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It’s not integrated with the Social Security Administration or the Internal Revenue Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liang says his site is not a full-on replacement for the government’s site. “They’re saying, ‘This is the Affordable Care Act portal.’ And we’re saying, ‘Shop here.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liang, who’s 27, goes to his Mac and pulls up the two websites for a side-by-side comparison. The homepage of Healthcare.gov has three buttons, “and then a bunch of icons that look like buttons but actually aren’t buttons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you manage to click the right link, you have to plow through about half an hour of questions and legal jargon before ever getting an estimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At HealthSherpa, there’s just a box for your zip code. Hit enter, and get basic prices for local insurance plans. “We want you to get that payoff as soon as possible, maybe 5 seconds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liang says about 85 percent of users complete the process, from entering their zip code, age and family information, to getting insurance estimates and contacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liang is not the only one with tips on how to build an e-commerce site. If you call around Silicon Valley, every other CEO has advice for the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Tom Lounibos with \u003ca href=\"http://www.soasta.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SOASTA\u003c/a>, which provides services to test websites and web applications: “It appears the journey was not tested end to end. They might have tested the ability to search for a plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rob Bernshteyn, CEO of \u003ca href=\"http://www.coupa.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coupa\u003c/a>, a cloud financial applications company, says the scope of the website was just too broad: “Scope creep tends to develop in these types of deployments. People take shortcuts, get sloppy, redundant code.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonas Jacobi with \u003ca href=\"http://www.kaazing.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kaazing\u003c/a>, which builds interactive platforms, says the government website was built on old technology: “Static platforms are the past. It’s like buying a used car. It won’t last.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google, Oracle and Red Hat \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-31/google-oracle-workers-enlisted-for-obamacare-tech-surge-.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have joined the effort\u003c/a> to fix Healthcare.gov. The Obama administration says it’s time to stop belaboring the problems because they’re in the midst of getting fixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a former federal government employee says we should fixate a bit more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.linkedin.com/in/sumitagarwalusaf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sumit Agarwal\u003c/a> is a startup founder in Silicon Valley and a former head of Google’s mobile product management. In 2010 he joined the Obama administration, managing Internet contracts for the Department of Defense, where he worked for a year and a half. “I do think it’s an important case study. If we had a government that couldn’t build a bridge or lay a mile of road, we’d say it’s a dysfunctional government. In 2013, a website is absolutely a simple, core piece of infrastructure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agarwal says the Department of Health and Human Services got stuck in the traditional bidding process, which limited its choices of contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s another federal agency that doesn’t have to do that. The Defense Department has a lot more leeway. That’s why the National Security Agency can build (and hack) some of the best websites. It gets to call the companies it wants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the name of national security, a DoD-oriented component can say, ‘Look, I have a totally legitimate, strategic need to be able to reach out to this private sector company. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Yoona Ha\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Public Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117935\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-117935\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/Twitter-building.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter's IPO on November 7 has some San Franciscans asking whether the tech giant and others like it are sharing any of their success with the neighborhood. (Olivia Hubert-Allen/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twitter's IPO on November 7 has some San Franciscans asking whether the tech giant and others like it are sharing any of their success with the neighborhood. (Olivia Hubert-Allen/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, 14 San Francisco technology companies received $1.9 million in tax breaks for setting up shop in the mid-Market Street area. Supporters said it was a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/tech/Twitter-Central-Market-Neighborhood-IPO-San-Francisco-Mayor-Ed-Lee-230586501.html\">good investment\u003c/a>, bringing economic development and jobs to an economically depressed strip in the core of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The zone is certainly coming back to life, and the companies that benefited now employ more than 2,700 workers. But it is less clear that the deal resulted in entry-level jobs for residents of the hardscrabble neighborhood — one of the goals most sought by skeptics of the tax break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest six of the companies promised a list of community benefits that included an effort to identify qualified job seekers in the Tenderloin and mid-Market area. But the agreements are vaguely worded, the companies have been slow to report their progress to the city, and most were unresponsive to direct questions about employment practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for neighborhood employment say the community benefit agreements — instituted nine months after the April 2011 approval of the tax breaks — lack teeth. The agreements urge companies to forge “meaningful engagement” with the neighborhood by doing things like exploring community training and hiring initiatives, donating computer equipment to schools, encouraging employee tutoring and appointing community liaisons.\u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-117940 alignright\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/SFPubPress-logo-300x115.jpg\" alt=\"SFPubPress-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"115\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the City Administrator’s Office requires compliance with only 80 percent of the memorandums’ provisions. While “binding,” the documents call for a “good-faith effort” by companies to follow through on their community obligations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One provision asks the companies to “partner” with a program that identifies entry-level jobs for local residents. But signatories — many of whom were late in filing quarterly reports to the city this year — are under no obligation to report whether that resulted in any actual jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor John Avalos, a skeptic about the tax breaks, said the loose wording means tech firms got something for nothing. He said their promises to the community in exchange for reduced taxes were “barely worth the paper they're written on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'There is this belief that if you support big businesses, then the benefits will trickle down, which doesn’t actually do much for the community.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Within three months of taking office in January 2011, Mayor Ed Lee worked with the Board of Supervisors to pass a payroll tax exclusion law for technology businesses in the mid-Market and Tenderloin areas. It allows the companies to avoid payroll taxes on new hires for six years. Under the subsequent deal on community benefits, companies with payrolls of more than $1 million get the tax break only if they enter a community benefit agreement with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some stakeholders remain unconvinced that the agreements are sufficient. Mara Blitzer, a longtime neighborhood social services advocate, said that while she appreciated technology companies’ community volunteering efforts, other stipulations, especially local hiring, are more important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The community really had high hopes for what the agreement was going to do, but I think, frankly, it isn’t the strongest,” said Blitzer, who until this year was a senior project manager at the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.tndc.org/\">Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation\u003c/a>, and has since taken a government job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreements call on companies to use the \u003ca href=\"http://www.workforcedevelopmentsf.org/businessservices/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=80&Itemid=85\">First Source Hiring Program\u003c/a>, which was set up in 1998 to funnel “economically disadvantaged” city residents into entry-level jobs. The program is primarily geared toward major city-funded contracts, public works and business activities needing building permits or planning approval. The community benefit agreements ask technology firms to “partner” with First Source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from some of the biggest tax break recipients — Twitter, Zoosk, 21Tech and Yammer — declined to comment on the status of their agreements. Zendesk, a customer service software firm, and One Kings Lane, a home decor company, did respond to questions. Both said they had not hired any employees through First Source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raquel Redondiez, a legislative aide to Avalos, said one of the problems is a lack of follow-up by the city. Until this year, she said, First Source had no budget for a dedicated enforcement staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors created the payroll tax exclusion after Twitter indicated it was considering moving its expanded headquarters out of San Francisco. The breaks applied to any business within a tax zone area straddling Market Street from Sixth Street to Van Ness Avenue, including some side streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117945\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-117945\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/twitter-IPO-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"A Twitter banner hung outside the New York Stock Exchange when Twitter debuted its stock on November 7. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Twitter banner hung outside the New York Stock Exchange when Twitter debuted its stock on November 7. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Andrew Burton/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The idea behind the community benefit agreements was to mitigate gentrification as tech expansion raises rents for neighboring businesses, residents and public amenities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The companies are required to report the status of their agreements quarterly to the City Administrator’s Office. Incomplete provisions must be carried out the following year, said Bill Barnes, the office’s project manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Avalos said the community benefit agreements were weak because the city created them after passing the tax exemption. That left little room for negotiation with technology firms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could have been stronger if we were building our tax breaks contingent on stronger community benefit agreements,” he said. “If the agreement comes afterward, then obviously it’s not going to be as strong as it could have been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The requirements should be sharpened, said Dina Hilliard, executive director of the North of Market/Tenderloin Community Benefit District, a nonprofit group providing beautification and safety services.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Unfortunately, we can’t mandate them to hire locally, because the neighborhood might not have the skilled candidates these companies want.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The existing agreements clearly are not utilized in a way that is customized to each company’s strengths,” Hilliard said. “Unfortunately, we can’t mandate them to hire locally, because the neighborhood might not have the skilled candidates these companies want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many low-skilled neighborhood residents, the education and experience qualifications for entry-level jobs may be too strict. Some neighborhood job candidates lack regular access to computers, hampering the online application process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Few Entry-Level Jobs\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Central Market and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgsa.org/index.aspx?page=5005\">Tenderloin Area Citizens Advisory Committee\u003c/a>, which advises the mayor, Board of Supervisors and the city administrator, agreed that a strict hiring mandate would be impractical, because Zendesk requires highly skilled workers, said company spokeswoman Tiffany Apczynski. She said most office jobs require advanced degrees and years of experience. In any event, First Source would not help with neighborhood hiring, since it is available to all city residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Zendesk decided to fulfill its “obligation to the neighborhood” under its agreement by offering two paid marketing internships for clients of local nonprofit groups such as the \u003ca href=\"http://www.vydc.org/\">Vietnamese Youth Development Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also pledged to work with \u003ca href=\"http://www.workforcedevelopmentsf.org/trainingprograms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=92&Itemid=85\">TechSF\u003c/a>, a citywide workforce training initiative, to host networking events for employment trainees. It has invested $15,000 in community event sponsorships, and says it is on pace to spend about $120,000 in the community this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Kings Lane has identified entry-level positions in customer service that could be filled locally, spokeswoman Stephanie Pettinati said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Avalos sounded frustrated by the paucity of job opportunities for locals. He said he would push for an overhaul of local hiring laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as we’ve heard, there’s never been any kind of penalty for someone who doesn’t follow the First Source Ordinance,” Avalos said. “There is this belief that if you support big businesses, then the benefits will trickle down, which doesn’t actually do much for the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilliard questioned whether community benefit agreements were even good ideas in the long run: “I want the city to sit down with the company and come up with a customized plan on how they are going to provide community benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.brightlinedefense.org/\">Brightline Defense Projec\u003c/a>t, a nonprofit organization based in SoMa that promotes environmental, economic and social sustainability in low-income neighborhoods, is pushing for reforms to require more than just “good faith” efforts to make local hires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, Avalos sponsored one such successful effort. The ordinance mandated that an increasing percentage of city residents be hired for city-funded construction projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshua Arce, Brightline Defense’s executive director, said the city has been “rolling out a red carpet” for technology companies through special tax treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hiring programs, he said, should require “job guarantees and a track record.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/news/2013-11/twitter-other-tech-companies-get-sf-tax-breaks-but-show-little-progress-hiring-in-neighborhood\">This article\u003c/a> first appeared in San Francisco Public Press, a KQED News Associate\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Yoona Ha\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Public Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117935\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-117935\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/Twitter-building.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter's IPO on November 7 has some San Franciscans asking whether the tech giant and others like it are sharing any of their success with the neighborhood. (Olivia Hubert-Allen/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twitter's IPO on November 7 has some San Franciscans asking whether the tech giant and others like it are sharing any of their success with the neighborhood. (Olivia Hubert-Allen/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, 14 San Francisco technology companies received $1.9 million in tax breaks for setting up shop in the mid-Market Street area. Supporters said it was a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/tech/Twitter-Central-Market-Neighborhood-IPO-San-Francisco-Mayor-Ed-Lee-230586501.html\">good investment\u003c/a>, bringing economic development and jobs to an economically depressed strip in the core of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The zone is certainly coming back to life, and the companies that benefited now employ more than 2,700 workers. But it is less clear that the deal resulted in entry-level jobs for residents of the hardscrabble neighborhood — one of the goals most sought by skeptics of the tax break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest six of the companies promised a list of community benefits that included an effort to identify qualified job seekers in the Tenderloin and mid-Market area. But the agreements are vaguely worded, the companies have been slow to report their progress to the city, and most were unresponsive to direct questions about employment practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for neighborhood employment say the community benefit agreements — instituted nine months after the April 2011 approval of the tax breaks — lack teeth. The agreements urge companies to forge “meaningful engagement” with the neighborhood by doing things like exploring community training and hiring initiatives, donating computer equipment to schools, encouraging employee tutoring and appointing community liaisons.\u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-117940 alignright\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/SFPubPress-logo-300x115.jpg\" alt=\"SFPubPress-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"115\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the City Administrator’s Office requires compliance with only 80 percent of the memorandums’ provisions. While “binding,” the documents call for a “good-faith effort” by companies to follow through on their community obligations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One provision asks the companies to “partner” with a program that identifies entry-level jobs for local residents. But signatories — many of whom were late in filing quarterly reports to the city this year — are under no obligation to report whether that resulted in any actual jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor John Avalos, a skeptic about the tax breaks, said the loose wording means tech firms got something for nothing. He said their promises to the community in exchange for reduced taxes were “barely worth the paper they're written on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'There is this belief that if you support big businesses, then the benefits will trickle down, which doesn’t actually do much for the community.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Within three months of taking office in January 2011, Mayor Ed Lee worked with the Board of Supervisors to pass a payroll tax exclusion law for technology businesses in the mid-Market and Tenderloin areas. It allows the companies to avoid payroll taxes on new hires for six years. Under the subsequent deal on community benefits, companies with payrolls of more than $1 million get the tax break only if they enter a community benefit agreement with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some stakeholders remain unconvinced that the agreements are sufficient. Mara Blitzer, a longtime neighborhood social services advocate, said that while she appreciated technology companies’ community volunteering efforts, other stipulations, especially local hiring, are more important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The community really had high hopes for what the agreement was going to do, but I think, frankly, it isn’t the strongest,” said Blitzer, who until this year was a senior project manager at the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.tndc.org/\">Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation\u003c/a>, and has since taken a government job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreements call on companies to use the \u003ca href=\"http://www.workforcedevelopmentsf.org/businessservices/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=80&Itemid=85\">First Source Hiring Program\u003c/a>, which was set up in 1998 to funnel “economically disadvantaged” city residents into entry-level jobs. The program is primarily geared toward major city-funded contracts, public works and business activities needing building permits or planning approval. The community benefit agreements ask technology firms to “partner” with First Source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from some of the biggest tax break recipients — Twitter, Zoosk, 21Tech and Yammer — declined to comment on the status of their agreements. Zendesk, a customer service software firm, and One Kings Lane, a home decor company, did respond to questions. Both said they had not hired any employees through First Source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raquel Redondiez, a legislative aide to Avalos, said one of the problems is a lack of follow-up by the city. Until this year, she said, First Source had no budget for a dedicated enforcement staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors created the payroll tax exclusion after Twitter indicated it was considering moving its expanded headquarters out of San Francisco. The breaks applied to any business within a tax zone area straddling Market Street from Sixth Street to Van Ness Avenue, including some side streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117945\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-117945\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/twitter-IPO-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"A Twitter banner hung outside the New York Stock Exchange when Twitter debuted its stock on November 7. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Twitter banner hung outside the New York Stock Exchange when Twitter debuted its stock on November 7. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images) \u003ccite>(Andrew Burton/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The idea behind the community benefit agreements was to mitigate gentrification as tech expansion raises rents for neighboring businesses, residents and public amenities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The companies are required to report the status of their agreements quarterly to the City Administrator’s Office. Incomplete provisions must be carried out the following year, said Bill Barnes, the office’s project manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Avalos said the community benefit agreements were weak because the city created them after passing the tax exemption. That left little room for negotiation with technology firms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could have been stronger if we were building our tax breaks contingent on stronger community benefit agreements,” he said. “If the agreement comes afterward, then obviously it’s not going to be as strong as it could have been.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The requirements should be sharpened, said Dina Hilliard, executive director of the North of Market/Tenderloin Community Benefit District, a nonprofit group providing beautification and safety services.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Unfortunately, we can’t mandate them to hire locally, because the neighborhood might not have the skilled candidates these companies want.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The existing agreements clearly are not utilized in a way that is customized to each company’s strengths,” Hilliard said. “Unfortunately, we can’t mandate them to hire locally, because the neighborhood might not have the skilled candidates these companies want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many low-skilled neighborhood residents, the education and experience qualifications for entry-level jobs may be too strict. Some neighborhood job candidates lack regular access to computers, hampering the online application process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Few Entry-Level Jobs\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Central Market and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgsa.org/index.aspx?page=5005\">Tenderloin Area Citizens Advisory Committee\u003c/a>, which advises the mayor, Board of Supervisors and the city administrator, agreed that a strict hiring mandate would be impractical, because Zendesk requires highly skilled workers, said company spokeswoman Tiffany Apczynski. She said most office jobs require advanced degrees and years of experience. In any event, First Source would not help with neighborhood hiring, since it is available to all city residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Zendesk decided to fulfill its “obligation to the neighborhood” under its agreement by offering two paid marketing internships for clients of local nonprofit groups such as the \u003ca href=\"http://www.vydc.org/\">Vietnamese Youth Development Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also pledged to work with \u003ca href=\"http://www.workforcedevelopmentsf.org/trainingprograms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=92&Itemid=85\">TechSF\u003c/a>, a citywide workforce training initiative, to host networking events for employment trainees. It has invested $15,000 in community event sponsorships, and says it is on pace to spend about $120,000 in the community this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One Kings Lane has identified entry-level positions in customer service that could be filled locally, spokeswoman Stephanie Pettinati said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Avalos sounded frustrated by the paucity of job opportunities for locals. He said he would push for an overhaul of local hiring laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as we’ve heard, there’s never been any kind of penalty for someone who doesn’t follow the First Source Ordinance,” Avalos said. “There is this belief that if you support big businesses, then the benefits will trickle down, which doesn’t actually do much for the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hilliard questioned whether community benefit agreements were even good ideas in the long run: “I want the city to sit down with the company and come up with a customized plan on how they are going to provide community benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.brightlinedefense.org/\">Brightline Defense Projec\u003c/a>t, a nonprofit organization based in SoMa that promotes environmental, economic and social sustainability in low-income neighborhoods, is pushing for reforms to require more than just “good faith” efforts to make local hires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, Avalos sponsored one such successful effort. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/15/103615/84000-family-four-san-francisco/forrent/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-103809\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103809\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/07/forrent.jpg\" alt=\"(iStock image)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(iStock image)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you want a crowd to turn against you, then just tell people you’re a landlord. In some circles, those who own property and rent to others rank near the top of regional public enemies, alongside tech workers, Dodger fans, and oh, I don’t know, people who kick puppies for fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But are landlords really to blame for \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Rents-soaring-across-region-4924282.php\" target=\"_blank\">soaring rents\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=47040\" target=\"_blank\">increased evictions\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/how-much-tech-can-one-city-take\" target=\"_blank\">the much-bemoaned changing culture\u003c/a> of the Bay Area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without a doubt, they’re one of the big players at the table when we talk about increasing rents and evictions. But as a number of “Forum” commenters have pointed out, there are many factors that add to the problem of scarce, expensive housing, including the relatively small slice of land available for development in the inner Bay Area and the increased competition for housing as the regional economy improves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As KQED’s “Priced Out” series continues, we’re hearing a whole spectrum of views on housing prices and evictions. Here’s a brief list of reasons landlords say they’re not responsible for the current rental housing crunch. The quotes below are from KQED’s “Forum” last Friday: \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201311080900\" target=\"_blank\">Evictions on the Rise in San Francisco\u003c/a>. You can listen to the show in its entirety by \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201311080900\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Not All Landlords Are Created Equal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “Forum” hour featured lots of complaints about big real-estate firms and corporate-style landlords raising rents and evicting tenants. But the Bay Area has plenty of small landlords who have a completely different way of doing business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One property owner, referred to only as “Jeanne” at her request, said she was a “mom-and-pop landlord” running a business “not any different than owning a bakery.” Jeanne’s family has been in San Francisco “for over a hundred years,” and her mother bought a building 40 years ago. “That’s what supported our family. We are not part of the affluent class. Now that I have a family, I cannot afford to move out of the one-bedroom apartment in this building.” Jeanne said her family has developed relationships with their tenants, helping to take care of them as they age.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘We are not part of the affluent class. Now that I have a family, I cannot afford to move out of my one-bedroom apartment.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Landlords Get Screwed, Too\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chances are that at some point, your landlord has suffered at the hands of bad tenants or life circumstances. Mike in San Francisco called in during the show to share the story of what sounds like a generous landlord who found himself needing money because of health problems:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>My wife’s uncle had two tenants in a building in the Marina and for 30 plus years he never raised the rent. He was a wonderful landlord. And he got dementia and needed to go into assisted care and the family needed to sell the building and what I don’t understand is — the two tenants who are in there — the longer you stay, you earn basically equity in the building. Because whoever wants to buy that building has to give those two tenants a huge payout in order to get them out of the building or keep them at $300 a month. You know, no matter whether you’re a teacher or whatever your role is in the community, at a certain point there has to be some way to measure the fact that you have been the beneficiary of when you have a great landlord.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>As easy as it is to vilify landlords for evicting tenants so that they can sell a property, some landlords may simply need the money. When you consider that possibility, selling to the highest bidder seems more a logical economic decision and less an act of greed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And let’s not forget that just as all landlords are not created equal, neither are tenants. Jeanne praised many of her tenants but added, “We also have tenants who destroy the property, who harass other tenants, who steal and vandalize, and we can’t get them out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. The Rules Have Changed for Many Landlords\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal has changed for some longtime landlords in cities such as San Francisco, Berkeley and Oakland, which have approved rent control laws over the years. Sara Shortt, executive director of the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco, a tenants’ group, said on the show that “landlords know what they’ve gotten into when they buy property, and they know what our laws are and they’ve decided to sign up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not always the case. As Jeanne and other listeners pointed out — many landlords bought their buildings before rent control was on the books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Landlords Have Some Decent Ideas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/priced-out/\" target=\"_blank\">KQED’s Priced Out\u003c/a> series, many listeners and readers have asked about solutions to the issues of rising rents and evictions, only to be told that under current market conditions, there’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201310311000\" target=\"_blank\">little hope\u003c/a> things will get better soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are some ideas out there. Janan New, executive director of the San Francisco Apartment Association, said there’s a lot San Francisco could learn from New York:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“New York every year does a housing study, and they put out a book of statistics about the market and what rents are, what exists [in terms of] housing that’s available — we should be doing that here. … They have a department of housing and everything is run through there. We’re fragmentized here, where we have several different departments in housing — nobody knows what the other department is doing. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“… The other thing that New York has that’s different than San Francisco is their owner-occupied buildings are exempt from rent control. Our owner-occupied buildings were put under rent control in 1991 and they were exempt prior to that. And it worked a lot better. It allowed for flexibility for mom-and-pop owners to cut deals with their tenants, feed their tenants and not be punished for that.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘We created 13,000 jobs last year, and we put 120 new housing units on the market. I don’t think we can continue this way.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. It’s Not All Their Fault\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are lots of causes for the lack of housing, especially affordable housing, in the Bay Area: the economy, the physical landscape and \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/12/local/la-me-affordable-housing-20120813\" target=\"_blank\">the loss of redevelopment mone\u003c/a>y that allowed cities to help get more housing built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janan New of the San Francisco Apartment Association noted there’s a basic imbalance between what’s happening in the city’s labor market and what’s happening in the housing market:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We created basically 13,000 jobs last year” said New, “and we put 120 new housing units on the market. So I don’t think we can continue this way without further cannibalization of the rental housing stock because people want to come here, people are going to continue to come here. And they need a place to live.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In a rare moment of agreement, both New and Sara Shortt, of the Housing Rights Committee, acknowledged that one must look at the “broader context” of the housing market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Said Shortt:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We also have the hoarding issue… We also have people who have \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied-%C3%A0-terre\" target=\"_blank\">pied-à-terres\u003c/a> in the city now, it’s their second, maybe third rental unit that they have, or they have it on top of a home ownership unit. We have people who are doing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Airbnb\u003c/a> thing where they are holding the units off the market and they’re renting them out just as vacation rentals… We’re seeing more and more of those types of things.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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Because whoever wants to buy that building has to give those two tenants a huge payout in order to get them out of the building or keep them at $300 a month. You know, no matter whether you’re a teacher or whatever your role is in the community, at a certain point there has to be some way to measure the fact that you have been the beneficiary of when you have a great landlord.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>As easy as it is to vilify landlords for evicting tenants so that they can sell a property, some landlords may simply need the money. When you consider that possibility, selling to the highest bidder seems more a logical economic decision and less an act of greed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And let’s not forget that just as all landlords are not created equal, neither are tenants. Jeanne praised many of her tenants but added, “We also have tenants who destroy the property, who harass other tenants, who steal and vandalize, and we can’t get them out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. 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The secrecy of the program has alarmed privacy experts and raised questions about whether San Diego is the leading edge of an alarming future – one in which few people escape cataloging in a government database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-five local, state and federal law enforcement agencies — including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Border Patrol, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department and San Diego State University police — participate in the system. The project is coordinated by the San Diego Association of Governments and relies on a vast data-sharing program called the Automated Regional Justice Information System, or ARJIS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some, the use of biometric technology by police represents a radical milestone in the militarization of American law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, technology that was developed on the battlefield has been migrating into domestic law enforcement. 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But a Privacy Impact Assessment, which the Automated Regional Justice Information System helped write, claims that photos of everyday people can be taken during \"traditional police-civilian encounters.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego-area law enforcement agencies have used the facial recognition system since the beginning of this year, when 133 Galaxy tablets and smartphones were distributed to 25 law enforcement agencies around the region, according to documents obtained through a public records request by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/\">Electronic Frontier Foundation\u003c/a>, a San Francisco nonprofit that studies surveillance and privacy issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared with the number of arrests throughout the San Diego region, which has about 3.2 million residents, the system is rolling out with relatively modest numbers. 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It’s up to officers to delete those photos on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This technology is not infallible\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers who have used the system rave about its precision in identifying people. But facial recognition technology remains imperfect. Documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit, show that the FBI’s facial recognition program could fail to identify the right person in 1 out of 5 encounters – potentially ensnaring innocent people in investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Development of the San Diego program goes as far back as 2007, according to documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. 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It’s up to officers to delete those photos on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This technology is not infallible\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers who have used the system rave about its precision in identifying people. But facial recognition technology remains imperfect. Documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit, show that the FBI’s facial recognition program could fail to identify the right person in 1 out of 5 encounters – potentially ensnaring innocent people in investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Development of the San Diego program goes as far back as 2007, according to documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/twitter-ipo-stock-debuts-on-NYSE/rs7447_187232512-hpf/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-117483\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-117483\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/RS7447_187232512-hpf.jpg\" alt=\" The Twitter logo is displayed on a banner outside the New York Stock Exchange. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Twitter logo is displayed on a banner outside the New York Stock Exchange. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So much for our plan to wait until Twitter's stock falls 50 percent or so before buying. The microblogging company with dreams of becoming a profitable global advertising platform launched its IPO today. The stock opened at $45, about 80 percent above the initial offering price set just last night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's coverage from the Wall Street Journal: \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/11/07/live-blogging-twitters-ipo/?mod=yahoo_hs\" target=\"_blank\">Live Blogging Twitter's IPO\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nHere's a reminder, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wired.com/business/2013/11/twitter-goes-public/\" target=\"_blank\">via Wired's Ryan Tate\u003c/a>, that despite what I'll call the crazy rise in the stock, Twitter hasn't conquered the world yet:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Despite all the froth around Twitter’s IPO, the company isn’t all that big, with a valuation, at the moment, of around $31.5 billion. Rival Facebook clocks in at around $120 billion, while an icon of the last tech boom, Amazon, is worth $163 billion. Google is at $342 billion. Twitter is closer to being an Intuit or Adobe than the next Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of that difference is down to the fact that Twitter bleeds cash while Facebook gushes profit. After losing $80 million last year, Twitter posted a net loss of $134 million for the first nine months of this year, according to a company filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. It has never been profitable. Facebook, in contrast, grew profits for at least three years to $1 billion before it went public.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And The Atlantic points out that even artsy-crafty Etsy has a take on the IPO:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>The Twitter IPO, in the tender eyes of Etsy \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/ovaCTlC5hC\">http://t.co/ovaCTlC5hC\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— TheAtlanticTech (@TheAtlanticTECH) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TheAtlanticTECH/statuses/398492970673922048\">November 7, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's the latest Associated Press take on the IPO and the opening of trading:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Barbara Ortutay\u003cbr>\nAP Technology Writer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NEW YORK — If Twitter's bankers and executives were hoping for a surge on the day of the stock's public debut, they got it. The stock opened at $45.10 a share on its first day of trading, 73 percent above its initial offering price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's gone on pretty flawlessly,\" says JJ Kinahan, chief strategist at TD Ameritrade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stock is now trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol \"TWTR.\" It's the most highly anticipated initial public stock offering since Facebook debuted last year. More than an hour into trading, the stock is holding steady. This tight range of trading, Kinahan says, indicates that people \"feel like it was pretty fairly priced.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opening price values Twitter Inc. at $31 billion, which puts it in in range of KFC and Pizza Hut owner Yum Brands, tractor and tool maker Deere & Co. and slightly below State Street Corp., a financial services holding company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It clearly shows that demand exceeds the supply of shares,\" says Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter. \"It's impossible to know what the real value is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter's shares jumped as high as $50.09 on Thursday morning and were up $19.14, or 73.6 percent, at $45.14 in midday trading amid a broader market decline. Tech stocks were broadly down as well, with Facebook Inc. sliding $1.02, or 2.1 percent, to $48.10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier in the day, Twitter gave users the opportunity to ring NYSE's opening bell instead of executives. The users included Sir Patrick Stewart, Captain Jean-Luc Picard in \"Star Trek: The Next Generation\"; Vivienne Harr, a 9-year-old girl who ran a lemonade stand for a year to raise money to end child slavery; and Cheryl Fiandaca of the Boston Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter's initial public offering was carefully orchestrated to avoid the glitches and eventual letdown that surrounded Facebook's initial public offering on the Nasdaq 18 months ago. Still, it's the most highly anticipated IPO since its Silicon Valley rival's 2012 debut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In hindsight when you look at this you almost think they left a little too much money on the table,\" says Roger Entner of Recon Analytics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Entner means is that Twitter raised $1.8 billion Wednesday night when it sold 70 million shares at $26 each. Had it priced the stock at $30, for instance, the company would have taken away $2.1 billion. At $35, it would have reaped nearly $2.5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At $26 per share, Twitter was valued at more than $18 billion based on its outstanding stock, options and restricted stock expected to be available after the IPO. That already put it above Macy's and Bed Bath & Beyond. Facebook Inc.'s value, meanwhile, stood at $104 billion at the time of its IPO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter, named after the sound of a chirping bird, got its start 7 years ago, first with Jack Dorsey and then Evan Williams as CEO. Its current chief is Dick Costolo, a former Google executive who once aspired to be a stand-up comedian. On March 21, 2006, Dorsey posted the world's first tweet: \"Just setting up my twttr.\" Noah Glass, who helped create Twitter posted the same words just 10 minutes later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the social network that lets users send short messages in 140-character bursts has attracted world leaders, religious icons and celebrities, along with CEOs, businesses and a slew of marketers and self-promoters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tempering expectations was a big theme in the weeks leading up to Twitter's IPO, but that all but flew out the window with the stock's opening surge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Twitter now just has to deliver on all this,\" Entner says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company tried to avoid the trouble that plagued Facebook's high-profile offering. Facebook's public debut was marred by technical glitches on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange. As a result, the Securities and Exchange Commission fined Nasdaq $10 million, the largest ever levied against an exchange. Those problems likely led Twitter to the NYSE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter is also likely hoping for a first-day pop of its shares that eluded Facebook's stock. Facebook's shares closed just 23 cents above their $38 IPO price on their first trading day. They traded below $38 for more than a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, $18 billion is a lofty valuation for Twitter compared with its peers. At its IPO price, Twitter valued at roughly 28 times its projected 2013 revenue —$650 million based on its current growth rate. In comparison, Facebook trades at about 16 times its projected 2013 revenue, according to analyst forecasts from FactSet. Google Inc. meanwhile, is trading at about 7 times its net revenue, the figure Wall Street follows that excludes ad commissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research firm Outsell Inc. puts Twitter's fundamental value at about half of the IPO price, says analyst Ken Doctor. That figure is based on factors such as revenue and revenue growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's not unusual,\" Doctor says. \"Especially for tech companies. You are betting on a big future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Twitter's biggest challenges as a newly public company will be to generate more revenue outside the U.S. More than three-quarters of Twitter's 232 million users are outside the U.S. But only 26 percent of Twitter's revenue comes from abroad. The company has said that it plans to bring in more international revenue by hiring more sales representatives in countries such as Australia, Brazil and Ireland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pricing means Twitter raised $1.8 billion in the offering before expenses. Twitter was offering 70 million shares in the IPO, plus an option to buy another 10.5 million. If all shares are sold, the IPO will raise $2.09 billion, making it the biggest IPO for an Internet company since Facebook raised $16 billion last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter, which has never turned a profit in 7 years of existence, had originally set a price range of $17 to $20 per share for the IPO, but that was an obvious lowball designed to temper expectations. It was widely expected that the price range would go higher. Back in August, for example, the company priced some of its employee stock options at $20.62, based on an appraisal by an investment firm and it's unlikely to have lost value since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter's shares enter a frothy market. The Dow Jones industrial average closed at a record high on Wednesday, up 128 points, or 0.8 percent, to 15,746. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose seven points, or 0.4 percent, to 1,770, just one point below its own all-time high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>AP Technology Writer Michael Liedtke in San Francisco and AP Markets Writer Ken Sweet in New York contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NEW YORK — If Twitter's bankers and executives were hoping for a surge on the day of the stock's public debut, they got it. The stock opened at $45.10 a share on its first day of trading, 73 percent above its initial offering price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's gone on pretty flawlessly,\" says JJ Kinahan, chief strategist at TD Ameritrade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stock is now trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol \"TWTR.\" It's the most highly anticipated initial public stock offering since Facebook debuted last year. More than an hour into trading, the stock is holding steady. This tight range of trading, Kinahan says, indicates that people \"feel like it was pretty fairly priced.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opening price values Twitter Inc. at $31 billion, which puts it in in range of KFC and Pizza Hut owner Yum Brands, tractor and tool maker Deere & Co. and slightly below State Street Corp., a financial services holding company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It clearly shows that demand exceeds the supply of shares,\" says Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter. \"It's impossible to know what the real value is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter's shares jumped as high as $50.09 on Thursday morning and were up $19.14, or 73.6 percent, at $45.14 in midday trading amid a broader market decline. Tech stocks were broadly down as well, with Facebook Inc. sliding $1.02, or 2.1 percent, to $48.10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier in the day, Twitter gave users the opportunity to ring NYSE's opening bell instead of executives. The users included Sir Patrick Stewart, Captain Jean-Luc Picard in \"Star Trek: The Next Generation\"; Vivienne Harr, a 9-year-old girl who ran a lemonade stand for a year to raise money to end child slavery; and Cheryl Fiandaca of the Boston Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter's initial public offering was carefully orchestrated to avoid the glitches and eventual letdown that surrounded Facebook's initial public offering on the Nasdaq 18 months ago. Still, it's the most highly anticipated IPO since its Silicon Valley rival's 2012 debut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In hindsight when you look at this you almost think they left a little too much money on the table,\" says Roger Entner of Recon Analytics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Entner means is that Twitter raised $1.8 billion Wednesday night when it sold 70 million shares at $26 each. Had it priced the stock at $30, for instance, the company would have taken away $2.1 billion. At $35, it would have reaped nearly $2.5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At $26 per share, Twitter was valued at more than $18 billion based on its outstanding stock, options and restricted stock expected to be available after the IPO. That already put it above Macy's and Bed Bath & Beyond. Facebook Inc.'s value, meanwhile, stood at $104 billion at the time of its IPO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter, named after the sound of a chirping bird, got its start 7 years ago, first with Jack Dorsey and then Evan Williams as CEO. Its current chief is Dick Costolo, a former Google executive who once aspired to be a stand-up comedian. On March 21, 2006, Dorsey posted the world's first tweet: \"Just setting up my twttr.\" Noah Glass, who helped create Twitter posted the same words just 10 minutes later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the social network that lets users send short messages in 140-character bursts has attracted world leaders, religious icons and celebrities, along with CEOs, businesses and a slew of marketers and self-promoters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tempering expectations was a big theme in the weeks leading up to Twitter's IPO, but that all but flew out the window with the stock's opening surge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Twitter now just has to deliver on all this,\" Entner says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company tried to avoid the trouble that plagued Facebook's high-profile offering. Facebook's public debut was marred by technical glitches on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange. As a result, the Securities and Exchange Commission fined Nasdaq $10 million, the largest ever levied against an exchange. Those problems likely led Twitter to the NYSE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter is also likely hoping for a first-day pop of its shares that eluded Facebook's stock. Facebook's shares closed just 23 cents above their $38 IPO price on their first trading day. They traded below $38 for more than a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, $18 billion is a lofty valuation for Twitter compared with its peers. At its IPO price, Twitter valued at roughly 28 times its projected 2013 revenue —$650 million based on its current growth rate. In comparison, Facebook trades at about 16 times its projected 2013 revenue, according to analyst forecasts from FactSet. Google Inc. meanwhile, is trading at about 7 times its net revenue, the figure Wall Street follows that excludes ad commissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research firm Outsell Inc. puts Twitter's fundamental value at about half of the IPO price, says analyst Ken Doctor. 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