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Oops: Apple Forced To Refund Purchases Made By Kids For Second Time

In a first-of-its-kind settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, Apple. Inc. has agreed to pay out $32.5 million in refunds to parents who say they were not properly informed that their children

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What The Current SF Tech-Class War Has In Common With 'Downton Abbey'

With the American premiere of the fourth season of Downton Abbey on Sunday (we know, you and your clever friends downloaded it via Britain months ago) came a new round of reviews in

S.F. Can't Profit From Shuttle Buses

Monday saw an agreement between the SFMTA and the privately contracted shuttle buses that ferry tech workers up and down the Peninsula. But while the agreement marks the first government regulation of the

S.F. To Start Charging Tech Company Shuttles

Mayor Ed Lee and the SFMTA have reached an agreement with a coalition of tech companies whose behemoth employee shuttles have sparked protests for their use of public bus stops. Today, Lee announced

Meanwhile, In Oakland: 'Die Techie Scum'

I've lived in Oakland for 33 years and never seen this kind of hate. It doesn't help anyone. pic.twitter.com/lZE2JU2Omv— Bill Budge (@BillB) January 3, 2014 Video game programmer and designer

Facebook Sued For Creeping On Your Private Messages

On Thursday, two concerned Facebook users filed a lawsuit against the social media mammoth, alleging they violated users' privacy by scanning individual members' private messages in order to gather data to use for

Stanford Tries To Burn Michigan State With Snapchat Logo At Rose Bowl

The notoriously loopy Stanford marching band created a stir at yesterday's Rose Bowl game after (incorrectly) forming the Snapchat ghost during halftime. Why? Well, company founders, Evan Spiegel and Robert Murphy, created the

Current Economic Boom Surpasses Dot-Com Boom In Half The Time

Call it the Early Twenty-Teens Tech Boom, or whatever you want to call it, but it has officially surpassed the late-'90s Dot-Com Boom with no slowing in sight. In fact, as Ted Egan

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Portland Restaurants, Tech Cafeterias Are Eating Up All Of S.F.'s Cooks

2013 had more than a few stories about skyrocketing rents and the potential exodus of the creative class, but yesterday's Christmas edition of the Chronicle exposed another group that can no longer afford

Angry Protesters Block, Smash Google Bus

The Gbus minus window. pic.twitter.com/qfMnzFgiLf— Craig Frost (@craigsfrost) December 20, 2013 In another display of ire directed toward vehicles that haul Google employees to and from work, a smattering of

Tech Investor's Ballot Initiative Wants To Split California Into Six States

Tech investor Tim Draper — a VC behind such brands as Skype and Hotmail — has a bizarre ballot initiative ready for consideration, one that would not only split California into six separate states but

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Slate's Answer To Growing Tech Backlash: Move Silicon Valley To Cleveland

Notoriously contrarian Internet publication Slate has a new solution to the growing backlash between local tech companies and the local citizens who seem to have a problem with them. Using last week's anti-eviction

Google Execs Shamed For Getting Government Discount On Fuel For Private Jets

When Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page and chairman Eric Schmidt fire up their private jets for long weekends in Tahiti, they've been doing so with improperly discounted jet fuel via a

Several Suggestions For Where Tech Jerks Can Donate Their Tech Money This Holiday Season

Christmas should be a time for giving, and generosity of spirit, as most of understand. But since Greg Gopman, and presumably many of his tech-industry friends, find the scene on Market Street "grotesque"

Startup CEO Trashes SF's Homeless 'Degenerates'

Let's all bid Greg Gopman of AngelHack adieu from Baghdad by the Bay. This place, it seems, is just too gross for him. See, the noted maker could be the second coming of

'This Is A City For The Right Kind Of People,' Screams (FAKE) Google Employee To Protester [Update]

In a video taken at Monday morning's Google bus protest in the Mission District, SF Bay Guardian reporter Joe Fitz Rodriguez captured a heated exchange* between an alleged Google employee and a protester.

Anti-Eviction Protesters Block Google Bus In The Mission [Update]

The revolution has begun, comrades. Over in the city's tony Mission District at 24th and Valencia, a group of protesters braved the chill to block a Google Bus from moving its merry band

It's Official: This Boom Is Bigger Than The Last Boom, At Least For Office Space

In the past three years alone, as the Chron is reporting via a new report by CB Richard Ellis, tech companies have leased 40% more office space than in the entire five-year period

Techies Hate It When You Call Them That, Say Techies In Coffee Shops

The preferred terms, according to one techie interviewed by the Chronicle while working at a Four Barrel Coffee in the Mission, are: "hackers," "makers," or "coders." The dreaded t-word is not only insulting,

Mysterious Google Barge Is Officially A Floating Retail Store

About a month after news broke that Google's mystery barge in the San Francisco Bay was more like a fancy Google sailboat, a few more details have emerged about the floating heap loaded

Google Satellite Image Captures 14-Year-Old Boy's Homicide Scene [Update]

In an example of Google's all-seeing eye unintentionally capturing an unsettling moment in time: Richmond, California father Jose Barrera claims a satellite image that appears in Google Maps shows the body of his

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Sergey Brin's Estranged Wife Throws 'Freedom' Party On Alcatraz

Rich people. They're not like us. Take, for example, Anne Wojcicki, impending ex-wife of (dreamy) Google cofounder Sergey Brin. None too thrilled about seeing her husband leave her for a 26-year-old Google Glass

New Census Numbers Confirm That Yes, In Fact, Rents In S.F. Are Ridiculous

Once again we return to everyone's favorite conversation topic, which is becoming akin to talking about the "dry heat" in Arizona and saying things like "all politicians are crooks and morons." All together

Google Coming To Mission Bay?

Here we go. The City's soul-crushingly beige and stucco Mission Bay district could see a new neighbor coming to town. Google. At least that's the buzz. According to SF Biz Times, the tech

'Tech Workers Are Not Robots,' Says Mayor Ed Lee In Intriguing NYT Interview

In an interview with the New York Times, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee all but french kisses the city's tech industry, the people in it, and all that it embodies. (Understandably so.) Which