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HP |
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Star attorney caught in spotlight
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Menlo Park |
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Google Buys Garage Where Got Its Start
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| Oct.2 |
Stanford |
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Scientist Shares Nobel Prize In Medicine| Professor of Pathology and Genetics Andrew Fire won the Prize for discovering a way to silence specific genes | |
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| Oct.4 |
HP |
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Criminal Charges Filed Against Dunn| California's attorney general filed charges against former HP Chairwoman Patricia Dunn and 4 others | |
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Stanford |
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 Professor Wins Nobel Prize In Chemistry| Roger D. Kornberg, whose father won a Nobel Prize, was awarded for studies of how cells take information from genes | |
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Apple |
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Jobs Apologizes For Stock Option Practices Apple CEO apologized for the company's past stock-option practices after an internal investigation
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| Oct.5 |
San Jose |
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HP's Dunn Smiles In Court, Faces Charges Ousted Chairwoman smiled and held her husband's hand in court while facing felony charges
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Mountain View |
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Caltrain: Person Killed
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| Oct.6 |
Google |
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Google In Talks To Acquire YouTube Internet search leader is in talks to acquire the popular online video site for about $1.6 billion
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| Oct.7 |
Stanford |
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Notre Dame Beats Stanford, 31 to 10 Quinn threw for 3 touchdowns and Walker ran for a season-high 153 yards and a touchdown to lead 12th-ranked
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| Oct.11 |
Santa Clara |
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McAfee fires president; CEO retires| Antivirus software provider fired Kevin Weiss, and announced that George Samenuk will retire after options probe | |
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| Oct.17 |
Google |
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Google To Run HQ On Solar Power The Internet search leader plans to convert its headquarters to run on solar power
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Mountain View |
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Quake Maps Reveal New Danger Zones The area around Mountain View and Palo Alto is susceptible to amplified shaking in an earthquake
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Intel |
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Yahoo, Intel Report 3Q Profit Declines The technology leaders each saw profits decline by over 30%, however both managed to meet or beat expectations
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Stanford |
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Edwards' Stanford Career Over The quarterback will miss the rest of his senior season with a broken right foot
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| Oct.18 |
Apple |
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Profit Up 27%, Beating Views Fiscal fourth-quarter is boosted by sizzling sales of its iPod music players and Macintosh computers
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Santa Clara |
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11-Year-Old Missing San Jose Girl Found Mindy Mendoza, missing when she failed to come home after school, was found safe and in good health at a school
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| Oct.19 |
HP |
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Security firm went through trash Investigators dug through a WSJ reporter's trash as part of a now-discredited boardroom leak probe
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Google |
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Profits nearly double in 3Q| 3rd quarter profit that catapulted 92%, handily beating expectations as users increasingly clicked on advertisements | |
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| Oct.20 |
Google |
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Soaring Profits Boost Stock The surprise had investors lifting the shares by more than 7% in an after-hours move
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| Oct.22 |
Mountain View |
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SETI Institute opened Carl Sagan Center The new Institute will conduct research on the ability of organisms to thrive in extreme environments
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| Oct.23 |
AMD |
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Dell unveiling AMD-powered computers AMD and Dell are unveiling 2 new business computers that will feature the Opteron microprocessor
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| Oct.24 |
SF Downtown |
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HP scandal references in OpenWorld Hewlett-Packard's CEO began his keynote address with some more subtle references to the embarrassing scandal
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Google |
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Google offers custom search The online giant will allow users to create customized search engines that are tailored to their interests
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| Oct.27 |
Sun |
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Sun posts loss but revenue up Sun Microsystems reported a narrower quarterly loss, boosted by a 17% jump in revenue
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| Oct.31 |
Google |
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Google Acquires Wiki Tool Developer Google Inc. has acquired JotSpot Inc. that develops online collaboration tools known as wikis
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