Twitter Tax Break, A San Francisco Political Fight!

Twitter Tax Break, http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/

The Twitter Tax break would give companies in the economically depressed Mid-Market and Tenderloin neighborhoods, be exempt from paying the payroll tax for new employees. The exemption would be good for six years and would not apply to workers already on the payroll.
The legislation also exempt affected companies from paying payroll taxes on employee stock options if they go public during this six years and would save a bundle for involved companies.

But the board of supervisors are up in arms. Some supports the measure while others looking to bring it in front of voters in November.

Twitter, a private company, is thinking of moving to Brisbane from it's current location, south of market, is of course looking for the break. If approved, Twitter would move in to a place on Market street by ninth street. Twitter is projecting to hire about 2650 employees by 2013. Twitter currently has 350 employees.

read more on SFGate.

iProtest With iPad, Steve Jobs Should Be Proud!

iProtest With iPad, Steve Jobs Should Be Proud! http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Why waste paper and paint when you got an iPad. This should catch up very well in San Francisco! Brilliant! Lithuania people and Police must be good, not to smash his iPad!

Create Apps For San Francisco! It Is A Contest, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom,

San Francisco City App Store & Contest

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, made a post on Techcrunch requesting all to join in a contest for creating Apps for San Francisco.
(Mayor Newsom has been selected to the office, twice and is the youngest mayor to be voted in in 100 years! City has seen many new developments since his appointment and continue to do so in all departments. But if you read more into his campaign, you will notice that he wants do more, he wants to bring "EDUCATION" back to California, I am really looking forward to see that Mayor.)
Getting back to the City App Store and the App contest, the app contest is coming up in the foot steps of the success with City App Store  which became a hit in just six weeks. The City App Store utilizes data provided by DataSF.org.
So far the response has been tremendous and Mayor want all the talented developer to join and make San Francisco a better place for everyone from Moms(Mom Maps) to Dads(Dadnab) and beyond.

We were not sure what people would create with the data, but we knew that many of our talented developers wanted to help improve San Francisco. Now, our community is coming together to help fill our app store with even more civic apps.

 Mayor is not alone in this calling, The Center for Investigative Reporting’s California Watch reporting team, Spot.Us, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, MAPLight.org, the Gov 2.0 Summit, Sun Light Foundation and others are joining forces to sponsor the first DataSF App Contest on Nov. 7.

If you are interested, Register here for the DataSF App Contest. If you are interesting in sponsoring the App Contest, visit the Spot.Us pag

Read the complete post at TechCrunch.