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SAN FRANCISCO — Last year, representatives of 25 countries met in Tokyo to work on setting international standards for the blockchain, the technology that was introduced by the virtual currency Bitcoin and has ignited intense interest in corporate and government circles.
SAN FRANCISCO — An electric - scooter rental startup led by a former Uber and Lyft executive that has sparked a legal battle in Santa Monica, California, has landed $ 15 million in funding to expand across the US.
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple is orchestrating a $ 3.2 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics, the headphone maker and music streaming distributor founded by hip - hop star Dr. Dre and record producer Jimmy Iovine, according to a published report.
SAN FRANCISCO — The scientific journal that published a study by Facebook and two U.S. universities examining people's online mood swings regrets how the social experiment was handled.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 2 - Tesla Inc stood by its production targets for its Model 3 on Wednesday, assuring investors that its key new vehicle was on track, and sought to downplay increased wariness over its finances, saying it expected to achieve net profit in both its third and fourth quarters.
SAN FRANCISCO — Spotify's first quarterly report as a public held company struck the wrong note with investors, even though its music - streaming service hit the subscriber - growth target set by management just before its stock began trading.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- A lawsuit filed by drivers against ride service Uber should not proceed as a class action, the company argued in a court filing on Thursday, citing written statements of support from hundreds of other Uber drivers in a case that could decide whether they are independent contractors or employees.
SAN FRANCISCO — The cautionary words of American regulators have done little to chill a red - hot market for new virtual currencies sold by start - ups.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- Revolution Growth, an investment firm run by AOL Inc co-founder Steve Case, said on Thursday that it invested $ 40 million in e-commerce start - up Bigcommerce.
SAN FRANCISCO Facebook is expanding its response to people using the platform improperly and on Tuesday said it had deleted hundreds of Russian accounts and pages associated with a «troll factory» indicted by U.S. prosecutors for fake activist and political posts in the 2016 U.S. election campaign.
SAN FRANCISCO / WASHINGTON A 20 - year - old Florida man was responsible for the large data breach at Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] last year and was paid by Uber to destroy the data through a so - called «bug bounty» program normally used to identify small code vulnerabilities, three people familiar with the events have told Reuters.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 3 Facebook is expanding its response to what it sees as malicious actors using the platform improperly and on Tuesday said it had deleted hundreds of Russian accounts and pages associated with a «troll factory» indicted by U.S. prosecutors for fake activist and political posts in the 2016 U.S. election campaign.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- Billionaire Internet investor Yuri Milner announced another $ 100 million initiative on Tuesday to better understand the cosmos, this time by deploying thousands of tiny spacecraft to travel to our nearest neighboring star system and send back pictures.
Reporting by Jeremy Wagstaff and Paul Carsten; Additional reporting by Heather Somerville in SAN FRANCISCO; Editing by Ian Geoghegan
SAN FRANCISCO — After nearly five months of digging into Uber's internal culture, its new chief human resources officer says the ride - hailing company's treatment of women — which gave it a public black eye after charges of persistent sexism and discrimination were detailed by a former employee — is no worse at Uber than at other companies.
SAN FRANCISCO — Marissa Mayer, the glamorous, geeky Google executive hired to turn around Yahoo in 2012, used to inspire hope in Yahoo's work force just by visiting the cafeteria for ice cream and mingling.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-- Zynga Inc. on Thursday reported a wider third - quarter loss, weighed down by higher expenses and lower revenue from its online games.
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA — July 25, 2017 — Kezar Life Sciences, a private, clinical - stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel small molecule therapeutics targeting the immunoproteasome and the protein secretion pathway, announced today that it has closed an oversubscribed Series B investment round of $ 50 million led by Cormorant Asset Management and Morningside Venture.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday denied ride service Uber's request to immediately appeal an order approving class certification in a lawsuit filed by drivers who wish to be deemed employees.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. --(April 6, 2016)-- Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has formed a strategic alliance with TransCanyon, LLC (TransCanyon), a joint venture between subsidiaries of Berkshire Hathaway Energy and Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, to jointly pursue competitive transmission opportunities solicited by the California Independent System Operator Corporation (CAISO), the operator for the majority of California's transmission grid.
SAN FRANCISCO — A 2014 outing by a group of male and female Uber executives to a Korean karaoke bar where women with pinned numbers were selected by male guests has put a controversial member of the ride - hailing company's top ranks back in the spotlight.
SAN FRANCISCO — Uber's robotic vehicle project was not living up to expectations months before a self - driving car operated by the company struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Ariz..
SAN FRANCISCO — Waymo, the self - driving car business spun out of Google's parent company, claimed in a federal lawsuit on Thursday that Uber was using intellectual property stolen by one of Google's former project leaders.
SAN FRANCISCO — In the weeks before the U.S. election, Valerie Robinson says she was bombarded by political ads on Facebook attacking Planned Parenthood and the Affordable Care Act.
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook, already taking heat for exploiting vulnerabilities in human psychology to hook people on social media, got lit into again Tuesday, this time by a prominent technology chief executive who said the giant social network is addictive like cigarettes and should be regulated like big tobacco.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-- China's Alibaba Group is seeking to raise up to $ 24.3 billion in its upcoming IPO — an amount that would be the most raised by a company in a stock market debut.
SAN FRANCISCO — The decision by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to rescind an Obama - era policy on federal marijuana enforcement sparked an outcry from Republicans and Democrats.
this will cost obama the election by catering to the gays he wil loosel a large portion of the black and latino vote who are very conservative on this issue.and this will only make mitt romney stronger, with a weak economy unemployment as high as 8 % and a republican house there seems the last thing obama needs is to loose more votes that he will gain from this.he will loose the entire south including florida and many swing states.although he will win san francisco for sure.way to go barry
Just as I Am: The Autobiography of Billy Graham by billy graham harper san francisco / zondervan, 760 pages, $ 28.50 Several recent developments suggest that the time has come to take stock of Billy Graham: the frailties of his age, the encroachments of Parkinson's disease, the death or retirement of....
heidi — i just left san francisco yesterday and stopped by the ferry bldg. i took veg spring rolls from slanted door and an avocado toast sandwich from frog hollow farm on board for lunch and dinner.
san francisco - The California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance (CSWA) has published a free grower guide, «Reducing Risks through Sustainable Winegrowing: A Growers» Guide,» funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Risk Management Agency.
SAN FRANCISCO — The 2015 California Wine Community Sustainability Report released today by the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance (CSWA) shows broad participation in its Sustainable Winegrowing Program (SWP) and wide adoption and implementation of sustainable practices in vineyards and wineries around the state.
SAN FRANCISCO — Nine California wineries, recently certified by the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance (CSWA), will support efforts to end childhood hunger at Share Our Strength's Taste of the Nation event in San Francisco at AT&T Park on Thursday April 29.
SAN FRANCISCO — Wine Institute of California was given the 2014 Amorim Sustainability Award for a generic organization by The Drinks Business, a London - based industry trade publication.
SAN FRANCISCO — Two research studies sponsored by Wine Institute indicate that the sustainable and eco-friendly attributes of wine are important considerations when making purchasing decisions among key segments of wine consumers as well as the wine trade.
SAN FRANCISCO — New research, commissioned by the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance (CSWA), shows that a majority of the U.S. wine trade considers sustainability when making purchasing decisions and expects demand to increase over the next decade.
SAN FRANCISCO - The International Wine Industry Greenhouse Gas Accounting Protocol, developed through a partnership between the Wine Institute of California, New Zealand Winegrowers, South Africa's Integrated Production of Wine program, and the Winemakers» Federation of Australia, will soon be released for use by the global wine industry.
Bolstered by Zelmo Beaty's flurry of points — he scored 129 in four straight wins — ST. LOUIS (40 - 14) widened its lead in the West to 7 1/2 games over SAN FRANCISCO (32 - 21), which lost its only game.
Three straight losses followed by two wins dropped SAN FRANCISCO (41 - 29) to third place, while fourth - place CHICAGO (24 - 44) won three in a row before losing to the Knicks.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (March 15, 2018)-- BabyCenter ®, the # 1 pregnancy and parenting digital resource, today announced the winners of its fifth annual Moms» Picks awards, given to the gear and products voted best by parents.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — The first full analysis of martian soil by the Curiosity rover has detected simple carbon compounds that could be the first traces of past martian life ever found, NASA scientists announced here today at a press conference at the annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
By Braden Reddall and Nichola Groom SAN FRANCISCO / LOS ANGELES (Reuters)- California, whose green ambitions helped the solar and wind industries take root, is taking an essential next step by proposing a sharp rise in energy storage to better integrate renewable power with the rest of the griBy Braden Reddall and Nichola Groom SAN FRANCISCO / LOS ANGELES (Reuters)- California, whose green ambitions helped the solar and wind industries take root, is taking an essential next step by proposing a sharp rise in energy storage to better integrate renewable power with the rest of the griby proposing a sharp rise in energy storage to better integrate renewable power with the rest of the grid.
SAN FRANCISCO — The northern lights are just one manifestation of the magnetic and electrical frenzy sparked in Earth's upper atmosphere by solar storms; most of those intense currents were always to remain invisible.
SAN FRANCISCO — A giant tidal barrier stretched across the Golden Gate is among the adaptation remedies proposed by a Bay area nonprofit to cope with anticipated sea level rise caused by climate change over the coming century.
SAN FRANCISCO — Astronomers are galvanized by a new image of what may be a curtain of lava spewing above a volcano on Jupiter's moon Io.
SAN FRANCISCO — The United States was battered this year by at least 12 natural disasters that each caused at least $ 1 billion in damages, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said yesterday.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — A scientific team led by the Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco has discovered that a common form of a gene already associated with long life also improves learning and memory, a finding that could have implications for treating age - related diseases like Alzheimer's.