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Moffett Field |
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Navy to retool clean up plan
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| Sep.3 |
HP |
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HP buying Compaq for $25 billion| The new company with annual earnings of $3.9 billion and 145,000 employees would rival IBM | |
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| Sep.4 |
HP |
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HP, Compaq See Job Cuts
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Santa Clara |
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Hancock resigns from Exodus
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| Sep.5 |
Santa Clara |
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Second Fruit Fly Species
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| Sep.6 |
Mountain View |
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Teen Averts Attempted Kidnapping| Man drove by the 13-year-old girl at a shopping center and tried to pull her into his car. She striking him in the face | |
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Intel |
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Quarter revenue as expected 3d-quarter revenues are on track with forecasts. Revenue for the 3 months will be slightly below the midpoint of the range
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HP |
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HP buys Dutch printing company
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| Sep.7 |
Palo Alto |
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Leader of liberation theology dead
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Sunnyvale |
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Loudcloud to cut some jobs
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| Sep.10 |
Intel |
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New chipset for Pentium 4
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| Sep.12 |
Santa Clara |
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SONICblue cut another 90 jobs
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Sun |
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Sun employee killed in hijacking
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| Sep.13 |
HP |
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HP donating up to $5 million
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| Sep.15 |
Intel |
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Guilty for copying specs of chip Say Lye Ow pleads guilty copying computer files about the design and testing of Merced microprocessor
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| Sep.17 |
Moffett Field |
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 129th Air Rescue Wing on alert The command and control crews have been called to active duty. All vehicles are subject to random checks
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Los Altos |
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Rambus reached pact with Intel
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| Sep.18 |
AltaVista |
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New CEO, 30% job cut| James Barnett is taking over a year after previous CEO, R. Schrock, resigned. 160 workers laid off | |
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| Sep.19 |
3Com |
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3Com below forecasts, cuts jobs Net loss is $232.4 million, or 67 cents a share. Network gear maker is cutting 1,000 more jobs
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| Sep.20 |
Applied Materials |
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Applied Materials cut work force by 2% The company cut 700 jobs in Silicon Valley. Demand is declining for equipment that makes the chips
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Palm |
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Palm's loss narrower than expected Handheld computer maker lowered revenue expectations. A net loss is $32.4 million, or 6 cents a share
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Palm |
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Palm Unveils New Mid-Level PDA Company is packing in greater features and software perks
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| Sep.21 |
Palm |
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Shares sink on earnings warning Shares fell 21%
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| Sep.22 |
Santa Clara |
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Parents of victim calling for peace The parents of Deora Bodley, who was at United Airlines Flight 93, are calling for peace instead of retaliation
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| Sep.23 |
Los Altos |
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Bank robber gets away Black man in his 40s presented a threatening note to a teller. Police officers were unable to locate the robber
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| Sep.24 |
Stanford |
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Discrimination lawsuit Vilma Rivera, originally from El Salvador, allegedly was denied promotion to a full-time position at Stanford Health Care
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| Sep.25 |
Sun |
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Sun unveils flagship server Sun Fire 15K server starts at $1.4 million. Sun Microsystems acquired Critical Path's mainframe rehosting business
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AMD |
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AMD to cut 2,300 jobs Computer chip-maker is closing two factories in Texas
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Intel |
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Intel names first CTO Patrick Gelsinger, 40, will report to CEO Craig Barrett
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| Sep.26 |
Santa Clara |
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Exodus files for bankruptcy protection| Exodus Communications said business will continue to operate. Company has obtained $200 million in debtor financing | |
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Mountain View |
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Anti-communist Vietnamese leader dies Nguyen Ton Hoan was a head of the Dai Viet that opposed North Vietnamese rule. He was 84
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| Sep.27 |
Palo Alto |
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Quintuplets delivered| Father, Scott Brown, Army specialist, faces possibility of being called to war | |
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Intel |
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Car-Based Devices Chipmaker launches program to speed up the adoption of navigation, multimedia and phones in cars
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| Sep.28 |
Palo Alto |
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PayPal files for IPO Online payment service hopes to raise $80 million to overcome investors' disdain of unprofitable companies
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| Sep.29 |
Livermore |
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83-year-old woman missing She called the day before from Livermore to say she was lost
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