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Milpitas |
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Microsoft ex-president named CEO Richard Belluzzo, who served a year as Microsoft president and COO, was named CEO of data storage company Quantum
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Moffett Field |
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NASA offers news for Russians
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| Aug.5 |
Santa Clara |
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Job Fair Draws Hundreds of Hopefuls
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Cupertino |
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Letter carrier helped rescue elderly
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| Aug.6 |
Los Altos |
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Day laborers ordinance blocked A federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of a law that prevents day laborers from soliciting work
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Santa Clara |
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20-Foot Flames in Cardboard Factory Fire Flames shot out of the Jefferson Smurfet warehouse at De La Cruz and Martin. The fire grew to three alarms
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| Aug.7 |
Mountain View |
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FTC probes VeriSign's marketing tactics The probe centers on the Web domain registry company's business pitch
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Intel |
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Share Options Won't Counted as Expense
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| Aug.8 |
Intel |
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Grove donates $5m to stem cell program| Intel chairman announced a matching grant plan to reinvigorate the UCSF human embryonic stem cell program | |
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Palm |
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Shares fall with pending S&P 500 removal
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Santa Clara |
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SONICblue fires chief executive| The board of directors for consumer electronics company fired chief executive, president and chairman, Ken Potashner | |
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| Aug.9 |
Sun |
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Sun Microsystems Loaned $6.3 Million Computer maker had loaned $6.3 million to 6 current and former executives and directors since 1999
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Intel |
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Expensing stock options rejected
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| Aug.10 |
Palo Alto |
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DNA didn't match, rape charges dropped Prosecutors have dropped charges against Jorge Eduardo Hernandez, 18, accused of raping a 94-year-old woman in January
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Sun |
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Low-end Linux machine
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| Aug.11 |
Palo Alto |
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2-alarm fire damages 2 homes
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| Aug.12 |
Palo Alto |
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Man Cleared Of Rape Wants Apology Jorge Hernandez, 18, says detectives misinterpreted his comments during an interrogation
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Intel |
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New Chip Manufacturing Technology
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| Aug.13 |
Apple |
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Cuts Take iMac Back to Initial Price
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Santa Clara |
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Network Assoc. Sweetens McAfee Offer
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Mountain View |
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Handspring names new CFO
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HP |
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New financial services unit
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| Aug.14 |
Los Altos |
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Armed residential robbery
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| Aug.16 |
Sunnyvale |
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Loudcloud sold, renamed to Opsware| Loudcloud Inc. completed the $63.5 million sale of its online services business to EDS | |
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Palo Alto |
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Year in jail for using used needles
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| Aug.17 |
Palo Alto |
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U.S. executive homes priciest 2,200-square-foot, 4-bedroom, 2-bathroom house with a two-car garage sold for an average of about $1.26 million
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| Aug.19 |
Palm |
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Color Claim Mistake $249 m130 handheld can display far fewer colors than the company originally claimed
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AMD |
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Business PC Market Deal with HP Advanced Micro Devices it reached a long-standing goal, landing its first deal for a top-tier U.S. personal-computer maker
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| Aug.20 |
eBay |
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EBay-PayPal merger clears DoJ hurdle A deadline for the Justice Department to request more information has passed with no queries from regulators
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| Aug.21 |
Mountain View |
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PayPal to Limit Online Gaming The electronic payment service has agreed to pay a $200,000 penalty
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| Aug.22 |
Palo Alto |
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Classes in languages other than Spanish Parents of elementary school children want School District to offer immersion classes in languages other than Spanish
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| Aug.23 |
Santa Clara |
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Man killed by red light runner Li Ling Hu, 67, was killed when his car was rammed on the driver's side by another motorist
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| Aug.26 |
Intel |
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Intel Sees Modest Growth Ahead CEO Craig Barrett expected modest growth in third-quarter earnings over the preceding quarter
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| Aug.27 |
Intel |
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Intel Drops on CEO's Assessment Shares of were down more than 4%
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HP |
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Combined HP reports first results Hewlett-Packard blamed weak demand for third-quarter sales that fell short of expectations
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Palm |
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Palm sued for overstating color features Palm has admitted it overstated the color display features of its new m130 handheld. It faces a consumer class-action lawsuit
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| Aug.29 |
Sun |
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Sun to hit bottom part of revenue| Sun Microsystems expects to land in the 'bottom part' of its revenue target range for the current quarter | |
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| Aug.30 |
Google |
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Google Hires CFO| George Reyes, 48, is a former financial officer at Sun Microsystems | |
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