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Apple Saves Billions by Creatively Exploiting Loopholes of International Tax System

Think different, Apple tells the world. The Cupertino company, whose creations have defined our technological age, apparently applies the same innovative thinking to its tax evasion strategies. Stuffing revenue in some low-tax, high-privacy bank in the Caribbean? 'Bout as forward-thinking as a Bla ... More >>

Next Two Generations of iPhones Already Developed, and DA George Gascón Is Bummed

Yesterday, Examiner crime reporter Mike Aldax got the gadget news of the day during an interview with San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón. According to the paper, the Cupertino tech giant Apple Inc. has no intent to implement a "kill-switch" that would disable devices that are report ... More >>

Citizen Chef: Healthy Meals on Training Wheels

Citizen Chef launched last week in Whole Foods and Mollie Stones with a line of pre-arranged, ready to cook, healthy meals for about $10. The meals come boxed with pre-cut veggies, a grain and a sauce, and recipes for preparation in 15 minutes or less, with or without the addition of the protein of ... More >>

Greenpeace Activists Call Apple's iCloud a "Dirty Cloud"

Giant walking iPhones greeted Apple employees as they entered the company's headquarters in Cupertino this morning where Greenpeace activists criticized Apple's iCloud for using "dirty power."Demonstrators stood outside demanding employees and executives stop powering its iCloud using coal-fired pow ... More >>

Apple Users to Protest Apple Store ... and Buy the iPad3

​They might love Apple products, but they sure hate the way they are made. Apple fans across the nation are planning a protest Friday outside retail stores, including San Francisco's downtown location, demanding better working conditions at oversea factories. Apple consumers have been rather criti ... More >>

PHOTOS: A Peek Inside Secret Research Facilities at Apple 'Mothership'

​Extensive plans detailing the shape of Apple's 'mothership' campus in Cupertino have become public, Gizmodo reports today. Among the enticing details to emerge is that the facility will include what the tech blog calls "mysterious 'research facilities'" separated from the central building.Apple c ... More >>

Independent Filmmaking in the South Bay -- Who Knew?

Not many people think of the stretch of suburbia between I-280 and U.S. 101 as a hub of underground cinematic activity, but there is a film festival to prove us wrong. Hosted by an all-volunteer run organization called South Bay First Thursdays, the Movie Mini-Fest tonight (Thursday) brings together ... More >>

Apple Unveils iPhone 5 iPhone 4S Today

​Unlike Apple CEO Tim Cook, we're going to cut to the chase and tell you what you really want to know from the Let's Talk iPhone event that kicked off at 10 a.m. today at Apple headquarters in Cupertino. For the tech journalists who sat through the three-hour conference, perhaps a more fitting nam ... More >>

Apple Closes Stores, Puts iPhone 5 Rumor Mill in Motion

Guess we'll have to go buy a PC then​The temporary shutdown of several Apple stores has people wondering whether there's a connection to the highly anticipated iPhone event to be held at Apple headquarters in Cupertino on next Tuesday.Considering that a number of stores have closed and reopened p ... More >>

Ed Lee's Praise of PG&E Draws Fire

Smi23leYou take the good, you take the bad...​Mayor Ed Lee's kind words for PG&E -- a company whose name conjures up horrific images of fire -- are drawing some fire of their own. Fellow mayoral candidates Dennis Herrera and John Avalos this morning issued press releases blasting Lee's "lavish ... More >>

Cordon Bleu: Vietnamese Country Meat Sauce Still Rules

Photos by W. Blake GrayNumber 4: half a roast five-spice chicken, country salad, and meat sauce on rice​When we're feeling very poor and very hungry, we sometimes drop in to Cordon Bleu to quietly scarf down a mountain of food at the counter. On our most recent visit, we got to talking with Ka ... More >>

iSpaceship Could be a Big Loss for S.F. Convention Centers

Will the iSpaceship be the end of Apple events in San Francisco?​When Steve Jobs ambled up to the city council podium in Cupertino Tuesday night to deliver the news that Apple was planning a campus expansion -- a stunning, 12,000-person capacity space-age doughnut scheduled to break ground in 2015 ... More >>

iSpaceship: Steve Jobs Crashes Curpertino City Council Meeting to Announce New Apple Campus

The iSpaceship has landed.​For a guy on medical leave since January, Steve Jobs is busier than ever. Just one day after announcing a raft of new software products at Apple's WWDC in San Francisco, Jobs appeared in front of a starstruck Cupertino City Council meeting, announcing plans to build a 12 ... More >>

Apple May (Finally) Launch Cloud Music Service Soon -- But Who's Excited?

​ Apple, the company that already makes 75 to 99 percent of the stuff you use to listen to, organize, and perhaps even make music, is ready to launch its cloud music service ahead of a similar service by Google, according to a report today from Reuters:  Apple's plans will allow iTunes custo ... More >>

Apple Sued by Pissed-Off Parents

There is no such thing as a free smurfberry​Parents across the country have banded together to sue Apple, claiming the Cupertino-based company has given kids carte blanche to rack up charges on mom and dad's credit cards by buying online games without authorization. Garen Meguerian, a Pennsylvania ... More >>

Apple Asked to Scrap Apps That Help Users Evade DUI Checkpoints

What does your app tell you?​Earlier today, SF Weekly told readers about the controversial gay-cure app that's put Apple at the center of an uncomfortable high-tech debate about religion and gays. Now, U.S. lawmakers are challenging the company to scrap another iPhone app -- one that alerts users ... More >>

Japacurry: Japanese Curry Truck Ready to Roll in S.F.

JapacurryOwner Mutsuo Hamada hopes to launch Japacurry Nov. 19 at Off the Grid Fort Mason.​San Francisco's palette of street-food options is about to expand with the expected launch next week of Japacurry, a food truck specializing in Japanese curry. Owner Mutsuo Hamada ― he goes by Jay ― ... More >>

They Might Be Giants, Street Food Fest, Rock Make, Booty Bassment and More

They Might Be Giants play Stern Grove for free this Sunday​Celebrate San Francisco this weekend. We have awesome bands, awesome fests and awesome non-summer summers. Check out our list of top ten things to do for less than a cocktail costs at some fancy-pants L.A. club. Locals only: Alamo Square ... More >>

Love Doesn't Actually Kill

'There Is No Antennagate': Steve Jobs Wants You to Buy iPhone 4, Stop Bothering Him

Bread, circuses, and free crap for all you whiners...​No longer able to ignore the mounting flack from the press for ignoring the cries of enraged geeks -- and the empowered geeks at Consumer Reports --  Apple CEO Steve Jobs today addressed the sea of complaints about the iPhone 4's spotty an ... More >>

Baylinks: Make $1,000 Off Oscar Grant, Apple's iPhone 4 Conference, Missed Connection

http://www.techgadgets.in/​Strapped for cash? Identify Oakland rioters [SFist]Interview with SF author Matt Stewart..over Twitter [The Bay Citizen] Apple holding special press conference about iPhone 4 tomorrow in Cupertino. Who's making bets? [SFGate]

Worms in the Apple

Two rebels take on America's most beloved computer company.

Philip Kan Gotanda's new play is hard to swallow

Just When You Thought Peninsula Had Hatched Weirdo of its Own, it Turns Out Accused Nude Doorbell Ditcher Is a San Franciscan

'Candygram!' ​Like many San Franciscans last month, I couldn't help but notice the odd story emanating from the bucolic bedroom communities of Woodside and Portola Valley. On July 16, a giant, basketball player-sized man accused of nude doorbell ditching led sheriff's deputies on a dangerous, dest ... More >>

Check, Please! Reality Check: Episodes 401 & 402

They sent a vegetarian to review Shanghai Dumpling House?

CHiPs and Shields

Several Mountain Winery Shows Relocated, Rescheduled

Bay Area Cycling Deaths Increase

Whole Foods Opens Potrero Hill "Lifestyle Store": Shopping Will Never Be The Same

Whole Foods Opens Potrero Hill "Lifestyle Store": Shopping Will Never Be The Same

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And a Teen Shall Lead Them

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Kiss and Tell

How to express fond feelings without mussing your lipstick

Pet Project

A legislator's lighthearted write-your-own-law contest has led to a serious bill to protect animals and kids from antifreeze poisoning

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Swede Victory

Conductor Herbert Blomstedt rescues an obscure composer from the classical dustbin

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