|
| Jan.7 |
SF Downtown |
|
Apple unveils 17-inch laptop |
| Jan.14 |
San Jose |
|
3 Kmarts to close |
| Jan.16 |
eBay |
|
4th-quarter profits triple |
| Jan.17 |
Oakland City Hall |
|
Fire Department Reduces Staff |
| Jan.19 |
SF City Hall |
|
City outlaws Segway scooter
| Jan.21 |
Wells Fargo |
|
Profits continued in the fourth quarter |
| Jan.23 |
San Francisco |
|
$32 million purchase sets city record |
|
| Feb.4 |
Cisco |
|
Profit above forecasts but sales fall |
| Feb.5 |
Vallejo |
|
Lotto winner claimed $85-million jackpot |
| Feb.6 |
SF Downtown |
|
Largest urban retail center |
| Feb.8 |
SF Presidio |
|
Lucas breaks ground on new campus
| Feb.12 |
Intel |
|
Wireless Internet chip for cell phones |
| Feb.14 |
Golden Gate Bridge |
|
Security zones around bridges
| Feb.15 |
Chinatown |
|
Thousands at Chinese New Year Parade |
| Feb.17 |
Google |
|
Google Buys Pyra Labs |
| Feb.18 |
AltaVista |
|
Overture to buy AltaVista for $140 million |
| Feb.21 |
Palo Alto |
|
Agilent to cut 4,000 more jobs Maker of test and measurement equipment, will cut 11% of its work force, after posting a wider quarter loss
| |
San Francisco |
|
Examiner lays off staff; plans to be free 40 people lost their jobs. The smaller, free paper will continue with about 15 reporters, editors and photographers
| Feb.23 |
Benicia |
|
Tanker ship ran aground |
| |
Brisbane |
|
AIDS vaccine developed by VaxGen An experimental vaccine does not protect most people, but showed promise in protecting blacks and Asians
| Feb.25 |
HP |
|
Quarter earnings beat expectations |
| Feb.26 |
San Francisco |
|
Cell Phone Ban Pondered |
| Feb.28 |
San Francisco |
|
Red Herring magazine closes |
| |
San Jose Downtown |
|
Mayor dedicated seven-story garage |
|
| Mar.2 |
SF Downtown |
|
New Asian Art Museum Set To Open |
| Mar.4 |
San Jose City Hall |
|
Airport Expansion Measure Passes |
| Mar.5 |
San Francisco |
|
Regular fuel costs average $2.19 a gallon |
| Mar.6 |
eBay |
|
eBay plans to shut down Half.com |
| Mar.10 |
San Francisco |
|
SF is healthiest city in America |
| |
Oakland |
|
District to layoff hundreds of teachers The troubled School District voted to send about 1,000 district employees a warning that they may be laid off | |
| Mar.12 |
Intel |
|
Wireless Computer Chips Unveiled
| Mar.18 |
Oracle |
|
Revenue slump ended, earnings higher |
| Mar.19 |
Apple |
|
Gore joins board of Apple |
| Mar.20 |
Milpitas |
|
Solectron to cut 12,000 jobs
| Mar.21 |
Santa Clara |
|
SonicBlue to file for Chapter 11 |
| Mar.30 |
San Francisco |
|
Fell Street Off-Ramp Closed For Good
|
| Apr.5 |
Caltrain |
|
Caltrain christened Baby Bullet train |
| Apr.8 |
SF City Hall |
|
Parking fee hike approved |
| Apr.9 |
Yahoo |
|
Yahoo reports another profit |
| Apr.15 |
Intel |
|
$915 million first-quarter profit |
| Apr.16 |
Apple |
|
$14 million net profit, twice what expected |
| Apr.17 |
San Francisco |
|
Bechtel wins giant Iraq contract Construction giant has landed a contract worth up to $680m to help in the rebuilding of Iraq | |
| Apr.18 |
SFO |
|
BART-SFO extension to open on June 22 |
| Apr.21 |
AMD |
|
64-bit computing with server chip |
| Apr.23 |
eBay |
|
eBay to keep HQ, expand in San Jose |
| Apr.28 |
Apple |
|
Apple launches online music service iTunes Music Store draws from all 5 major record labels in offering 200,000 songs at 99 cents a download | |
|
| May.1 |
San Quentin |
|
Metallica Plays at Prison
| May.2 |
Chevron |
|
ChevronTexaco's profit nearly triples |
| May.5 |
3Com |
|
3Com moving to Massachusetts Company has stumbled in recent years. Most of it's enterprise networking business is based in Marlborough, Mass.
| May.6 |
Cisco |
|
Revenue drops, profits jumped 35% |
| May.7 |
Schwab |
|
Pottruck becomes sole CEO |
| May.13 |
PG&E |
|
PG&E suffers first-quarter loss of $354m |
| May.15 |
Oakland |
|
Hundreds of Jobs Axed from Schools |
| May.17 |
San Jose |
|
Janitors ratify contract
| May.19 |
Genentech |
|
Encouraging results with cancer drug Avastin extended the lives of some of the colon cancer patients. Company's stock soaring nearly 45%
| |
Santa Clara |
|
Roxio plans bring back Napster name |
| May.20 |
HP |
|
Jobs cut as earnings beat expectations |
| May.28 |
Apple |
|
Software to block Internet file sharing
| May.30 |
Emeryville |
|
'Finding Nemo' released by Pixar
|
| Jun.2 |
Pleasanton |
|
PeopleSoft to buy J.D. Edwards for $1.7b |
| Jun.4 |
Palm |
|
Palm to merge with Handspring |
| Jun.6 |
Oracle |
|
Oracle offers $5.1 billion for PeopleSoft Software maker is in a hostile takeover attempt aimed at eliminating one of its competitors for $16 per share | |
| Jun.9 |
Menlo Park |
|
E-Trade offers 'moving' mortgages |
| Jun.10 |
Pleasanton |
|
$7 million lottery ticket
| Jun.12 |
Oracle |
|
Profit Up, Sales Gains Seen |
| Jun.22 |
SFO |
|
BART Begins Service To SFO After years of delay, BART hopes to match the success that other cities have had with their rail to airports | |
| Jun.26 |
SF Downtown |
|
Dancers take control of strip club |
| Jun.30 |
Intel |
|
Court Rules Against Intel in Spam Case
|
| Jul.8 |
Mountain View |
|
EMC to Buy Legato for $1.3 Billion |
| Jul.9 |
Yahoo |
|
$50.8 million profit, rosier prospects |
| Jul.14 |
Yahoo |
|
Yahoo buying Overture in $1.6 billion deal |
| Jul.15 |
Intel |
|
2nd-quarter profit doubles |
| Jul.16 |
San Jose Downtown |
|
Cafe wants to be 'Hooters of coffee' |
| |
Apple |
|
Quarter profit slides, beats expectations |
| Jul.17 |
San Jose |
|
Older man killed in crash with light rail train |
| Jul.18 |
Pleasanton |
|
PeopleSoft completed J.D. Ed. Acquisition |
| Jul.22 |
Sun |
|
4th-quarter revenue falls 13% |
| Jul.23 |
Schwab |
|
Highest quarterly profit since 2000
| |
Fremont |
|
BART service disrupted |
| Jul.28 |
San Jose |
|
Immersion gets $26 million from Microsoft |
|
| Aug.1 |
Chevron |
|
ChevronTexaco's profit quadruples |
| |
SF Downtown |
|
58-story skyscraper approved |
| Aug.2 |
San Francisco |
|
Janitors authorize strike |
| Aug.5 |
SF Downtown |
|
Vandals hit several Starbucks |
| Aug.19 |
HP |
|
3rd-quarter earnings miss expectations |
| Aug.20 |
Rohnert Park |
|
Tribe to buy land, build casino
| Aug.21 |
eBay |
|
Power outage takes eBay down for hours |
| Aug.22 |
Intel |
|
3rd-quarter revenue forecast raised |
| Aug.25 |
San Francisco |
|
Gallon of unleaded gasoline is $2.13 |
| Aug.27 |
East Palo Alto |
|
Shoppers Pack New Ikea Store
| |
Mountain View |
|
Silicon Graphics cuts 600 more jobs |
|
| Sep.4 |
Pleasanton |
|
PeopleSoft foresees up to 1,000 job cuts |
| Sep.10 |
San Francisco |
|
Levi Strauss to eliminate up to 650 jobs |
| Sep.18 |
Sun |
|
Sun to cut another 1,080 jobs |
| Sep.27 |
San Jose |
|
Recruiters Seeing Jump in Jobs |
| Sep.29 |
Sun |
|
$1.05 billion charge for fiscal 4th quarter |
|
| Oct.8 |
Yahoo |
|
Profits doubled again Internet giant has more than doubled the profits thanks to a strategy of making more money from fee-based services
| Oct.20 |
Oakland |
|
KTVU's Fancher died from breast cancer |
|
| Nov.3 |
Emeryville |
|
Ask Jeeves Names New CEO Web search provider named its president, Steve Berkowitz, chief executive officer, effective Jan 1, 2004
| Nov.4 |
San Francisco |
|
$8.50-per-hour minimum wage approved |
| Nov.5 |
Cisco |
|
Higher first-quarter sales, earnings |
| Nov.8 |
Vallejo |
|
Zampa Bridge opened by Gov. Davis Fireworks greet nation's first major suspension bridge in 30 years, a 3,400-foot span across the Carquinez Straits | |
| Nov.13 |
SF Downtown |
|
Construction of Bloomingdale inaugurated Developers and city officials broke ground for a large new shopping and entertainment center
| Nov.18 |
PG&E |
|
PG&E bankruptcy settlement rejected |
| Nov.19 |
HP |
|
Earnings more than double |
| Nov.21 |
Concord |
|
Customer Data Stolen at Wells Fargo
| |
San Jose |
|
Fake Doctor Botched Breast Implant |
|
| Dec.12 |
San Jose Downtown |
|
Latino Boycott Closes Some Businesses |
| Dec.15 |
Oracle |
|
Quarterly profit rises by 15% |
| Dec.16 |
PG&E |
|
PG&E reaches compromise on bankruptcy |
| |
SF City Hall |
|
Supervisors reject SFO contract |
| Dec.17 |
Menlo Park |
|
E-Trade moving headquarters to NY
| Dec.23 |
PG&E |
|
Delayed Response Worsened Outage PG&E says its delayed response to a circuit failure may have added to the severity of power outage
| Dec.25 |
Santa Rosa |
|
Helicopter air ambulance grounded |
| Dec.27 |
Oakland |
|
Beef Stacking Up at Port Due to Mad Cow |
|
|
2003 |
| Jan.21 |
Wells Fargo |
Profits continued in the fourth quarter |
| Jun.9 |
Menlo Park |
E-Trade offers 'moving' mortgages |
| Jul.23 |
Fremont |
BART service disrupted |
| Sep.29 |
Sun |
$1.05 billion charge for fiscal 4th quarter |
| Nov.21 |
Concord |
Customer Data Stolen at Wells Fargo
|
|
2003 |
| Jul.16 |
San Jose Downtown |
Cafe wants to be 'Hooters of coffee' |
| Aug.5 |
SF Downtown |
Vandals hit several Starbucks |
|
|
2003 |
| Feb.17 |
Google |
Google Buys Pyra Labs |
| Feb.18 |
AltaVista |
Overture to buy AltaVista for $140 million |
| Mar.4 |
San Jose City Hall |
Airport Expansion Measure Passes |
| Jun.2 |
Pleasanton |
PeopleSoft to buy J.D. Edwards for $1.7b |
| Jun.4 |
Palm |
Palm to merge with Handspring |
| Jun.6 |
Oracle |
Oracle offers $5.1 billion for PeopleSoft Software maker is in a hostile takeover attempt aimed at eliminating one of its competitors for $16 per share | |
| Jul.8 |
Mountain View |
EMC to Buy Legato for $1.3 Billion |
| Jul.14 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo buying Overture in $1.6 billion deal |
| Jul.18 |
Pleasanton |
PeopleSoft completed J.D. Ed. Acquisition |
|
|
2003 |
| Feb.23 |
Brisbane |
AIDS vaccine developed by VaxGen An experimental vaccine does not protect most people, but showed promise in protecting blacks and Asians
| May.19 |
Genentech |
Encouraging results with cancer drug Avastin extended the lives of some of the colon cancer patients. Company's stock soaring nearly 45%
| Jun.26 |
SF Downtown |
Dancers take control of strip club |
| Dec.17 |
Menlo Park |
E-Trade moving headquarters to NY
|
|
2003 |
| Jan.17 |
Oakland City Hall |
Fire Department Reduces Staff |
| Mar.5 |
San Francisco |
Regular fuel costs average $2.19 a gallon |
| Mar.30 |
San Francisco |
Fell Street Off-Ramp Closed For Good
| Apr.8 |
SF City Hall |
Parking fee hike approved |
| Apr.8 |
SF City Hall |
Parking fee hike approved |
| Jul.17 |
San Jose |
Older man killed in crash with light rail train |
| Aug.25 |
San Francisco |
Gallon of unleaded gasoline is $2.13 |
| Nov.8 |
Vallejo |
Zampa Bridge opened by Gov. Davis Fireworks greet nation's first major suspension bridge in 30 years, a 3,400-foot span across the Carquinez Straits | |
| Dec.16 |
SF City Hall |
Supervisors reject SFO contract |
|
|
2003 |
| Feb.15 |
Chinatown |
Thousands at Chinese New Year Parade |
| Mar.10 |
San Francisco |
SF is healthiest city in America |
| Apr.17 |
San Francisco |
Bechtel wins giant Iraq contract Construction giant has landed a contract worth up to $680m to help in the rebuilding of Iraq | |
| Oct.20 |
Oakland |
KTVU's Fancher died from breast cancer |
| Nov.21 |
San Jose |
Fake Doctor Botched Breast Implant |
| Dec.25 |
Santa Rosa |
Helicopter air ambulance grounded |
|
|
2003 |
| Feb.23 |
Benicia |
Tanker ship ran aground |
| Apr.28 |
Apple |
Apple launches online music service iTunes Music Store draws from all 5 major record labels in offering 200,000 songs at 99 cents a download | |
|
|
2003 |
| Jan.16 |
eBay |
4th-quarter profits triple |
| Feb.4 |
Cisco |
Profit above forecasts but sales fall |
| Feb.25 |
HP |
Quarter earnings beat expectations |
| Mar.18 |
Oracle |
Revenue slump ended, earnings higher |
| Apr.9 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo reports another profit |
| Apr.15 |
Intel |
$915 million first-quarter profit |
| Apr.16 |
Apple |
$14 million net profit, twice what expected |
| May.2 |
Chevron |
ChevronTexaco's profit nearly triples |
| May.6 |
Cisco |
Revenue drops, profits jumped 35% |
| Jun.12 |
Oracle |
Profit Up, Sales Gains Seen |
| Jul.9 |
Yahoo |
$50.8 million profit, rosier prospects |
| Jul.15 |
Intel |
2nd-quarter profit doubles |
| Jul.16 |
Apple |
Quarter profit slides, beats expectations |
| Jul.22 |
Sun |
4th-quarter revenue falls 13% |
| Jul.23 |
Schwab |
Highest quarterly profit since 2000
| Aug.1 |
Chevron |
ChevronTexaco's profit quadruples |
| Aug.19 |
HP |
3rd-quarter earnings miss expectations |
| Aug.21 |
eBay |
Power outage takes eBay down for hours |
| Aug.22 |
Intel |
3rd-quarter revenue forecast raised |
| Oct.8 |
Yahoo |
Profits doubled again Internet giant has more than doubled the profits thanks to a strategy of making more money from fee-based services
| Nov.5 |
Cisco |
Higher first-quarter sales, earnings |
| Nov.19 |
HP |
Earnings more than double |
| Dec.15 |
Oracle |
Quarterly profit rises by 15% |
| Dec.23 |
PG&E |
Delayed Response Worsened Outage PG&E says its delayed response to a circuit failure may have added to the severity of power outage
|
|
2003 |
| May.17 |
San Jose |
Janitors ratify contract
| Aug.2 |
San Francisco |
Janitors authorize strike |
| Dec.12 |
San Jose Downtown |
Latino Boycott Closes Some Businesses |
|
|
2003 |
| Oct.20 |
Oakland |
KTVU's Fancher died from breast cancer |
|
|
2003 |
| Jan.17 |
Oakland City Hall |
Fire Department Reduces Staff |
| Feb.21 |
Palo Alto |
Agilent to cut 4,000 more jobs Maker of test and measurement equipment, will cut 11% of its work force, after posting a wider quarter loss
| Feb.21 |
San Francisco |
Examiner lays off staff; plans to be free 40 people lost their jobs. The smaller, free paper will continue with about 15 reporters, editors and photographers
| Mar.10 |
Oakland |
District to layoff hundreds of teachers The troubled School District voted to send about 1,000 district employees a warning that they may be laid off | |
| Mar.20 |
Milpitas |
Solectron to cut 12,000 jobs
| May.15 |
Oakland |
Hundreds of Jobs Axed from Schools |
| May.20 |
HP |
Jobs cut as earnings beat expectations |
| Aug.5 |
SF Downtown |
Vandals hit several Starbucks |
| Aug.27 |
Mountain View |
Silicon Graphics cuts 600 more jobs |
| Sep.4 |
Pleasanton |
PeopleSoft foresees up to 1,000 job cuts |
| Sep.10 |
San Francisco |
Levi Strauss to eliminate up to 650 jobs |
| Sep.18 |
Sun |
Sun to cut another 1,080 jobs |
|
|
2003 |
| Feb.28 |
San Francisco |
Red Herring magazine closes |
| Mar.21 |
Santa Clara |
SonicBlue to file for Chapter 11 |
| Nov.18 |
PG&E |
PG&E bankruptcy settlement rejected |
| Dec.16 |
PG&E |
PG&E reaches compromise on bankruptcy |
|
|
2003 |
| Jan.7 |
SF Downtown |
Apple unveils 17-inch laptop |
| Feb.12 |
Intel |
Wireless Internet chip for cell phones |
| Mar.12 |
Intel |
Wireless Computer Chips Unveiled
| Apr.21 |
AMD |
64-bit computing with server chip |
| May.5 |
3Com |
3Com moving to Massachusetts Company has stumbled in recent years. Most of it's enterprise networking business is based in Marlborough, Mass.
| May.19 |
Santa Clara |
Roxio plans bring back Napster name |
| Nov.21 |
Concord |
Customer Data Stolen at Wells Fargo
|
|
2003 |
| Jun.30 |
Intel |
Court Rules Against Intel in Spam Case
| Jul.28 |
San Jose |
Immersion gets $26 million from Microsoft |
|
|
2003 |
| Jan.14 |
San Jose |
3 Kmarts to close |
| Feb.5 |
Vallejo |
Lotto winner claimed $85-million jackpot |
| Jun.10 |
Pleasanton |
$7 million lottery ticket
| Aug.27 |
East Palo Alto |
Shoppers Pack New Ikea Store
|
|
2003 |
| Mar.4 |
San Jose City Hall |
Airport Expansion Measure Passes |
| Dec.16 |
SF City Hall |
Supervisors reject SFO contract |
| Dec.25 |
Santa Rosa |
Helicopter air ambulance grounded |
|
|
2003 |
| Nov.21 |
San Jose |
Fake Doctor Botched Breast Implant |
|
|
2003 |
| Feb.23 |
Benicia |
Tanker ship ran aground |
| Dec.27 |
Oakland |
Beef Stacking Up at Port Due to Mad Cow |
|
|
2003 |
| Jan.19 |
SF City Hall |
City outlaws Segway scooter
| Feb.14 |
Golden Gate Bridge |
Security zones around bridges
| Apr.5 |
Caltrain |
Caltrain christened Baby Bullet train |
| Apr.18 |
SFO |
BART-SFO extension to open on June 22 |
| Jun.22 |
SFO |
BART Begins Service To SFO After years of delay, BART hopes to match the success that other cities have had with their rail to airports | |
| Jul.17 |
San Jose |
Older man killed in crash with light rail train |
| Jul.23 |
Fremont |
BART service disrupted |
|
|
2003 |
| Mar.6 |
eBay |
eBay plans to shut down Half.com |
| May.28 |
Apple |
Software to block Internet file sharing
| Aug.21 |
eBay |
Power outage takes eBay down for hours |
|
|
2003 |
| Mar.10 |
Oakland |
District to layoff hundreds of teachers The troubled School District voted to send about 1,000 district employees a warning that they may be laid off | |
| Mar.19 |
Apple |
Gore joins board of Apple |
| Mar.19 |
Apple |
Gore joins board of Apple |
| May.7 |
Schwab |
Pottruck becomes sole CEO |
| May.15 |
Oakland |
Hundreds of Jobs Axed from Schools |
| Nov.3 |
Emeryville |
Ask Jeeves Names New CEO Web search provider named its president, Steve Berkowitz, chief executive officer, effective Jan 1, 2004
|
|
2003 |
| Apr.17 |
San Francisco |
Bechtel wins giant Iraq contract Construction giant has landed a contract worth up to $680m to help in the rebuilding of Iraq | |
| Nov.13 |
SF Downtown |
Construction of Bloomingdale inaugurated Developers and city officials broke ground for a large new shopping and entertainment center
|
|
2003 |
| Jan.23 |
San Francisco |
$32 million purchase sets city record |
| Dec.12 |
San Jose Downtown |
Latino Boycott Closes Some Businesses |
|
|
2003 |
| Sep.27 |
San Jose |
Recruiters Seeing Jump in Jobs |
|
|
2003 |
| Nov.4 |
San Francisco |
$8.50-per-hour minimum wage approved |
|
|
2003 |
| Feb.6 |
SF Downtown |
Largest urban retail center |
| Feb.8 |
SF Presidio |
Lucas breaks ground on new campus
| Feb.28 |
San Jose Downtown |
Mayor dedicated seven-story garage |
| Apr.23 |
eBay |
eBay to keep HQ, expand in San Jose |
| Aug.1 |
SF Downtown |
58-story skyscraper approved |
| Aug.20 |
Rohnert Park |
Tribe to buy land, build casino
|
|
2003 |
| Feb.15 |
Chinatown |
Thousands at Chinese New Year Parade |
| Feb.26 |
San Francisco |
Cell Phone Ban Pondered |
| Mar.2 |
SF Downtown |
New Asian Art Museum Set To Open |
| May.1 |
San Quentin |
Metallica Plays at Prison
| May.30 |
Emeryville |
'Finding Nemo' released by Pixar
|
|
2003 |
| May.13 |
PG&E |
PG&E suffers first-quarter loss of $354m |
| Dec.23 |
PG&E |
Delayed Response Worsened Outage PG&E says its delayed response to a circuit failure may have added to the severity of power outage