SF News Jesse Jackson Demands Racial Breakdown Of Twitter Layoffs As Last Black Engineering Boss Departs The self-described "only African-American in [engineering] leadership" at Twitter, Leslie Miley, has left the company. As he told the Chronicle this week, Miley's leave-taking was negotiated in September and stemmed from the Apple
SF News Twitter Trades 'Favorite' Stars For 'Like' Hearts In the Twitterverse, until today at least, a tap of the star icon nominally indicated that something was a user's "favorite." But "faving," as the gesture was abbreviated, came to express much more
SF News Twitter Evokes Dot-Bomb Memories With Pricey World Series Ad Campaign Hey, guys, remember the halcyon days of January, 2000, when a bunch of dot com companies dropped scads of money on commercials that would run during the Super Bowl? One current-day dot com
SF News Twitter Stock Takes Another Dip After Earnings Call, And Square's Numbers Aren't Great Either "We continued to see strong financial performance this quarter," Jack Dorsey said in a statement picked up by CNBC among others. The CEO, who has served in that role for a short three
SF News Generous, Guilty Jack Dorsey Gives Back $200 Million In Twitter Stock To Employees As CEO of both Twitter and Square, Jack Dorsey has likened a choice between the two companies he co-founded to a choice between his children, according to a source to Re/code. Although
SF News How The 'Twitter Tax Break' Cost The City $30 Million More In 2014 Than 2013 When the Mayor's office lauds the success of the still controversial 2011 "community benefit agreement," alternately referred to as a tax break and a tax incentive, which aimed to anchor businesses like Twitter
SF News Twitter Layoffs Affect At Least 240 In SF In a letter to the California Employment Development Department, Twitter's Human Resources Department clarified that their current mass layoff a layoff is considered "mass" in CA if it's 50 or more people will
SF News Jack Dorsey Giving Half His Square Equity To New Foundation Helping Ferguson, MO Jack Dorsey is so many things. He's Twitter's CEO. He's Square's CEO. He's a Missourian. And now he's making a name for himself as philanthropist. To recap: When this guy isn't, for example,
SF News With His Other Hand, Jack Dorsey Files For Square IPO When Jack Dorsey isn't somewhat inelegantly downsizing Twitter, he's busy filing for an initial public offering on behalf of the OTHER company at which he's CEO: Square! Get ready to trade on that
SF News Twitter Lays Off Some Employees Via Voicemail, Locks Them Out Of Email Without Telling Them "I'm one of the unlucky (or lucky) engineers that got laid off from Twitter," aptly named user LaidOffIn140 posted to Reddit this morning. "They haven't even told us yet, but woke up to
SF News Twitter Laying Off 8% Of Workforce, CEO Says 'This Isn't Easy. But It Is Right.' [Updated] Made some tough but necessary decisions that enable Twitter to move with greater focus and reinvest in our growth. http://t.co/BWd7EiGAF2— Jack (@jack) October 13, 2015 "New" Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey
SF News Twitter Rumored To Be Having Big Layoffs Next Week On Monday we learned that Twitter was making co-founder Jack Dorsey officially the CEO again, and that the company was immediately ditching plans for an expansion into some extra office space on Market
SF News Day Around The Bay: Judge Strikes Down Eviction Payment Law, Again The 27-year-old woman, Sharinna Beoncia Grady, accused of stabbing a 10-year-old boy on Muni last week pleaded not guilty today. [CBS 5] Remember how the Board of Supervisors passed a new law last
Arts & Entertainment Former Twitter CEO (And Theater Nerd) Dick Costolo Consulting On HBO's <i>Silicon Valley</i> Dick Costolo may be laying low in the real Silicon Valley, but he's just jumping right into the parody version — if there is any perceptible difference. The tech exec is now consulting on
SF News Yes, It Looks Like Jack Dorsey Is There To Stay As Twitter CEO Don't call it a comeback, because Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has already been back, serving as the company's interim CEO since Dick Costolo stepped down in June. But now, as investors like the
SF News Twitter Will Expand Beyond 140 Characters Via Unnamed New Product What's that? Ur tired of dumbing down ur English 2 make it fit w/in Twitter's 140-character limit? Well, there may finally be a change coming to that arbitrary, 2007-era constraint, according to
SF News Facebook Goes Down For Second Time In Four Days, Nation Weeps #facebookdown descripción gráfica: pic.twitter.com/pDB7QJJWG8— Cosme fulanito (@EsquivoAlexis) September 28, 2015 You may have noticed that Facebook crashed today right around noon Pacific Time/3 p.m. Eastern, only to hobble
SF News 'Blackbird': One Former Twitter Employee's Perspective On Race And Tech "My fingertips danced with delight as I frantically typed away at my computer,' Mark S. Luckie begins his new Medium essay What it’s actually like to be a Black employee at
SF News Twitter Is All Up In Your Private Messages, Class Action Lawsuit Alleges Twitter has been sliding into your DMs (direct messages between users) or so claims a class action lawsuit reported on by BuzzFeed. Though the company asserts the privacy of these messages, the suit
SF News San Francisco's Twitterati Hate Tourists Not surprisingly to anyone who lives here, San Franciscans seem by and large to hate dealing with tourists even though our fair city is considered one of the top, if not the top,
Arts & Entertainment Tech Company A Cappella Groups To Perform In Relative Safety Of Atherton Tonight via GIPHY Though some might consider the performance of cappella pop music to be an inexcusable offense after (if not during) college, at least some employees from leading technology companies like Twitter and
SF News Video: Homeless Amputee Taken Down By 14 Cops At Seventh And Market An incident occurred on mid-Market two weeks ago in which a one-legged man with crutches was reported, possibly by a nearby business owner, for waving some "sticks" around in the vicinity. Though we
SF News [Update] Tech Exec Claims Washio May Have Delivered Used Condom With Infant's Clothes, But It Also May Have Been Used Glove "Better. Faster. Cleaner." That's the way of Washio, the Uber of someone else doing your laundry. But in a hastily deleted tweet from one prominent San Francisco tech executive, Washio appears to be
SF News What Flirting With Tinder's Crazy Twitter Account Would Look Like On Tinder When the team at the West Hollywood-based meeting app Tinder got their hands on the most recent copy of Vanity Fair, they didn't like the reflection they saw in the mirror, or, to
Arts & Entertainment Twitter Is Actually Taking Down Tweets Of Stolen Jokes Twitter is finally stepping up and taking down tweets of stolen jokes. Hopefully this means an end to those "parody" accounts of Chris Rock and Will Ferrell. The account @PlagiarismBad, who acts as
