SF News Apple Unveils Revolutionary Updates To TV, Rose Gold iPhone, New iPad Pro [Liveblog] Announced two weeks ago amid a bit of cultivated mystery, Apple is taking over San Francisco's Bill Graham Civic Auditorium this morning for a larger (in scale) than usual product release. They might
SF News Google's Got A New Logo Now Google's unveiled a new logo today, in advance of their absorption (or whatever) into Alphabet, the holding company they made up earlier this month. If you're the kind of person who goes to
SF News These Are The Average Salaries In SF's Top Industries As the website Nerdwallet rounds them up, San Francisco's top industries pay pretty well. They might even make it possible to live in San Francisco. In the past we've taken a look at
SF News New Service Turns Random Stanford Students Into 'Nerd' TaskRabbits Stanford isn't just a stellar institution of higher learning. It's a sterling brand, with amazing alums as ubiquitous as Cardinal sweatshirts. And now harnessing the school's star power is a service called Nerd,
SF News Desperate Local Home Buyers Now Bidding With Stock Options In the process of selling his Noe Valley home, which has been written up in the New York Times and was listed at the beginning of last month for $1.895 million, Klout
SF News Google Tops Forbes' Best Employers List According to a variety of sources including your friend who works there, Google is the best place to be an employee. That's even before they build their new canopied campus. Earlier this month
SF News [Updated] You Can Buy A $10,000 Apple Watch: Live-Blogging Today's Apple Event This morning, the wizards of Apple Inc. — most notably Tim Cook, the company's CEO, and Sir Jonathan Paul Ive, its Senior Vice President of Design — will be speaking in pure hyperbole about their
SF News Shark Tank Billionaire Says 'This Tech Bubble is Worse Than The Tech Bubble of 2000.' Is He Right? Those of us who lived in San Francisco at the turn of the millennium remember the dot com bubble and what followed with grim nostalgia. (Kozmo! Roof parties! Everybody IPO! Layoffs! Wondering if
SF News Do You Believe In 'Magic,' The Anything Delivery Service? What if I told you that a simple text message could secure you anything your heart desired? Plane tickets emailed to you, dinner delivered, flowers sent to your fiancé. A new SMS service
Arts & Entertainment Upskirt Oopsie: Magazine Cover On Silicon Valley Sexism Called Out For...Sexism This week's cover. Will post first thing in the morning. pic.twitter.com/UIgR97sHS9— jim impoco (@jimpoco) January 28, 2015 Alas, poor Newsweek. Once the Pepsi to Time's print newsweekly Coke, in recent
SF News On 'Campus': A College-Like Take On Commune Living For Millennials New To Town Tom Currier, the 23-year-old CEO and co-founder of Campus, believes in Maslow's hierarchy of needs. With housing, safety, and even pots and pans provided for members of his unique co-houses, residents can focus
SF News Should Twitter Buy Yahoo? If you're reading this site, it's likely you have an idea of what Twitter does. Yahoo is a little harder to figure out (even, it appears, to those inside the organization). So why
SF News Village Bicycle: 'Spinlister' Is Airbnb For Bikes, Boards, Etc. It's 2015, so why aren't you renting out all of your stuff on the internet? Your apartment is a hotel, your car is a taxi, and now your bike belongs to the block
SF News Uber To Improve Background Checks With Biometric Verification Uber Technologies wants to improve its foolproof, "industry leading" background checks on its drivers... implicitly admitting that in different locations the company's checks "vary significantly." Yes, CEO Travis Kalanick's road to riches (remember
SF News Disrupt The Halls: Pics From 2014's Excessive Tech Holiday Parties It's not just about who has the bigger tree and the better eggnog. Tech companies in SF are, once again, competing to delight their workers in a holiday party proxy war. Yahoo recently
SF News New Lyft Service Lets Commuting Drivers Pick Up Passengers Along Their Route To Work According to Lyft, around 80% of commuting drivers make their daily trek alone. So, the company is debuting a service called Driver Destination. Lonely commuters stand to gain $400 a month just picking
SF News Local Man Pays Homeless Person $1 For Each 'Like' Of Their Picture Together A San Francisco man named Daniel Polk was explaining homelessness to his children when he decided to take a photo with a homeless man named Edward near the Castro Walgreens, promising to donate
SF News Video: TechCrunch and AOL Commissioned This Housing Crisis Film Since when did AOL and TechCrunch inherit the mantle of the Bay Guardian? Just kidding, but they did commission this video from Stateless Media about San Francisco's housing crisis titled "You Can't Go
SF News Twitter Launching New Features Next Week, Unveils Bland Strategy Statement As was rumored earlier this year, Twitter is adding some features to make it both more Facebook-like, and easier to use for new users, as they announced in a public presentation Wednesday. Also,
Arts & Entertainment Video: Keira Knightley Visits Silicon Valley, Chills With Zuck "They had a lot of hoodies," said a slightly boggled Keira Knightley of the tech élite who mounted a private screening of her new movie The Imitation Game. The self-described "technophobe" appeared on
SF News Is Twitter Trying To Distance Itself From Google Glass (Or Its Users)? Sorry, Glassholes! Looks like you won't be tweeting from your face computers any more, as according to one of their "Explorers," the microblogging company has given up on development of an app for
SF News Facebook COO Leans Out Of One House, Into A 9200 Square Foot New One Sheryl Sandberg, who is the COO of Facebook, author of Lean In, and does a better job than Gwyneth Paltrow at making you feel lazy, recently sold her house in Atherton for 9.
SF News Facebook To Launch Secret-Esque App For Anonymous Trolling Facebook has been a little too much in the news lately, but here goes: The company that just a couple of weeks ago was insisting that everyone could only use their legal names
SF News iPhone 6 Pluses Are Bending In People's Pockets Be honest. You were just waiting with bated breath to find out what the first public disaster with the iPhone 6 would be. Wait no longer! They bend. The smartphones, which are roughly
SF News New App Tracks Bacteria Levels At Local Beaches A new app tells beachgoers whether it's safe to be in the water. SF Beaches, a free app available on both iOS and Android, indicates how much bacteria is in the water by
