steps Down Brendan Eich, Mozilla's anti-gay CEO, made the right decision to step down today. He will resign as CEO of the for-profit Mozilla Corporation as well as a board member of the nonprofit Mozilla
SF News We're Probably In Tech Bubble Territory, Says Everyone Everyone's been talking about it for over a year, but the chatter is turning into a rumble among business pundit types just as the S&P Index hits another record high. Yes,
SF News Board Of Supervisors Reject Bid To Hold Up Tech Shuttles In a marathon meeting Tuesday night, the Board of Supervisors voted 8-2 to reject an appeal that would have put the brakes on the city's plan to allow commuter shuttles at Muni stops
SF News Airbnb To Start Collecting Hotel Tax In San Francisco In a move that will bring in millions of tax revenue for the city, Airbnb has agreed to collect the same 14 percent hotel tax as San Francisco hotels, starting this summer. San
SF News OKCupid Asks Users To Boycott Firefox Over Anti-Gay CEO It might be time to finally download Chrome, folks. Mozilla's new CEO, Brendan Eich, has come under fire after it was revealed he donated to Proposition 8, California's (overturned) gay-marriage ban. And with
