The Internet has a new favorite kitty, you may have overpaid your parking tickets, plus Google Fiber is coming to San Francisco. Here's what happened this week!
Cat With Blue Eyes And Natural Winged Eyeliner Takes Flawless Selfies, Huffington Post
Move over, Frank Sinatra. There’s a new set of baby blues in town. Meet Coby the cat, whose set of peepers has garnered 295,000 followers on Instagram and more than 4,500 on Facebook. This cat even has natural winged eyeliner that puts Adele's game to shame. Coby’s human, an art director named Rebecca (who would like her last name to remain anonymous), says when she first laid eyes on the white, fluffy British Shorthair, it was love at first sight. Read more.
San Francisco School Board OKs Condoms for Middle Schoolers, woodtv.com
The San Francisco Board of Education has unanimously approved a resolution to expand its Condom Availability Program to include all middle school students in the San Francisco Unified School District, according to Chief Communications Officer Gentle Blythe. The proposal to expand the program was recommended Tuesday night in San Francisco where the school board was deciding whether to give condoms to middle-school kids. Read more.
Google Fiber Is Coming to San Francisco, The Verge
Google Fiber is heading close to home for its next location: San Francisco. Google announced this morning that it intends to bring its fast gigabit Internet to "a portion of San Francisco," specifically to apartments, condos, and affordable housing units. Details on exactly where and when are nonexistent for now, and Google suggests that we may be waiting a while to hear more. Read more.
SFMTA Refunds Millions in Overpaid Parking Tickets, ABC News
Anyone who paid a parking ticket or transit citation in San Francisco between 1995 and 2012, may be getting some money back. The Metropolitan Transportation Agency is refunding millions of dollars it received in overpaid and duplicate payments during that span. Read more.
Zynga Puts its San Francisco Headquarters Up for Sale, Venture Beat
Zynga has put its San Francisco headquarters up for sale. The social mobile game company’s headcount is down around 2,300 or so, significantly down from its peak above 3,500 people. That means it doesn’t need as much space as it once did. Zynga acquired the space, which was once the U.S. headquarters of Sega, for $228 million. Now it maybe worth much more, given the boom in San Francisco real estate. Read more.
