San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee joined Supervisors David Chiu and Jane Kim at City Hall this afternoon to announce a plan that would offer tax exemptions to Twitter Inc. and other companies to the city's Mid-Market neighborhood.The microblogging company, currently located in the South of Market neighborhood, would be exempt from payroll taxes for new employees for six years if it moved on or near Market Street between Fifth and 10th streets.
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The internet was buzzing last night with news that Google had developed a workaround to the current lack of internet in Egypt. From the Google blog:
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Much has been made of the fact that Egypt shut down both the internet and the mobile phone networks to try and quell widespread protests. While the internet is still down in the country mobile phones are back up and operating.
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Kudos to Tim Carney, Senior Examiner Political Columnist, for invoking George Washington’s warning against “entangling alliances” in a piece on whether the recent events in Egypt are good for the US.
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Reminding free speech advocates and libertarians that bad bills are like zombies in DC, the “internet kill switch” will be revived in the Senate. Still sponsored by Maine Sen. Collins and Sen. Lieberman, the Sen. Snowe supported bill has been revised and will presented once more.
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District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener took to Facebook this weekend to focus on creating jobs and took clear policy stances.“We need to stop just talking about job creation and actually do it,” Wiener wrote in the post.Wiener referred to recently elected Gov. Jerry Brown’s reaching out to tech companies for ideas to boost jobs.
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As city officials try to keep Twitter from flying the coop, a plan is beginning to recirculate to keep the entire business community a little happier with its henhouse.
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For a little while last night, the term “Donkey Kong” was a trending topic in San Francisco on Twitter. So why would a 1980s arcade game briefly become an obsession among the 21st-century Twitterati? You can blame — or credit — Supervisor Chris Daly.
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With fare increases, service reductions, and new weekend Baby Bullet trains all scheduled to go into effect, the start of the new year is shaping up to be a busy one for Caltrain.Fortunately for Caltrain’s passengers, the transit agency is taking up social media to help dispense all the latest information.
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I've previously covered Tom Friedman's China fetish in some detail. Fortunately, not everyone at the New York Times op-ed page is blind to the injustices of that country's oppressive regime. Times columnist Nick Kristof opened a Sina Weibo account -- Chinese microblogging site similar to twitter -- just to see what would happen.
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