Arts & Entertainment Eight Narrowly Rejected Themes For Local Tech Company Holiday Parties A photo posted by Connie (@conniec) on Dec 5, 2015 at 8:41am PST Everyone recalls last season's glut of Great Gatsby-themed tech company holiday parties: Ignoring talk of a tech bubble, Facebook,
SF News Michael Phelps Now Dreams Of Silicon Valley Gold What's left to conquer when you already have 28 Olympic medals? How about Silicon Valley? That seems to be the thinking of Michael Phelps, who the Associated Press reports is planning on leveraging
SF News Mission District 'Hacker House' Struggles As Even Techies Can't Afford The Rent The story of the long-time resident getting priced out of the Mission District is so common as to be cliché, but the latest twist on the tale proves that even the tech set
SF News Chariot To Add New Routes And 50 Additional Vans Following Acquisition By Ford Flush with an undisclosed influx of cash following September's acquisition by Ford Motor Company, private shuttle service Chariot announced that it intends to both add 50 new vans and several new routes to
SF News Twitter Says It Would Consider Banning Donald Trump's Account The president-elect of the United States is a notorious troll — a fact which his promise to ban Muslims from entering the country, threat to imprison and strip Americans of citizenship for exercising their
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New SF-Bar App Gets You 30 Cocktails For $10 When the world turns sour, the residents of booze-soaked San Francisco have been known to find solace in drink. However, just like everything else in this town, that particular comfort will cost you.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Munchery Allegedly Struggles With Food Waste As CEO Is Replaced And Employees Grumble Meal-delivery startup Munchery has been in the news a lot lately, predominately for a host of reasons unlikely to please its many investors and employees — think millions of dollars in losses per month
SF News Bankrupt Yellow Cab Is Now For Sale That beleaguered staple of San Francisco, Yellow Cab Cooperative, is for sale. The Examiner reports that the almost 40-year-old taxi company just couldn't overcome the one-two punch of a series of lawsuits stemming
SF News Day Around The Bay: $1,500 Wifi-Enabled Toaster Oven Ruffles Feathers Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Santa Cruz police shot and killed a 15-year-old student
SF News Uber Assures Worried Customers It Will Not 'Publicly Display' Your Ride History An Uber ride to a Planned Parenthood clinic. A weekly ride to an address that hosts AA meetings. Early morning pickups at your coworker's address. Ride-hail company Uber knows intimate information about its
SF News Trump Strategist Steve Bannon Implies Too Many Asians Have Power In Silicon Valley On the campaign trail, Donald Trump vowed to "drain the swamp" on Capitol Hill. Instead, he's made clear with his staff appointments so far that his intention is to pump it full of
Arts & Entertainment Apple Reportedly Looking To Kill It Where Google Couldn't With iPhone-Connected Glasses Can Apple succeed where Google couldn't in bringing a wearable face computer to market? Bloomberg reported Monday that while this is "still in an exploration phase," sources within or close to Apple say
SF News Facebook Reverses Course, Will Stop Allowing Advertisers To Exclude Users Based On Race Facebook ran into trouble late last month when a ProPublica report revealed that the social media company allowed advertisers to exclude people from their ad campaigns based on their race. Such practices could
SF News Apple CEO Tim Cook Tries To Reassure Upset Employees Following Trump Win As Silicon Valley continues to freak out at the national tragedy that is Donald Trump's election, Apple CEO Tim Cook took a moment yesterday to reassure his employees that despite the bigotry and
SF News SFMTA Issues Final Report On Proposed Tech-Shuttle Hubs Ahead of a November 15 SFMTA Board of Directors meeting to discuss the predicted effects of reducing the number of tech-shuttles stops across the city and changing the existing model to that of
SF News Walgreens Is Suing Theranos For $140 Million Over Voided Blood Tests Walgreens is suing the embattled health startup Theranos over claims that the company breached its contract with the pharmacy chain after it was forced to void years worth of blood tests and give
SF News The Tech World Is Losing Its Collective S**t Over Trump's Win While you and I are busy maintaining our thousand-yard stares off toward the orange-tinted collective doom looming on the horizon, big names in the world of Silicon Valley tech have commenced full on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soylent Says Algae To Blame For Customers' Extreme Vomiting, Diarrhea Meal-replacement company Soylent claims to have identified the culprit in a series of food poisonings that customers say left them vomiting and defecating for hours. Bloomberg reports that the company alleges a form
SF News Vine Might Live On After All As Twitter Looks To Make A Deal Like an 11th hour call from the Governor, video-looping service Vine may have just received a last-minute stay of execution. TechCrunch reports that parent company Twitter is currently entertaining numerous offers and term
SF News Russian VC Buys North Beach Church For $7M, Plans 'Innovation Center' A church in North Beach is set for a very modern rebirth following its purchase by a Russian venture capitalist. Instead of a christian place of worship, as Our Lady of Guadalupe Church
SF News Watch Peter Thiel Justify His Support For Donald Trump Billionaire businessman and tech pioneer Peter Thiel's outré political support of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump and secret third-party funding of a lawsuit to bankrupt Gawker Media might lead one to believe him
SF News Facebook Allows Advertisers To Exclude Users Based On Their Race When we learned earlier this year that Facebook allows advertisers to target users based on their race, it appeared to simply be just another attempt by the social media giant to allow for
SF News Apple Introduces New MacBook Pro Line With 3 Big Changes, Kills MacBook Air The MacBook Pro now comes in 3 variants. They can be ordered from today. #AppleEvent pic.twitter.com/ibShKgGs5o— Apple Event (@AppIeEvent) October 27, 2016 Apple, the Cupertino, California company fetishized the world
SF News Uber Wants To Bring Flying Cars To The Masses Within Ten Years The year is 2027. You're running late for your job in Silicon Valley, and, as commuter traffic south out of SF has only increased over the last ten years, you know that the
SF News Twitter Is Cutting Vine, Which Will Be Discontinued Vine, the 6-second looping video format introduced by Twitter more than three years ago as its rough video equivalent of a 140-character tweet, will soon be no longer. The company posted to Medium,
