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1 week ago | 
bbc.com | Matt Murphy |Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn
How controversial US-Israeli backed Gaza aid plan turned to chaosMatt Murphy & Kevin NguyenBBCThe masked and armed security contractor atop a dirt mound watches thousands of Palestinians who have been kettled into narrow lanes separated by fences below. He makes a heart shape with his hands and the crowd responds - the fence begins to bend as they push against it.
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1 week ago | 
sfstandard.com | Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn
Coinbase, the nation’s leading cryptocurrency exchange, has agreed to lease 150,000 square feet of new office space in San Francisco. The long-term deal marks a homecoming of sorts for the public company, as it paid millions four years ago to shutter its San Francisco corporate headquarters at 430 California St. and pivoted to becoming a remote-first workplace with no headquarters.
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1 week ago | 
sfstandard.com | Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn
Among the recognizable faces sitting courtside at Warriors games — E-40, team owner Joe Lacob, Apple’s Eddy Cue — there’s at least one guy you probably haven’t noticed. Glasses. Curly hair. Sometimes wearing an “Everybody but Buddy” sweater. He has a prime spot next to Draymond Green at the end of the bench. His name is Brandon Shorenstein, and the 39-year-old is chairman and CEO of one of the most powerful San Francisco real estate dynasties ever created: Shorenstein Properties.
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2 weeks ago | 
sfstandard.com | Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn
Is a cure for downtown San Francisco’s persistent office vacancy problem the ability to record a podcast with a fancy cocktail in hand? The owners of 525 Market St. are spending more than $20 million to find out. The seventh floor of the office tower is the newest front in San Francisco’s office amenities arms race.
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2 weeks ago | 
soccerbayarea.com | Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn
Watching them lean back in their chairs postgame, it’s evident that a weight has been lifted off the shoulders of Caroline Conti and Penelope Hocking. The two players arrived at Bay FC last season looking to jumpstart their careers but found consistent playing time hard to come by in a team full of veterans. Within five minutes of each other on Saturday, they both found the back of the net against Angel City FC, helping their side snap a three game winless streak.
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3 weeks ago | 
sfstandard.com | Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn
Want the latest Bay Area sports news delivered to your inbox? Sign up here to receive regular email blasts, plus “The Dime,” our twice-weekly sports newsletter. Kids leaving right after the school bell. Adults taking off work. Celebrities going out of their way to make it to PayPal Park before 4 p.m. on a busy Wednesday afternoon, because if you didn’t — well, you were going to miss him. Pope Leo, that is. No, not the guy from Chicago.
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1 month ago | 
sfstandard.com | Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn
The AI boom has made the chipmaker flush with cash, which it is funneling toward Silicon Valley real estate. Nvidia is eating everything within its reach. Just days after buying a 10-building office park adjacent to its Santa Clara headquarters for $123 million, the leading AI chipmaker has spent $254 million on three office buildings it already occupies on San Tomas Expressway.
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1 month ago | 
sfstandard.com | Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn
The all-cash deal was for a 10-building campus adjacent to the chipmaker’s headquarters. Nvidia, the chipmaker valued at $2.7 trillion, is spending big to acquire real estate next to its Santa Clara headquarters. According to documents filed last week with the county, Nvidia paid $123 million to purchase a 10-building office park, the Santa Clara Commerce Park, on the 2300 block of Walsh Avenue.
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1 month ago | 
sfstandard.com | Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn
As many traditional retailers pull back and leave empty storefronts, a new wave of businesses are coming to the rescue. Teens pack Round1, the arcade inside a former Nordstrom, past midnight for a slim chance to win an anime plushy. Hundreds line up at a Korean grocery store in a closed JCPenney to taste freshly fried fish cakes. Superfans beg strangers online to nab a sold-out reservation to snap selfies with their favorite Nintendo characters at a previously boarded-up gift shop.
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1 month ago | 
soccerbayarea.com | Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn
2023 was a banner year for DeJuan Jones. At age 25, the right-footed left back had become a mainstay in Bruce Arena’s New England lineup and parlayed that experience into a U.S. Men’s National Team call up that summer, where he starred in the Gold Cup. But then his career took a bit of a detour. Arena was unceremoniously dismissed, and a year later, in the middle of a miserable season, Jones was traded to the Columbus Crew, where he found himself on the outside looking in of a well-oiled machine.
