San Francisco Recalls Progressive DA Chesa Boudin, Billionaire Caruso Advances In Los Angeles Mayoral Race

Topline San Francisco residents on Tuesday voted to recall the city’s district attorney by a 20-point margin while billionaire and former Republican Rick Caruso was projected to advance in the Los Ang...

California PUC Grants Cruise Permission To Charge For Robotaxi Rides In SF. Now What Will They Charge?

Passenger gets in a Cruise robotaxi with no driver aboard. Soon, Cruise will start charging for … [+] rides. Cruise Today the California Public Utilities Permission unanimously voted to grant GM...

How relocating Americans created new inflation hot spots

Americans moved around a lot over the past two years, and those destinations also now happen to have the highest inflation rates in the U.S. “We saw right away that inflation was highest in Phoe...

Waymo Prepares To Bring Robotaxi Service To Phoenix Airport And More

Waymo vehicles in Phoenix and near the airport Wayno Waymo (fomerly Google GOOG car) CEO Dmitri Dolgov announced today a further expansion of their efforts in Phoenix, on top of the expansions recount...

Covid Cases Are Rising — But Cities So Far Aren’t Reimposing Mask Mandates

Topline Rising Covid-19 cases across the country so far aren’t resulting in local mask mandates coming back, as officials in multiple Democratic-leaning cities said in recent days they have no plans t...

Waymo, Cruise, Chinese Firms Expand Robotaxi Service Areas; It’s On

AutoX shows off the size of their robotaxi fleet in Shenzhen AutoX Waymo announced today they would, as promised, expand their service in the suburbs of Phoenix into the downtown area, accepting appli...

Why people moving out of big cities are seeing the most inflation

Some of the hottest pandemic-migration destinations also happen to be home to the hottest regional inflation rates. The relationship between migration and inflation has strengthened significantly as m...

Meet The Former Investment Banker Living Her Dream Of Designing Fine Jewelry

Erin Flynn wears her Champagne Bubbles necklace and sits with her two boys. Erin Flynn Erin Flynn Fine Jewelry was an idea that began percolating more than 20 years ago as a side hustle. A story famil...

San Francisco’s Fin Tech Biz Seems To Have A Gender Problem

SAN FRANCISCO – MARCH 31: The San Francisco skyline is seen from Treasure Island March 31, 2006 in … [+] San Francisco. April 18, 2006 will mark the 100th anniversary of the great 1906 ear...

Capella Space raises $97 million to expand satellite data products

The deployed reflector of the Capella-3 satellite in orbit. Capella Space San Francisco-based satellite imagery specialist Capella Space on Monday announced the close of nearly $100 million in financi...

Why The San Francisco 49ers Should Honor Deebo Samuel’s Trade Request

San Francisco 49ers’ star Deebo Samuel requests trade. (Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images) Getty Images San Francisco 49ers star wide receiver Deebo Samuel shocked the NFL world earlier...

Golden State Warriors launch entertainment division, will feature BamBam

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – MARCH 16: Stephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors warms up prior to the game against the Boston Celtics on March 16, 2022 at Chase Center in San Francisco, California....

In SF, We Find Out What Happens When Cops Pull Over A Cruise Self-Driving Car

A Cruise self-driving car was pulled over in San Francisco by police for driving at night without … [+] its lights on. dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images Last week in San Francisco, some offi...

China Covid Lockdowns Likely To Be Followed By Policy Easing In 2nd Half — Matthew Asia’s Andy Rothman

Empty roads during a phased lockdown due to Covid-19 in Shanghai, China, on Tuesday, April 5, 2022. … [+] Shanghai reported more than 13,000 daily Covid cases for the first time, as a sweeping l...

Every City’s Cycleway Network Should Be As Dense As Road Network, Says American Academic

A man and a woman ride their bicycles on a cycleway past cars stuck in a traffic jam along the Seine … [+] River near the Bir Hakeim Bridge and the Eiffel Tower in Paris. / AFP PHOTO / LUDOVIC M...

Waymo Starts Fully Autonomous Rides In San Francisco, Expanding Arizona Robotaxi Zone

Waymo is beginning to operate electric Jaguar I-PACE SUVs in San Francisco with no human safety driver at the wheel. Waymo Waymo, the first self-driving company to launch a U.S. robotaxi service, said...

GameStop, Uber, Nielsen Holdings and more

A screen displays the logo and trading information for GameStop on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) March 29, 2022. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines i...

How to take a sabbatical even if your company doesn’t offer one

Katherine Ullman spent part of her sabbatical in Colombia. Courtesy: Katherine Ullman Katherine Ullman was burned out from working intensely during the Covid-19 pandemic and was questioning her next c...

San Francisco Giants Make Big And Little Splashes In Free Agent Pitching Market

Chicago White Sox pitcher Carlos Rodon throws against the Houston Astros during Game 4 of a baseball … [+] American League Division Series Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Hu...

GM-Backed Cruise Launches Driverless Ride Service In San Francisco

Cruise opened its autonomous ride service to the public in San Francisco on Feb. 1. Cruise Cruise, the autonomous driving company backed by General Motors, is kicking off its long-awaited robotaxi ser...

How Suburban Sprawl’s Single-Family Home Zoning Limits Housing Supply

America’s suburbs are sprawling again. Last year, single family housing starts rose to 1.123 million, the highest since 2006, according to the National Association of Home Builders, however, opt...

Which countries are best for road trips? See the top 5 in the world

The highly transmissible omicron Covid-19 variant has some travelers thinking twice about air travel again. While travel bookings are surging this year, some people are sticking with one of the bigges...

Watch GM CEO Mary Barra take her first autonomous car ride with Cruise

General Motors Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra speaks during a meeting hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden with private sector CEOs to discuss the Build Back Better agenda at the Whit...

McDonald’s expands test of McPlant burger created with Beyond Meat

McDonald’s McPlant burger Source: McDonald’s McDonald’s is expanding its test of the plant-based McPlant burger, created as part of its partnership with Beyond Meat. Starting Feb. 14...