SF News Startup Run By Ex-Cruise CEO Accused of Damaging Airbnb While Testing Robot A local Airbnb host says an SF robotics company booked a reservation without telling him that his house would allegedly be used as a testing ground for a robotics prototype, and he claims he was left with an estimated $12,000 in repairs.
Business & Tech Silicon Valley Startups Duped by Developer Who Faked Resume, Worked 4 Jobs Simultaneously A Mumbai-based engineer who excelled in interviews reportedly held multiple Silicon Valley startup jobs at once, often disappearing after landing offers of up to $200K. Soham Parekh impressed on paper, but founders say most of his resume was fake.
Business & Tech Viral 84-Hour Workweek Guy Calls Himself 'San Franciscan,' Has Lived Here a Year and a Half You may have seen a story about a San Francisco AI startup founder who posted to X — where else? — about how he tells prospective hires that his company expects "no work-life-balance" and 84-hour workweeks, in order to weed out the less motivated.
SF News 10 Bay Area Startups That Went Belly-up This Year The Bay Area is an open pasture for these proverbial unicorns to gallop abound in, unbothered by status quos or scaling norms. But, given enough time and financial pressures, some simply reveal themselves as donkeys dressed in drag, embellished with Party City-purchased headwear.
SF News Marissa Mayer's Final Yahoo Payout Slashed By Millions In Recent Months We all know that Yahoo is in its twilight, with allegations of mis-management by CEO Marissa Mayer, significant layoffs across the company , and a bizarre inspirational handbook. But as the big purple
SF News Instagram Throws Exercised Users A Bone, Increases Video Length To Full Minute Just days after every brand/celeb you follow on Instagram (as well as some "normal" civilians) had a collective meltdown over upcoming alterations to the social media site's feed
SF News How Many San Franciscans Are Rooting For The Tech Economy To Tank? As they sometimes do with towns they consider their curious backwater cousins, the New York Times has taken up the current state of San Francisco, macro-psychologically, today in yet another piece about
SF News Are Tech Employees' Salary Demands Creating A 'Talent Crisis'? It feels good to be wanted. It's a feeling that employees in the tech industry know well, and with a new survey suggesting that hiring for coding talent in the first
SF News Dropbox To Exit Lease On Headquarters Near AT&T Park With 11 years to go on the lease of its China Basin office headquarters at 185 Berry Street near AT&T Park, cloud storage pioneer Dropbox is looking to ditch the 200,
