SF News The Mom And Pop Company Behind The Netflix Leak Reveal How They Got Hacked And Blackmailed It's safe to say that last Christmas was completely ruined for Rick and Jill Larson of Larson Studios, a small, family-run, Hollywood-based audio post-production business for big-name television shows. In an exclusive obtained
SF News Uber Lost 'Only' $708 Million Last Quarter, Top Finance Exec Resigns The Montgomery Burns of tech companies, Uber, revealed their 2017 first quarter earnings Wednesday, and lost $708 million says the San Francisco Business Times. But that’s “actually good by Uber standards” according
SF News Your Blue Apron And Amazon Prime Habits Are Why San Francisco's Recycling Rates Are Going Up There is no stronger click-bait than the words, "FREE SHIPPING." San Franciscans (and Americans in general) don't have time to go to the General Store anymore and chit-chat with the old guy at
SF News Hallelujah! Serena Williams Is Definitely Moving To The Bay Area Olympic gold medalist, Grand Slam-winner, and certified nail technician Serena Williams has accepted a position on the board of SurveyMonkey and will indeed be settling down in the Bay Area with her husband,
SF News BART Is Accused Of Spying On Us In A New Lawsuit Many of us have come to terms with the fact that the government is watching us all the time, around the clock, wherever we are. And a new lawsuit is accusing a BART
SF News Apple's Campus Has Everything - Oh, Except Daycare Apple's new $5 billion Apple Park campus has everything an Apple employee could wish for, unless they have children in which case: tough. The one thing missing from the brand new Apple mothership,
SF News Apple Is Auctioning Off A Lunch Date With Tim Cook Attention gold diggers. In an auction to raise money for the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Organization, bidders have until May 16 to log onto Charitybuzz and try and score lunch with Apple
SF News Uber Executive Exodus: Company President, Maps Leader, And More Bail Uber president of ride-sharing Joe Jones, the company's second in command who was poached from a position at Target just six months ago, is leaving the company in a huff. His departure, complete
SF News Abortion Access Hackathon Moves Fast, Breaks Patriarchy “If you have not done a lot of tweeting about abortion before, you’re in for it,” Bay Area journalist Andrea Grimes said in her opening remarks to this weekend’s Abortion Access
SF News Ex-Uber Engineer Says Company Is Full Of Sexual Harassment, Intimidation Yesterday, engineer Susan Fowler Tweeted, "I wrote something up this weekend about my year at Uber, and why I left," with a link to an essay titled, "Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange
SF News Weirdo Pretends He's A Delivery Guy To Get His Resume To Tech Titans A Lithuanian man has arrived in the Bay Area with a slightly creepy plan to get tech companies his resume. Lukas Yla is "chasing (his) dream" here in San Francisco having left his
SF News Vox Media Tech Journalist Was Also Secretly Working For Apple A note published today written by Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of the prominent technology website The Verge, disclosed that Deputy Editor Chris Zeigler, a founding member of The Verge, had secretly been working for
SF News 34,000 Passengers Per Day: Bay Area Shuttle Buses, By The Numbers Reactions to the plenitude of shuttle buses seen daily on the streets of San Francisco tend toward the qualitative. Convenient! Practical! Corporate! Evil! Instead, a data set submitted by local shuttle bus operators
Arts & Entertainment Pokémon Go Crawl Achieves Peak Pikachu It will either renew or destroy your faith in modern-day San Francisco to know that several thousand full-grown adults took to San Francisco’s streets Wednesday night for a massive Pokémon Go Crawl,
Arts & Entertainment The Worst Habits Of Pokémon Go Players In Their SF Habitat (And A Few Upsides) San Francisco has some of the greatest scenery in the world, but this week much of the city has ignored that scenery and glued its collective noses to smartphones to play Pokémon Go.
SF News Theranos Deathwatch: Feds Ban Elizabeth Holmes From Running Blood Lab For 2 Years In the final episode of this past season of the HBO show Silicon Valley, a character seeking to justify questionable business practices puts it this way: His core product is solid, if some
SF News Here's How People Responded When SFMTA Asked Where To Put Tech-Shuttle 'Hubs' As San Francisco officials consider moving tech-shuttle stops away from their current 125 assigned locations and into clustered "hubs," the SFMTA has begun the complicated task of determining just where, exactly, such hubs
SF News [Updated] Google Calendar Struggles To Return To Active Duty Google calendar down, if you have a meeting with me today I probably won't be there... pic.twitter.com/tX3lVxU50D— Julie Dilger (@JulieDil) June 30, 2016 Please scroll down for updates As I
SF News Proposed Apple Invention Would Allow Other People/Agencies To Remotely Disable Your iPhone Camera It's a funny idea, a company seeking to decrease the usability of one of its most popular product's features. But that appears to be exactly what Apple is attempting to do to its
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Techies Heart Queers I #love this response to the #antitech graffiti that was trying to spread hate in #SF #MissionDistrict pic.twitter.com/jvSiw7StMV— Eric Zandona (@EricZ_FamilyMan) June 23, 2016 A number of stenciled tags
Arts & Entertainment Tourists Flocking To Silicon Valley On 21st Century Tech Pilgrimages Would you travel halfway around the world to take a photo in front of the Facebook sign? No? How about the Android mascot? Well, according to The Mercury News, a lot of people
SF News Everyone Wants To Work At Bay Area Tech Companies, Says New LinkedIn Report No, it's not just their employees' inflated sense of ego — everyone does really want to work at Bay Area tech companies. Or so says a new LinkedIn report, which notes that jobs at
SF News Woman Arrested After Allegedly Throwing Brick At Steve Jobs's House A bizarre scene reportedly went down at the former home of the deceased Steve Jobs, and a woman stands accused of felony assault and misdemeanor vandalism involving the Palo Alto residence. According to
SF News San Francisco Gets 'F' Grade For Small Business 'Friendliness' Running a small business in the gilded city of San Francisco is a drag, or so says contractor-for-hire site Thumbtack, which just released a study asserting that because of roadblocks like "regulations," San
SF News Tech Titans Voice Support For Gov. Jerry Brown's Controversial Plan To Speed Housing Development A gaggle of powerful members of the tech sector have banded together to support an effort, spearheaded by Governor Jerry Brown, to override local planning reviews and affordable housing requirements for new developments,
