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The Wall Street Journal

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    Facebook's Swoon a Symptom of Wall Street's Sickness

    Facebook's newly issued shares lost 11 percent of their value on Monday, their first full day of public trading after Friday's snafu-filled IPO. That's a loss of $11.5 billion. Tuesday, the fall continued, taking the stock down another 3 percent. Too many shares were issued at too high a price by an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    Seeking a Path to Riches

    Oh, good. More "sharing." The mobile social-app company Path (yes, the one that found itself in the middle a big privacy controversy not long ago) announced on Monday that it had landed another $30 million in venture financing from some top-tier firms, making its total valuation $250 million. Hey, t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    Anonymous Accuses Feds of "Fear-Mongering," Denies Plans to Attack Power Grid

    ​Earlier today, we gave readers a heads up that Anonymous could soon have the ability to wipe out our power grid, further screwing citizens. But after the National Security Agency released the news of this domestic threat, Anonymous sent out a tweet today calling the NSA's claims "baseless fear-mo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2011

    Facebook Fumbles Its Way Toward a Phone

    ​Facebook is building a phone, the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital is reporting this week in a series of posts. Facebook basically has to do it if it wants to stay in competition with Apple and Google as the go-to online destination -- or platform, or "ecosystem." Lots of people make Fa ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 24, 2011

    Degradation in Motion

    ​Facebook is building a phone, the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital is reporting this week in a series of posts. Facebook basically has to do it if it wants to stay in competition with Apple and Google as the go-to online destination -- or platform, or "ecosystem." Lots of people make Fa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2011

    Why Are Tech Journos Suddenly Interested in News Corp. Scandal?

    ​When I was a staff editor at the tech-news site CNET News.com in the late '90s, one of the top editors there used to insist that we "localize" big news events by writing about how they were being covered and discussed on the Internet. So, for example, the death of Princess Di and the impeachment ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2011

    Cisco Welcomes Its New Chinese Overlords

    ​Remember the good ol' days, when companies that did terrible things tried to hide their behavior? Those days are gone. Just witness the American technology companies shamelessly scrambling to get in on a government project in China that is almost certainly designed to help the repressive regime s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    AOL CEO Tim Armstrong: Please Let Me in the Bubble

    Yaniv Golan/Flickr​AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is jealous of the new Internet bubble, and he wants in. Last week during a meeting with investors, Armstrong noted the high valuations of companies like LinkedIn and Pandora and concluded that AOL is "severely undervalued." The Wall Street Journal quoted ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    A Food-Truck Backlash in Los Angeles, Who Wants a Menu-Definition App?

    ​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. The backlash begins.  The L.A. Times has a great article looking at the state of the city's new-wave food truck scene two and a half years after Kogi launched. (Just to get th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    SFGate.com Readers Are Crazy Old Men

    Avid Sfgate.com reader​If you've ever been reading SF Gate comments and had the image of a old man sitting on a porch wearing long pajamas and brandishing a shotgun, well, you've got some data to back you up now.According to a new report published by Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2011

    Beijing Restaurant: The Winteriest of Cuisines

    Kimberly SandieBeijing-style roast duck at Beijing Restaurant.​It seems fitting that this week's review of Beijing Restaurant's new Outer Sunset branch should come out on a week when snowy patches have appeared in 49 of 50 states. (Are you as envious as I am?) To a German American guy from the ver ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2010

    The Beatles on iTunes: If It Happens, Should We Care?

    From one Apple to another?​If the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and the New York Times are correct, Apple will announce a deal tomorrow to sell the Beatles' music through the iTunes store. What would such a deal mean? Should we even care? A few thoughts below:- How big a deal is this? If you're St ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2010

    Matt Gonzalez Endorses John Dennis -- Nancy Pelosi's Republican Opponent

    Matt Smith illustrationCome on in to my big political tent​Former San Francisco Supervisor Matt Gonzalez is endorsing Republican Congressional candidate John Dennis to highlight "points of agreement" between anti-war liberals and libertarian Republicans."There are points of agreement, and we ought ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2010

    Senate Votes Against Taking Up DREAM Act. Local Students Bummed.

    Nope. Not today. ​The U.S. Senate today voted against taking up the the defense budget bill -- curtailing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's last-minute plan to tack on an amendment to give illegal immigrants who go to college or into the military a chance at citizenship. The Wall Street Journal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2010

    Nancy Pelosi Challenger John Dennis Takes Political Ads Over the Rainbow

    "It's nothing mean-spirited against Nancy Pelosi, who obviously deserves respect for a lot of things she's accomplished," says John Dennis. Splash!​John Dennis, the Republican challenger to Rep. Nancy Pelosi, has told SF Weekly he'd like a debate with the Speaker of the House. Good luck with that. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2010

    Wall Street Journal Planning Lance Armstrong Doping Bombshell

    Might this affect Lance's concentration?​The Wall Street Journal, which for a week has been rumored to be preparing a Game of Shadows-style story detailing doping allegations against seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, announced in Friday's paper that it plans to release just such ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2010

    Are There Just Too Damn Many Farmers' Markets?

    OSFlicks/Flickr​Our favorite morsels from the Web. At Salon today, Riddhi Shah probes the dark side of the boom in U.S, farmers' markets. Sure, weekly food fests like the Wednesday Castro market are a boon for city folk, but how much do we really know about the communities where our farmer b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2010

    Chron Paywall Pitch: $1.50 Gets You Free SF Weekly Story

    Apparently SF Weekly is the only place where jailed alleged con man and murderer Kaushal Niroula is free​The San Francisco Chronicle has joined the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times in erecting partial paywalls around stories, requiring readers in some instances to pay to read individual ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    Disgraced Cyclist Floyd Landis Says Lance Armstrong a Doper

    Dennis BuddLance Armstrong and two other Tour of California participants have been accused of being dope-users​Sigh of relief for race sponsor Amgen: Drugs Lance Armstrong accused of using made by competing company.The Amgen Tour of California bicycle race was rocked Thursday by accusations from 2 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2010

    Every Time a Blogger Tweets, A Post Gets Its Wings

    Photo by Laughing Squid/ Scott Beale​Jacob Harris, Senior Software Architect at The New York Times took the stage earlier today at Chirp Twitter conference in San Francisco. He reminisced about how something he started as a hobby, Twitter, is evolving into the primary way we now interact with jour ... More >>

  • Film

    January 20, 2010

    Extraordinary Measures: Harrison Ford is nothing if not useful

    Photo by Laughing Squid/ Scott Beale​Jacob Harris, Senior Software Architect at The New York Times took the stage earlier today at Chirp Twitter conference in San Francisco. He reminisced about how something he started as a hobby, Twitter, is evolving into the primary way we now interact with jour ... More >>

  • News

    October 28, 2009

    No Justice

    Despite Obama's promises of change, corporate crooks are still going unpunished for their roles in the financial collapse.

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2009

    Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

    Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Fiericrotch: We know, you're sick of it. But just one more peek at the Great American Food and Music Fest, courtesy of Bay Area Bites' Stephanie Im, who must be a very, very nice person. Why, she makes the day seem almost idyllic, including photo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2008

    Recession Vacation

    By Ashley Harrell This morning at the Montgomery BART/MUNI station, the Snitch was bombarded with fake Palm Trees wearing signs that said "Non-stop San Francisco to Dubai." They were apparently ads for Emirates, a fancy-pants, government-owned, Dubai-based airline that makes its ... More >>

  • News

    December 3, 2008

    It's the economy, a$$hole

    A swanky hotel chain's four-letter ad campaign.

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2007

    BoingBoing: BetterKnowanSFBlog

    A swanky hotel chain's four-letter ad campaign.

  • Film

    July 25, 2007

    It Doesn't Suck!

    Breathe easy, Simpsons fans

  • Film

    June 20, 2007

    Mighty Heart, Mightier Spotlight

    Angelina Jolie kidnaps Daniel Pearl's movie

  • News

    March 28, 2007

    Fair and Balanced — Almost

    Media criticism done wiki-style.

  • Film

    July 26, 2006

    The Metamorphosis

    Boy turns bug in redemptive kiddie-lit adaptation

  • Calendar

    July 13, 2005

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Boy turns bug in redemptive kiddie-lit adaptation

  • Culture

    February 4, 2004

    Home Work

    An ambitious, groundbreaking show on a theme close to the heart

  • News

    March 26, 2003

    Prewar Snack

    As war drew near, consumption of junk food at the Snaxpo convention soared

  • News

    June 5, 2002

    Off the Waterfront

    News media have abandoned the labor beat and missed a story of global financial import: the looming possibility of a longshoremen's strike at West Coast ports

  • News

    May 8, 2002

    Whore vs. Bore

    Californians have refused public campaign financing, and we've gotten what we deserve: a governor's race between a fund-raising slut and a clueless rich guy

  • Culture

    May 1, 2002

    Angels in Afghanistan

    A controversial, uneven, and eerily timely production at the Berkeley Rep

  • News

    April 10, 2002

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of April 10, 2002

  • News

    October 3, 2001

    Rural Cleansing

    Large numbers of Northern Californians really, truly believe that the government, the environmentalists, and the U.N. have joined forces in a plot so obvious, yet so subtle, so seemingly benevolent and fundamentally evil, that it can only be called ...

  • News

    May 10, 2000

    Less Than Seven Zeroes

    The dot-com party circuit's dirty little secret

  • News

    March 29, 2000

    Letters to the Editor

    Letters from March 29, 2000

  • Music

    March 22, 2000

    Riff Raff

    The Land Deeds They Are A-Changin'

  • News

    March 22, 2000

    Letters to the Editor

    Letters from March 22, 2000

  • Music

    March 15, 2000

    Riff Raff

    Street Hassles

  • News

    March 31, 1999

    Dog Bites

    Street Hassles

  • Calendar

    March 26, 1997

    Slap Shots

    Street Hassles

  • News

    July 17, 1996

    Letters

    Street Hassles

  • News

    May 1, 1996

    Hook, Line, & Stinker

    Everyone loves the 49ers. But even love has its limits. Are taxpayers willing to subsidize millionaire owner Eddie DeBartolo Jr.'s dreams of a new stadium when economists say it's a bad deal

  • Calendar

    December 20, 1995

    Webbing Out

    Everyone loves the 49ers. But even love has its limits. Are taxpayers willing to subsidize millionaire owner Eddie DeBartolo Jr.'s dreams of a new stadium when economists say it's a bad deal

  • Calendar

    September 6, 1995

    REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

    Everyone loves the 49ers. But even love has its limits. Are taxpayers willing to subsidize millionaire owner Eddie DeBartolo Jr.'s dreams of a new stadium when economists say it's a bad deal

  • News

    May 17, 1995

    Letters

    Everyone loves the 49ers. But even love has its limits. Are taxpayers willing to subsidize millionaire owner Eddie DeBartolo Jr.'s dreams of a new stadium when economists say it's a bad deal

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