Over the weekend, Pando fired two of its hardest-hitting editorial staffers, David Sirota and Ted Rall, both nationally syndicated veteran journalists. Sirota recently broke a big story about Chris Christie's administration awarding pension contracts to hedge funds, private equity groups, and venture capital firms whose employees donated to the governor's reelection.

A protestor just took to the stage of the Google I/O conference, interrupting the keynote and condemning San Francisco evictions by a company executive.

Google's annual developer conference, Google I/O, kicked off this morning in San Francisco, and the drooling tech press pool was found sprinting in the doors like it was Black Friday at Walmart.

It's bad enough that Amazon's latest product is basically a way to monitor your face (in the dark!) and record everything you're even thinking about buying. Atop all that, CEO Jeff Bezos sounds like a movie villain when ordering breakfast.

An anonymous Twitter user who goes by the handle @punkboyinsf posted video footage tonight that appears to show police officers arresting protestors outside Google's Mountain View headquarters. The protestors claims to be part of Occupy Google, an ill-defined group demanding net neutrality and presenting itself as a defender Internet freedom.

Everything norm is new again. Birkenstocks, the bulky, utilitarian footwear that my mom refused to buy me from Quakerbridge Mall are suddenly chic—like a "Remember the 90's" just for your feet. And so, one survey says, is Facebook.

Is there a startup sadder than Path? No. The answer is no, because no other app sends out Baby, come back to me spam emails as desperate as this one. "A ghost town here," indeed.

Google Ventures partner Kevin Rose is quickly racking up enemies in Portland. After infuriating thousands of residents over his planned demolition of a historic home, the Digg founder offered to sell the property back to the original owners for $1.375 million in cash. A group of neighbors scrounged together the funds and accepted Rose's offer, but he's leveling the landmark house anyway.

"Run for the hills. Leave now. You have to find shelter. They have a cheese sommelier."

Twitter says it did not block accounts from Ukrainian national groups, denying claims by Russian officials trying to shut down content they consider extremist. Rather, Twitter says it instructed officials on how to report illegal content, part of its strategy for dealing with oppressive governments.

The defamation suit against Jennifer Allen—who last spring claimed titan investor and TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington had raped her—will not have its day in court.

Google has a diversity problem. The company recently gave in to demands for transparency, revealing that only 30 percent of its staff are women. Now the tech giant has meritocratic pricing plan to encourage more women to attend their banner Google I/O conference.

Despite the tech-friendly climate within City Hall, San Francisco is coming down on a new breed of parking spot-sharing apps. The city issued a cease-and-desist letter demanding that Apple pull them from the App Store for violating California law.

Nobody really enjoys using most of the Yahoo! branded apps or websites, so the company's future rests largely on the money it can make from advertising. For this reason and perhaps others, it's not a good sign that Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer showed up hours late to a client dinner because she was asleep.

Tech's fetishization of fireside chats has manifested itself with a whole "fireplace area" in Soundcloud's new office. The goal? Facilitating "the kinds of fireside conversations that aren't always possible at your desk." Got it.

San Francisco's controversial plan to charge tech employee shuttle operators $1 daily to legally use city bus stops has hit a bureaucratic roadblock. The pilot program's launch date has been pushed back to August 1st "because all the necessary hearings would not fit in the board of directors' summer schedule."

The worst American export since the atom bomb is now ready to enable the socially inept in an entirely new nation: Google's "Glass Explorer" program programme is hitting the UK. Get ready for lots of POV videos of stabbings.

It's a real drag that Facebook is making it harder for businesses to reach their followers, right? Lucky for spurned social media marketers, a new study indicates all that Facebook spending accomplishes absolutely fuck-all.

Pinterest moved into new offices two years ago, but thanks to venture capital-fueled growth, the San Francisco-based company is already planning another relocation. Only this time, the move would be into an already occupied building, forcing dozens of home design businesses out.

Employment in San Francisco has surpassed the dot-com bubble peak. Now there are 466,500 employed San Franciscans—a thousand more than in December, 2000. And high rents aren't scaring away new residents: 58,800 people have moved to San Francisco in the last 4.5 years.