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 by AFP Staff Writers San Francisco (AFP) March 8, 2021
The San Francisco building that file hosting service Dropbox leases as its headquarters is being sold for a whopping $1.08 billion, its owners said on Monday. The price per square-foot (square-meter) for the building sale was a new high in the San Francisco commercial real estate market, according to its owner, Kilroy Realty Corporation. "This is a resounding sign that people are still excited to be a part of San Francisco and its future," San Francisco mayor London Breed said in a release. Dropbox, which provides data storage and other services hosted in the internet cloud, signed a 15-year lease for all the office space in the building in 2017, according to its owner, Kilroy Realty Corporation. It was unclear how much of the 750,000 square-foot (60,000 square-meter) office property is still being used by Dropbox given a shift to tech workers tending to their jobs remotely due to the pandemic. Dropbox announced late last year it was becoming a "Virtual First" company, with working from outside the office becoming the "primary experience " for its employees. Dropbox said in its latest quarterly earnings report that it planned to sublease a portion of its office space while keeping some for team collaboration. The tech firm reported $398 million in "impairment charges" in the final quarter of last year related to its leased space. Silicon Valley has seen departures of some of its high-profile stars as a pandemic-linked shift to remote work and political polarization have dulled the allure of the key tech industry hub.
Parler social network shifts courts in legal attack on Amazon Washington (AFP) March 4, 2021 Parler social network popular with Donald Trump supporters took aim at Amazon in a state court Wednesday after dropping a federal lawsuit over the internet titan's decision to stop hosting its website due to user posts inciting violence. Parler filed the new lawsuit in Washington state, where Amazon has its headquarters, hoping the case will stand better chances under local laws regarding defamation, breach of contract, and consumer protection. However Amazon told AFP there was "no merit" to the ... read more
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