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30 Apr 2025

How Will Bay Area Tech Companies Handle Trump’s Tariffs?

Trump’s tariffs have caused financial chaos in San Francisco, affecting the affordable housing industry and small business owners, while also potentially impacting tech companies such as Apple, Nvidia, and OpenAI due to their reliance on overseas manufacturing.

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05 Nov 2024

California Companies Wrote Their Own Gig Worker Law. Now No One Is Enforcing It

California’s Industrial Relations Department has stated that it does not have jurisdiction to handle Prop. 22-related wage claims, leaving the state attorney general to enforce the law, which mandates better wages and benefits for gig workers.

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10 Apr 2025

Eat, Game, & Sing in San Francisco This Spring!

It’s Springtime in San Francisco, which means it’s time to put your phone on silent for a while and step out into our fair city to sing, eat, and play with the wonderful people and programming on offer. Whether in the flesh or on a live stream, the journalists and

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17 Nov 2021

Uber Founder’s Latest Sinister Business Venture Lands in Oakland & SF

You may be familiar with Uber founder Travis Kalanick. In 2017, Kalanick was forced to resign as CEO after complaints of Uber’s toxic workplace culture surfaced, including claims of sexual harassment and discrimination. Nevertheless, this tick has found a new host. Kalanick has since launched another highly exploitative and secretive

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12 Nov 2021

Feds File Lawsuit Against Uber Over Wait Time Fees for Disabled Passengers

Federal prosecutors on Wednesday filed a lawsuit accusing the San Francisco-based ride-hailing company Uber of illegally charging “wait time” fees to disabled passengers who need more time than usual to enter a car. The U.S. Department of Justice filed the suit alleging that Uber violated part of the Americans with

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20 Sep 2021

Uber Staff In Revolt Because Their Stock Options Are In The Toilet

Imagine being the kind of employee whose main concern is not your impact on society or the world at large, or the things your company or business accomplishes — but instead, your main concern is how your stock options are doing. Yet that is the case throughout much of Silicon

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14 Jun 2021

Uber And Lyft Suddenly Crazy Expensive. Here Are Alternatives

Friday night I paid $56 for a Lyft ride of just 4 miles, and waited 20 minutes for the privilege. Uber and Lyft suddenly got way more expensive in the Bay Area this weekend, reflecting a national trend of rideshare app trips suddenly costing a shit ton more money with

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16 Dec 2020

Delivery Apps Raising Prices Statewide, Despite Prop. 22 Win

Effective today, all Californians will pay more for a DoorDash order. That comes on the heels of Monday’s Uber Eats price increase of $2 more to every San Francisco customer, as reported by Eater SF.   All of the delivery apps are going to be raising their service fees after the

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03 Nov 2020

Reduce Election Day Anxiety With Free and Discounted ‘I Voted’ Sticker Swag

Everybody loves that “I Voted” sticker, and we’d be lying if we said it was solely because people take such pride in casting ballots. Of course, that comes first. But we can’t deny the love of free and discounted swag that comes along with that proof of civic participation.  Though

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