Hey, Look: Foursquare Finally Got A Real Office In San Francisco

Foursquare's New York headquarters are pretty awesome. Its satellite office in SF hasn't been.

Foursquare used to share Square's space in the old SF Chronicle building. When Square got too big, Foursquare moved to a small shared room in the basement with a couple of other startups.

This week, Foursquare finally made the move to a real office -- a classic old warehouse south of Market. There are only about 15 full-time employees out in California, but the company is growing fast and wants to recruit more talent from Silicon Valley. And a lot of Californians don't want to move to New York.

Last night the company had a party to celebrate its new location, and we got a tour of the aftermath this morning.

The new space is on one of the small alleys south of Market Street in SF. Supposedly they're named after famous Gold Rush era madams.

Weird -- looks like a garage is here.

The actual office is upstairs.

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Google Business Photos Announced at Social-Loco Conference in San Francisco

Google's Marissa Mayer formally announced "Google Business Photos" today at the Social-Loco conference in San Francisco.

Google Business Photos Announced at Social-Loco Conference in San Francisco

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Twitter Headquarters Moving to Market Square Building in San Francisco

Twitter signed a lease to move its headquarters to Market Square. In a blog post today, Twitter said: "The city where we have started and grown will remain our future home. Twitter is staying in San Francisco. Market Square is a historic building in San Francisco's Central Market neighborhood that is being managed by our new partner and landlord, Shorenstein Properties."

Twitter Headquarters Moving to Market Square Building in San Francisco

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San Francisco Doing Everything It Can To Drive Zynga And Twitter Away

San Francisco, unlike most other cities in Silicon Valley, has a 1.5% payroll tax. And even more stunning is that they consider gains on stock options part of payroll, meaning that any San Francisco based company going public or being acquired could get hit with a massive tax bill in the tens of millions of dollars. They've got Twitter jumping through hoops to avoid the tax. The company will be forced to move to a new location in order to get a six year payroll tax break. But only if the Board of Supervisors votes to approve the legislation on Wednesday. The upside is that Twitter employees will have immediate physical access to prostitutes, drugs and weapons - the qualifying area isn't exactly an up and coming neighborhood. The city isn't thanking Twitter for bringing all these high paying jobs to San Francisco, either. Rather, some supervisors don't want the tax break at all, and seem quite willing to see Twitter bail to tax-free Brisbane. Says Supervisor John Avalos: “Who are the [Twitter] investors? Probably some of the wealthiest people in this country. And we are giving them more wealth.” The stupidity of that statement is self evident.

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Google Ready to Test NFC-based Mobile Payment System in New York, San Francisco

Google plans to begin testing NFC-based mobile payments at selected stores in New York and San Francisco. "The company will pay for installation of thousands of special cash-register systems from VeriFone Systems Inc. (PAY) at merchant locations, said one of the people, who requested anonymity because Google's plans haven't been made public. The registers would accept payments from mobile phones equipped with so-called near-field-communication technology," reports Bloomberg.

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WiMAX Arriving in San Fran, L.A. and N.Y.C. By Year End

Just in time to compete with Verizon's LTE rollout, Clearwire has announced WiMAX in three major cities before end of 2010. New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco, areas where smartphones are stressing 3G data networks, will all gain access to the operators 4G network.

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