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Vice Mayor Peter Drekmeier named mayor
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Tokyo Drugmaker Eyes CV Therapeutics
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Online shopping with a purpose Pankaj Shah has started a Web site to promote goodness through the stories it tells and the merchandise it sells
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Former HP CEO Fiorina Has Breast Cancer The San Francisco Chronicle: former Hewlett Packard Chief Executive Carly Fiorina has been diagnosed with breast cancer
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Gilead To Buy CV Therapeutics For $1.4 B Biotechnology company Gilead Sciences, known for its HIV drugs, said it will pay $20 per share in cash for Palo Alto-based CV Therapeutics
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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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Possible roadblocks if IBM to acquire Sun
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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 California
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Sun deal cloudy after IBM pulls offer Sun terminated IBM's status as its exclusive negotiating partner; the two sides were still talking
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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 | |
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Man Killed By Caltrain
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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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Daimler buys stake in Tesla
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$105 million deal closed for Tidal Systems
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Restaurant Worker Attacked With Cleaver. 94306
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2 Men To Stand Trial In Murder
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Caltrain Kills Woman On Tracks
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5,000 Marijuana Plants Seized Plants with a street value of $15 million were found in a hilly area with heavy brush. A loaded shotgun and two air rifles were found near
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HP offers Web-ready printer
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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
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Rod Beckstrom to head domain agency The businessman assumed a critical role in the governance of cyberspace when he took a roughly $1 million-a-year job as president of ICANN
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Sun Predicts Weak Results
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City Settles Suit Over Plastic Bag Ban
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Tesla turns $1 million profit in July
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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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Fiorina Takes Step Toward US Senate Bid Former Hewlett-Packard Co. chief executive Carly Fiorina has taken the first formal step toward running for the seat of Democrat Boxer
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Profit Hurt By Weak PC, Ink Sales Hewlett-Packard Co.'s fiscal third-quarter profit fell 19%. Net profit was $1.64 billion, versus $2.03 billion, in the year-ago period
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Girl Struck, Killed By Caltrain  A train struck a girl on the tracks at the same crossing where two teenagers were fatally hit by trains earlier this summer
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Sun posts $147M loss as Oracle deal looms
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HP Labs shift focus
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EU Applies Brakes To Oracle-Sun Deal European Union regulators are launching a formal antitrust investigation into Oracle Corp.'s proposed $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems
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Woman's body found after fire. 94301
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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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Lounge owner arrested in girlfriend death| 36-year-old Bulos 'Paul' Zumot, the owner of a smoking lounge, is behind bars after being arrested in the death of his girlfriend | |
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Man Charged In Girlfriend's Arson Death Bulos 'Paul' Zumot was arraigned on charges of killing Jennifer Schipsi and setting fire to the bedroom of their home with her body inside
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CEO's pay package cut by a third in '09
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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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HP's profit up 14% Cost-cutting and a push into rival IBM stronghold of technology services is helping the company absorb a falloff in sales in most of its major...
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Apple confirms purchase of music site Lala Apple Inc. has purchased online music retailer Lala.com, a startup that has threatened 'the end of the MP3' with its fast song-streaming app...
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E.U. warms to Oracle-Sun deal European Union regulator are softening their opposition to proposed $7.4 billion takeove, a shift that has resurrected some investors' hopes
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