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Google is reopening its California offices on a voluntary basis starting July 12, a key step as it prepares to require most workers back in September for at least three days a week. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As companies return to the office, they're confronting a slew of challenges. Many workers have grown accustomed to the ease of home offices and are reluctant to come back. Meanwhile, employers are weighing the costs and benefits of requiring vaccinations and debating whether continued remote work will hurt company culture. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A 33-year-old San Francisco man pleaded guilty to cheating investors out of $3.5 million in an elaborate e-commerce fraud that involved fake contracts with prominent sportswear companies, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Over the past year, thousands of Americans turned to crowdfunding as a way to make it through an unprecedented pandemic. Tim Cadogan, the CEO of GoFundMe, perhaps the best-known fundraising platform of its type, noted this himself in a piece he wrote for USA Today. The site, he said, was being used to help businesses survive shutdowns, cover for lost wages and pay rent. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - The Senate on Tuesday passed a landmark tech investment bill co-authored by South Bay Rep. Ro Khanna, a significant feat that puts pressure on the House to follow suit. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A widespread outage at the San Francisco cloud computing company Fastly knocked a sizable number of websites offline across the globe early Tuesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Donald Trump will remain banned from using his Facebook and Instagram accounts until at least Jan. 7, 2023, Facebook announced Friday. The news, which comes a month after the company's independent "Supreme Court" declined to rule on suspending the former president permanently, effectively muzzles Trump until after the 2022 midterm elections. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A San Francisco Superior Court judge has given the go-ahead for close to 11,000 female former Google employees to seek pay equity in a case that accuses the search giant of gender-based pay discrimination. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Federal prosecutors are expanding an ongoing federal fraud case against Sunnyvale lab company Arrayit and its president Mark Schena, who is already accused of falsely administering faulty coronavirus tests and bundling them with unnecessary allergy tests all while lying to investors. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Kathy Wang was well into writing a follow-up to "Family Trust," her acclaimed 2018 debut novel about a Chinese family in Silicon Valley, when she was driving near her home in Los Altos and was suddenly gripped by a new idea. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Some Bay Area residents were startled Saturday evening to see a mysterious row of bright lights gliding across the sky. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - The popularity of ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft has contributed to California's increase in emissions from vehicles, but state regulators are intervening to hold the companies to their zero-emissions goals. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Yelp plans to reopen its San Francisco headquarters in November, following its return to several other offices, the company said Thursday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Close to two years ago, Linh Nguyen found what she thought was her ticket to a job in tech when she enrolled in Lambda School, a San Francisco for-profit coding academy that promises students pay tuition only after they get a good-paying job. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

During its waning days in the White House, the Trump administration issued an immigration rule intended to drastically change which highly skilled foreign workers could get the H-1B work visas, a prize particularly coveted by Silicon Valley tech firms large and small. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Tens of thousands of Californians received earthquake alerts on their phones Thursday night around the times a series of quakes shook the Truckee area in Lake Tahoe. But not all those alerts went out to people in the area, with some people hundreds of miles away receiving the alerts despite feeling no shaking. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A lawsuit filed in San Jose federal court alleges that Mountain View search giant Google has been tracking and selling the information of users, despite promising not to. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A former Netflix vice president was convicted of fraud in connection with an elaborate scheme to pocket hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks and stock options, the U.S. Attorney's Office has announced. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As a small boy, Vicente Cruz immigrated to San Francisco from Mexico with his family. He worked from an early age to help pay the rent, but legal trouble as a teenager and financial struggles made it all but impossible to earn a college degree. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Google plans to expand a program to help formerly incarcerated people receive job training and skills, pegged to a White House effort aimed at helping people stay out of prison and jail. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Thousands of San Francisco students heading back to their classrooms this month will be carrying their computers to school each day and sitting in front of a screen to learn from their teachers - who will remain at home. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The NFT and cryptocurrency train has come for the old-school wine world in what might seem like an unusual pairing: Retired NBA all-star Yao Ming's Napa winery is selling bottles at an auction this week with NFTs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Salesforce will reopen its San Francisco headquarters in mid-May, starting with employees who have been vaccinated, the company said Monday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Hundreds of workers at Google parent Alphabet signed a letter Friday demanding the company do more to protect victims of workplace harassment, after a former engineer wrote about her experience with harassment while at the company. More than 200 workers affixed their names to the letter, which said more than 520 had signed on. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Google plans to provide $200 million in community benefits and 25% affordable housing at its San Jose megaproject near Diridon Station, a key step as it moves toward potential final approval next month. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco has lost its status as the country's most expensive office rental market, with asking rents falling below Manhattan for the first time in five years. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Salesforce, San Francisco's largest private employer, was among 55 major U.S. companies that paid no federal income taxes in 2020, according to a new report. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Phone numbers and personal information of half a billion Facebook users may have been stolen and posted online in an unprecedented security breach, Business Insider reported Saturday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

More than 40% of Americans have experienced some kind of online hate or harassment, with many of those instances taking place on large social media sites, according to a report from the Anti-Defamation League. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Attorney Jeff Capaccio was already a bicultural facilitator, benefactor of Italian earthquake relief and a backer of Democratic candidates when he decided he wasn't giving enough back to his community. So he formed the Silicon Valley Italian Executive Council, an advocacy group with 1,500 members and an international presence. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Google is joining the wave of tech companies returning to the office and plans to have some U.S. employees back in April. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

If you didn't do your job there, you probably thought that WeWork was just that hip communal office space that popped up everywhere over the past decade, then spectacularly flamed out due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

More than 40% of Americans have experienced some kind of online hate or harassment, with many of those instances taking place on large social media sites, according to a report from the Anti-Defamation League. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Companies, particularly in the tech industry, associating themselves with famous people is not new. Aside from cash infusions, the well known and well connected can act as unofficial spokespeople whose brands and personal magnetism can draw in more money and interest. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Startups are risky ventures, and most fail. For every multibillion-dollar IPO, Silicon Valley is littered with myriad ideas that went bust while other companies hang on until they can be bought or find another exit. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Uber will open its new Mission Bay headquarters on Monday, becoming the first major office employer in San Francisco to return to work after restrictions were lifted. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

After a year of remote work unleashed economic devastation in neighborhoods built around the daily flow of workplace traffic, Facebook and Uber are returning to the office, a sign of economic hope for nearby restaurants, shops, transit agencies and office landlords. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Companies, particularly in the tech industry, associating themselves with famous people is not new. Aside from cash infusions, the well known and well connected can act as unofficial spokespeople whose brands and personal magnetism can draw in more money and interest. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Remote work is here to stay. Post-pandemic, many companies will let employees work remotely some or all of the time. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In October of 2020 Apple released four iPhones, all of which are 5G models. At the helm of the lineup is the iPhone 12, which starts at $829 and features the A14 Bionic processor and dual rear cameras. If you're looking for something smaller and cheaper, the iPhone 12 Mini is your best pick for a 5G-capable phone. And if you want something more premium, the iPhone 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max are decked out with more features. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Salesforce is listing part of its San Francisco offices at 350 Mission St. for sublease after canceling a separate deal at a nearby Transbay project, two of the largest tech real estate reductions during the pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A wide-ranging breach of San Mateo security camera technology company Verkada appears to have compromised the security of thousands of private and public institutions across the world, including some in the Bay Area. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Mission Bay headquarters complex leased by Dropbox is being sold for $1.08 billion, the second-highest price in San Francisco history for a single property. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Rather than being just a simple proxy service, Brave's built-in browser VPN for iPhone and iPad delivers a full encryption experience. Strong security often comes at the expense of speed, but not so when paired with Brave Browser's lightning speeds. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]