SF News Microsoft Is Going To Buy LinkedIn For $26.2 Billion The "add you to their professional network" jokes are practically writing themselves for tech journalists Monday, as Redmond, WA-based Microsoft announced this morning that they would be acquiring Mountain View, CA-based LinkedIn for
SF News SF Hedge Fund Accused Of Selling Fake Pre-IPO Uber Shares, Spending Investors' Money At Strip Clubs A San Francisco hedge fund has been accused of defrauding investors out of millions of dollars, with its CEO and a colleague spending their ill-gotten gains at strip clubs, casinos, and sporting events.
SF News Is This Haagen Dazs BART Ad Really As Bad As The Chronicle Says It Is? Haagen Dazs BART ads take pandering to the next level https://t.co/sUquYSysLx— SFGate (@SFGate) May 11, 2016 Earlier today the Chronicle took not San Francisco-based frozen treat maker Haagen Dazs to
SF News Zynga HQ Officially Worth More Than Zynga It's official: The Zynga headquarters is now worth more than Zynga. We learned in February that the maker of Farmville intended to sell its Design District office building for was what assumed to
SF News Ripe For Mockery Lyft Ad Changed To Gentrification Critique On-point SF ad vandalism (what was Lyft thinking?) pic.twitter.com/SabcKYmTwf— Chad Woodford (@cjam) March 31, 2016 It's so perfectly set up that it almost seems like Mission District-based Lyft is in
SF News Microsoft Claims 'Coordinated Attack' Turned Its Lovable Twitter Bot Racist Microsoft today issued an official statement regarding its wildly racist, sexist, antisemitic, homophobic, transphobic, 9/11 truther Twitter bot with the lovable name of "Tay." The machine learning, artificially intelligent bot was taken
SF News Huge Gender Wage Gap Persists For Computer Programmers Women are paid less than men. This discrimination manifests across numerous professions, even when factors like experience and education are taken into account. However, a new study by Glassdoor confirms what many in
SF News Microsoft's Tween Twitter Bot Instantly Goes Full Racist, 9/11 Truther Microsoft is doing damage control today after an artificial intelligence Twitter bot it created went totally batshit insane — tweeting vile racist, sexist, 9/11 truther, and other garbage at the world. The AI,
SF News Microsoft Reminds Us What Most Gamers Really Think Of Women At GDC Extremely disappointed @Microsoft and @Xbox hired women wearing these outfits to perform at @gdc. PLEASE RT. pic.twitter.com/JYFTTGdzQk— Brianna Wu, Yeah! (@Spacekatgal) March 18, 2016 Microsoft had an archaic message for
SF News We Tried Peeple (AKA 'That Yelp for People App') So You Don't Have To Back when the “Yelp for People” app Peeple was announced in September, public reaction was so profoundly negative that SFist couldn’t help but be intrigued. This week Peeple actually arrived in the
SF News SoMa Corner Billboard Becomes Oracle Of Tech Bubbles Past And Present This billboard advertising space at the corner of 9th and Folsom has, it seems, been a kind of harbinger of a bubble ready to burst in the past or, at the very least,
SF News SF's Latest Startup Founder/Unwise Blogger Calls For Crucifixion Of 'The City' I can only imagine that it's been a whirlwind couple of days for command.io founder Justin Keller! After publishing that now-infamous "open letter" to San Francisco Police Department Chief Greg Suhr and
SF News Another Startup Founder Declares He 'Shouldn't Have To See The ... Despair Of Homeless People' At this point it's a tale as old as Glassholes. Tech guy who's lived here three years (!) has several awkward moments involving mentally ill and/or intoxicated homeless people while his family is
SF News Satirical App To Report Homeless Mistaken For Genuine A website satirizing the Bay Area's ongoing belief that technology can solve everything apparently hit a little too close to home this week. The app, which purportedly provides users a way to document
SF News Apple Formally Opposes Shareholder Call For Increased Diversity Apple is calling a shareholder call for increased diversity among higher management "unduly burdensome" and unnecessary. In an official statement issued earlier this month in preparation for an upcoming February 26 shareholder meeting,
Arts & Entertainment NSFW Video: New App Will Bring In Your Postmates Order, Spoon It Into Your Mouth The greatest problem posed to the able-bodied by our current state of on-demand instant gratification, posits this video from Funny or Die, is that it's just so godamn much work, like, answering the
SF News 2016's Prospects 'Less Optimistic' After Tech Stocks Take Market Hit The stock market's first day of trading for 2016 did not go so well for several local tech companies, with Alphabet, Facebook and Netflix all taking big hits in a trend that left
SF News Google Glass 2.0 Is On Its Way, And It Won't Be Marketed To Consumers Alphabet is not giving up on Google Glass. As the company said earlier this year, the road has not gone off a cliff for the much reviled facecomputer, and now 9 to 5
SF News Recently Approved Tech-Shuttle Program Faces Legal Challenge It was just last month that the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency voted to make the tech shuttle pilot program permanent, thus formalizing the rules and regulations set forth to govern the commuter
SF News Tech-Employed Male Creates Elaborate Stats Model For SF Dating And Women's Attractiveness "There’s a joke that I’ve heard passed around the circles of frustrated single men in San Francisco," writes payments startup person Steven Tang in a Medium post he's sure to regret,
Arts & Entertainment Robert De Niro Tells SF Startup Mogul 'I Don't Give A F**k Who You Are' You don't get to where I am in life* without meeting a few famous actors. Some are a charming surprise, some are clearly crazy, and some of them seem a lot like you
SF News YouTube Brings The Heat To Netflix With Ad-Free Subscription Service Everyone's favorite place to watch ad-plastered videos of kittens knocking over water glasses just announced a major change in the way they do business. At a press conference held yesterday, YouTube shared its
SF News E-Boards, The Vapes of Skateboarding, Are Going Street-Legal Test riding an electric longboard on smooth Mountain View asphalt near Boosted Board headquarters, I am Aladdin on a f--king magic carpet — but with, like, a helmet. Company founder Matthew Tran coasts at
SF News Startup Doze Monetizes Nap Time For Tired Techies Nap time isn't just for cranky kindergartners anymore. Not exactly. Enter Doze — an actual startup spending real money that's selling twenty-five minute naps for just $20. Where's that capital going? Into EnergyPods, Bose®
SF News After Threatening Fliers Appear In The Mission, Tech Workers Reportedly Change Their Clothes Anyone who's surprised that there's tension between those who've recently moved to San Francisco for jobs in the tech industry and those who lived here before this new wave arrived — well, you're probably
