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Groupon says no to Google sale| Google Inc.'s offer to buy daily-deal site Groupon Inc. has been spurned by the Chicago startup amid hesitation by Groupon's founders | |
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Google to buy NY office building for $1.8B Google will expand beyond the 550,000 square feet it currently occupies in the Manhattan building
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| Dec.4 |
Google |
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China 'orchestrated Google hack' Wikileaks: Senior Chinese figures were behind the hacking of Google earlier this year which forced the search engine to quit the country
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| Dec.5 |
Stanford |
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Notre Dame women past Stanford Adriana Leon scored in the 63rd minute to help the Fighting Irish defeat Stanford 1-0 for their third NCAA Women's College Cup championship
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| Dec.13 |
Sunnyvale |
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Dionex to be acquired for $2.1 billion| Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the maker of laboratory instruments, agreed to acquire Dionex Corp. to expand in the water-analysis business in China | |
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| Dec.14 |
Yahoo |
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Yahoo cuts 600 jobs The layoffs represent a 4% reduction in global workforce, although the company didn't specify which divisions suffered cuts
| Yahoo has struggled as it tries to reinvent itself beyond an Internet portal and has lost major market share in display advertising to Google and Facebook
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| Dec.17 |
HP |
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Justice, SEC expand HP probe The U.S. Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission are expanding their probe into possible kickbacks on the part of HP
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Yahoo to close more services after layoffs The content-sharing site Delicious may not be on Yahoo Inc.'s shrinking menu of online services much longer
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| Dec.18 |
Palo Alto |
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Man killed in car crash  His vehicle struck a sign, then slammed into a tree and ricocheted off a parked vehicle before coming to rest in the front yard of a home
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| Dec.19 |
Los Altos |
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Small earthquake rattles Los Altos The 3.1-magnitude earthquake struck at 9:28 a.m. Sunday
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| Dec.21 |
HP |
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 SEC investigating Hurd's ouster| Mark Hurd is facing more fallout from his ouster five months ago as CEO of the world's biggest personal computer and printer maker | |
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Santa Clara |
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Boy named youngest US chess 'master' The United States Chess Federation, the governing body of competitive chess, gave him a rating of 2,201 after the Dec. 11 match
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| Dec.23 |
San Francisco |
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Stanford's VanDerveer wins No. 800 Tara VanDerveer became the sixth women's coach to reach the elite 800 wins mark, as the eighth-ranked Cardinal routed San Francisco 100-45
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| Dec.30 |
Palo Alto |
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Pedestrian killed by SamTrans A woman was struck and killed by a San Mateo County Transit District bus at about 10:30 a.m. She was pronounced dead at the scene
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Uconn's win streak ends at 90 at Stanford| The Huskies never led and were beaten by No. 9 Stanford 71-59, ending a run that drew national attention and acclaim to women's basketball | |
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