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April Fool's Day Dives Into The Toilet Senior executives launched their annual prank, posting a link to a site offering free high-speed wireless Internet through plumbing system
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Portola Valley |
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Passenger died
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| Apr.2 |
Apple |
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Apple Can Now Sell EMI Songs Online EMI announced a deal that will allow Apple Inc. to sell the record company's songs online without copy protection software
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| Apr.3 |
Apple |
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EU Launches Antitrust Probe Into iTunes
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Palo Alto |
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Family May Be Split Apart By Deportation Mother's deportation to Mexico is scheduled for the end of the week
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| Apr.4 |
Palo Alto |
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Watzlawick, family therapy pioneer, dies A pioneering Stanford family therapist and communications theorist was 85
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| Apr.6 |
Google |
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Agence France-Presse, Google Settle Suit A global news agency has reached an agreement that will allow the Internet search leader to post news and photos from AFP
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| Apr.8 |
Stanford |
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Stanford Close To A.I. Robots For Home
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| Apr.10 |
Google |
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Lawsuit planned over incentives
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Google Earth maps out Darfur atrocities| U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has teamed up with Google's mapping service to map out the carnage in the region | |
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| Apr.11 |
Palm |
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Palm readies a Treo with Linux inside
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| Apr.12 |
Google |
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Google to Open Poland Operations Center
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| Apr.13 |
Stanford |
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 Terrorists' Talk Raises Controversy 3 'ex-terrorists' are scheduled to speak. The university has placed numerous restrictions on their talk
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Google |
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Google To Buy DoubleClick For $3.1B| Seeking to expand the ability to sell targeted Internet ads, Google agreed to acquire ad-management technology company | |
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| Apr.15 |
Mountain View |
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Japanese-American grandma gets diploma Decades after she was sent to an internment camp, Esther Nozaki Hashimoto , 82, returned to Mountain View Academy to pick up her diploma
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| Apr.16 |
Apple |
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CEO Steve Jobs Maintains $1 Salary
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| Apr.17 |
Stanford |
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'Ex-Terrorists' Hold Lecture| Walid Shoebat and two others who call themselves former terrorists spoke at a controversial lecture admitting to participating in killings | |
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Yahoo |
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1Q profit falls 11%, missing estimates The investors have been betting that the Internet icon had regained its stride after stumbling through much of 2006
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Google |
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Google Plans To Launch Office Software
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Yahoo |
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Partnership with newspaper consortium
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Mountain View |
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Last-minute tax users swamp Intuit| A flood of last-minute tax filers swamped the servers forcing taxpayers to wait hours for confirmation | |
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| Apr.18 |
SF Downtown |
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CEO scoffs at allegations at Web 2.0 Expo Google's Eric Schmidt is saying his company's acquisition of the ad firm DoubleClick does not violate antitrust laws
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| Apr.19 |
Yahoo |
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Imprisoned Chinese Dissident Sues Yahoo Wang Xiaoning, 57, and Yu Ling, 55, of Beijing sued Yahoo! for releasing e-mail that led to the husband's arrest and torture
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Google |
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1Q Profit Up 69%, Blows Expectations| Google earned $1 billion, or $3.18 cents per share, compared with net income of $592.3 million, or $1.95 per share, at 1Q last year | |
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AMD |
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AMD Struggles In 1Q, Loses $611 Million Advanced Micro Devices reported a greater-than-expected loss as the chip maker continued to struggle amid a price competition with Intel
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| Apr.20 |
Stanford |
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Coach suspended for deleting records University suspended men's swim coach Skip Kenney for 2 months following an investigation
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| Apr.23 |
Santa Clara |
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New 49ers stadium could have hefty price The stadium near Great America would cost $800m. City leaders think the team will ask Santa Clara to kick in about $180m
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| Apr.24 |
Apple |
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Ex-execs in SEC sights In the fallout from the backdating scanda, the Commission is expected to sue one former Apple official and settle with another
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Santa Clara |
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49ers estimate stadium will cost $854m The team will need $160 million in public money to help finance a new stadium. City-created stadium authority proposed to help fund the project
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Sun |
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3Q Profit, But Shares Fall Sun Microsystems is matching expectations, but shares plunged on fears that lower-than-expected revenue signaled a slowdown
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| Apr.26 |
Apple |
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Shares Above $100 on 2Q Profit Shares rose more than 6% after Apple walloped expectations with profit that jumped 88% on strong sales of its iPod and Macintoshes
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| Apr.27 |
Sunnyvale |
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Man stabbed to death in parking lot  Map of 499 N Fair Oaks Ave Sunnyvale The 1st homicide this year. 27-year-old San Jose man, was found on the ground after a 911 call
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