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William Hicks

William Hicks

Assistant Managing Editor at San Francisco Business Times Online

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The East Bay hunts for its own AI startup boom with plenty of space to offer

Berkeley's innovation company count dropped from 400 in 2024 to around 370 in 2025. What could turn that around?
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Navier, the startup building hydrofoil boats that can lift four feet off the water, is shifting to international markets and defense contracts from its original mission of operating a watertaxi fleet in the San Francisco Bay.
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San Francisco lost thousands of white collar jobs in May, but pre-W...

The San Francisco metropolitan area shed thousands of white-collar jobs in May while seeing big gains in tourism and hospitality ahead of the World Cup.
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Daily Digest: SpaceX pops on IPO debut, kitchen innovator Shuggie's...

Everyone's talking about the SpaceX IPO today, but there's more news happening in the Bay Area.
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Daily Digest: Ubisoft lays off more S.F. workers, FIFA completes Le...

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Planet Labs recently signed a deal worth over $100 million with Sweden's military for satellites and servicing. Now it's expanding its San Francisco headquarters.
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Daily Digest: Trump proposes taking stake in AI companies, inflatio...

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Daily Digest: Salesforce reports more layoffs, UCSF fined over stab...

Salesforce is cutting 86 workers, mainly from its technology and product teams. It's the first major layoff of the year from San Francisco's largest private-sector employer.
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Daily Digest: Internet conglomerate Bending Spoons files for IPO, D...

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The ballot measure to fund the Bay Area's transit agencies with a sales tax increase has gathered over 300,000 signatures, nearly double the required threshold to qualify for the ballot.
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The new head of Pottery Barn has worked at Williams-Sonoma subsidia...

San Francisco-based Pottery Barn has chosen its third lifelong employee in a row to head up the premium home furnishing retailer.
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San Francisco-based LiveRamp acquired by French ad firm for $2.2 bi...

San Francisco-based LivRamp has agreed to be acquired for $2.2 billion by French advertising firm Publicis Groupe, with its future physical presence in San Francisco uncertain.
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MBC BioLabs bets on AI boom to boost biotech startups - San Francis...

MBC BioLabs sees its two biotech incubators location in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood, near the AI hub of Mission Bay, as an advantage. It wants to build one more to prove the point.
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A Napa company producing cannabis-infused rosé has filed for bankruptcy.
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Cloudflare layoffs in San Francisco are among the largest of the year

Cloudflare's layoffs affected more than 200 workers in San Francisco, making it the second-largest to take place in the city this year.
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California lags nation in growth of remote workers, but likely beca...

California has been slow to grow its remote worker population compared with the rest of the country, partly due to the fact workers tend to leave the state after landing a remote job.
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Cloudflare to lay off more than 1,000 workers in effort to 'archite...

Cloudflare joins a wave of Bay Area companies citing AI as a primary reason for mass layoffs.
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Donald Trump changed the rules for hiring foreign workers, and Big ...

Trump's new H-1B rules that favor higher earners may have actually helped Bay Area companies secure more foreign workers.
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Nonprofit to open Hayward facility to help startups build prototypes

A nonprofit is retrofitting a life sciences building in Hayward to serve as a manufacturing space for early-stage startups to build battery prototypes.
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Xona Space Systems debuts satellite manufacturing facility in Burli...

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