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San Francisco vs Silicon Valley as a tech destination - More than ever, technology entrepreneurs, and their investors and employees, are choosing the urban charms of San Francisco over the sprawl of neighboring Silicon Valley.

As the majority of the city was sleeping, I found myself in one of one the only places that the city has to offer its lost and lonely inhabitants.

The new Transbay Transit Center is expected to transform San Francisco's downtown core by focusing new developmentA around a massive regional transit hub in eastern SoMa.

San Francisco police are looking for a man who ordered a cookie before robbing a business in the city's South of Market area on Thursday morning.

DJs Dave Paul and Jeff Harris have taken their S.F.-based Prince and Michael Experience on the road for the past few years, traveling to cities such as New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia.

"The trouble with making the rest of the economy "more productive" is, of course, that it means higher levels of unemployment." Can I refer you to the most productive economies in the world - the four Nordics and Germany? All of them have low unemployment and high per capita income.

Today was the first preview of what's to come and six trucks were serving a steady stream of customers: Mr.

In announcing their intention to move to San Francisco, the Golden State Warriors embraced the possibilities presented by a redeveloped San Francisco waterfront -- and left Oakland and its underdeveloped, half-baked Coliseum plans to the land of "what if." What's more depressing is the way Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and others in City Hall continue to ... (more)

The Belgian chocolate maker's store, located in San Francisco, is half caf and half chocolate shop, and features a wall of chocolate where guests can sample any flavor of the company's signature item.

When it launched with its first iPhone app last December, Soma-based Postmates represented what its founder, Bastian Lehmann, called "a FedEx for local deliveries" here in the city.

One of the ads San Francisco Travel has developed hopes to bring LGBT visitors from along the West Coast to the city.

Speaking comes easy to Kevin Montgomery. The 27-year-old Mission District writer is full of clear thoughts and funny anecdotes.

It's only 49 square miles, A yet micro-climates exist throughout the city of San Francisco.

It's time for San Francisco summer, so grab your favorite coat and try to land a table at these latest spots that feature outdoor dining.

Working in the Financial district, you could pass the sleek, tinted glass exterior of Millenium Tower daily without noticing the rare contents of its street level atrium.

If it's 2 p.m. on a Thursday in San Francisco, bad dogs better beware. That's when "Dog Court" is in session, and San Francisco police Officer John Denny is deciding the fate of the snarling, biting and sometimes marauding canines that threaten to tarnish the city's reputation as one of America's most pet-friendly places, where dogs are so beloved ... (more)

Let's finish out the week with another find in San Francisco. Once those Facebookers get their hands on all that IPO money, lots and land there are going to be made out of unobtainium.

A man struck and killed by a large truck in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood on Thursday afternoon has been identified by the medical examiner's office as 47-year-old Sena Putra.

San Francisco police spokesman Officer Carlos Manfredi said the truck was traveling east on Folsom and was making a right onto 13th Street when it ran over a 45-year-old man.

The urban tech districts that are emerging today, from SoMa in San Francisco to New York's Silicon Alley and London's Silicon Roundabout, are housed in similarly walkable, low to mid-story neighborhoods.