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| Jan.1 |
San Francisco |
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S.F. minimum wage rises to $9.79 |
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| Jan.5 |
Apple |
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Jobs has hormone imbalance, remain CEO A survivor of pancreatic cancer said that a hormone imbalance is to blame for the weight loss that has prompted worries about his health
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Google |
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China blasts Google in porn crackdown |
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| Jan.6 |
San Jose |
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County biggest jump in pre-foreclosure |
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| Jan.7 |
Intel |
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4th-quarter revenue misses outlook
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SF Downtown |
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Stacey's Bookstore closing down |
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San Francisco |
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Yelp Posting Lands In Court |
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Intel |
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Intel Will Miss Its Lowered 4Q Targets |
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| Jan.8 |
Palm |
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Palm unveils new smart phone
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San Jose |
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Ex-Fry's VP Charged |
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Oakland Downtown |
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APL moves offices to Arizona |
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| Jan.11 |
Wells Fargo |
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Wells has more branches than any bank| Wells Fargo & Co., which began in 1852 as a 'Express and Banking House' serving gold miners, now controls more branches than any U.S. bank | |
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| Jan.12 |
Foster City |
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Another Yelp lawsuit afer negative review Pediatric dentist Yvonne Wong has sued the review site and two individuals, accusing them of libel over a negative review of her practice
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| Jan.13 |
Yahoo |
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Carol Bartz to head Yahoo Yahoo Inc. has named former Autodesk CEO as its new chief executive, ending a 2-month high-profile search for the struggling Internet giant
| She will replace Yahoo's co-founder Jerry Yang. Bartz, 60, currently chairwoman for Autodesk, led the San Rafael company that makes design and imaging software, for 14 years
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| Jan.14 |
Apple |
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Apple CEO Jobs taking medical leave Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs is taking a leave until June, even though a week ago the cancer survivor tried to assure investors
| In an e-mail to employees, Jobs backtracked: 'During the past week I have learned that my health-related issues are more complex than I originally thought'. Apple's stock dropped 7%
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| Jan.15 |
San Jose City Hall |
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Two sue San Jose over drunk arrests |
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Intel |
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4Q profit plunges 90%, meets forecasts |
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| Jan.16 |
SF Downtown |
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Protesters call banks to help consumers |
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AMD |
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AMD to cut 1,100 workers, 9 pct of staff |
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Schwab |
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Charles Schwab Sees Steady 4Q Profit |
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| Jan.17 |
Microsoft |
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Microsoft's Ballmer met Yahoo chairman
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| Jan.19 |
Larkspur |
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Larkspur Landing shopping center sold |
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| Jan.21 |
Bay Area |
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Rental market gives tenants an edge |
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Bay Area |
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Home sales soar, prices down |
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| Jan.22 |
Intel |
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Intel to lay off up to 6,000| Intel is consolidating its manufacturing operations as a part of a restructuring bid that will affect jobs from the U.S to the Philippines | |
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Bay Area |
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Home Prices Down 50% From Peak The median home price fell nearly 44% in December from a year earlier as more bargain hunters scooped up foreclosure properties
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SF Downtown |
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Condo developers hunting for buyers |
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Google |
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Google reports sharp decline in profits |
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| Jan.23 |
Intel |
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Chairman Craig Barrett to retire |
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| Jan.26 |
Netflix |
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Netflix profit up 45%, defying recession |
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| Jan.27 |
Bay Area |
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Record foreclosures in Bay Area The lenders took back 35,709 homes, or 2 percent of all homes and condos. 61,347 households were notified that they were in default
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Oakland |
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SEIU takes over Oakland health care union |
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Berkeley |
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Chocolate Plants Closing |
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Bay Area |
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Home price index off 30.8% in November |
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| Jan.28 |
Wells Fargo |
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Wells lost $2.83 billion in 4th quarter |
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| Jan.29 |
Portola Valley |
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Ridge Vineyards president found dead |
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| Jan.30 |
Genentech |
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Roche revives takeover bid of Genentech |
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| Jan.31 |
San Francisco |
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OpenTable files for $40 million IPO |
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Chevron |
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Annual profit soars to record
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| Feb.2 |
San Francisco |
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Macy's cuts 7,000 jobs, 1,400 in SF |
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Wells Fargo |
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$371.5 million Dividend To U.S. Treasury |
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| Feb.3 |
Bay Area |
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Bay homes lost $202 billion in value |
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Berkeley |
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Elephant Pharm abruptly closes its stores |
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Wells Fargo |
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Wells Fargo cancels Vegas junket |
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| Feb.4 |
Facebook |
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Facebook turns 5 |
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| Feb.5 |
Google |
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Privacy fears over Google tracker
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| Feb.7 |
Bay Area |
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Companies Look to Hire Despite Recession |
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| Feb.8 |
San Jose City Hall |
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City Faces $60M Budget Shortfall
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| Feb.9 |
Genentech |
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Roche launches $86.50-a-share bid |
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| Feb.11 |
Oakland |
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Solar firm announces big contract |
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| Feb.12 |
Bay Area |
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Business Leaders Pessimistic
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| Feb.14 |
Oakland |
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Kaiser Foundation loses $794 million |
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| Feb.15 |
Palo Alto |
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Online shopping with a purpose |
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| Feb.17 |
San Francisco |
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S.F. Tourism's Dim Outlook
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| Feb.19 |
Bay Area |
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Foreclosures Lead Slide In Home Prices |
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| Feb.20 |
Bay Area |
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Foreclosures ignite hot homes sales |
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Moffett Field |
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Fresh cash windfall for zeppelin |
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| Feb.23 |
Bay Area |
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Few in Bay Area qualify in housing plan |
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| Feb.24 |
SF Chronicle |
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Hearst wants 'significant' cuts at Chronicle| The Hearst Corp. to reverse the deepening operating losses is seeking near-term cost savings that would include 'significant' cuts to the staf | |
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| |
Bay Area |
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Record drop in home prices The SF metropolitan region plummeted 31.2%, back into record territory after a slight moderation in November
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PG&E |
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PG&E to bankroll renewable power plants
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| Feb.25 |
SF City Hall |
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S.F. pushes PG&E on bay sediment probe |
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| Feb.26 |
Yahoo |
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CFO leaving in shakeup
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| Feb.28 |
Berkeley |
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Berkeley starts solar program |
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| Mar.1 |
San Francisco |
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Plush new commuter service |
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| Mar.2 |
HP |
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Former HP CEO Fiorina Has Breast Cancer
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| Mar.3 |
Yahoo |
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Yahoo: Quiet On MS Talks |
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| Mar.4 |
Port of Oakland |
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Port signs major new tenant |
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| Mar.5 |
Bay Area |
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Bay Area unemployment jumps higher| 9.4 percent in the San Jose area, 9.2 percent in the East Bay and 7.5 percent in San Francisco metropolitan area. Statewide is 10.1 percent | |
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Wells Fargo |
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Wells shares fall on possible downgrade |
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San Francisco |
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Craigslist sued over erotic-services ads |
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| Mar.6 |
Apple |
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Apple is No. 1 most-admired company |
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| |
Genentech |
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Roche raises bid for Genentech |
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| Mar.9 |
Genentech |
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Roche-Genentech deal called close |
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| Mar.10 |
Burlingame |
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Virgin America CEO remains optimistic |
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| |
SF Downtown |
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Schwab to move headquarters |
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| Mar.11 |
Santa Clara |
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National Semi to cut quarter of workforce
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| Mar.12 |
Genentech |
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Roche to take over Genentech for $47B Swiss giant agreed to buy the 44% of biotech pioneer that it doesn't already own, ending a long corporate struggle
| The $95-per-share deal brings Roche all of the sales of cancer drugs as well as its promising research pipeline. The deal offers $95 per share for the 44 percent of Genentech that Roche Holding AG doesn't already own
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Foster City |
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Gilead To Buy CV Therapeutics For $1.4 B |
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| Mar.13 |
Bay Area |
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Teachers Rally Against Pending Layoffs |
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| Mar.14 |
UCSF |
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$125 million donation for new hospital |
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Stanford |
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Rubin, Rice talk of financial crisis |
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| |
SF Chronicle |
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Union OKs Big Job Cuts To Save Paper
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| Mar.16 |
Highway 101 |
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Commute on Highway 101 improving |
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| Mar.17 |
Oakland |
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Kaiser to cut 860 IT jobs |
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| Mar.18 |
Sun |
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IBM May Buy Sun Micro Sun Microsystems shares soared after a published report said IBM is in preliminary talks to buy Sun for at least $6.5 billion in cash
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| Mar.19 |
South San Jose |
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Masked Thieves Steal 100 Guns |
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Cisco |
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Cisco to buy maker of Flip Video for $590M |
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| |
Bay Area |
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Home median falls below $300,000
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| Mar.25 |
Bay Area |
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Home building permits rise
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| Mar.27 |
San Jose |
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Tesla Opts Out Of San Jose Tesla Motors introduced its long-awaited Model S electric sedan and revealed that the luxury car probably will be built in Southern Californ...
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Twitter |
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Twitter Seeks Tweet Of Profit |
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| |
Santa Clara |
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Agilent to restructure, lay off 2,700 |
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| Mar.31 |
San Quentin |
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Lawmaker Proposes Selling State Prison
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|
| Apr.1 |
Bay Area |
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Home prices in free fall Down 32.4 percent. Alameda and Contra Costa, which have been racked by foreclosures
| Low-priced homes, under $297,909, are now back to the levels of August 2000, 16 percent above their January 2000 levels
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| Apr.2 |
San Francisco |
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Lowe's plans to come to Bayshore Blvd |
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| Apr.4 |
Google |
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Google-Twitter Deal Rumored
|
| Apr.5 |
Sun |
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Sun deal cloudy after IBM pulls offer
|
| Apr.7 |
Bay Area |
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Average wage in the Bay Area: $67,548 |
|
| Apr.8 |
SF City Hall |
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Muni considering budget cuts |
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Genentech |
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Drug Raptiva pulled from market |
|
| Apr.9 |
Wells Fargo |
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Record 1Q Profit For Wells Wells Fargo expects record first-quarter earnings of $3 billion, easily surpassing analysts' estimates
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| |
San Francisco |
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Yelp to let businesses comment on reviews |
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| Apr.10 |
BART |
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Fare Hike, Service Cuts Considering
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| |
Yahoo |
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Microsoft, Yahoo Chiefs Meet on linkups |
|
| Apr.11 |
San Francisco |
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Gore's Current Media scraps plan for IPO |
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| Apr.13 |
San Jose |
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Silicon Valley CEOs See Bleak Job Market |
|
| Apr.14 |
Oakland |
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East Bay M. Utilty District to raise rates |
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| |
eBay |
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IPO Planned For Skype |
|
| |
Intel |
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Intel Says PC Sales Beginning To Improve |
|
| Apr.15 |
Intel |
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Shares fall despite bullish PC prediction |
|
| Apr.16 |
Bay Area |
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Falling home prices start to slow |
|
| |
Google |
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Google growth slows dramatically in 1Q |
|
| Apr.17 |
Google |
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Search for savings boosts 1Q profit 9 pct
|
| |
Bay Area |
|
Unemployment rates continued to rise
|
| Apr.18 |
San Francisco |
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Rolling Stone closes last S.F. office
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| Apr.19 |
SF Chronicle |
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Teamsters OK Chronicle Pact |
|
| Apr.20 |
Oracle |
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Oracle To Buy Sun For $7.4B| Oracle Corp. is pouncing on an opportunity that opened up after rival IBM abandoned an earlier bid to buy computer server and software maker | |
|
| Apr.21 |
San Francisco |
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Call to rally against cyber crime |
|
| |
Yahoo |
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Yahoo to lay off 675 after profit slides 78%
|
| Apr.22 |
West Contra Costa |
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2 school districts reviewing cuts |
|
| |
Apple |
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Apple easily tops expectations |
|
| |
Bay Area |
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Mortgage defaults hit record
|
| Apr.23 |
Wells Fargo |
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State sues Wells for $1.5 billion
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| Apr.26 |
San Francisco |
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Craigslist safety questioned after slayings
|
| Apr.27 |
Wells Fargo |
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Industry analysts downgrade bank rating |
|
| Apr.30 |
Bay Area |
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3 Area men charged with insider trading |
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|
| May.1 |
SF Downtown |
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Flu outbreak diverts Mexico's cruises to SF |
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| May.2 |
Chevron |
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Chevron profit falls along with oil prices |
|
| May.4 |
Mill Valley |
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Lottery ticket for $75 million sold
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| |
Wells Fargo |
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Wells asked to raise money |
|
| May.6 |
San Francisco |
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S.F. Fed chief sees hope
|
| |
Wells Fargo |
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Wells said to need $15 billion Wells Fargo, the 4th-largest U.S. bank by assets, requires about $15 billion in new capital as a result of regulators' stress test on the le...
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| May.10 |
San Francisco |
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BofA shedding First Republic Bank
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| May.12 |
Oakland |
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Ask.com CEO leaving, Garell to take over| The chief executive Safka is leaving for personal reasons a little more than a year after he took the post | |
|
| |
Bay Area |
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Bay Prices Fall 40% Prices fell 40 percent or more in San Francisco; San Jose
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| |
Intel |
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CEO: So Far, So Good In 2nd Quarter |
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| |
Google |
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Google provides advanced search tools |
|
| May.13 |
Intel |
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EU slaps a record $1.45bn fine on Intel| Computer chipmaker Intel has been fined a 1.06bn euros by the European Commission for anti-competitive practices. The Commission found that between 2002 and 2007, Intel had paid m... | |
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| |
Redwood City |
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Developer proposes 12,000 homes
|
| |
San Francisco |
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Craigslist to drop erotic services classifieds |
|
| |
Oakland |
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PG&E expands solar power plans |
|
| May.14 |
Los Altos |
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FTC has dropped Rambus antitrust claims |
|
| May.15 |
SF Downtown |
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Farmers' market finds a home at Metreon |
|
| |
SF City Hall |
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City Planning 1,000 More Layoffs Service Employees International Union, San Francisco's largest union, rejected contract concessions needed to close the deficit
|
| |
SF City Hall |
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SF to install 25K solar panels |
|
| May.19 |
HP |
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Another 6,400 To Be Cut| Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to cut 2 percent of the company's total work force. The cuts are part of its huge acquisition of technology services | |
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| |
SF City Hall |
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New fee tacked onto price of cigarette |
|
| May.20 |
San Francisco |
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OpenTable sets IPO |
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| May.21 |
UCSF |
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2 Bay Area hospitals fined by state |
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| |
San Francisco |
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OpenTable shares soar nearly 60% in IPO Online restaurant reservation service's shares soared by $11.89 to close at $31.89 in their first day of trading on the Nasdaq
|
| |
Bay Area |
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NorCal Home Prices Showing Turnaround |
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| May.26 |
Bay Area |
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Bay Area home prices fall 30%
|
| |
Berkeley |
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Neighborhood girds for Berkeley Bowl |
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| May.27 |
SF City Hall |
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Muni Fare Hikes, Service Cuts In July |
|
| |
Chevron |
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Pointed exchanges at Chevron meeting
|
| May.28 |
Google |
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Google Wave to change communication |
|
| May.29 |
Levi's Stadium |
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49ers sweeten deal to build stadium |
|
| May.31 |
Shoreline Amphitheatre |
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6 Stabbed During Kiss Concert 
Map of 1400 North Shoreline Boulevard Mountain View| The violence began after the 5 p.m. start of KISS FM's Old School Fiesta featuring the bands War, Lakeside, El Chicano and others. Around 9:30 p.m., Shoreline security called police for aid beca... | |
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| |
Emeryville |
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Pixar's 'Up' Soars In Weekend With $68.2M |
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|
| Jun.1 |
SF City Hall |
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Newsom Proposes Deep Cuts, Layoffs |
|
| Jun.2 |
Cisco |
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Cisco Increases Technology Clout In Dow Dow Jones & Co. would add Cisco Systems Inc. to the 30-stock industrial average, replacing General Motors. Shares of Cisco rose 96 cents
|
| Jun.3 |
Santa Clara |
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NetApp claims bid victory for Data Domain |
|
| Jun.4 |
Intel |
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Intel To Buy Wind River
|
| Jun.8 |
San Francisco |
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Apple's New, Faster iPhone iPhone 3G S is a souped-up device that offers much faster processing speeds, a video recorder, compass and voice commands
| Apple moved to distance itself from rival smart phone makers. 3G S will go on sale June 19 for $199 for a 16-GB version and $299 for 32 GBs of storage
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| Jun.9 |
San Francisco |
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Craigslist revenue to climb 23 pct to $100M
|
| Jun.10 |
Santa Clara |
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Symantec, McAfee Settle With NY AG |
|
| |
Palm |
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Palm Appoints Former Apple Whiz As CEO Jon Rubinstein, a former executive behind iPod, has been named chief executive officer and chairman of smartphone maker Palm Inc
|
| |
Hayward |
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City settles police sex bias lawsuit For $5M |
|
| Jun.11 |
Yahoo |
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New CFO Likely To Shake Things Up |
|
| |
SF Downtown |
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Auction of domain names never happens |
|
| Jun.18 |
Bay Area |
|
Home prices up for second month |
|
| |
Google |
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Google invests $2.6M in startup |
|
| Jun.19 |
Apple |
|
New iPhone goes on sale with less drama
|
| Jun.20 |
Steve Jobs |
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CEO Steve Jobs Had Liver Transplant| Apple CEO, who has been on medical leave for undisclosed reasons since January, received a liver transplant two months ago | |
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| |
SF Zoo |
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Zoo Considering Layoffs, Other Cuts Costly safety upgrades following a fatal tiger attack, fewer donations and falling attendance is forcing the Zoo to consider layoffs and reducing...
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| Jun.22 |
Apple |
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Apple Sells More Than 1 Mil. New iPhones| Apple Inc. sold more than a million units of iPhone 3G S in the first three days, the most successful debut for a smart phone yet | |
|
| Jun.23 |
San Carlos |
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Tesla Motors To Get Big Loan From U.S. The maker of an all-electric Roadster would receive $465 million. It likely the company will rebuild an existing plant outside the Bay Area
|
| |
Google |
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Google Trial In Italy
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| |
Steve Jobs |
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Hospital Confirms Jobs Liver Transplant |
|
| Jun.24 |
LinkedIn |
|
LinkedIn hires new CEO After six months of grooming, the founder Reid Hoffman has decided former Yahoo executive Jeff Weiner is ready to take over his job
|
| Jun.26 |
Yahoo |
|
Yahoo CEO aims at revitalizing |
|
| |
Petaluma |
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Boxer Wins World's Ugliest Dog Contest |
|
| Jun.29 |
Apple |
|
CEO Jobs Back At Work Few Days A Week Apple says co-founder and CEO is back at work after a five-and-a-half-month medical leave, during which he received a liver transplant
|
| |
SF Downtown |
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Gay Pride Parade Draws Thousands
|
| |
Fremont |
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GM ending Nummi joint venture
|
|
| Jul.1 |
San Francisco |
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Bank of the West heads east
|
| Jul.2 |
Richmond |
|
Chevron expansion on hold |
|
| Jul.3 |
South San Mateo County |
|
Bullet Trains Hit Criticism On Peninsula |
|
| Jul.5 |
Palo Alto |
|
Rod Beckstrom to head domain agency |
|
| |
San Francisco |
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Andreessen becomes venture capitalist |
|
| Jul.6 |
San Francisco |
|
Pfizer drops planned research center |
|
| Jul.7 |
Google |
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New Oper. System To Take On Microsoft Google is developing a new operating system for laptop computers in its boldest challenge yet to Microsoft's control over computing experien...
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| Jul.8 |
Richmond |
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Chevron to appeal ruling on refinery
|
| Jul.9 |
Novato |
|
Smith & Hawken to close |
|
| |
BART |
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Unions Say They Will Not Strike Friday |
|
| |
Genentech |
|
Axe falls at Genentech |
|
| Jul.10 |
Fremont |
|
Toyota considering dissolving Nummi |
|
| Jul.13 |
San Francisco |
|
Levi's to stay put in S.F. |
|
| |
Facebook |
|
DST stock offer values Facebook at $6.5B |
|
| Jul.14 |
Netflix |
|
Rumors: Amazon Buying Out Netflix
|
| |
Contra Costa County |
|
Firm To Pay $2.5M For False Air Reports Shore Terminals LLC that operates a tank farm pleaded guilty to submitting false annual reports to the Bay Area Air Quality Management Distr...
|
| |
Intel |
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Shares soar as chip maker tops forecast
|
| |
San Francisco |
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Gas average below $3 |
|
| Jul.16 |
Bay Area |
|
Bay Area home prices, sales rise Prices rose month-over-month for the 3rd straight time as sales reached their highest level in 3 years last month
|
| |
Google |
|
Google posted better-than-expected
|
| Jul.19 |
SF Tenderloin |
|
Tenderloin housing plan hits a snag |
|
| Jul.20 |
Marin County |
|
Boutique Marin buys Pac Union |
|
| |
Yahoo |
|
Yahoo Makeovers Up Home Page |
|
| Jul.21 |
Yahoo |
|
2nd Quarter Results Top Expectations
|
| |
Apple |
|
Apple rings up stellar results |
|
| Jul.22 |
Wells Fargo |
|
Wells Posts 2Q Profit, Surpasses Forecast |
|
| |
Port of Oakland |
|
Big port project takes a step forward |
|
| |
eBay |
|
eBay 2Q profit falls |
|
| Jul.23 |
Fremont |
|
Toyota Pulling Out Of NUMMI Plant| Toyota Motor has decided to liquidate its stake in a manufacturing plant that it jointly operated with General Motors | |
|
| Jul.24 |
Palm |
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Palm Reconnects With Estranged Itunes |
|
| Jul.26 |
Fremont |
|
Nummi to build cars through October
|
| Jul.27 |
Apple |
|
Apple, Labels Work On Album 'Cocktail' |
|
| Jul.28 |
Bay Area |
|
Home prices rose 1.4% from April
|
| Jul.29 |
Yahoo |
|
Microsoft and Yahoo seal web deal 
Yahoo and Microsoft have announced a long-rumoured internet search deal that will help the companies take on chief rival Google
| Bing search engine will power the Yahoo site and Yahoo will become the advertising sales team for Microsoft's online offering. Yahoo will get to keep 88% of the revenue from search ad sales on its site for the first 5 years of the 10-year deal, and have the right to sell ads on some Microsoft sites
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| |
|
| Jul.30 |
Apple |
|
Experts find iPhone security flaw |
|
| Jul.31 |
Chevron |
|
Chevron profits tumble 71% |
|
| |
BART |
|
BART, Unions Announce Deal, Avoid Strike BART and its 3 largest labor unions reached a tentative agreement on a new 4-year contract after a marathon 27-hour session
|
|
| Aug.1 |
San Francisco |
|
Online magazines give S.F.'s Zinio a boost |
|
| Aug.2 |
Genentech |
|
FDA clears drug for kidney cancer |
|
| Aug.3 |
Apple |
|
Google chief Schmidt quits Apple board
|
| |
eBay |
|
PayPal Outage Frustrates Merchants |
|
| |
Alameda County |
|
Public Defender Warns Over Job Cuts |
|
| Aug.4 |
Yahoo |
|
MSFT to hire 400 from Yahoo
|
| Aug.5 |
Fremont |
|
Nummi incentives offered |
|
| Aug.6 |
Twitter |
|
Twitter site reopens after attack Micro-blogging service was taken offline for more than two hours in what the company believes was a co-ordinated attack
|
| |
San Francisco |
|
Pier 38 plans on hold
|
| Aug.9 |
Millbrae |
|
Applicants flood Kohl's job fair |
|
| Aug.10 |
eBay |
|
eBay, GM team up |
|
| |
Facebook |
|
Facebook gobbles up FriendFeed |
|
| |
BART |
|
Largest Union Ratifies New Contract |
|
| |
San Francisco |
|
Home value drop-off slows |
|
| Aug.11 |
BART |
|
Unions Split Over Contract Approval| The union representing train operators and station agents, Amalgamated Transit Union, rejected a proposal, raising the possibility of a strike. Members of the Service Employees International Union, Local 1021,... | |
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| Aug.12 |
Oakland |
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Kaiser Permanente Cutting 1,850 Jobs| The cuts, due to the bad economy, total about 2 percent of the company's workforce, are across the board | |
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| Aug.13 |
BART |
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Strike set for Sunday night| The board of directors voted unanimously to unilaterally implement terms and conditions of employment for members of one of its largest unions | |
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San Francisco |
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Filthy power plant to close |
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| Aug.14 |
Martinez |
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CC County Planning More Layoffs |
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| Aug.15 |
BART |
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Rail Union, Management Resume Talks |
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| Aug.16 |
Oakland |
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BART, Union Negotiations Down To Wire
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BART |
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No Strike; New Deal Reached| Officials said that a tentative agreement was reached in the labor dispute that threatened to cripple public transit during Monday's commute | |
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| Aug.18 |
Tesla |
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Tesla Motors Building Parts Factory The electric-car maker will open a new power train production facility and corporate headquarters in Palo Alto
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HP |
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Fiorina Takes Step Toward US Senate Bid |
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San Francisco |
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Court Orders New Trial In Brocade Case |
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HP |
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Profit Hurt By Weak PC, Ink Sales |
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| Aug.19 |
Fremont |
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Nummi suppliers struggle |
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| Aug.21 |
Apple |
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Apple Denies 'Rejecting' Google Voice
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Yahoo |
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Tech giants unite against Google |
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| Aug.22 |
Bay Area |
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Signs of recovery in housing market |
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| Aug.24 |
San Jose City Hall |
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City To Ban On Plastic, Most Paper Bags |
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| Aug.25 |
BART |
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Final BART Union Approves Contract
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| Aug.26 |
UC Berkeley |
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UC To Lay Off Employees, Cut Courses |
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| Aug.27 |
Fremont |
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Toyota to halt work at Nummi Toyota's decided to stop making cars in Fremont in March will idle 4,700 workers at the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. factory
| The decision send a shudder of job losses through more than a thousand California companies that supply parts to the only automotive plant on the West Coast
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| Aug.28 |
Intel |
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Intel jumps on sales forecast |
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| Aug.30 |
Bay Area |
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Commercial mortgage defaults rising |
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| Aug.31 |
Chevron |
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Chevron: Taped show judicial misconduct |
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| Sep.1 |
eBay |
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eBay Sells Interest In Skype For $2B |
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San Francisco |
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Examiner.com buys NowPublic |
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Pleasant Hill |
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CEO Of Design Firm Facing Charges |
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| Sep.2 |
Stanford |
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Hundreds Laid Off As Endowment Shrinks |
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| Sep.3 |
Oracle |
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EU Applies Brakes To Oracle-Sun Deal
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Bay Bridge |
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San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Closed As planned, the bridge was shut down to traffic at 8 p.m. so crews can do seismic retrofit work on the span
| A 300-foot-long section of the east span will be cut out and moved out of the way. Then a new double-deck section will be moved into place to connect the bridge with a short detour
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West Oakland |
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Oakland brewery drought over |
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| Sep.4 |
San Francisco |
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CHP: Traffic light during morning commute |
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| Sep.5 |
Eastern Span |
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Crack Found May Delay Bridge Opening
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| Sep.8 |
Bay Bridge |
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Bridge Reopens After Crack Fixed The Bridge reopened just in time for the start of the work week. Crews were able to make a crucial repair a day ahead of schedule
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| Sep.9 |
SF Downtown |
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Steve Jobs lights up Apple show| Apple boss stole the show at an event to launch new products as he took to the stage for the first time in nearly a year following medical leave | |
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San Francisco |
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Bechtel in BrightSource deal |
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| Sep.10 |
Apple |
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Boost for iPhone and iPod app developers |
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| Sep.12 |
Chevron |
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Chevron signs big Australian gas deal
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| Sep.15 |
SF Downtown |
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Crystal Cruises back to S.F. port in 2011 |
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| Sep.16 |
eBay |
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Skype Founders File Lawsuit Against eBay
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Google |
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Digital Books To Reincarnate As Paperback Google is opening up part of its index to the maker of publishing machine that can made a paperback book of 300 pages in under 5 minutes
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Berkeley |
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Officials act fast to keep Bayer jobs |
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| Sep.17 |
SFO |
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New kiosks first to sell carbon offsets |
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| Sep.18 |
Google |
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DOJ Balks At Google Book Deal |
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| Sep.19 |
Eastern Span |
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Crews To Close Lanes, Inspect Repairs |
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San Francisco |
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Coca-Cola slams proposed S.F. soda tax
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| Sep.20 |
Bay Area |
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Food Banks Besieged Amid Joblessness |
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| Sep.21 |
Netflix |
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Netflix awards $1M prize |
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| Sep.22 |
Yahoo |
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New web portal goes live
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Wells Fargo |
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Chairman Kovacevich to step down
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| Sep.23 |
Chevron |
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Chevron sues Ecuador Chevron Corp. sought to force the government of Ecuador into international arbitration for alleged trade violations
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| Sep.24 |
Cisco |
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CEO Chambers got $14.2M '09 package |
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Google |
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Hearing Postponed For Books Deal |
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| Sep.25 |
Twitter |
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Twitter awaits $100 million capital infusion
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| Sep.27 |
San Francisco |
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Gap founder dies
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| Sep.30 |
Chevron |
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Chevron Names New CEO; O'Reilly Retires Chevron Corp. board has promoted vice chairman John S. Watson, 52, to chairman and chief executive
| David J. O'Reilly is retiring from the company after 41 years, including 10 years as chairman and CEO
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| Oct.1 |
Cisco |
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Cisco Agrees To Buy Tandberg For $3B Cisco Systems Inc. to buy Norway's Tandberg ASA in a bid to dominate the global market for videoconferencing equipment
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| Oct.2 |
San Francisco |
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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. goes public |
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Oakley |
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Judge Blocks Development Of Homes
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| Oct.3 |
San Francisco |
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Taker found for Mission Bay office space |
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| Oct.7 |
Oakland City Hall |
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City To Pay $1.2 Million To Settle Lawsuit |
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| Oct.8 |
San Francisco |
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Habitat buying empty homes |
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| Oct.10 |
SF Downtown |
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Blue Angels Cancel Show Due To Fog |
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Berkeley |
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Independent Books Inc. opens |
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| Oct.12 |
Half Moon Bay |
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Iowa Pumpkin Sets Weigh-Off Record
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Google |
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Levinson exits Google's board |
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| Oct.13 |
Cisco |
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Cisco To Buy Starent Networks For $2.9B Betting on the growing popularity of data-hungry phones like the iPhone, Cisco Systems is to buy a maker of equipment for wireless carriers
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South of Market |
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Twitter moving to larger office space |
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| Oct.15 |
San Francisco |
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Ellison touts new products at OpenWorld |
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Google |
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Growth Accelerates As 3Q Profit Rises |
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| |
Bay Area |
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Bay Area home sales up modestly |
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| Oct.19 |
Apple |
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Investors Lap Up 47 Percent Profit Jump
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| Oct.20 |
Sun |
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Sun Micro Slashing Up To 3,000 Jobs| Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to eliminate up to 10% of its worldwide work force, as it awaits a takeover by Oracle, a deal being held up by Europe | |
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Yahoo |
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3Q profit soars |
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| Oct.21 |
Twitter |
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Twitter Is Friend Of Google, Microsoft |
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eBay |
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Earnings drop nearly 30 percent |
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San Francisco |
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Lowe's readies S.F. store |
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| Oct.22 |
Apple |
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Nokia suing Apple over the iPhone |
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SF Downtown |
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Hotel workers OK strike
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| Oct.26 |
SF Chronicle |
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Chronicle saw worst circulation decline |
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| |
Netflix |
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Netflix streaming coming to PlayStation 3 |
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| Oct.27 |
Google |
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Google expands voice mail offer |
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SF Downtown |
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Schwab office opens in style |
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| Oct.30 |
Chevron |
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3Q profit slumps 51% |
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| |
Bay Bridge |
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Bridge Fix To Continue Into Weekend
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San Francisco |
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Fed Regulators Close Pacific National Bank |
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| Oct.31 |
Facebook |
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Spammer ordered to pay Facebook $711M |
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BART |
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BART To Run 24-hours For Bridge Closure |
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| Nov.1 |
Bay Bridge |
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No Word Yet When Bay Bridge Will Open
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| Nov.2 |
Bay Bridge |
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Repairs Complete: Bay Bridge Reopens The first cars drove through the toll plaza Monday morning, nearly a week after a failed repair sent debris falling onto the upper deck
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Pittsburg |
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Sparks flew at new pipe factory A skeleton manufacturing crew christened an assembly line at United Spiral Pipe plant, designed to shape and weld massive steel pipes
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| Nov.6 |
SF Downtown |
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S.F. hotel workers open 3-day strike Map of Union Square San Francisco| About 300 workers began a strike against Grand Hyatt, as tensions escalated over contract negotiations with Unite Here Local 2 and the owners | |
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eBay |
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Skype founders settle |
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| Nov.7 |
South Jose |
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1000s Line Up For Free H1N1 Flu Shots
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| Nov.9 |
Google |
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Google to buy AdMob for $750 million |
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| Nov.10 |
San Francisco |
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SEC: firm pays for not supervising broker |
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| Nov.11 |
Highway 3Com |
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HP to buy 3Com for $2.7B; ups guidance| Hewlett-Packard is buying the networking company. HP raised its 2010 guidance and reported preliminary quarterly earnings that topped forecasts | |
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| Nov.12 |
Intel |
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Intel to pay AMD $1.25 billion The companies finally found common ground in a bitter and colorful dispute that caused international antitrust trouble for Intel
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Google |
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Google buys Gizmo5 |
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| Nov.13 |
San Francisco |
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Troubled Bay Area banks begin to topple| The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has seized two SF banks in recent weeks and federal regulators have 4 other Bay Area banks under scrutiny | |
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| Nov.14 |
San Rafael |
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Grand opening at remodeled Northgate
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| Nov.16 |
Intel |
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Intel raising dividend 12.5% |
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| Nov.17 |
San Francisco |
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Venture firm Maveron opens SF office |
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Port of Oakland |
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Rules To Keep Some Trucks From Port |
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| Nov.18 |
Wells Fargo |
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Wells to repay $1.4B to investors |
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| Nov.19 |
Google |
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Google previews Chrome operating system Internet search giant has lifted the lid on its operating system, known as Chrome OS. The open source system is initially aimed at low-cost ...
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| |
Bay Area |
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Home sales zip up nearly 7% in October |
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| Nov.20 |
Gap |
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Profit jumps 25% at Gap |
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| |
San Jose |
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County highest Bay Area unemployment |
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| Nov.23 |
HP |
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HP's profit up 14% |
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| |
SF Downtown |
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Workers Block Street To Protest Layoffs
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| Nov.24 |
Fremont |
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Federal aid for Nummi workers |
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| |
Google |
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Google sorry over Obama image
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SF City Hall |
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Supes To Postpone City Worker Layoffs |
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|
| Dec.1 |
Wells Fargo |
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Wells to close or rename Wachovia outlets |
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Oakland Downtown |
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Jack London Sq Barnes & Noble to close |
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| Dec.3 |
Bay Area |
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Survey shows confidence is up A quarterly index of Bay Area business confidence has registered first positive reading in two years. But itl may not halt layoffs
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| Dec.6 |
Palo Alto |
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Apple confirms purchase of music site Lala |
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| Dec.7 |
Bay Bridge |
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Bridge To Stay Open During Beam Repairs
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| |
Rossmoor |
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Rossmoor exec charged |
|
| Dec.8 |
Bay Area |
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20% of families in Bay Area struggling |
|
| Dec.9 |
Bay Area |
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Decline in home values levels off |
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| |
Bay Bridge |
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$2 Increase Likely For Commute Hours
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| Dec.10 |
eBay |
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Newmark: eBay broke promise |
|
| Dec.12 |
Cisco |
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Cisco To Buy Starent Mobile Internet Co. |
|
| Dec.13 |
Hayward |
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Teen Runs Up Cell Phone Bill Of $22,000 |
|
| Dec.14 |
Oracle |
|
E.U. warms to Oracle-Sun deal
|
| Dec.15 |
Wells Fargo |
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Wells Fargo to repay TARP money |
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| |
San Francisco |
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Ticket Prices Jump For High-Speed Rail |
|
| Dec.16 |
Intel |
|
FTC sues Intel
|
| |
San Francisco |
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SEC charges 4 men with insider trading |
|
| Dec.17 |
Milpitas |
|
Nanometrics prices stock offering at $11 |
|
| |
Bay Area |
|
Home Sales, Prices Show Rising Trend |
|
| Dec.18 |
Google |
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Google looses French lawsuit |
|
| |
Google |
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Google reportedly in talks to buy Yelp
|
| Dec.20 |
Vallejo |
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City examines path out of bankruptcy |
|
| Dec.22 |
Bay Bridge |
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Caltrans Completes Bridge Repair |
|
| Dec.23 |
Wells Fargo |
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Wells Fargo repay TARP
|
| Dec.24 |
Apple |
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Stock Soars On New Gadget Report |
|
| Dec.27 |
Pacifica |
|
Work Continues On Bluff Near Apartment Crews are expected to continue working through the week as they try to shore up a cliff and save the 12-unit apartment building
|
| Dec.28 |
Google |
|
Groups: Stop Google ad AdMob deal |
|
| Dec.29 |
Bay Area |
|
Home prices rise from previous month
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|
| 2009 |
|
| Jan.11 |
Wells Fargo |
Wells has more branches than any bank| Wells Fargo & Co., which began in 1852 as a 'Express and Banking House' serving gold miners, now controls more branches than any U.S. bank | |
|
| Jan.16 |
SF Downtown |
Protesters call banks to help consumers |
|
| Feb.2 |
Wells Fargo |
$371.5 million Dividend To U.S. Treasury |
|
| Feb.3 |
Wells Fargo |
Wells Fargo cancels Vegas junket |
|
| Feb.8 |
San Jose City Hall |
City Faces $60M Budget Shortfall
|
| Mar.5 |
Wells Fargo |
Wells shares fall on possible downgrade |
|
| Mar.14 |
Stanford |
Rubin, Rice talk of financial crisis |
|
| Apr.7 |
Bay Area |
Average wage in the Bay Area: $67,548 |
|
| Apr.27 |
Wells Fargo |
Industry analysts downgrade bank rating |
|
| Apr.30 |
Bay Area |
3 Area men charged with insider trading |
|
| May.4 |
Wells Fargo |
Wells asked to raise money |
|
| May.6 |
Wells Fargo |
Wells said to need $15 billion Wells Fargo, the 4th-largest U.S. bank by assets, requires about $15 billion in new capital as a result of regulators' stress test on the le...
|
| May.10 |
San Francisco |
BofA shedding First Republic Bank
|
| Jul.1 |
San Francisco |
Bank of the West heads east
|
| Sep.25 |
Twitter |
Twitter awaits $100 million capital infusion
|
| Oct.30 |
San Francisco |
Fed Regulators Close Pacific National Bank |
|
| Nov.10 |
San Francisco |
SEC: firm pays for not supervising broker |
|
| Nov.13 |
San Francisco |
Troubled Bay Area banks begin to topple| The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has seized two SF banks in recent weeks and federal regulators have 4 other Bay Area banks under scrutiny | |
|
| Nov.17 |
San Francisco |
Venture firm Maveron opens SF office |
|
| Nov.18 |
Wells Fargo |
Wells to repay $1.4B to investors |
|
| Dec.1 |
Wells Fargo |
Wells to close or rename Wachovia outlets |
|
| Dec.15 |
Wells Fargo |
Wells Fargo to repay TARP money |
|
| Dec.23 |
Wells Fargo |
Wells Fargo repay TARP
|
|
| 2009 |
|
| Mar.14 |
UCSF |
$125 million donation for new hospital |
|
| May.15 |
SF Downtown |
Farmers' market finds a home at Metreon |
|
| Sep.3 |
West Oakland |
Oakland brewery drought over |
|
| Sep.19 |
San Francisco |
Coca-Cola slams proposed S.F. soda tax
|
| Nov.24 |
Fremont |
Federal aid for Nummi workers |
|
|
| 2009 |
|
| Jan.17 |
Microsoft |
Microsoft's Ballmer met Yahoo chairman
|
| Jan.30 |
Genentech |
Roche revives takeover bid of Genentech |
|
| Feb.9 |
Genentech |
Roche launches $86.50-a-share bid |
|
| Mar.3 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo: Quiet On MS Talks |
|
| Mar.6 |
Genentech |
Roche raises bid for Genentech |
|
| Mar.9 |
Genentech |
Roche-Genentech deal called close |
|
| Mar.12 |
Genentech |
Roche to take over Genentech for $47B Swiss giant agreed to buy the 44% of biotech pioneer that it doesn't already own, ending a long corporate struggle
| The $95-per-share deal brings Roche all of the sales of cancer drugs as well as its promising research pipeline. The deal offers $95 per share for the 44 percent of Genentech that Roche Holding AG doesn't already own
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|
| Mar.12 |
Foster City |
Gilead To Buy CV Therapeutics For $1.4 B |
|
| Mar.18 |
Sun |
IBM May Buy Sun Micro Sun Microsystems shares soared after a published report said IBM is in preliminary talks to buy Sun for at least $6.5 billion in cash
|
| Mar.19 |
Cisco |
Cisco to buy maker of Flip Video for $590M |
|
| Apr.4 |
Google |
Google-Twitter Deal Rumored
|
| Apr.5 |
Sun |
Sun deal cloudy after IBM pulls offer
|
| Apr.20 |
Oracle |
Oracle To Buy Sun For $7.4B| Oracle Corp. is pouncing on an opportunity that opened up after rival IBM abandoned an earlier bid to buy computer server and software maker | |
|
| Jun.3 |
Santa Clara |
NetApp claims bid victory for Data Domain |
|
| Jun.4 |
Intel |
Intel To Buy Wind River
|
| Jun.18 |
Google |
Google invests $2.6M in startup |
|
| Jul.14 |
Netflix |
Rumors: Amazon Buying Out Netflix
|
| Jul.20 |
Marin County |
Boutique Marin buys Pac Union |
|
| Aug.10 |
Facebook |
Facebook gobbles up FriendFeed |
|
| Aug.18 |
HP |
Fiorina Takes Step Toward US Senate Bid |
|
| Sep.1 |
San Francisco |
Examiner.com buys NowPublic |
|
| Sep.3 |
Oracle |
EU Applies Brakes To Oracle-Sun Deal
|
| Sep.9 |
San Francisco |
Bechtel in BrightSource deal |
|
| Sep.16 |
eBay |
Skype Founders File Lawsuit Against eBay
|
| Oct.1 |
Cisco |
Cisco Agrees To Buy Tandberg For $3B Cisco Systems Inc. to buy Norway's Tandberg ASA in a bid to dominate the global market for videoconferencing equipment
|
| Oct.13 |
Cisco |
Cisco To Buy Starent Networks For $2.9B Betting on the growing popularity of data-hungry phones like the iPhone, Cisco Systems is to buy a maker of equipment for wireless carriers
|
| Nov.9 |
Google |
Google to buy AdMob for $750 million |
|
| Nov.11 |
Highway 3Com |
HP to buy 3Com for $2.7B; ups guidance| Hewlett-Packard is buying the networking company. HP raised its 2010 guidance and reported preliminary quarterly earnings that topped forecasts | |
|
| Nov.12 |
Google |
Google buys Gizmo5 |
|
| Dec.12 |
Cisco |
Cisco To Buy Starent Mobile Internet Co. |
|
| Dec.14 |
Oracle |
E.U. warms to Oracle-Sun deal
|
| Dec.18 |
Google |
Google reportedly in talks to buy Yelp
|
| Dec.28 |
Google |
Groups: Stop Google ad AdMob deal |
|
|
| 2009 |
|
| Jan.1 |
San Francisco |
S.F. minimum wage rises to $9.79 |
|
| Apr.8 |
Genentech |
Drug Raptiva pulled from market |
|
| Apr.14 |
Oakland |
East Bay M. Utilty District to raise rates |
|
| Jul.6 |
San Francisco |
Pfizer drops planned research center |
|
| Jul.6 |
San Francisco |
Pfizer drops planned research center |
|
| Aug.2 |
Genentech |
FDA clears drug for kidney cancer |
|
| Dec.7 |
Rossmoor |
Rossmoor exec charged |
|
| Dec.13 |
Hayward |
Teen Runs Up Cell Phone Bill Of $22,000 |
|
| Dec.16 |
San Francisco |
SEC charges 4 men with insider trading |
|
|
| 2009 |
|
| Feb.8 |
San Jose City Hall |
City Faces $60M Budget Shortfall
|
| Mar.16 |
Highway 101 |
Commute on Highway 101 improving |
|
| Jun.1 |
SF City Hall |
Newsom Proposes Deep Cuts, Layoffs |
|
| Jul.14 |
San Francisco |
Gas average below $3 |
|
| Aug.14 |
Martinez |
CC County Planning More Layoffs |
|
| Aug.24 |
San Jose City Hall |
City To Ban On Plastic, Most Paper Bags |
|
| Sep.3 |
Bay Bridge |
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Closed As planned, the bridge was shut down to traffic at 8 p.m. so crews can do seismic retrofit work on the span
| A 300-foot-long section of the east span will be cut out and moved out of the way. Then a new double-deck section will be moved into place to connect the bridge with a short detour
|
| |
|
| Sep.4 |
San Francisco |
CHP: Traffic light during morning commute |
|
| Oct.30 |
Bay Bridge |
Bridge Fix To Continue Into Weekend
|
| Nov.24 |
SF City Hall |
Supes To Postpone City Worker Layoffs |
|
| Dec.9 |
Bay Bridge |
$2 Increase Likely For Commute Hours
|
| Dec.20 |
Vallejo |
City examines path out of bankruptcy |
|
|
| 2009 |
|
| Jan.5 |
Google |
China blasts Google in porn crackdown |
|
| Feb.14 |
Oakland |
Kaiser Foundation loses $794 million |
|
| Mar.2 |
HP |
Former HP CEO Fiorina Has Breast Cancer
|
| Mar.14 |
UCSF |
$125 million donation for new hospital |
|
| May.1 |
SF Downtown |
Flu outbreak diverts Mexico's cruises to SF |
|
| May.13 |
Intel |
EU slaps a record $1.45bn fine on Intel| Computer chipmaker Intel has been fined a 1.06bn euros by the European Commission for anti-competitive practices. The Commission found that between 2002 and 2007, Intel had paid m... | |
|
| May.21 |
UCSF |
2 Bay Area hospitals fined by state |
|
| Jun.20 |
Steve Jobs |
CEO Steve Jobs Had Liver Transplant| Apple CEO, who has been on medical leave for undisclosed reasons since January, received a liver transplant two months ago | |
|
| Jun.23 |
Google |
Google Trial In Italy
|
| Jun.23 |
Steve Jobs |
Hospital Confirms Jobs Liver Transplant |
|
| Sep.3 |
Oracle |
EU Applies Brakes To Oracle-Sun Deal
|
| Sep.12 |
Chevron |
Chevron signs big Australian gas deal
|
| Sep.16 |
Berkeley |
Officials act fast to keep Bayer jobs |
|
| Sep.23 |
Chevron |
Chevron sues Ecuador Chevron Corp. sought to force the government of Ecuador into international arbitration for alleged trade violations
|
| Nov.7 |
South Jose |
1000s Line Up For Free H1N1 Flu Shots
|
| Dec.18 |
Google |
Google looses French lawsuit |
|
|
| 2009 |
|
| Jan.7 |
Intel |
4th-quarter revenue misses outlook
|
| Jan.7 |
Intel |
Intel Will Miss Its Lowered 4Q Targets |
|
| Jan.15 |
Intel |
4Q profit plunges 90%, meets forecasts |
|
| Jan.16 |
Schwab |
Charles Schwab Sees Steady 4Q Profit |
|
| Jan.28 |
Wells Fargo |
Wells lost $2.83 billion in 4th quarter |
|
| Jan.31 |
Chevron |
Annual profit soars to record
|
| Apr.9 |
Wells Fargo |
Record 1Q Profit For Wells Wells Fargo expects record first-quarter earnings of $3 billion, easily surpassing analysts' estimates
|
| Apr.16 |
Google |
Google growth slows dramatically in 1Q |
|
| Apr.17 |
Google |
Search for savings boosts 1Q profit 9 pct
|
| Apr.22 |
Apple |
Apple easily tops expectations |
|
| May.2 |
Chevron |
Chevron profit falls along with oil prices |
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| May.12 |
Intel |
CEO: So Far, So Good In 2nd Quarter |
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| Jul.13 |
Facebook |
DST stock offer values Facebook at $6.5B |
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| Jul.14 |
Intel |
Shares soar as chip maker tops forecast
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| Jul.16 |
Google |
Google posted better-than-expected
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| Jul.21 |
Yahoo |
2nd Quarter Results Top Expectations
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| Jul.21 |
Apple |
Apple rings up stellar results |
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| Jul.22 |
Wells Fargo |
Wells Posts 2Q Profit, Surpasses Forecast |
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| Jul.22 |
eBay |
eBay 2Q profit falls |
|
| Jul.31 |
Chevron |
Chevron profits tumble 71% |
|
| Aug.18 |
HP |
Profit Hurt By Weak PC, Ink Sales |
|
| Aug.28 |
Intel |
Intel jumps on sales forecast |
|
| Oct.15 |
Google |
Growth Accelerates As 3Q Profit Rises |
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| Oct.19 |
Apple |
Investors Lap Up 47 Percent Profit Jump
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| Oct.20 |
Yahoo |
3Q profit soars |
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| Oct.21 |
eBay |
Earnings drop nearly 30 percent |
|
| Oct.30 |
Chevron |
3Q profit slumps 51% |
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| Nov.20 |
Gap |
Profit jumps 25% at Gap |
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| Nov.23 |
HP |
HP's profit up 14% |
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|
| 2009 |
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| Jan.8 |
San Jose |
Ex-Fry's VP Charged |
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| Jan.27 |
Oakland |
SEIU takes over Oakland health care union |
|
| Apr.19 |
SF Chronicle |
Teamsters OK Chronicle Pact |
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| Apr.30 |
Bay Area |
3 Area men charged with insider trading |
|
| Jul.9 |
BART |
Unions Say They Will Not Strike Friday |
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| Jul.31 |
BART |
BART, Unions Announce Deal, Avoid Strike BART and its 3 largest labor unions reached a tentative agreement on a new 4-year contract after a marathon 27-hour session
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| Aug.3 |
Alameda County |
Public Defender Warns Over Job Cuts |
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| Aug.10 |
BART |
Largest Union Ratifies New Contract |
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| Aug.11 |
BART |
Unions Split Over Contract Approval| The union representing train operators and station agents, Amalgamated Transit Union, rejected a proposal, raising the possibility of a strike. Members of the Service Employees International Union, Local 1021,... | |
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| Aug.13 |
BART |
Strike set for Sunday night| The board of directors voted unanimously to unilaterally implement terms and conditions of employment for members of one of its largest unions | |
|
| Aug.15 |
BART |
Rail Union, Management Resume Talks |
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| Aug.16 |
Oakland |
BART, Union Negotiations Down To Wire
|
| Aug.16 |
BART |
No Strike; New Deal Reached| Officials said that a tentative agreement was reached in the labor dispute that threatened to cripple public transit during Monday's commute | |
|
| Aug.18 |
San Francisco |
Court Orders New Trial In Brocade Case |
|
| Aug.25 |
BART |
Final BART Union Approves Contract
|
| Aug.26 |
UC Berkeley |
UC To Lay Off Employees, Cut Courses |
|
| Sep.1 |
Pleasant Hill |
CEO Of Design Firm Facing Charges |
|
| Oct.22 |
SF Downtown |
Hotel workers OK strike
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| Nov.6 |
SF Downtown |
S.F. hotel workers open 3-day strike Map of Union Square San Francisco| About 300 workers began a strike against Grand Hyatt, as tensions escalated over contract negotiations with Unite Here Local 2 and the owners | |
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|
| 2009 |
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| Feb.24 |
SF Chronicle |
Hearst wants 'significant' cuts at Chronicle| The Hearst Corp. to reverse the deepening operating losses is seeking near-term cost savings that would include 'significant' cuts to the staf | |
|
| Apr.18 |
San Francisco |
Rolling Stone closes last S.F. office
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| Oct.26 |
SF Chronicle |
Chronicle saw worst circulation decline |
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|
| 2009 |
|
| Jan.16 |
AMD |
AMD to cut 1,100 workers, 9 pct of staff |
|
| Jan.22 |
Intel |
Intel to lay off up to 6,000| Intel is consolidating its manufacturing operations as a part of a restructuring bid that will affect jobs from the U.S to the Philippines | |
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| Feb.2 |
San Francisco |
Macy's cuts 7,000 jobs, 1,400 in SF |
|
| Mar.5 |
Bay Area |
Bay Area unemployment jumps higher| 9.4 percent in the San Jose area, 9.2 percent in the East Bay and 7.5 percent in San Francisco metropolitan area. Statewide is 10.1 percent | |
|
| Mar.11 |
Santa Clara |
National Semi to cut quarter of workforce
|
| Mar.13 |
Bay Area |
Teachers Rally Against Pending Layoffs |
|
| Mar.14 |
SF Chronicle |
Union OKs Big Job Cuts To Save Paper
|
| Mar.17 |
Oakland |
Kaiser to cut 860 IT jobs |
|
| Mar.27 |
Santa Clara |
Agilent to restructure, lay off 2,700 |
|
| Apr.13 |
San Jose |
Silicon Valley CEOs See Bleak Job Market |
|
| Apr.17 |
Bay Area |
Unemployment rates continued to rise
|
| Apr.21 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo to lay off 675 after profit slides 78%
|
| Apr.22 |
West Contra Costa |
2 school districts reviewing cuts |
|
| May.15 |
SF City Hall |
City Planning 1,000 More Layoffs Service Employees International Union, San Francisco's largest union, rejected contract concessions needed to close the deficit
|
| May.19 |
HP |
Another 6,400 To Be Cut| Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to cut 2 percent of the company's total work force. The cuts are part of its huge acquisition of technology services | |
|
| Jun.1 |
SF City Hall |
Newsom Proposes Deep Cuts, Layoffs |
|
| Jun.20 |
SF Zoo |
Zoo Considering Layoffs, Other Cuts Costly safety upgrades following a fatal tiger attack, fewer donations and falling attendance is forcing the Zoo to consider layoffs and reducing...
|
| Jul.9 |
Genentech |
Axe falls at Genentech |
|
| Aug.3 |
Alameda County |
Public Defender Warns Over Job Cuts |
|
| Aug.12 |
Oakland |
Kaiser Permanente Cutting 1,850 Jobs| The cuts, due to the bad economy, total about 2 percent of the company's workforce, are across the board | |
|
| Aug.14 |
Martinez |
CC County Planning More Layoffs |
|
| Aug.27 |
Fremont |
Toyota to halt work at Nummi Toyota's decided to stop making cars in Fremont in March will idle 4,700 workers at the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. factory
| The decision send a shudder of job losses through more than a thousand California companies that supply parts to the only automotive plant on the West Coast
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| Sep.2 |
Stanford |
Hundreds Laid Off As Endowment Shrinks |
|
| Sep.20 |
Bay Area |
Food Banks Besieged Amid Joblessness |
|
| Oct.20 |
Sun |
Sun Micro Slashing Up To 3,000 Jobs| Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to eliminate up to 10% of its worldwide work force, as it awaits a takeover by Oracle, a deal being held up by Europe | |
|
| Nov.20 |
San Jose |
County highest Bay Area unemployment |
|
| Nov.23 |
SF Downtown |
Workers Block Street To Protest Layoffs
|
| Nov.24 |
Fremont |
Federal aid for Nummi workers |
|
| Nov.24 |
SF City Hall |
Supes To Postpone City Worker Layoffs |
|
|
| 2009 |
|
| Jan.27 |
Berkeley |
Chocolate Plants Closing |
|
| Dec.20 |
Vallejo |
City examines path out of bankruptcy |
|
|
| 2009 |
|
| Jan.8 |
Palm |
Palm unveils new smart phone
|
| Feb.4 |
Facebook |
Facebook turns 5 |
|
| Apr.14 |
Intel |
Intel Says PC Sales Beginning To Improve |
|
| Apr.21 |
San Francisco |
Call to rally against cyber crime |
|
| Apr.26 |
San Francisco |
Craigslist safety questioned after slayings
|
| Jun.8 |
San Francisco |
Apple's New, Faster iPhone iPhone 3G S is a souped-up device that offers much faster processing speeds, a video recorder, compass and voice commands
| Apple moved to distance itself from rival smart phone makers. 3G S will go on sale June 19 for $199 for a 16-GB version and $299 for 32 GBs of storage
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| Jun.19 |
Apple |
New iPhone goes on sale with less drama
|
| Jun.22 |
Apple |
Apple Sells More Than 1 Mil. New iPhones| Apple Inc. sold more than a million units of iPhone 3G S in the first three days, the most successful debut for a smart phone yet | |
|
| Jul.24 |
Palm |
Palm Reconnects With Estranged Itunes |
|
| Jul.27 |
Apple |
Apple, Labels Work On Album 'Cocktail' |
|
| Aug.1 |
San Francisco |
Online magazines give S.F.'s Zinio a boost |
|
| Aug.6 |
Twitter |
Twitter site reopens after attack Micro-blogging service was taken offline for more than two hours in what the company believes was a co-ordinated attack
|
| Aug.21 |
Apple |
Apple Denies 'Rejecting' Google Voice
|
| Oct.10 |
SF Downtown |
Blue Angels Cancel Show Due To Fog |
|
| Oct.26 |
Netflix |
Netflix streaming coming to PlayStation 3 |
|
| Oct.27 |
Google |
Google expands voice mail offer |
|
| Nov.12 |
Intel |
Intel to pay AMD $1.25 billion The companies finally found common ground in a bitter and colorful dispute that caused international antitrust trouble for Intel
|
| Nov.19 |
Google |
Google previews Chrome operating system Internet search giant has lifted the lid on its operating system, known as Chrome OS. The open source system is initially aimed at low-cost ...
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|
| 2009 |
|
| Jan.22 |
Google |
Google reports sharp decline in profits |
|
| Feb.12 |
Bay Area |
Business Leaders Pessimistic
|
| Mar.19 |
South San Jose |
Masked Thieves Steal 100 Guns |
|
| Mar.27 |
San Jose |
Tesla Opts Out Of San Jose Tesla Motors introduced its long-awaited Model S electric sedan and revealed that the luxury car probably will be built in Southern Californ...
|
| Jun.29 |
Fremont |
GM ending Nummi joint venture
|
| Jul.10 |
Fremont |
Toyota considering dissolving Nummi |
|
| Jul.23 |
Fremont |
Toyota Pulling Out Of NUMMI Plant| Toyota Motor has decided to liquidate its stake in a manufacturing plant that it jointly operated with General Motors | |
|
| Aug.19 |
Fremont |
Nummi suppliers struggle |
|
| Dec.8 |
Bay Area |
20% of families in Bay Area struggling |
|
|
| 2009 |
|
| Jan.31 |
San Francisco |
OpenTable files for $40 million IPO |
|
| Apr.11 |
San Francisco |
Gore's Current Media scraps plan for IPO |
|
| Apr.14 |
eBay |
IPO Planned For Skype |
|
| May.20 |
San Francisco |
OpenTable sets IPO |
|
| May.21 |
San Francisco |
OpenTable shares soar nearly 60% in IPO Online restaurant reservation service's shares soared by $11.89 to close at $31.89 in their first day of trading on the Nasdaq
|
| Oct.2 |
San Francisco |
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. goes public |
|
| Oct.10 |
SF Downtown |
Blue Angels Cancel Show Due To Fog |
|
| Dec.17 |
Milpitas |
Nanometrics prices stock offering at $11 |
|
|
| 2009 |
|
| Jan.7 |
San Francisco |
Yelp Posting Lands In Court |
|
| Jan.12 |
Foster City |
Another Yelp lawsuit afer negative review Pediatric dentist Yvonne Wong has sued the review site and two individuals, accusing them of libel over a negative review of her practice
|
| Jan.15 |
San Jose City Hall |
Two sue San Jose over drunk arrests |
|
| Mar.5 |
San Francisco |
Craigslist sued over erotic-services ads |
|
| Apr.23 |
Wells Fargo |
State sues Wells for $1.5 billion
|
| May.13 |
Intel |
EU slaps a record $1.45bn fine on Intel| Computer chipmaker Intel has been fined a 1.06bn euros by the European Commission for anti-competitive practices. The Commission found that between 2002 and 2007, Intel had paid m... | |
|
| May.14 |
Los Altos |
FTC has dropped Rambus antitrust claims |
|
| Jun.10 |
Santa Clara |
Symantec, McAfee Settle With NY AG |
|
| Jun.10 |
Hayward |
City settles police sex bias lawsuit For $5M |
|
| Jun.23 |
Google |
Google Trial In Italy
|
| Jul.8 |
Richmond |
Chevron to appeal ruling on refinery
|
| Jul.14 |
Contra Costa County |
Firm To Pay $2.5M For False Air Reports Shore Terminals LLC that operates a tank farm pleaded guilty to submitting false annual reports to the Bay Area Air Quality Management Distr...
|
| Aug.31 |
Chevron |
Chevron: Taped show judicial misconduct |
|
| Sep.23 |
Chevron |
Chevron sues Ecuador Chevron Corp. sought to force the government of Ecuador into international arbitration for alleged trade violations
|
| Sep.24 |
Google |
Hearing Postponed For Books Deal |
|
| Oct.7 |
Oakland City Hall |
City To Pay $1.2 Million To Settle Lawsuit |
|
| Oct.22 |
Apple |
Nokia suing Apple over the iPhone |
|
| Oct.31 |
Facebook |
Spammer ordered to pay Facebook $711M |
|
| Dec.16 |
Intel |
FTC sues Intel
|
|
| 2009 |
|
| Feb.20 |
Moffett Field |
Fresh cash windfall for zeppelin |
|
| Mar.10 |
Burlingame |
Virgin America CEO remains optimistic |
|
| Sep.17 |
SFO |
New kiosks first to sell carbon offsets |
|
|
| 2009 |
|
| Jan.7 |
SF Downtown |
Stacey's Bookstore closing down |
|
| Feb.3 |
Berkeley |
Elephant Pharm abruptly closes its stores |
|
| Mar.19 |
South San Jose |
Masked Thieves Steal 100 Guns |
|
| Apr.2 |
San Francisco |
Lowe's plans to come to Bayshore Blvd |
|
| May.4 |
Mill Valley |
Lottery ticket for $75 million sold
|
| May.19 |
SF City Hall |
New fee tacked onto price of cigarette |
|
| May.26 |
Berkeley |
Neighborhood girds for Berkeley Bowl |
|
| Jul.9 |
Novato |
Smith & Hawken to close |
|
| Aug.9 |
Millbrae |
Applicants flood Kohl's job fair |
|
| Aug.24 |
San Jose City Hall |
City To Ban On Plastic, Most Paper Bags |
|
| Oct.10 |
Berkeley |
Independent Books Inc. opens |
|
| Oct.21 |
San Francisco |
Lowe's readies S.F. store |
|
| Nov.14 |
San Rafael |
Grand opening at remodeled Northgate
|
| Dec.1 |
Oakland Downtown |
Jack London Sq Barnes & Noble to close |
|
|
| 2009 |
|
| Jan.8 |
Oakland Downtown |
APL moves offices to Arizona |
|
| Feb.25 |
SF City Hall |
S.F. pushes PG&E on bay sediment probe |
|
| Mar.4 |
Port of Oakland |
Port signs major new tenant |
|
| May.1 |
SF Downtown |
Flu outbreak diverts Mexico's cruises to SF |
|
| Jul.2 |
Richmond |
Chevron expansion on hold |
|
| Aug.6 |
San Francisco |
Pier 38 plans on hold
|
| Aug.13 |
San Francisco |
Filthy power plant to close |
|
| Sep.15 |
SF Downtown |
Crystal Cruises back to S.F. port in 2011 |
|
| Nov.17 |
Port of Oakland |
Rules To Keep Some Trucks From Port |
|
|
| 2009 |
|
| Jan.15 |
San Jose City Hall |
Two sue San Jose over drunk arrests |
|
| Feb.17 |
San Francisco |
S.F. Tourism's Dim Outlook
|
| May.27 |
Chevron |
Pointed exchanges at Chevron meeting
|
| Aug.26 |
UC Berkeley |
UC To Lay Off Employees, Cut Courses |
|
| Sep.2 |
Stanford |
Hundreds Laid Off As Endowment Shrinks |
|
|
| 2009 |
|
| Mar.1 |
San Francisco |
Plush new commuter service |
|
| Apr.8 |
SF City Hall |
Muni considering budget cuts |
|
| Apr.10 |
BART |
Fare Hike, Service Cuts Considering
|
| May.27 |
SF City Hall |
Muni Fare Hikes, Service Cuts In July |
|
| May.31 |
Shoreline Amphitheatre |
6 Stabbed During Kiss Concert Map of 1400 North Shoreline Boulevard Mountain View| The violence began after the 5 p.m. start of KISS FM's Old School Fiesta featuring the bands War, Lakeside, El Chicano and others. Around 9:30 p.m., Shoreline security called police for aid beca... | |
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| Jul.3 |
South San Mateo County |
Bullet Trains Hit Criticism On Peninsula |
|
| Oct.31 |
BART |
BART To Run 24-hours For Bridge Closure |
|
| Dec.15 |
San Francisco |
Ticket Prices Jump For High-Speed Rail |
|
|
| 2009 |
|
| Jan.5 |
Google |
China blasts Google in porn crackdown |
|
| Feb.4 |
Facebook |
Facebook turns 5 |
|
| Feb.5 |
Google |
Privacy fears over Google tracker
|
| Feb.15 |
Palo Alto |
Online shopping with a purpose |
|
| Mar.27 |
Twitter |
Twitter Seeks Tweet Of Profit |
|
| Apr.9 |
San Francisco |
Yelp to let businesses comment on reviews |
|
| Apr.15 |
Intel |
Shares fall despite bullish PC prediction |
|
| Apr.21 |
San Francisco |
Call to rally against cyber crime |
|
| Apr.26 |
San Francisco |
Craigslist safety questioned after slayings
|
| May.12 |
Google |
Google provides advanced search tools |
|
| May.13 |
San Francisco |
Craigslist to drop erotic services classifieds |
|
| May.28 |
Google |
Google Wave to change communication |
|
| Jun.9 |
San Francisco |
Craigslist revenue to climb 23 pct to $100M
|
| Jun.11 |
SF Downtown |
Auction of domain names never happens |
|
| Jul.7 |
Google |
New Oper. System To Take On Microsoft Google is developing a new operating system for laptop computers in its boldest challenge yet to Microsoft's control over computing experien...
|
| Jul.20 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo Makeovers Up Home Page |
|
| Jul.29 |
Yahoo |
Microsoft and Yahoo seal web deal Yahoo and Microsoft have announced a long-rumoured internet search deal that will help the companies take on chief rival Google
| Bing search engine will power the Yahoo site and Yahoo will become the advertising sales team for Microsoft's online offering. Yahoo will get to keep 88% of the revenue from search ad sales on its site for the first 5 years of the 10-year deal, and have the right to sell ads on some Microsoft sites
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| Jul.30 |
Apple |
Experts find iPhone security flaw |
|
| Aug.3 |
eBay |
PayPal Outage Frustrates Merchants |
|
| Aug.4 |
Yahoo |
MSFT to hire 400 from Yahoo
|
| Aug.6 |
Twitter |
Twitter site reopens after attack Micro-blogging service was taken offline for more than two hours in what the company believes was a co-ordinated attack
|
| Aug.10 |
eBay |
eBay, GM team up |
|
| Aug.21 |
Yahoo |
Tech giants unite against Google |
|
| Sep.1 |
eBay |
eBay Sells Interest In Skype For $2B |
|
| Sep.10 |
Apple |
Boost for iPhone and iPod app developers |
|
| Sep.16 |
Google |
Digital Books To Reincarnate As Paperback Google is opening up part of its index to the maker of publishing machine that can made a paperback book of 300 pages in under 5 minutes
|
| Sep.18 |
Google |
DOJ Balks At Google Book Deal |
|
| Sep.22 |
Yahoo |
New web portal goes live
|
| Oct.15 |
San Francisco |
Ellison touts new products at OpenWorld |
|
| Oct.21 |
Twitter |
Twitter Is Friend Of Google, Microsoft |
|
| Nov.6 |
eBay |
Skype founders settle |
|
| Nov.24 |
Google |
Google sorry over Obama image
|
| Dec.10 |
eBay |
Newmark: eBay broke promise |
|
| Dec.18 |
Google |
Google looses French lawsuit |
|
|
| 2009 |
|
| May.29 |
Levi's Stadium |
49ers sweeten deal to build stadium |
|
| Jul.22 |
Port of Oakland |
Big port project takes a step forward |
|
| Sep.5 |
Eastern Span |
Crack Found May Delay Bridge Opening
|
| Sep.8 |
Bay Bridge |
Bridge Reopens After Crack Fixed The Bridge reopened just in time for the start of the work week. Crews were able to make a crucial repair a day ahead of schedule
|
| Sep.19 |
Eastern Span |
Crews To Close Lanes, Inspect Repairs |
|
| Oct.7 |
Oakland City Hall |
City To Pay $1.2 Million To Settle Lawsuit |
|
| Oct.30 |
Bay Bridge |
Bridge Fix To Continue Into Weekend
|
| Nov.1 |
Bay Bridge |
No Word Yet When Bay Bridge Will Open
|
| Nov.2 |
Bay Bridge |
Repairs Complete: Bay Bridge Reopens The first cars drove through the toll plaza Monday morning, nearly a week after a failed repair sent debris falling onto the upper deck
|
| Dec.7 |
Bay Bridge |
Bridge To Stay Open During Beam Repairs
|
| Dec.22 |
Bay Bridge |
Caltrans Completes Bridge Repair |
|
| Dec.27 |
Pacifica |
Work Continues On Bluff Near Apartment Crews are expected to continue working through the week as they try to shore up a cliff and save the 12-unit apartment building
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|
| 2009 |
|
| Jan.5 |
Apple |
Jobs has hormone imbalance, remain CEO A survivor of pancreatic cancer said that a hormone imbalance is to blame for the weight loss that has prompted worries about his health
|
| Jan.8 |
San Jose |
Ex-Fry's VP Charged |
|
| Jan.13 |
Yahoo |
Carol Bartz to head Yahoo Yahoo Inc. has named former Autodesk CEO as its new chief executive, ending a 2-month high-profile search for the struggling Internet giant
| She will replace Yahoo's co-founder Jerry Yang. Bartz, 60, currently chairwoman for Autodesk, led the San Rafael company that makes design and imaging software, for 14 years
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| Jan.14 |
Apple |
Apple CEO Jobs taking medical leave Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs is taking a leave until June, even though a week ago the cancer survivor tried to assure investors
| In an e-mail to employees, Jobs backtracked: 'During the past week I have learned that my health-related issues are more complex than I originally thought'. Apple's stock dropped 7%
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| Jan.23 |
Intel |
Chairman Craig Barrett to retire |
|
| Jan.29 |
Portola Valley |
Ridge Vineyards president found dead |
|
| Feb.26 |
Yahoo |
CFO leaving in shakeup
|
| Mar.2 |
HP |
Former HP CEO Fiorina Has Breast Cancer
|
| Mar.13 |
Bay Area |
Teachers Rally Against Pending Layoffs |
|
| Mar.14 |
Stanford |
Rubin, Rice talk of financial crisis |
|
| Apr.10 |
Yahoo |
Microsoft, Yahoo Chiefs Meet on linkups |
|
| Apr.22 |
West Contra Costa |
2 school districts reviewing cuts |
|
| May.12 |
Oakland |
Ask.com CEO leaving, Garell to take over| The chief executive Safka is leaving for personal reasons a little more than a year after he took the post | |
|
| May.29 |
Levi's Stadium |
49ers sweeten deal to build stadium |
|
| Jun.10 |
Palm |
Palm Appoints Former Apple Whiz As CEO Jon Rubinstein, a former executive behind iPod, has been named chief executive officer and chairman of smartphone maker Palm Inc
|
| Jun.11 |
Yahoo |
New CFO Likely To Shake Things Up |
|
| Jun.20 |
Steve Jobs |
CEO Steve Jobs Had Liver Transplant| Apple CEO, who has been on medical leave for undisclosed reasons since January, received a liver transplant two months ago | |
|
| Jun.23 |
Steve Jobs |
Hospital Confirms Jobs Liver Transplant |
|
| Jun.24 |
LinkedIn |
LinkedIn hires new CEO After six months of grooming, the founder Reid Hoffman has decided former Yahoo executive Jeff Weiner is ready to take over his job
|
| Jun.26 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo CEO aims at revitalizing |
|
| Jun.29 |
Apple |
CEO Jobs Back At Work Few Days A Week Apple says co-founder and CEO is back at work after a five-and-a-half-month medical leave, during which he received a liver transplant
|
| Jul.5 |
Palo Alto |
Rod Beckstrom to head domain agency |
|
| Jul.5 |
San Francisco |
Andreessen becomes venture capitalist |
|
| Aug.3 |
Apple |
Google chief Schmidt quits Apple board
|
| Aug.18 |
HP |
Fiorina Takes Step Toward US Senate Bid |
|
| Sep.1 |
Pleasant Hill |
CEO Of Design Firm Facing Charges |
|
| Sep.9 |
SF Downtown |
Steve Jobs lights up Apple show| Apple boss stole the show at an event to launch new products as he took to the stage for the first time in nearly a year following medical leave | |
|
| Sep.22 |
Wells Fargo |
Chairman Kovacevich to step down
|
| Sep.24 |
Cisco |
CEO Chambers got $14.2M '09 package |
|
| Sep.30 |
Chevron |
Chevron Names New CEO; O'Reilly Retires Chevron Corp. board has promoted vice chairman John S. Watson, 52, to chairman and chief executive
| David J. O'Reilly is retiring from the company after 41 years, including 10 years as chairman and CEO
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|
| Oct.12 |
Google |
Levinson exits Google's board |
|
| Dec.7 |
Rossmoor |
Rossmoor exec charged |
|
|
| 2009 |
|
| Jun.2 |
Cisco |
Cisco Increases Technology Clout In Dow Dow Jones & Co. would add Cisco Systems Inc. to the 30-stock industrial average, replacing General Motors. Shares of Cisco rose 96 cents
|
| Aug.18 |
San Francisco |
Court Orders New Trial In Brocade Case |
|
| Nov.16 |
Intel |
Intel raising dividend 12.5% |
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| Dec.16 |
San Francisco |
SEC charges 4 men with insider trading |
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| Dec.24 |
Apple |
Stock Soars On New Gadget Report |
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| 2009 |
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| Jan.6 |
San Jose |
County biggest jump in pre-foreclosure |
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| Jan.16 |
SF Downtown |
Protesters call banks to help consumers |
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| Jan.21 |
Bay Area |
Rental market gives tenants an edge |
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| Jan.21 |
Bay Area |
Home sales soar, prices down |
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| Jan.22 |
Bay Area |
Home Prices Down 50% From Peak The median home price fell nearly 44% in December from a year earlier as more bargain hunters scooped up foreclosure properties
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| Jan.22 |
SF Downtown |
Condo developers hunting for buyers |
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| Jan.27 |
Bay Area |
Record foreclosures in Bay Area The lenders took back 35,709 homes, or 2 percent of all homes and condos. 61,347 households were notified that they were in default
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| Jan.27 |
Bay Area |
Home price index off 30.8% in November |
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| Feb.3 |
Bay Area |
Bay homes lost $202 billion in value |
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| Feb.19 |
Bay Area |
Foreclosures Lead Slide In Home Prices |
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| Feb.20 |
Bay Area |
Foreclosures ignite hot homes sales |
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| Feb.23 |
Bay Area |
Few in Bay Area qualify in housing plan |
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| Feb.24 |
Bay Area |
Record drop in home prices The SF metropolitan region plummeted 31.2%, back into record territory after a slight moderation in November
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| Mar.19 |
Bay Area |
Home median falls below $300,000
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| Mar.25 |
Bay Area |
Home building permits rise
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| Mar.31 |
San Quentin |
Lawmaker Proposes Selling State Prison
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| Apr.1 |
Bay Area |
Home prices in free fall Down 32.4 percent. Alameda and Contra Costa, which have been racked by foreclosures
| Low-priced homes, under $297,909, are now back to the levels of August 2000, 16 percent above their January 2000 levels
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| Apr.16 |
Bay Area |
Falling home prices start to slow |
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| Apr.22 |
Bay Area |
Mortgage defaults hit record
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| May.12 |
Bay Area |
Bay Prices Fall 40% Prices fell 40 percent or more in San Francisco; San Jose
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| May.13 |
Redwood City |
Developer proposes 12,000 homes
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| May.21 |
Bay Area |
NorCal Home Prices Showing Turnaround |
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| May.26 |
Bay Area |
Bay Area home prices fall 30%
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| Jun.18 |
Bay Area |
Home prices up for second month |
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| Jul.16 |
Bay Area |
Bay Area home prices, sales rise Prices rose month-over-month for the 3rd straight time as sales reached their highest level in 3 years last month
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| Jul.19 |
SF Tenderloin |
Tenderloin housing plan hits a snag |
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| Jul.28 |
Bay Area |
Home prices rose 1.4% from April
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| Aug.10 |
San Francisco |
Home value drop-off slows |
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| Aug.22 |
Bay Area |
Signs of recovery in housing market |
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| Oct.2 |
Oakley |
Judge Blocks Development Of Homes
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| Oct.8 |
San Francisco |
Habitat buying empty homes |
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| Oct.15 |
Bay Area |
Bay Area home sales up modestly |
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| Nov.19 |
Bay Area |
Home sales zip up nearly 7% in October |
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| Nov.23 |
SF Downtown |
Workers Block Street To Protest Layoffs
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| Dec.9 |
Bay Area |
Decline in home values levels off |
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| Dec.17 |
Bay Area |
Home Sales, Prices Show Rising Trend |
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| Dec.29 |
Bay Area |
Home prices rise from previous month
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|
| 2009 |
|
| Jan.26 |
Netflix |
Netflix profit up 45%, defying recession |
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| Feb.7 |
Bay Area |
Companies Look to Hire Despite Recession |
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| Mar.6 |
Apple |
Apple is No. 1 most-admired company |
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| May.6 |
San Francisco |
S.F. Fed chief sees hope
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| Jun.23 |
San Carlos |
Tesla Motors To Get Big Loan From U.S. The maker of an all-electric Roadster would receive $465 million. It likely the company will rebuild an existing plant outside the Bay Area
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| Jul.13 |
San Francisco |
Levi's to stay put in S.F. |
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| Jul.26 |
Fremont |
Nummi to build cars through October
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| Aug.5 |
Fremont |
Nummi incentives offered |
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| Aug.18 |
Tesla |
Tesla Motors Building Parts Factory The electric-car maker will open a new power train production facility and corporate headquarters in Palo Alto
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| Sep.12 |
Chevron |
Chevron signs big Australian gas deal
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| Nov.2 |
Pittsburg |
Sparks flew at new pipe factory A skeleton manufacturing crew christened an assembly line at United Spiral Pipe plant, designed to shape and weld massive steel pipes
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| Nov.24 |
Google |
Google sorry over Obama image
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| Dec.3 |
Bay Area |
Survey shows confidence is up A quarterly index of Bay Area business confidence has registered first positive reading in two years. But itl may not halt layoffs
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|
| 2009 |
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| Jan.15 |
San Jose City Hall |
Two sue San Jose over drunk arrests |
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| Mar.31 |
San Quentin |
Lawmaker Proposes Selling State Prison
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| Jun.10 |
Hayward |
City settles police sex bias lawsuit For $5M |
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|
| 2009 |
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| Jan.19 |
Larkspur |
Larkspur Landing shopping center sold |
|
| Mar.10 |
SF Downtown |
Schwab to move headquarters |
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| Aug.30 |
Bay Area |
Commercial mortgage defaults rising |
|
| Oct.3 |
San Francisco |
Taker found for Mission Bay office space |
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| Oct.13 |
South of Market |
Twitter moving to larger office space |
|
| Oct.27 |
SF Downtown |
Schwab office opens in style |
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|
| 2009 |
|
| Jun.29 |
SF Downtown |
Gay Pride Parade Draws Thousands
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|
| 2009 |
|
| May.31 |
Shoreline Amphitheatre |
6 Stabbed During Kiss Concert Map of 1400 North Shoreline Boulevard Mountain View| The violence began after the 5 p.m. start of KISS FM's Old School Fiesta featuring the bands War, Lakeside, El Chicano and others. Around 9:30 p.m., Shoreline security called police for aid beca... | |
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| May.31 |
Emeryville |
Pixar's 'Up' Soars In Weekend With $68.2M |
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| Jun.26 |
Petaluma |
Boxer Wins World's Ugliest Dog Contest |
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| Jun.29 |
SF Downtown |
Gay Pride Parade Draws Thousands
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| Sep.21 |
Netflix |
Netflix awards $1M prize |
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| Oct.10 |
SF Downtown |
Blue Angels Cancel Show Due To Fog |
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| Oct.12 |
Half Moon Bay |
Iowa Pumpkin Sets Weigh-Off Record
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| Dec.6 |
Palo Alto |
Apple confirms purchase of music site Lala |
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|
| 2009 |
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| Jan.29 |
Portola Valley |
Ridge Vineyards president found dead |
|
| Sep.27 |
San Francisco |
Gap founder dies
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|
| 2009 |
|
| Feb.11 |
Oakland |
Solar firm announces big contract |
|
| Feb.24 |
PG&E |
PG&E to bankroll renewable power plants
|
| Feb.25 |
SF City Hall |
S.F. pushes PG&E on bay sediment probe |
|
| Feb.28 |
Berkeley |
Berkeley starts solar program |
|
| May.13 |
Oakland |
PG&E expands solar power plans |
|
| May.15 |
SF City Hall |
SF to install 25K solar panels |
|
| Aug.13 |
San Francisco |
Filthy power plant to close |
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|
| 2009 |
|
| May.13 |
San Francisco |
Craigslist to drop erotic services classifieds |
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