SF News Tech-Backed Poll Finds SF Residents Blame Tech Industry, City Hall For Lack Of Affordable Housing A recent poll conducted by a pro-development organization has found that residents of San Francisco blame the tech industry for the city's high housing costs. The Chronicle reports that the group, Rise SF,
SF News Does President Obama Have A Future In Silicon Valley? It's January 2017, a new president has been sworn into office, and, newly retired from public service, Barack Obama is enjoying his well-earned time out of the public eye by going to work
SF News Discussions Of Bias, Tech, And Trump Take Center Stage At The <em>Vanity Fair</em> New Establishment Summit While everyday San Franciscans went about their normal business last week, a collection of movers and shakers from the worlds of business, tech, media, and politics gathered at Yerba Buena Center for the
SF News Peter Thiel To Speak Publicly About His Trump Support As Silicon Valley Battle Lines Harden Contrarian that he is, noted libertarian Trump lover Peter Thiel has decided that the controversy surrounding his support for the Republican presidential candidate demands his response. And so, as Bloomberg reports, the billionaire
SF News Zuckerberg Stands By Facebook Board Member Peter Thiel And Claims Support For Trump Counts As 'Diversity' As the backlash against prominent Donald Trump supporter and Facebook board member Peter Thiel continues to grow, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has come out in support of the controversial Libertarian — suggesting that not
SF News [Update] Greg Gopman, Former AngelHack CEO Who Called Homeless People 'Hyenas', Fired By Twitter Update: TechCrunch writes that Greg Gopman has been fired by Twitter. “Anddd I’m fired. Thanks TechCrunch,” he reportedly wrote to his Facebook page, adding that “[TechCrunch] wrote a smash piece on me
SF News Disney And Salesforce Dropped Twitter Bids Because Of Trolls At least in the case of two high-profile suitors that briefly explored the possibility of acquiring Twitter, it was the platform's infamous culture of bullying, trolls, and generally aggressive idiocy that turned them
SF News Silicon Valley Donates Nearly $8 Million To Clinton Campaign Out Of Fear Of Trump Facing the unfathomable possibility of a President Donald Trump, Silicon Valley donors have spent nearly $8 million helping Hillary Clinton to get elected this year still far shy of the $21 million reportedly
SF News To Keep Tech Shuttles Running, Companies Are Backing Moderate Candidates For Supervisor To ensure that tech shuttles can continue to roll along, business-as-usual, companies such as Salesforce and Y Combinator are among more than 24 contributors to a political action committee backing moderate candidates for
SF News Y Combinator President Sam Altman Is Prepping For The AI Apocalypse With Guns, Planes, Peter Thiel, And Elon Musk Sam Altman can see the future, and what he sees — far along the horizon, past the massive profits for the many thousands of startups in which he has a hand as president of
SF News Theranos To Lay Off Hundreds And Give Up Blood Testing Following Regulatory Clampdown Elizabeth Holmes, the embattled CEO of blood testing company Theranos announced last night in a letter to company stakeholders that the startup she founded will abandon its core mission and will no longer
SF News Here Are The 14 Current Richest Bay Area Residents, According To Forbes When you think about the richest residents of the Bay Area, obviously Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, and Travis Kalanick probably come to mind, but you may wonder just who else is sitting on
SF News Yahoo Secretly Created Spyware To Scan All Incoming Email For Feds At the request of the US government, Yahoo engineers last year secretly built custom software to scan all of its users' incoming email in real time — and then made that data available to
Arts & Entertainment Now Disney's Talking About Buying Netflix, Which Would Be Good For Both Of Them The latest merger rumor, first floated Friday and continuing into Monday, is that Disney is in discussions to possibly buy Netflix outright, in a deal that would provide the media giant with its
SF News Startup VotePlz Is Registering #Millennials By Printing Their Forms And Sending Them Stamps Goshdarn Millennials! The inscrutable age cohort that's broadly defined as people between 16 and 35 who likely struggle with internet addiction could easily rival the Boomers as a voting force according to an
SF News Details Of Google's New Pixel Phone Accidentally Leaked Jumping the gun on an October 4 official release date, Canadian retailer Carphone Warehouse posted technical specs and photos of the new Google Pixel phone to its website over the weekend. Although CNet
SF News Google's Decision To Sponsor Visa Of Anti-Gay Kenyan Activist Creates Internal Conflict Google is facing criticism from within today following news that the company invited a prominent anti-gay activist to attend a Mountain View tech conference this Friday. What's more, The Guardian reports that Google
SF News Venture Capitalist Solves Sexism In Tech By Telling Women To Pretend They're Men Sexism, as we are repeatedly reminded, is particularly pervasive in the world of tech. And so a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed addressing discriminatory hiring practices against women in the industry might at
SF News You May Soon Be Served Ads On Your Phone During Uber Rides Kind of like those TV screens in the back of taxis only more insidious, Uber is set to begin serving ads to your cell phone during trips via a new partnership that makes
Arts & Entertainment Video: How Elon Musk And SpaceX Plan To Get A Rocket To Mars In 80 Days Or Less As noted last week, Tesla CEO and Space X mastermind Elon Musk is gunning hard for getting human beings to colonize Mars faster than NASA's timeline would have us there. And today he
SF News Microsoft And Disney Floated As Suitors In Twitter Sale, Which Could Be Imminent #Twitter #Disney pic.twitter.com/SjUSPHyzHq— Wissem (@Wissem_Rassas) September 26, 2016 Late last week we heard that Twitter was starting to receive buyout bids from several tech companies, including Salesforce and Google,
SF News Snapchat Unveils Its Own Cheaper Google Glass, Called Spectacles Snapchat releases first hardware product, Spectacles https://t.co/M0krS3Q1JO via @WSJ— Snapchat (@Snapchat) September 24, 2016 Snapchat has entered the hardware market, everyone, and late Friday they unveiled Spectacles, a set of
SF News Twitter Likely About To Get Bought, Maybe By Google Or Salesforce Earlier this month we heard that Twitter's board of directors was considering a potential sale of the company, and today the rumor is out that some buyout bids are in, including ones from
SF News Autonomous Delivery Bot Hits San Francisco Sidewalks Starship just completed its first official and completely autonomous delivery to a wonderful lady in Richmond district of San Francisco A photo posted by Starship Technologies (@starshiprobots) on Sep 20, 2016 at 2:
SF News Twitter Lawsuit Alleges Company Misled Investors About Growth Prospects The latest trouble facing Twitter comes in the form of a lawsuit filed by an investor claiming the tech giant misled the public about its growth prospects and that huge swings in stock
