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Yelp's CEO Makes Light Of S.F. Housing Problems, Blames Tech's Lack Of Diversity On Education

Yelp is one of the apps I use most on my phone as it has essentially become the modern yellow pages, but it's a somewhat guilty pleasure after learning that the company's business

Arts & Entertainment

Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Whysk, A Transportation Startup

Please enjoy this bit of humor from ClickHole, the Onion's brilliant sendup of all things viral and BuzzFeed-esque. It's all about an app, well, sort of... a company called Whysk that "gets people

LinkedIn Busted For Wage Violations, Must Shell Out $6M For Unpaid Overtime

Turns out that the social network designed to help you get a better job is a pretty lousy employer. LinkedIn is coughing up nearly $6 million in back wages and damages after the

Now In S.F., Eccentric Former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Is Launching An Audio-Tour Company

Ousted Groupon founder Andrew Mason, now 34, has relocated to San Francisco, lost 30 pounds, and since last fall he's been working on a new venture: Detour. It's a mobile app, currently in

New App Provides Valet Parking Service Anywhere In SoMa

Being the hub of techie San Francisco, Inner SoMa is the geographical limit of a new app that connects people in cars desperate to park with people who are willing to park them,

Arts & Entertainment

10 Tech Tips For The Ultimate Outdoor Adventure

Earlier this summer, my friend and I started something we call Uber hikes, which is exactly what it sounds like: We drive to a trailhead, walk as far as we like, and then

Video: Tim Draper Laughs Like A Maniac On The Colbert Report

As you know, we've been covering Bay Area billionaire Tim Draper's demented plan to split California into six pieces since it was first announced in 2013, and we've been hoping a broadcast smarty

Call Girl Charged With Manslaughter In Google Exec's Death On Yacht [Updated]

Update: While police initially booked Alix Tichleman on second-degree murder, Santa Cruz County Superior Court confirms that prosecutors have charged her with eight counts including felony manslaughter, destruction of evidence, and transporting and

MonkeyParking Says 'F**k Off' To San Francisco, Refuses To Shut Down

After City Attorney Dennis Herrera issued a cease and desist order earlier this week to the Italian startup MonkeyParking the mobile app that lets users auction off prime street parking spots for cash

Fools Spent $600 In Order To Take Break From Cell Phones

It sounds like an Onion headline. But it's not! There was just another one of those digital detox things happening nearby, for all those people who have a hard time separating from their

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Regarding Soylent, The Nutritional Shake Invented By S.F.-Based Brogrammers With No Time To Eat

Soylent, the unfortunately named food substitute named after the fictional Soylent Green, which was made out of human flesh is now available for online sale, and it is just as depressing and redundant

Anonymous Craigslister Seeks Facebook Devotees For Zuckerberg-Based Religion

Tech pundits don't exalt Mark Zuckerberg as the boy-god they once did, but one San Francisco follower of all things Zuckerbergian is looking for a few fellow disciples to help him create a

One-Hour Battery Life And Other Reasons Google Glass Might Suck

One of the first tech writers to be balls-out honest instead of sycophantically, droolingly gaga about the functionality of Google Glass is Computer World's Matt Lake. In a piece titled "Why I'm Sending

Biz Stone Says Nobody At Twitter 'Was Trying To Do Harm'

Every single person who had stock in Twitter all had the best of intentions. Whether 'the best' and 'aligned with each other' could be questioned, I guess. But everybody thought that they were

Fake Google Employee Was An Actor, Union Organizer, And Occupy Mainstay [Updated]

The man seen on an already-viral video posted by the San Francisco Bay Guardian has been identified as Max Bell Alper, a self-proclaimed "organizer and artist" with the Making Change Media Collective and

Gold iPhone 5S Already Sold Out In SF

Well, that was quick. New gold and white iPhone 5S models sold out at the Union Square Apple Store within a matter of minutes. The line for the Stockton Street store started forming

Apple To Make New iPhone Announcement Today [Updated]

Today Apple will unleash new iPhones, a new version of iOS, and possibly more at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. at 10 a.m. PT. What can you expect? Probably not a

Yahoo Unveils New, Improved Logo

Ever since Marissa Mayer became Yahoo's CEO 14 months ago, she's already completed several extreme makeovers: a new Flickr (which we like very much), a new policy that forces employees to come in

Arts & Entertainment

New iPhones Are Coming, In Colorful Plastic, And Maybe Gold

September 10 has been set for the next big product unveiling by our overlords at Apple, and the media is already abuzz. It's been rumored since June that Apple's manufacturers in Asia were

Look Out: Here Comes The Twitter IPO

If you have friends who work at Twitter, or if you have friends who concern themselves with such things, be prepared to be hearing an earful about the long-term profitability and valuation of

Startup Bro Backlash Leaps Off The Internet, Into Real Life [Updates]

Yesterday's bro-tastic, anti-San Francisco screed did wonders to unite the various factions of the city's usually fractured internet commentariat. In fact, the ire directed at local entrepreneur and venture-funded hater Peter Shih reached

Startup Bro Not Completely Stoked On S.F.'s Startup Bro Scene

After slogging through the tech vs. art and rich vs. poor rhetoric swimming around San Francisco, we thought this trend of anti-San Francisco hate blogging had reached it's logical conclusion with that Gen-X

'Douchebags Like You Are Ruining San Francisco,' Gen-X Techie Says To Millennial Techies

There's been enough tech vs. art or rich vs. poor handwringing going around lately that we suppose this was inevitable: A self-proclaimed "part of the gentrification" from the early '90s Mission district and

There Will Probably Be A New iPhone This Summer, Everyone Who Just Bought One Laments

Happy with your recent purchase of an iPhone 5? You might not be later this summer, when experts expect an updated version to hit stores and make your new phone, like, basically obsolete