SF News Twitter Board To Mull Possible Buyout This Week, And More Layoffs May Be Looming Twitter, the social media company vilified by many for its tax break in SF but also seen by many others as a bellwether for the tech industry as a whole, is reportedly going
SF News Tech Exec Ponders Office Stripper Party, Says Female Employees 'Undesirable' Because They Might Get Pregnant That the tech industry is rife with sexism is not a shocker in 2016. That someone would openly admit to discriminating against women while simultaneously pondering the merits of having an in-office stripper
SF News If You Used Dropbox In 2012, Your Password May Have Been Compromised The extent of a previously announced breach of Dropbox user data back in 2012 is now coming to light, and as Motherboard reports, in addition to users' email addresses, passwords were obtained and
SF News Former CTO Of Newly Notorious Startup Confirms Details About CEO's Allegedly Shady Behavior The Silicon Valley company we now know to be WrkRiot, formerly known as both 1for.one and JobSonic, has now been publicly outed following a Startup Grind/Medium post earlier this week by
SF News Amazon Tests Out 30-Hour Workweek For Some Employees Amazon's latest innovation isn't a new subscription program or e-book reader: It's a 30-hour work week for certain employees on technical teams, the Washington Post reveals. A few dozen workers at the Seattle,
SF News Spurned By Silicon Valley Startup, Dallas Woman Pens Viral Cautionary Tale A woman by the name of Penny Kim, who relocated to the Bay Area from Dallas this summer for a job with an unnamed and clearly failing job-search startup, penned a piece on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Berkeley Synthetic Milk Startup Says They've Found The 'Whey' To Make Good Vegan Cheese The race to find the hot new milk — the one cool coffee shops start serving, the one protective parents insist their children only drink — can sometimes feel as heated a contest as, I
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Silicon Valley' Star Teams Up With Soylent In Mocking Promotional Stunt Silicon Valley's Big Head dons velcro suit to hawk coffee @soylent: https://t.co/pbECgUZwO7 pic.twitter.com/Tw1t2yUgA3— SanFranciscoMagazine (@sanfranmag) August 25, 2016 Replacement food-drink Soylent seems like one of those things
SF News Many iPhone 6 Owners Complaining Of 'Touch Disease' Rendering Touchscreens Unusable A flaw in the interior workings of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus is creating an epidemic of "Touch Disease" in which the phones stop responding to any touch pressure at all, rendering
SF News The Troubled Tale Of Lending Club And The Problems Created By Glowing Tech Press Why did Bryan Sims buy $1000 in stock of Lending Club? Just because he loved the company, a kind of eBay for loans, so much at the time. Now he feels differently, but
SF News Shifting Into High Gear, Uber Will Begin Driverless Car Service In Pittsburgh Within Weeks “We are going commercial,” Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced to Bloomberg Businessweek with regard to the company's decision to allow — conscript? — customers into using its driverless cars in Pittsburgh. “This can’t just
SF News Drunk SF Man Builds Website For Finding Free Pianos Are you an erstwhile pianist who only gave up your musical love because you have no idea where to score a cheap, used baby grand? Enter Piano Pound. The work of a drunk
SF News Dubai, Not West Coast, May Get First Working Hyperloop Techno-fetishists around the world rejoiced in 2013 when Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk published a white paper on the idea of a super-fast form of transportation between Los Angeles and San Francisco
SF News SF Ranks 13th For Tech Salary Value, Raising Again The Question Of A Mass Texodus Will tech stay or will tech go? IDK! But one thing's for certain: That persistent question isn't going anywhere. I get it! It makes sense to ask, given the outsized influence the tech
Arts & Entertainment Snapchat Once Again Proves Its Racial Cluelessness, Removes Slanty-Eyed Filter @Snapchat @snapchatsupport idk if u realize, but this filter is yellowface and u should take it down pic.twitter.com/MLSHz0Bbkl— lia (@limb_light) August 9, 2016 Much like they did on 4/
SF News Twitter Is Not Shutting Down Over Cyberbullying, But Also Can't Do Much About Cyberbullying A rumor was spreading around Twitter Thursday, along with a requisite hashtag (#SaveTwitter), that Twitter would be shutting down in 2017 over the issue of cyberbullying. As CNet reports, this rumor is unfounded,
SF News Study: Facebook Employees Rank Last In 'Curiosity And Adventurousness' Among Top Tech Companies A study published today looking at worker personality traits across the tech sector has some bad news for Facebook. Its employees were found to rank dead last in "curiosity and adventurousness" — qualities which
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soylent's New Coffee-Flavored Breakfast Drink Is Basically SlimFast For Nerds The makers of meal-replacement beverage Soylent just announced the newest addition to their techie-loved product line: Coffiest. The new drink is intended for breakfast, and eschews the intentionally bland style of its predecessor
SF News Facebook To Block Ad Blockers Starting Today Get ready for your Facebook experience to become even more cluttered — uh, relevant, I mean relevant. According to Facebook, starting today the social media giant will disrupt ad blockers across its platform — rendering
SF News Twitter Lists More Than 1/4 Of SF Headquarters For Sublease Correction: This post originally stated that the portion of Twitter offices for sublease represented a quarter of the company's space in San Francisco overall. In fact, the figure is greater than that, though
SF News Apple Is Coming To Take Your Gun Emoji In a literally symbolic gesture, Apple is removing the gun emoji from its forthcoming mobile operating system, iOS 10, replacing the signifier of violence with an illustration of a toy water gun. Your
SF News Anti-Tech Flyers Condemn Proposed Valencia Street Condos Anti-tech/gentrification posters now flying in front of #Zeitgeist #RealestateSF https://t.co/0vsHp5Rr7a pic.twitter.com/zMm9HKVTSG— SocketSite (@SocketSite) August 2, 2016 Flyers posted outside of Mission bar Zeitgeist remind us that
SF News Does Facebook Owe $5 Billion In Back Taxes? The manner in which some of Facebook's assets were valued by a third-party company was "problematic" according to court documents filed by the IRS: Those assets may have been undervalued by "billions of
SF News 'Tech Tax' Dies After Supervisor Farrell Associates It With Donald Trump The controversial "tech tax" is dead for the time being, with a 2-to-1 vote yesterday by the Board of Supervisors’ budget committee meaning the measure will not be sent to the full board
SF News Instagram Introduces 'Stories,' Essentially Copying Snapchat If imitation is the highest form of flattery, then Instagram, the photo-sharing app owned by Facebook, is absolutely fawning over rival Snapchat, whose ephemeral photo and video sharing service has grown into a
