Yahoo acquires self-destructing messaging app Blink
John Sailors Morning Edition Editor- San Francisco Business Times Email Yahoo Inc. has bought Blink, a mobile app that sends messages set to disappear after a given time. Blink broke the news on its...
View ArticleS.F. supervisors approve proposals aimed at PG&E, AT&T
John Sailors Morning Edition Editor- San Francisco Business Times Email San Francisco's Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to approve a proposal that challenges Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s...
View ArticleOracle scores win in Google case over Android-Java copyright
John Sailors Morning Edition Editor- San Francisco Business Times Email Oracle scored a win over Google in a long-running copyright case involving the programming system Java in Android, Google’s...
View ArticleApple cuts refund times to boost online sales
John Sailors Morning Edition Editor- San Francisco Business Times Email Apple Inc. has reduced the refund time for products bought through its website, as it works to draw shoppers away from retailers...
View ArticleJoe Montana's hotel project hinges on 49er parking options
John Sailors Morning Edition Editor- San Francisco Business Times Email The San Francisco 49ers are threatening to halt plans by former Niners star Joe Montana to build a hotel and entertainment...
View ArticleSan Francisco votes on public plaza control
John Sailors Morning Edition Editor- San Francisco Business Times Email Nonprofit organizations could take over management of some public plazas to hold events and maintain the spaces, under a program...
View ArticleMarket and Van Ness area sees flurry of development
John Sailors Morning Edition Editor- San Francisco Business Times Email The intersection of Market Street and Van Ness Avenue has become the center of a development flurry, with several projects in the...
View ArticleQuora joined Y Combinator to tap into network, CEO Adam D'Angelo says
Cromwell Schubarth Senior Technology Reporter- Silicon Valley Business Journal Email | Twitter | Google+ Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo took to his Q&A company's website over the weekend to explain why...
View ArticleReport: California's recovery passing over the poor, middle class
Allen Young Staff Writer- Sacramento Business Journal Email | Twitter | LinkedIn Low and middle-income workers in California saw a steeper drop in earnings than higher-wage workers during the economic...
View ArticleTim Draper: Six Californias needed because current government is "moving...
Richard Procter Intern- San Francisco Business Times Email Venture capitalist Tim Draper said he has enough signatures to get his controversial proposal to break California into six different states on...
View ArticleSBA kicks off accelerator competition in S.F. at Twitter's HQ
Richard Procter Intern- San Francisco Business Times Email Maria Contreras-Sweet, the new administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced a new SBA accelerator competition Monday as...
View ArticleSan Francisco's public health subsidies 'unsustainable,' could top $4.3...
Chris Rauber Reporter- San Francisco Business Times Email | Twitter | LinkedIn City of San Francisco subsidies to its public health system could surge to an unsustainable $4.3 billion over the next...
View ArticleBill and Melinda Gates, Nancy Pelosi, Leon Panetta among Bay Area graduation...
Steven E.F. Brown Web Editor- San Francisco Business Times Email | Twitter Bill and Melinda Gates, Nancy Pelosi and Leon Panetta are some of the notable speakers at Bay Area university graduation...
View ArticleTaxis sue state regulators to block "ride-sharing," names Uber, Lyft and Sidecar
Patrick Hoge Reporter- San Francisco Business Times Email | Google+ | Twitter | LinkedIn The Taxicab Paratransit Association of California has filed two separate court actiions challenging the...
View ArticleJohn Gioia: State, Kaiser, Muir not willing to save Doctors Med Center
Chris Rauber Reporter- San Francisco Business Times Email | Twitter | LinkedIn John Gioia, the Contra Costa County supervisor most involved with troubled Doctors Medical Center, slated for closure...
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