Business & Tech Pinterest Offloading Yet Another Office Building In SoMa, This Time at Fourth And Brannan Streets Another office space haircut for a downtown SF tech firm, as Pinterest is bailing on 505 Brannan Street ten years before the lease is up, following rounds of layoffs in both December and February.
SF News Pinterest Abandons Massive SoMa Office Lease Amid Surge in Remote Work With the shift toward more evergreen remote work models still going strong, Pinterest has decided to move away from leasing a massive 490,000-square-foot SoMa office space — and, instead, pay a one-time fee of $89.5M to cut ties with the 88 Bluxome Street address they planned on leasing.
SF News Lunchtime Links: Pinterest Now Has Their Own 'Not Hotdog' App * Another case of life imitating Silicon Valley the show: Pinterest just launched a food recognition feature for their app, spurring inevitable comparisons to the Not Hotdog app from the HBO show. [SFGate] * Following
SF News Tech Industry Interns Making Upwards Of $10,000 Per Month 💰 state of top tech internship offers, 2016 #talkpay pic.twitter.com/Mkp5XWQyuE — Rodney Folz (@rodneyfolz) April 26, 2016 The Bay Area is an expensive place to live — a fact which tech giants like
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 San Francisco's Massive Venture Capital Haul, By The Numbers The San Francisco Business Times reports that venture capitalists are ramping up to drop "dot-com era levels" of dough on US companies by the end of 2015. Unsurprisingly, a lot
SF News Day Around The Bay: Bizarre Shooting At Napa Vineyard * All this evening, in honor of St. Patrick's Day, AAA is offering free "tipsy tows" to anyone who's too drunk to drive. Just call 800-222-4357
SF News Pinterest Gives Up On The Design Center Remember how Pinterest wanted to lease 100,000 square feet of office space at 2 Henry Adams Street at Showplace Square in the Design District, forcing the eviction of dozens of small wholesale
SF News Pinterest's Move Into San Francisco Design Center Halted By Board Of Supes [Updated] Updated: Pinterest's deal to move into 2 Henry Adams Street is pretty much dead. Today, the Board of Supervisors' Land Use & Economic Development Committee voted to table the building&
SF News Pinterest Looks To Move To Design District, Forcing Eviction Of Small Businesses Small design showrooms in the Design District are crying foul as landlords do their best to cash in on the crazy office rents being commanded around SoMa. Pinterest has signed a deal to
SF News Greenpeace Shames Twitter And Pinterest Via Blimp Greenpeace flew a blimp over Silicon Valley today to champion tech companies that have gone emerald green and shame those who are more of a tea green. The latter? Amazon, Twitter, Netflix and
SF News Some Pinterest Accounts Hacked, Festooned With Butts Multiple Pinterest accounts, including that of TechCrunch editor Alexia Tsotsis, were hacked and covered with pictures of butts yesterday. Behold: Dear @Pinterest my accounts been hacked with someone posting hundreds of butt pictures
Arts & Entertainment Mayor Lee's Pinterest Page Is Predictably Mediocre In an official announcement from the Mayor's office today, Ed Lee and Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann revealed that the latter will be moving his company and its social networking scrapbook service
