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San Francisco Business Times
April 8, 2013 - 3:57pm
Reach Media Group Holdings Inc., a San Francisco-based digital signage company, went public Monday in a $27.6 million reverse merger with SCG Financial Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: SCGQ) of Chicago.
The deal results in a single company called RMG Networks that has a market capitalization of $98...
Mission Loc@l
April 8, 2013 - 3:32pm
Friday Police reported that at 4 a.m. near Valencia and 23rd Streets, three male suspects approached a woman and snatched her purse. The encounter caused the victim to fall and injury her chin. The three suspects fled in a an older model gray vehicle. The victim suffered a laceration to the chin...
SFist
April 8, 2013 - 3:10pm
Well, isn't this intriguing. In a boon for privacy and civil rights advocates, the federal government recently discovered that they can't actually collect text messages from people they're wiretapping if they own an iPhone and are texting someone else with an iPhone via iMessage. As CNN reports,...
San Francisco Business Times
April 8, 2013 - 2:59pm
San Francisco start-up iRhythm Technologies Inc. raised $15.1 million in a March 27 equity sale, the company said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing released Monday.
Another $1.9 million remains to be sold in the private equities offering, iRhythm said in the SEC filing.
Earlier, it...
San Francisco Business Times
April 8, 2013 - 2:57pm
Autodesk hosted "Design Night: Robots!" on Thursday to celebrate National Robotics Week, which this year features more than 125 robotics-based events, demonstrations and workshops in 50 states aimed at inspiring innovators in science, technology, engineering and math.
At the event, robotics...
SFist
April 8, 2013 - 2:44pm
Our colleagues back East have unpacked last night's episode of Mad Men, which begins with Don and Megan returning from a Hawaiian vacation in January 1968, after Don stole a G.I.'s zippo for some reason. Since it is impossible to make any reference to the period without bringing up the Summer of...
San Francisco Business Times
April 8, 2013 - 2:32pm
Gilead Sciences Inc. could be the first company on the market with a once-a-day oral drug to combat chronic and potentially deadly hepatitis C.
The Foster City-based company (NASDAQ: GILD), long known for its portfolio of HIV/AIDS drugs, said Monday that it submitted a new drug application to the...
Streetsblog San Francisco
April 8, 2013 - 2:31pm
Take part in an important step in shaping the future of transportation, health, and equity in the region this Thursday at an open house on Plan Bay Area, where planners will present a draft 25-year blueprint to accommodate population growth without more sprawl and driving. On Friday, San Francisco...
San Francisco Business Times
April 8, 2013 - 2:26pm
Union Bank said Monday that its purchase of a $3.7 billion commercial real estate loan portfolio expands its lending platform in the East Coast.
The San Francisco bank purchased the New York-based lending division from PB Capital.
Terms of the transaction, expected to close in the second quarter,...
San Francisco Business Times
April 8, 2013 - 2:25pm
Asian pottery is replacing newspapers at a former San Francisco Chronicle printing plant in Richmond.
The Hearst Corp. has sold 1170 Hensley St. to Pottery Land USA for $2.8 million. The 76,000 square foot industrial facility sits on 9.32 acres just off Richmond Parkway in Central Richmond.
Pottery...
SFist
April 8, 2013 - 2:10pm
(By E. Chang) Football is a religion. Baseball ain't like that. Baseball is like homework. [ more › ]
San Francisco Business Times
April 8, 2013 - 1:35pm
Zinus Inc., a mattress and bedding distributor, took 116,017 square feet in the Fairway Industrial Center at 1951 Fairway Drive in San Leandro.
The company plans to expand from its current 48,000-square-foot space at 30799 Wiegman Road in Hayward, which serves as its U.S. sales and marketing base....
SFist
April 8, 2013 - 1:32pm
A "suspicious" death occurred last night in a high-rise building on Vallejo Street, and as ABC 7 reports, such events are "unusual for quiet Pacific Heights," and we should all therefore start to get intrigued. Because yes, sometimes rich people are killed too. [ more › ]
San Francisco Business Times
April 8, 2013 - 1:32pm
Revolution Foods has raised $17 million by selling equity — adding to the $3 million it recently raised by selling debt and options, according to three separate regulatory filings.
The Oakland-based company, which sells healthy school lunches, was attempting to raise $12 million.
Revolution Foods...
Streetsblog San Francisco
April 8, 2013 - 1:23pm
Step one: Do it like Indianapolis.
This is how Indianapolis does complete streets. Image: UrbanIndy
Of the 130 complete streets policies passed in 2012, the one passed by Indianapolis gets the highest score in a new ranking by Smart Growth America and its National Complete Streets Coalition.
“...
SFist
April 8, 2013 - 1:08pm
Two people were left in critical condition after an altercation sprung up early Sunday morning between two groups across the street from SFPD's Mission Station at 17th and Valencia Streets. A bystander alerted the officers at the station and two officers arrived to find one suspect pointing a...
Mission Loc@l
April 8, 2013 - 12:58pm
“¿Es verdad que los gatos ven la tele?”, preguntó Fernando, estudiante de octavo grado, mientras miraba una televisión adentro del “departamento” de gatos de la SPCA (Sociedad de Prevención de Crueldad a Animales de San Francisco, por sus siglas en inglés). “En realidad es muy buena estimulación...
San Francisco Business Times
April 8, 2013 - 12:47pm
Zyme Solytions Inc., the developer of software that gives high tech and consumer electronics companies insight into global channel sales activity, has raised $5 million, according to a regulatory filing.
Redwood City-based Zyme was founded in 2004 by CEO Chandra Sankaran, who appears in numerous...
Mission Loc@l
April 8, 2013 - 12:30pm
El domingo pasado en la madrugada, un agente le disparó a dos personas que tuvieron que ser hospitalizadas, de acuerdo con el Departamento de Policía de San Francisco. A aproximadamente las dos de la madrugada, un grupo de personas confrontó a otro grupo de gente al dejar un bar cerca de las...
SFist
April 8, 2013 - 12:10pm
Known to many as, quite literally, one of the happiest places in San Francisco, a Bayshore Boulevard Happy Donuts played host to a very unhappy incident in the wee hours of the morning Monday. [ more › ]
Streetsblog San Francisco
April 8, 2013 - 12:07pm
Which city has the ugliest asphalt expanse? The deadest downtown? The most awful place to sit and eat lunch? Those are the questions you must ask yourself as we approach the finale of Parking Madness, our hunt for the worst parking crater in the U.S.
We’re wrapping up Final Four competition...
Misisipi Mike
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