SF News Nobody Wants To Buy Twitter As Salesforce Is Latest, Last Suitor To Walk Away Wanna buy a lightly-used (maybe that's the problem) microblogging platform? Salesforce doesn't, as CEO Marc Benioff informs the Financial Times that his cloud computing company has walked away from a potential bid on
SF News ACLU: Facebook, Instagram, And Twitter Provided Data Access To Surveillance Company Used By Police To Track Protesters Chicago-based Geofeedia, a "location-based intelligence platform" that analyzes social media posts to deliver them as surveillance information to 500 law enforcement agencies, is often used to target protesters such as Black Lives Matter
Arts & Entertainment Now Disney's Talking About Buying Netflix, Which Would Be Good For Both Of Them The latest merger rumor, first floated Friday and continuing into Monday, is that Disney is in discussions to possibly buy Netflix outright, in a deal that would provide the media giant with its
SF News Microsoft And Disney Floated As Suitors In Twitter Sale, Which Could Be Imminent #Twitter #Disney pic.twitter.com/SjUSPHyzHq— Wissem (@Wissem_Rassas) September 26, 2016 Late last week we heard that Twitter was starting to receive buyout bids from several tech companies, including Salesforce and Google,
SF News Twitter Likely About To Get Bought, Maybe By Google Or Salesforce Earlier this month we heard that Twitter's board of directors was considering a potential sale of the company, and today the rumor is out that some buyout bids are in, including ones from
SF News Caltrain's Twitter Account Is Sassy As Hell @mlroach @isaach We were doing sassy Twitter before it was a thing.— Caltrain (@Caltrain) March 19, 2016 It being 2016, every #brand has come to the conclusion it needs to have a personality.
SF News Twitter Lawsuit Alleges Company Misled Investors About Growth Prospects The latest trouble facing Twitter comes in the form of a lawsuit filed by an investor claiming the tech giant misled the public about its growth prospects and that huge swings in stock
Arts & Entertainment Twitter To Livestream NFL <i>Thursday Night Football</i> For Free, Starting Tonight For NFL fans, Twitter has mostly just been a platform for issuing death threats to placekickers who miss crucial field goals. But that all changes tonight, when Twitter begins livestreaming Thursday Night Football,
SF News Starting Monday Twitter Will Loosen Character Limits For Links And Photos Have a lot to tell the world, but the man is holding you back? Limiting your musings to a mere 140 characters including links and pics? Well then, you're in luck. The man,
SF News Waterproof iPhone 7 Unveiled As Apple Has A Complete Twitter Meltdown As we speak the long-scheduled unveiling of the next in a growing line of skinnier and sleeker iPhones is happening at an event in San Francisco. The tightly choreographed presentation was meant to
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 Twitter's New 'Quality Filter' Will Let You Shut Out The Trolls Twitter has a troll problem. That the social-media service has become a tool for those wishing to harass others is well documented, as are the company's seemingly ineffective attempts to combat the toxicity
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 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 '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 Intern For London Breed Beefs With Tourist Complaining About Litter The office of the president of the Board of Supervisors got into it with a tourist last week, reaffirming the old adage that only San Franciscans can talk trash about San Francisco. It
SF News Noted Petulant Conservative Twitter Bully Launches Media Campaign To Get Himself Unbanned This is just the beginning @Jack. #FreeMilo pic.twitter.com/Oumtov8Jj5— Allum Bokhari (@LibertarianBlue) July 24, 2016 Banned Twitter user, strident gay conservative pundit and Breitbart tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos is likely very
SF News Twitter Launches Cheesy Ad Campaign To Explain What Twitter Is Are you part of the 90 percent of the planet that, according to Twitter, recognizes the Twitter brand? If so, are you also one of the huge number of people that, again according
SF News Outer Sunset Man Named As Alleged Twitter Troll Seeking Beheading Of SFPD's Acting Chief An Outer Sunset man was taken into custody Tuesday, after police say he was responsible for a tweet calling for the beheading of acting San Francisco Police department Chief Toney Chaplin. It was
SF News Now Everybody Can Apply For A Verified Twitter Account, So Why Would Anyone? @oprah was one of the first Twitter accounts to boast a blue "verified" check, a useful indication that Ms. Winfrey's account did, indeed, represent her. But that onetime sign of Twitter Illuminati status
SF News Criticizing Police On Social Media Leads To Arrests Following Dallas Shooting With police departments in San Francisco and around the country still working out how to best respond to the July 7 mass shooting in Dallas, some officers have taken to proactively arresting people
SF News Proposed SF 'Tech Tax' Angers Mayor, Tech Industry A proposed payroll tax on San Francisco tech companies is already making enemies, and it's not even on the ballot yet. The Chronicle reports that the measure, introduced by Supervisor Eric Mar yesterday
SF News California Parent Of Paris Attack Victim Suing Twitter And Facebook For Providing 'Material Support' To ISIS Reynaldo Gonzalez, the father of Cal State Long Beach student Nohemi Gonzalez who was killed in November's terrorist attacks in Paris, is now suing Facebook, Twitter, and Google for the roles they played
Arts & Entertainment Is Vine Dying On The, Uh, Vine? There are rumblings among Vine stars, ad execs, and "influencers" that Vine isn't, like, all that hot anymore, and the Wall Street Journal picks up on the story in an effort to convince
Arts & Entertainment Former Googlers/Twitterers Kickstarting Icebreaker Card Game Socializing is difficult, and personally, I try to avoid it. When I do find myself — however accidentally — at a gathering with others, I start in with the usual pleasantries. A bit about my
