Business & Tech Trump Extends TikTok Ban/Sale Another 75 Days, as Tariffs Blow Up Current Deal Just as a deal to place TikTok in the hands of US owners was almost in place, China pulled ByteDance out of that deal in response to our tariffs, though Trump is selling this as him just extending the deadline.
SF News Steph Curry’s Company Abruptly Kills Off Plans to Build His Business Headquarters In Dogpatch A stunning reversal after Steph Curry’s off-court business Thirty Ink made the splashy $8.5 million purchase of a new Dogpatch headquarters, as Curry’s people now say they’re backing out of the deal over some bizarre squabble over union carpenters.
SF News The Removal of the Formula Retail Ban on Van Ness Just Got One Step Closer to Reality SF’s formula retail ban might be removed from a 23-block stretch of Van Ness Avenue, as the SF Planning Commission just unanimously passed a recommendation to exempt Van Ness from limits on large chain stores.
Business & Tech Bay Area Tech Stocks Get Destroyed By Trump Tariffs, SF CEO Screams Obscenity on Live Earnings Call Remember when all those Bay Area tech CEOs cuddled up to Trump with $1 million inauguration donations? Boy did that just blow up in their faces! They lost billions today, and one yelled “Oh sh*t!” when he checked his stock on a live earnings call.
Business & Tech Amazon and Founder of OnlyFans Put In Last-Minute Bids to Buy TikTok A deadline is approaching with the expiration of Trump's executive-order reprieve for TikTok, and several last-minute bidders have emerged.
Business & Tech ‘Monster in the Mission' Developer Now Faces Monstrous Debts, Salacious Sexual Harassment Lawsuit The developer behind the infamous “Monster in the Mission” project has recently lost two major Bay Area properties to loan defaults, and its founder is embroiled in a sexual assault lawsuit that has some wild allegations involving cocaine and pornography.
Business & Tech The Sad Saga of How New Operators of the AMC 1000 Van Ness Theater Blew $54 Million In Just 18 Months We always figured that the former AMC Van Ness movie theater went under because of how the pandemic wrecked movie theaters. But court filings show a behind-the-scenes battle after new operators managed to burn $54 million on the place in a year and a half.
Business & Tech Billionaire's Row Mansion Sells For $26.5 Million After Nine Months On Market Those in the luxury real estate business in San Francisco are excited that one of the highest-end properties on the market just traded hands for the first time, and for a relatively high price.
Business & Tech The Old Twitter Building Bird Logo Sign Is Up for Auction, But You Have to Pay for the Shipping The very large, old Twitter bird logo that used to be attached to the building's former Market Street headquarters is on the auction block and hoping to fetch $40,000, but you’ll have to pay the shipping on the 12-foot, 560-pound piece.
Business & Tech All-Day Internet Outage Affecting Comcast Customers Across SF Xfinity/Comcast customers lost internet, phone, and TV service Monday morning around 10 am. And an initial promise of service restoration by 1 pm has now been updated to 8 pm.
Business & Tech Meta Playing Hardball to Prevent Sales of Ex-Employee’s Tell-All Book Well well well, Mark Zuckerberg suddenly wants less free speech and more content moderation when it comes to a former Facebook employee who’s written a book exposing what it was like to work there, and they’ve hauled the publisher to court.
Business & Tech Waymo Just Expanded Service to Offer Rides In Silicon Valley, the Company's Birthplace The newest places you can catch Waymo robo-rides are the Silicon Valley cities of Los Altos, Palo Alto, and Mountain View, which makes sense, as Waymo was born in Mountain View.
Business & Tech Musk Blames 'Massive Cyberattack' For X/Twitter Outages Monday Morning Tesla owners have been under attack as billionaire Elon Musk continues to wield destructive, job-slashing power in Washington, so why wouldn't Twitter come under attack as well?
Business & Tech AI Company Databricks Declares It Will ‘Invest Over $1 Billion’ in Downtown SF With Big Conference, New HQ Flush with their latest $10 billion fundraising round, the cloud-based AI platform firm Databricks recently signed a 150,000 square-foot lease at One Sansome, and is now committing to keeping their annual conference in SF for five more years.
SF News New Plans Announced for Steph Curry’s Splashy New Offices In Dogpatch Warriors all-star Steph Curry is getting ready to say night-night to his playing career, and the new company he’s started just released their plans for a giant, fancy headquarters on 20th Street out at Pier 70.
Business & Tech Bing Crosby’s Former Home in Hillsborough on the Market for a Record-Breaking $40 Million Asking Price Purchased for a song at just $175,000 in 1965, the French chateau-style former home of pop crooner Bing Crosby is now on sale again for $40 million, a price that would break the Hillsborough real estate record that currently belongs to Elon Musk’s old house.
Business & Tech Google Maps Lists an Oakland Homeless Encampment as “Homeless Encampment,” Hilarity Ensues A vacant East Oakland lot that’s become overrun with RVs and tents is now listed on Google Maps as “Homeless Encampment,” though this is clearly the work of some joker trying to embarrass Oakland City Hall.
Business & Tech Apple Shareholders Scoff at Think Tank Proposal to Scrap DEI Programs At least one more major US company isn't rushing to toss its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives just because Trump and his minions don't get racism.
Business & Tech Not Shockingly, the Ninth Circuit Has Rejected Elizabeth Holmes's Appeal In a ruling that perhaps only Elizabeth Holmes herself was optimistic about, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied Elizabeth Holmes's attempt to see her fraud conviction overturned.
Business & Tech North Berkeley ‘Deathtrap’ That Comes With Lifetime Elderly Tenant Is Pending Sale A North Berkeley home that's in severe disrepair and comes with a lifetime tenant is pending sale by a developer who plans to restore it rather than tear it down.
Business & Tech Sam Altman’s Other Startup Reportedly Looking to Lease 60,000 Square Feet In Mission Rock OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has another startup you may not have heard about called World that controversially collects biometric data, and it’s in talks to scoop up a reported two floors of a newly opened office building in Mission Rock.
Business & Tech The Search for Ethical Tech Alternatives As major tech companies become more invasive, users are turning to privacy-focused alternatives. Proton has a solid suite of offerings, but mixing things up is probably the way to go.
Business & Tech Uh-Oh: Reddit Says It Will Start to Paywall Some of Its Subreddits The free ride might be over soon for Reddit lovers, as the company’s CEO said on a Thursday ‘Ask Me Anything’ that they might start charging subscriptions for certain Subreddits.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes Still Says She's Innocent, Gives Prison Interview to 'People' Magazine Convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes still maintains her innocence, and apparently she saw a reason to give an interview to People Magazine that's out this week, trying to un-tarnish her reputation, or something.
Business & Tech Lyft Claims It Will Launch Self-Driving Cars Next Year, Though Only in Dallas Eight years after Lyft’s first claim that they would have self-driving cars, the rideshare company just made their latest declaration that these robotaxis are right around the corner, with “right around the corner” meaning “next year,” and only in Dallas.
