In an ongoing effort to recover from early outrage over its prices, Uber will cut fares in home city of San Francisco by 25 percent over the Memorial Day weekend.
Uber to Lower Prices in San Francisco for Holiday Weekend
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We're kicking off our upcoming Social Media Marketing Boot Camp with a special keynote presentation by Ella Chick (left), the digital producer at Anderson Cooper 360°. She'll discuss how the network uses social media for breaking news and leverages social media to draw attention to organizations and causes. Learn more about our program and register here.
Build a Social Business with the Digital Producer at Anderson Cooper 360°
We're kicking off our upcoming Social Media Marketing Boot Camp with a special keynote presentation by Ella Chick (left), the digital producer at Anderson Cooper 360°. She'll discuss how the network uses social media for breaking news and leverages social media to draw attention to organizations and causes. Learn more about our program and register here. Go Social This Summer — One Day Sale!
Today only, we’re having a one day sale on our summer social media networking events, AllTwitter Marketing Conference and AllFacebook Marketing Conference, June 4 and 5 in San Francisco. You’ll save $100 off your ticket to either event or $200 off a Combo Pass to attend both. Just use the code ONEDAY when you register.
Airbnb Find: Sleep in Someone Else’s Car in San Francisco, Just $103 a Night
Rents in San Francisco getting you down? Try living in a 1990 Chevy Conversion van for $520 a month.
Uber Reportedly Valued at $1 Billion
Uber is in the midst of a fundraising round that values the company at $1 billion, according to Reuters’ report.
Social Standings for MLB Teams on Opening Day: Infographic
It’s Opening Day for Major League Baseball. San Francisco is home to the defending World Series-champion San Francisco Giants and home to Twitter and, in baseball terms, to Facebook. But the Giants place a mediocre fourth in the social media fandom, according to this infographic from Silverpop.
Flash Games Industry Experiences (r)Evolution!
This data will come to life at Mochi Media’s one-day event, Flash Gaming Summit 5, March 24, 2013 in San Francisco. This conference will be dedicated to fostering the growth and success of today’s game creators and publishers.
Inside Social Apps Early Bird Prices End at Midnight
Join us at Inside Social Apps Conference & Expo, June 6-7 in San Francisco, for fresh industry insights and an unparalleled opportunity to hone your business strategy and network with hundreds of professionals. Early bird prices end tonight, so register before midnight and save.
Google Unveils Plans for New Campus
Google will build a new 1.1 million-square-foot campus in Mountain View, leaving behind some of the iconic buildings of the Web boom — and some of the pollution from the semiconductor and personal computing origins of Silicon Valley.
Uber Delivers Serenades and Roses for Valentine’s Day
It’s Katelyn Bogucki’s job to drum up more demand for Uber’s limo and cab services in San Francisco. Today was a fun day for Katelyn, who got to ride around in a limo with driver Walid and a band called Uke Hammer delivering serenades to (mostly) unsuspecting women.
How the Other Half Lives: Software Developer Salaries [Infographic]
Riviera Partners, a California-based recruiting service crunched some numbers related to software developers it helped place in Silicon Valley in 2012. The numbers are pretty stunning. A junior-level engineer working in PHP, the least lucrative of the major programming languages, earns $75,000. But just 14 percent of the people benefiting from the tech boom are women.
