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| Jan.2 |
Napa |
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Damage from storms at $100 million |
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| Jan.6 |
Google |
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Google Opens Doors Of Online Video
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| Jan.10 |
SF Downtown |
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iMacs, laptops will use Intel chips
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| Jan.17 |
Intel |
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4th-quarter forecast missed |
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| Jan.18 |
San Rafael |
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Bartz stepping down as Autodesk CEO |
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| Jan.19 |
Google |
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Feds Seek Records in Porn Probe| The Bush administration has subpoenaed Google for details on what its users have been looking for | |
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Emeryville |
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Disney in serious talks to buy Pixar |
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Bay Area |
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Bay Area Home Sales Decline In December
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SF City Hall |
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Mayor Accuses Conductors Of Stealing| Newsom has accused the city's cable car conductors of pocketing fares, stirring the ire of the union | |
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| Jan.21 |
SF City Hall |
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Mayor Meets with Cable Car Operators |
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Stanford |
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Hospital strike averted |
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| Jan.22 |
Bay Bridge |
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Caltrans Adds More FasTrak
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| Jan.24 |
Contra Costa County |
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County To Study Fast Food Proposal |
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Emeryville |
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Disney buys Pixar in $7.4bn deal Disney has agreed a $7.4bn deal to buy the animation firm behind films including Toy Story and The Incredibles
| 2.3 Disney shares will be issued for each Pixar share. The deal will see Pixar CEO Steve Jobs join Disney's board of directors. Jobs fell out with former Disney boss Michael Eisner. Disney's new boss Robert Iger has been working to revive relations between the companies
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Google |
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Google censors itself for China| Leading internet search company has agreed to censor some of its services to satisfy Beijing's restrictions | |
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| Jan.27 |
Chevron |
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Chevron's 4Q Profit Soars to Record High |
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| Jan.28 |
San Jose |
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Silicon Valley eyes wireless network |
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| Jan.29 |
East Palo Alto |
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4 Seasons Hotel Opens |
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| Jan.31 |
Google |
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Profits Nearly Double, Off Analyst Target
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| Feb.1 |
Oakland |
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Impasse In Teacher Contract Talks |
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| Feb.7 |
San Jose |
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County To Pay Hell's Angels $1 Million
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| Feb.9 |
Oracle |
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Oracle laying off 2,000 employees The software maker warned they would eliminate overlapping jobs following their takeover of Siebel Systems
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| Feb.11 |
Chinatown |
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Thousands turn out for Chinese Parade Hundreds of thousands welcomed in the Year of the Dog. The route ended in Chinatown
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| Feb.13 |
Genentech |
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Cancer Drug Trials Scaled Back |
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| Feb.15 |
HP |
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Fiscal First Quarter Profit Jumps 30% |
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| Feb.16 |
San Francisco |
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Home Sales Down 20% From Last Year |
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Stanford |
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Commerce secretary speaking to students |
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| Feb.23 |
Concord |
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2-Day Hospital Strike Begins
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| Feb.28 |
Barry Bonds |
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Barry Bonds Impersonates Paula Abdul
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Google |
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Stock Takes Hit After CFO Comments |
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Apple |
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Two new Mac Minis |
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San Francisco |
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Dramatic Upswing In SF Film Production
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| Mar.1 |
Bay Bridge |
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FasTrak Lanes Slowing Down Motorists
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| Mar.3 |
Intel |
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Stocks Slip After Revenue Warning |
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| Mar.7 |
Castro Valley |
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Lockout In Eden Med Center Labor Fight
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| Mar.8 |
Castro Valley |
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Eden contract settled |
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| Mar.9 |
Oakland |
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Surgeon On Bail After Operating Room Fit |
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| Mar.13 |
San Jose |
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McClatchy to Buy Knight Ridder for $4.5B The second-largest U.S. newspaper publisher will also assume about $2 billion in Knight Ridder's debt
| 2nd largest takeover in U.S. newspaper history topped only by the Tribune $6.5 billion acquisition of Times Mirror Co.
McClatchy's 32 newspapers would be 2nd nationwide in daily circulation behind Gannett, and rank 4th in revenue.
McClatchy CEO G. Pruitt said that all the papers are dominant in their markets and ripe for expansions.
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Oakland |
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Labor Stalemate Slows Crime Fight
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SJ Mercury News |
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McClatchy to sell San Jose, CCC papers |
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| Mar.14 |
Google |
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Judge Siding With Feds Over Subpoena |
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Japantown |
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Japantown Sale Worries Residents |
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| Mar.16 |
Oakland City Hall |
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PD Reaches Tentative Labor Agreement |
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| Mar.17 |
Bay Area |
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Bay Area housing market cools |
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Oakland |
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Chertoff Concerned About Bay Area Ports U.S. Homeland Security Secretary wants to ensure that there's 'adequate security to bring prosperity'
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Google |
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Google Need Not Turn Over Records A federal judge ordered Google to give the Bush administration a peek inside its search engine
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| Mar.22 |
Bay Bridge |
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Two Bids For Suspension Span |
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| Mar.23 |
Google |
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Google Will Be Added To S&P 500
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| Mar.24 |
Barry Bonds |
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Judge denies Bonds' bid |
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| Apr.2 |
OAK |
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New Terminal Moves Forward At Airport |
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| Apr.5 |
Apple |
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Apple Software to Run Windows XP
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| Apr.18 |
Bay Bridge |
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$1.43 Billion Deal Should Complete Work |
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Pacifica |
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Explosions Rock Boulders Along Highway 1 |
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| Apr.20 |
eBay |
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Strong First Quarter, Outlook Unchanged |
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Apple |
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Shares Jump After Strong 2Q Earnings |
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| |
Google |
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Quarter profit soars
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Bay Bridge |
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Contractor Named For Suspension Project |
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| Apr.23 |
Carquinez Bridge |
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Crews Dismantling Old Carquinez Bridge The eastern span of the 1927 bridge will be removed as part of the process to dismantle the entire bridge
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| Apr.24 |
Sun |
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McNealy steps down as CEO| Sun Microsystems' Scott McNealy replaced by Jonathan Schwartz, who had served as COO and president. Scott McNealy, 51, is ending a long career as one of Silicon Valley's most colorful and controversial CEOs. McNealy will rem... | |
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| Apr.26 |
SJ Mercury News |
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MediaNews to buy Merc, CoCo Times
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| Apr.28 |
Chevron |
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Chevron 1Q earnings soar 49% to $4b |
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| May.8 |
Apple |
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Beatles Lose Suit Against Apple Computer Apple Computer is entitled to use the apple logo on its iTunes Music Store. Apple Corps Ltd. lost suit
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Mountain View |
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SGI files for chapter 11 bankruptcy
|
| May.10 |
Berkeley |
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Cody's Books To Close |
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Oakland |
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Teachers Ratify New 2-Year Contract |
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| May.12 |
San Francisco |
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Questions Surround Concrete Supplier
|
| May.13 |
San Francisco |
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Nearly 10% More Tourist Dollars Spent |
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| May.15 |
SF Bayview |
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PG&E Shuts Down Old Power Plant The natural gas-fired plant was shut down more than 25 years after neighbors began campaigning against
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| May.16 |
Half Moon Bay |
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Businesses suffer from highway 1 closure |
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| May.17 |
South of Market |
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Piece of Titanic Docks Atop Metreon 15 tons of the 94-year-old wreck, C-deck hull, were hoisted by crane to the roof
|
| May.18 |
Bay Area |
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Bay Area executives to add employees |
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| May.23 |
Hercules |
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Town To Seize of Wal-Mart Land| The City Council voted unanimously to pursue using the power of eminent domain to seize 17 acres | |
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| May.25 |
Yahoo |
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Yahoo, eBay to join forces in partnership
|
| May.31 |
Sun |
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Sun to Cut Up to 5,000 Jobs| Sun Microsystems planned to reduce 37,500-person work force by 11% to 13% to return to
consistent profitability. The cuts, over the next six months, will cost from $340 million to $500 million over the next
several quarters
The plan includes selling real estat... | |
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|
| Jun.4 |
Bay Bridge |
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Eastban span had 10-hour closure California Department of Transportation opened the lower deck at 10 a.m.
|
| Jun.7 |
Google |
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Google goes to Congress Co-founder Brin is asking members to block Internet access providers from charging Web sites more
|
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San Jose |
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Voters Reject BART Expansion Tax
|
| Jun.16 |
SF City Hall |
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United May Move Headquarters To SF |
|
| Jun.18 |
Marin County |
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Convicted Rapist Evicted From Apartment |
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| Jun.20 |
SF City Hall |
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Proposal: Health Care For SF's Uninsured |
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| Jun.21 |
San Francisco |
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Home Sales Drop, Prices Rise |
|
| Jun.25 |
SF Downtown |
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100’s Of Thousands For Pride Parade
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| Jun.26 |
BART |
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'Spare The Air Day' Means Free Commute |
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| Jul.3 |
San Jose |
|
Calpine's 1Q loss widened to $589m |
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| Jul.5 |
San Francisco |
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Apple sued over stock options| 2 lawsuits have been filed against its current and former officers and directors relating to stock options grants | |
|
| Jul.6 |
San Francisco |
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Levi's CEO to step down by end of year |
|
| Jul.8 |
SFO |
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Low Ridership On BART Airport Extension |
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| Jul.17 |
BART |
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Spare The Air Leads To Free Commute |
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| |
San Francisco |
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Levi Strauss Names New CEO |
|
| Jul.18 |
SF City Hall |
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Supes Pass Health Care For Uninsured| The Board voted unanimously to approve legislation that creates the Health Access
Program | |
|
| |
Yahoo |
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2Q Profit Meets Analysts' Estimates |
|
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Wells Fargo |
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Wells Fargo Reports Record Profits |
|
| Jul.19 |
Apple |
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iPod sales fuel robust income report |
|
| Jul.20 |
Google |
|
2Q earnings soar past expectations The company earned $721.1 million, or $2.33 per share. Comapre to the net income of $342.8 million last year
|
| Jul.22 |
PG&E |
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PG&E Urges Conservation During Heat
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| Jul.24 |
AMD |
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Advanced Micro Devices To Acquire ATI
|
| Jul.25 |
Mountain View |
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HP to buy Mercury Interactive for $4.5b The all-cash price works out to $52 per share, a 33% premium above Mercury's closing price of $39
in the over-the-counter market
|
| Jul.28 |
Chevron |
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Chevron 2Q Profit Hits New High |
|
| Jul.30 |
Cisco |
|
British prime minister visits with execs |
|
| Jul.31 |
Genentech |
|
Tony Blair Visits Genentech Headquarters |
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|
| Aug.2 |
San Francisco |
|
Muni Delays All Day Due To Derailment |
|
| Aug.3 |
Apple |
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Apple Warns Some Profits May Be Erased
|
| |
Bay Area |
|
Foreclosures Soar In Bay Area |
|
| |
Pacifica |
|
Hwy 1. At Devil's Slide Reopens Residents and business owners have endured monstrous traffic snarls and lagging revenues since the closure in April
|
| Aug.5 |
Stanford |
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Marching band suspended for trashing |
|
| Aug.7 |
Apple |
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Apple completes transition to Intel chips |
|
| Aug.8 |
Mountain View |
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Lawsuit: Salon Gave Deadly Pedicure
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| Aug.9 |
San Rafael |
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Century Theatre chain sold |
|
| Aug.10 |
Oakland |
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Kaiser Fined $2M For Transplant Program State regulators concluded the mismanagement of kidney transplant program endangered hundreds of patients
|
| |
SFO |
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National Guard Deployed at Airport Schwarzenegger activated the Guard to bolster security at Calif. airports after authorities foiled a terror plot
|
| |
San Jose |
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Judge won't throw out Brocade charges |
|
| Aug.11 |
SF City Hall |
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Mayor Approves Affordable Housing Law |
|
| Aug.12 |
Apple |
|
Apple gets warning letter from Nasdaq |
|
| Aug.16 |
HP |
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HP Beats Forecast As Sales Up 5% |
|
| Aug.17 |
Bay Area |
|
Bay Area home sales fall |
|
| Aug.18 |
San Jose Downtown |
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No Longer-Free SJ Jazz Fest Opens |
|
| Aug.20 |
UC Berkeley |
|
Labor Protesters Greet Students
|
| Aug.23 |
San Jose City Hall |
|
Norcal Dumped By City Council |
|
| |
Apple |
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Apple to pay $100m to Creative |
|
| Aug.24 |
Apple |
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Apple Recalling 1.8m Laptops
|
| |
SF Downtown |
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Hotel wokers vote to authorize strike |
|
| Aug.31 |
Oakland |
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Coke exec to become Clorox CEO |
|
| |
Redwood City |
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Madden Game Grosses $100m In 1 Week |
|
|
| Sep.2 |
Bay Bridge |
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Lower Deck Closed Through Sept. 5| The eastbound closed for demolition on the approach's upper deck from Beale Street west to the Clocktower Building | |
|
| Sep.5 |
Bay Bridge |
|
Bridge Completely Reopens To Traffic
|
| |
Intel |
|
10,500 Layoffs Announced Semiconductor giant is laying off employees as part of a massive restructuring effort to reverse sinking profits
| Most of the job cuts will come from the management, marketing and information technology ranks. Market share stolen by smaller rival AMD
|
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|
| Sep.6 |
HP |
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HP Sought Director Records in Leak Probe Investigators sought private telephone records while hunting for leaks to the media of confidential information
| HP ousts veteran member of board George Keyworth. The techniques of the investigation relied on an illegal data mining method known as 'pretexting'
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|
| Sep.7 |
Berkeley |
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Japanese bookseller buys Cody's Books |
|
| Sep.9 |
Golden Gate Bridge |
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$6 Toll To Cross Bridge? |
|
| Sep.12 |
HP |
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Dunn to Step Down Patricia Dunn will step down as chairwoman amid a widening scandal. She will be succeeded by CEO Hurd
|
| |
Apple |
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Apple targets TV and film market Computer firm unveiled a device which will stream music and video wirelessly between TV and computers
|
| |
San Pablo |
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Hospital On The Brink Of Closure Doctors Medical Center is looking for help from the State or the County
|
| |
San Francisco |
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Tentative Agreement In Hotel Dispute Union leaders representing 4,200 workers announced that a tentative agreement was reached on a contract
|
| Sep.19 |
Intel |
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New Chip To Enable Super-Fast Downloads |
|
| Sep.21 |
HP |
|
E-mails Suggest CEO Had Role In Scandal
|
| Sep.22 |
HP |
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CEO Offers Apology; Chair Resigns Now| Mark Hurd announced that the fallout over the scandal also appeared to take down 2 senior HP employees | |
|
| Sep.25 |
SF Downtown |
|
Alcatraz Ferry Service Changes Hands
|
| |
Apple |
|
Wozniak book reveals the core of Apple |
|
| Sep.26 |
San Francisco |
|
Sharper Image CEO Steps Down |
|
| Sep.28 |
SF Downtown |
|
Westfield Center Opens 1.5-million square foot , the largest urban mall west of the Mississippi, expects the 25 million visitors each year
|
| |
HP |
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General counsel resigns from company |
|
| Sep.29 |
Dublin |
|
BART Breaks Ground On New Station |
|
|
| Oct.4 |
HP |
|
Criminal Charges Filed Against Dunn| California's attorney general filed charges against former HP Chairwoman Patricia Dunn and 4 others | |
|
| Oct.5 |
San Jose |
|
HP's Dunn Smiles In Court, Faces Charges |
|
| Oct.9 |
YouTube |
|
Google buys YouTube for $1.65bn 
Google is buying video-sharing website for $1.65bn in shares. The companies will continue to operate independently
| YouTube, launched in February 2005, has 100 million videos viewed every day
|
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|
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BART |
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Ridership Reaches Record |
|
| Oct.11 |
Santa Clara |
|
McAfee fires president; CEO retires Antivirus software provider fired Kevin Weiss, and announced that George Samenuk will retire after options probe
|
| |
San Francisco |
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CNet Chairman Steps Down Over Probe |
|
| Oct.17 |
Intel |
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Yahoo, Intel Report 3Q Profit Declines |
|
| |
Bay Area |
|
Bay Area Home Prices Down| The median price for a home in the was $611,000 in September, 1.5% less than in August | |
|
| Oct.19 |
Google |
|
Profits nearly double in 3Q 3rd quarter profit that catapulted 92%, handily beating expectations as users increasingly clicked on advertisements
|
| |
SF Downtown |
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Howard Street Closed For Over A Week |
|
| Oct.24 |
Alameda County |
|
Garbage Strike Looms
|
| |
South of Market |
|
Oracle OpenWorld Convention Invades SF| The city has been invaded by the more than 42,000 people from 120 countries at the $30 million event | |
|
| Oct.27 |
Chevron |
|
Chevron profit soars to record $5 billion |
|
| |
Alameda County |
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Garbage Strike Averted |
|
| Oct.30 |
Oakland |
|
Voting Machine Firm Denies Chavez Ties
|
| Oct.31 |
Google |
|
Google Acquires Wiki Tool Developer
|
|
| Nov.1 |
Fremont |
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Feds Approve BART Extension
|
| Nov.2 |
Los Gatos |
|
Strip Mall Blaze Destroys 4 Businesses |
|
| Nov.3 |
San Francisco |
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McKesson execs acquitted of fraud |
|
| Nov.6 |
Dublin |
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Doctor wanted on rape charge Dr. Tony G. Shiu accused of sexually battering 2 men and taking hundreds of photographs of patients
|
| Nov.9 |
Cisco |
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Shares Hop After 1Q Profit Soars |
|
| Nov.15 |
San Jose |
|
Dunn Pleads Not Guilty In Spy Probe
|
| Nov.16 |
HP |
|
Hewlett-Packard Q4 Results Surge |
|
| |
Golden Gate Bridge |
|
Bridge Sponsorship Possible
|
| Nov.17 |
SFO |
|
Cheating Involved In Security Contract |
|
| Nov.21 |
Google |
|
Google jumps past $500 Google is leaving the shares up nearly 500% since the search engine went public little more than 2 years ago
|
| Nov.28 |
Napa |
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Pelosi's Business Scrutinized
|
| |
YouTube |
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Verizon to show YouTube on phone |
|
| Nov.29 |
Tiburon |
|
Agassi suffers a loss in sale of home |
|
| Nov.30 |
HP |
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Shareholder Suit Claims Insider Trading |
|
| |
Mountain View |
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Intuit to Buy Digital Insight for $1.35B |
|
|
| Dec.4 |
Milpitas |
|
LSI Logic to acquire Agere for $4 billion
|
| Dec.5 |
Yahoo |
|
Extensive Shake-Up
|
| Dec.7 |
Bay Bridge |
|
Final Skyway Segment Placed After 3 years of preparation, the final concrete deck segment will be lifted into place. It was shipped from Stockton
|
| |
HP |
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$14.5M To Settle State Pretexting Lawsuit
|
| Dec.11 |
HP |
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CFO Bob Wayman to retire
|
| Dec.13 |
HP |
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Congress Asks CEO To Explain Cashout |
|
| |
San Francisco |
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Kaiser Criticized Over Kidney Transplants |
|
| Dec.18 |
Intel |
|
Intel To Develop Electronic Quran |
|
| |
Oracle |
|
2Q Earnings Climb 21% |
|
| Dec.27 |
Apple |
|
Report of options probe, shares rebound| There is a report that feds are investigating whether company officers forged documents to sweeten executive stock grants | |
|
| Dec.29 |
Apple |
|
Suit Over IPod-ITunes Link |
|
|
| 2006 |
|
| Jan.2 |
Napa |
Damage from storms at $100 million |
|
| Aug.31 |
Redwood City |
Madden Game Grosses $100m In 1 Week |
|
| Nov.2 |
Los Gatos |
Strip Mall Blaze Destroys 4 Businesses |
|
|
| 2006 |
|
| Jan.24 |
Contra Costa County |
County To Study Fast Food Proposal |
|
|
| 2006 |
|
| Jan.19 |
Emeryville |
Disney in serious talks to buy Pixar |
|
| Jan.24 |
Emeryville |
Disney buys Pixar in $7.4bn deal Disney has agreed a $7.4bn deal to buy the animation firm behind films including Toy Story and The Incredibles
| 2.3 Disney shares will be issued for each Pixar share. The deal will see Pixar CEO Steve Jobs join Disney's board of directors. Jobs fell out with former Disney boss Michael Eisner. Disney's new boss Robert Iger has been working to revive relations between the companies
|
| |
|
| Mar.13 |
San Jose |
McClatchy to Buy Knight Ridder for $4.5B The second-largest U.S. newspaper publisher will also assume about $2 billion in Knight Ridder's debt
| 2nd largest takeover in U.S. newspaper history topped only by the Tribune $6.5 billion acquisition of Times Mirror Co.
McClatchy's 32 newspapers would be 2nd nationwide in daily circulation behind Gannett, and rank 4th in revenue.
McClatchy CEO G. Pruitt said that all the papers are dominant in their markets and ripe for expansions.
|
| |
|
| Apr.26 |
SJ Mercury News |
MediaNews to buy Merc, CoCo Times
|
| May.25 |
Yahoo |
Yahoo, eBay to join forces in partnership
|
| Jun.7 |
San Jose |
Voters Reject BART Expansion Tax
|
| Jul.24 |
AMD |
Advanced Micro Devices To Acquire ATI
|
| Jul.25 |
Mountain View |
HP to buy Mercury Interactive for $4.5b The all-cash price works out to $52 per share, a 33% premium above Mercury's closing price of $39
in the over-the-counter market
|
| Aug.9 |
San Rafael |
Century Theatre chain sold |
|
| Oct.9 |
YouTube |
Google buys YouTube for $1.65bn Google is buying video-sharing website for $1.65bn in shares. The companies will continue to operate independently
| YouTube, launched in February 2005, has 100 million videos viewed every day
|
| |
|
| Oct.30 |
Oakland |
Voting Machine Firm Denies Chavez Ties
|
| Oct.31 |
Google |
Google Acquires Wiki Tool Developer
|
| Nov.30 |
Mountain View |
Intuit to Buy Digital Insight for $1.35B |
|
| Dec.4 |
Milpitas |
LSI Logic to acquire Agere for $4 billion
|
|
| 2006 |
|
| Feb.13 |
Genentech |
Cancer Drug Trials Scaled Back |
|
| Feb.13 |
Genentech |
Cancer Drug Trials Scaled Back |
|
| Jul.31 |
Genentech |
Tony Blair Visits Genentech Headquarters |
|
| Aug.10 |
San Jose |
Judge won't throw out Brocade charges |
|
| Sep.6 |
HP |
HP Sought Director Records in Leak Probe Investigators sought private telephone records while hunting for leaks to the media of confidential information
| HP ousts veteran member of board George Keyworth. The techniques of the investigation relied on an illegal data mining method known as 'pretexting'
|
| |
|
| Nov.16 |
Golden Gate Bridge |
Bridge Sponsorship Possible
|
|
| 2006 |
|
| Jan.19 |
SF City Hall |
Mayor Accuses Conductors Of Stealing| Newsom has accused the city's cable car conductors of pocketing fares, stirring the ire of the union | |
|
| Jan.21 |
SF City Hall |
Mayor Meets with Cable Car Operators |
|
| Jan.22 |
Bay Bridge |
Caltrans Adds More FasTrak
|
| Jan.24 |
Contra Costa County |
County To Study Fast Food Proposal |
|
| Feb.7 |
San Jose |
County To Pay Hell's Angels $1 Million
|
| Mar.1 |
Bay Bridge |
FasTrak Lanes Slowing Down Motorists
|
| Apr.18 |
Pacifica |
Explosions Rock Boulders Along Highway 1 |
|
| May.16 |
Half Moon Bay |
Businesses suffer from highway 1 closure |
|
| May.23 |
Hercules |
Town To Seize of Wal-Mart Land| The City Council voted unanimously to pursue using the power of eminent domain to seize 17 acres | |
|
| Jun.4 |
Bay Bridge |
Eastban span had 10-hour closure California Department of Transportation opened the lower deck at 10 a.m.
|
| Jul.18 |
SF City Hall |
Supes Pass Health Care For Uninsured| The Board voted unanimously to approve legislation that creates the Health Access
Program | |
|
| Aug.3 |
Pacifica |
Hwy 1. At Devil's Slide Reopens Residents and business owners have endured monstrous traffic snarls and lagging revenues since the closure in April
|
| Aug.11 |
SF City Hall |
Mayor Approves Affordable Housing Law |
|
| Aug.23 |
San Jose City Hall |
Norcal Dumped By City Council |
|
| Sep.2 |
Bay Bridge |
Lower Deck Closed Through Sept. 5| The eastbound closed for demolition on the approach's upper deck from Beale Street west to the Clocktower Building | |
|
| Sep.5 |
Bay Bridge |
Bridge Completely Reopens To Traffic
|
| Sep.9 |
Golden Gate Bridge |
$6 Toll To Cross Bridge? |
|
| Oct.19 |
SF Downtown |
Howard Street Closed For Over A Week |
|
|
| 2006 |
|
| Mar.9 |
Oakland |
Surgeon On Bail After Operating Room Fit |
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| Jun.20 |
SF City Hall |
Proposal: Health Care For SF's Uninsured |
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| Jul.18 |
SF City Hall |
Supes Pass Health Care For Uninsured| The Board voted unanimously to approve legislation that creates the Health Access
Program | |
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| Jul.30 |
Cisco |
British prime minister visits with execs |
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| Aug.8 |
Mountain View |
Lawsuit: Salon Gave Deadly Pedicure
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| Sep.12 |
San Pablo |
Hospital On The Brink Of Closure Doctors Medical Center is looking for help from the State or the County
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| Nov.6 |
Dublin |
Doctor wanted on rape charge Dr. Tony G. Shiu accused of sexually battering 2 men and taking hundreds of photographs of patients
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| Dec.13 |
San Francisco |
Kaiser Criticized Over Kidney Transplants |
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| 2006 |
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| Jan.17 |
Intel |
4th-quarter forecast missed |
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| Jan.27 |
Chevron |
Chevron's 4Q Profit Soars to Record High |
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| Jan.31 |
Google |
Profits Nearly Double, Off Analyst Target
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| Feb.15 |
HP |
Fiscal First Quarter Profit Jumps 30% |
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| Mar.3 |
Intel |
Stocks Slip After Revenue Warning |
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| Apr.20 |
eBay |
Strong First Quarter, Outlook Unchanged |
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| Apr.20 |
Apple |
Shares Jump After Strong 2Q Earnings |
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| Apr.20 |
Google |
Quarter profit soars
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| Apr.28 |
Chevron |
Chevron 1Q earnings soar 49% to $4b |
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| Jul.3 |
San Jose |
Calpine's 1Q loss widened to $589m |
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| Jul.18 |
Yahoo |
2Q Profit Meets Analysts' Estimates |
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| Jul.18 |
Wells Fargo |
Wells Fargo Reports Record Profits |
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| Jul.19 |
Apple |
iPod sales fuel robust income report |
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| Jul.20 |
Google |
2Q earnings soar past expectations The company earned $721.1 million, or $2.33 per share. Comapre to the net income of $342.8 million last year
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| Jul.28 |
Chevron |
Chevron 2Q Profit Hits New High |
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| Aug.3 |
Apple |
Apple Warns Some Profits May Be Erased
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| Aug.10 |
San Jose |
Judge won't throw out Brocade charges |
|
| Aug.12 |
Apple |
Apple gets warning letter from Nasdaq |
|
| Aug.16 |
HP |
HP Beats Forecast As Sales Up 5% |
|
| Oct.17 |
Intel |
Yahoo, Intel Report 3Q Profit Declines |
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| Oct.19 |
Google |
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.27 |
Chevron |
Chevron profit soars to record $5 billion |
|
| Nov.9 |
Cisco |
Shares Hop After 1Q Profit Soars |
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| Nov.16 |
HP |
Hewlett-Packard Q4 Results Surge |
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| Dec.18 |
Intel |
Intel To Develop Electronic Quran |
|
| Dec.18 |
Oracle |
2Q Earnings Climb 21% |
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| 2006 |
|
| Jan.19 |
Google |
Feds Seek Records in Porn Probe| The Bush administration has subpoenaed Google for details on what its users have been looking for | |
|
| Jan.21 |
Stanford |
Hospital strike averted |
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| Feb.1 |
Oakland |
Impasse In Teacher Contract Talks |
|
| Feb.23 |
Concord |
2-Day Hospital Strike Begins
|
| Mar.7 |
Castro Valley |
Lockout In Eden Med Center Labor Fight
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| Mar.8 |
Castro Valley |
Eden contract settled |
|
| Mar.13 |
Oakland |
Labor Stalemate Slows Crime Fight
|
| Mar.16 |
Oakland City Hall |
PD Reaches Tentative Labor Agreement |
|
| May.10 |
Oakland |
Teachers Ratify New 2-Year Contract |
|
| Aug.20 |
UC Berkeley |
Labor Protesters Greet Students
|
| Aug.24 |
SF Downtown |
Hotel wokers vote to authorize strike |
|
| Sep.12 |
San Francisco |
Tentative Agreement In Hotel Dispute Union leaders representing 4,200 workers announced that a tentative agreement was reached on a contract
|
| Oct.4 |
HP |
Criminal Charges Filed Against Dunn| California's attorney general filed charges against former HP Chairwoman Patricia Dunn and 4 others | |
|
| Oct.5 |
San Jose |
HP's Dunn Smiles In Court, Faces Charges |
|
| Oct.24 |
Alameda County |
Garbage Strike Looms
|
| Oct.27 |
Alameda County |
Garbage Strike Averted |
|
| Nov.3 |
San Francisco |
McKesson execs acquitted of fraud |
|
| Nov.15 |
San Jose |
Dunn Pleads Not Guilty In Spy Probe
|
| Nov.28 |
Napa |
Pelosi's Business Scrutinized
|
|
| 2006 |
|
| Mar.13 |
SJ Mercury News |
McClatchy to sell San Jose, CCC papers |
|
|
| 2006 |
|
| Feb.9 |
Oracle |
Oracle laying off 2,000 employees The software maker warned they would eliminate overlapping jobs following their takeover of Siebel Systems
|
| May.31 |
Sun |
Sun to Cut Up to 5,000 Jobs| Sun Microsystems planned to reduce 37,500-person work force by 11% to 13% to return to
consistent profitability. The cuts, over the next six months, will cost from $340 million to $500 million over the next
several quarters
The plan includes selling real estat... | |
|
| Sep.5 |
Intel |
10,500 Layoffs Announced Semiconductor giant is laying off employees as part of a massive restructuring effort to reverse sinking profits
| Most of the job cuts will come from the management, marketing and information technology ranks. Market share stolen by smaller rival AMD
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|
| 2006 |
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| May.8 |
Mountain View |
SGI files for chapter 11 bankruptcy
|
|
| 2006 |
|
| Jan.2 |
Napa |
Damage from storms at $100 million |
|
| Jan.10 |
SF Downtown |
iMacs, laptops will use Intel chips
|
| Jan.28 |
San Jose |
Silicon Valley eyes wireless network |
|
| Feb.28 |
Apple |
Two new Mac Minis |
|
| Apr.5 |
Apple |
Apple Software to Run Windows XP
|
| Aug.7 |
Apple |
Apple completes transition to Intel chips |
|
| Aug.24 |
Apple |
Apple Recalling 1.8m Laptops
|
| Sep.12 |
Apple |
Apple targets TV and film market Computer firm unveiled a device which will stream music and video wirelessly between TV and computers
|
| Sep.19 |
Intel |
New Chip To Enable Super-Fast Downloads |
|
| Sep.25 |
Apple |
Wozniak book reveals the core of Apple |
|
| Dec.18 |
Intel |
Intel To Develop Electronic Quran |
|
|
| 2006 |
|
| Aug.10 |
SFO |
National Guard Deployed at Airport Schwarzenegger activated the Guard to bolster security at Calif. airports after authorities foiled a terror plot
|
|
| 2006 |
|
| Sep.21 |
HP |
E-mails Suggest CEO Had Role In Scandal
|
| Dec.27 |
Apple |
Report of options probe, shares rebound| There is a report that feds are investigating whether company officers forged documents to sweeten executive stock grants | |
|
|
| 2006 |
|
| Feb.7 |
San Jose |
County To Pay Hell's Angels $1 Million
|
| Mar.24 |
Barry Bonds |
Judge denies Bonds' bid |
|
| May.8 |
Apple |
Beatles Lose Suit Against Apple Computer Apple Computer is entitled to use the apple logo on its iTunes Music Store. Apple Corps Ltd. lost suit
|
| Jul.5 |
San Francisco |
Apple sued over stock options| 2 lawsuits have been filed against its current and former officers and directors relating to stock options grants | |
|
| Aug.8 |
Mountain View |
Lawsuit: Salon Gave Deadly Pedicure
|
| Aug.10 |
Oakland |
Kaiser Fined $2M For Transplant Program State regulators concluded the mismanagement of kidney transplant program endangered hundreds of patients
|
| Aug.23 |
Apple |
Apple to pay $100m to Creative |
|
| Nov.30 |
HP |
Shareholder Suit Claims Insider Trading |
|
| Dec.7 |
HP |
$14.5M To Settle State Pretexting Lawsuit
|
| Dec.29 |
Apple |
Suit Over IPod-ITunes Link |
|
|
| 2006 |
|
| May.10 |
Berkeley |
Cody's Books To Close |
|
| Sep.7 |
Berkeley |
Japanese bookseller buys Cody's Books |
|
| Sep.28 |
SF Downtown |
Westfield Center Opens 1.5-million square foot , the largest urban mall west of the Mississippi, expects the 25 million visitors each year
|
| Nov.2 |
Los Gatos |
Strip Mall Blaze Destroys 4 Businesses |
|
|
| 2006 |
|
| Apr.2 |
OAK |
New Terminal Moves Forward At Airport |
|
| Jun.16 |
SF City Hall |
United May Move Headquarters To SF |
|
| Jul.31 |
Genentech |
Tony Blair Visits Genentech Headquarters |
|
| Aug.10 |
SFO |
National Guard Deployed at Airport Schwarzenegger activated the Guard to bolster security at Calif. airports after authorities foiled a terror plot
|
| Nov.17 |
SFO |
Cheating Involved In Security Contract |
|
|
| 2006 |
|
| Jan.24 |
Google |
Google censors itself for China| Leading internet search company has agreed to censor some of its services to satisfy Beijing's restrictions | |
|
| Jan.29 |
East Palo Alto |
4 Seasons Hotel Opens |
|
| Feb.16 |
Stanford |
Commerce secretary speaking to students |
|
| Mar.9 |
Oakland |
Surgeon On Bail After Operating Room Fit |
|
| Mar.14 |
Google |
Judge Siding With Feds Over Subpoena |
|
| Mar.17 |
Google |
Google Need Not Turn Over Records A federal judge ordered Google to give the Bush administration a peek inside its search engine
|
| May.13 |
San Francisco |
Nearly 10% More Tourist Dollars Spent |
|
| Aug.20 |
UC Berkeley |
Labor Protesters Greet Students
|
|
| 2006 |
|
| Mar.17 |
Oakland |
Chertoff Concerned About Bay Area Ports U.S. Homeland Security Secretary wants to ensure that there's 'adequate security to bring prosperity'
|
| May.15 |
SF Bayview |
PG&E Shuts Down Old Power Plant The natural gas-fired plant was shut down more than 25 years after neighbors began campaigning against
|
| Jun.26 |
BART |
'Spare The Air Day' Means Free Commute |
|
| Sep.25 |
SF Downtown |
Alcatraz Ferry Service Changes Hands
|
|
| 2006 |
|
| Jan.19 |
SF City Hall |
Mayor Accuses Conductors Of Stealing| Newsom has accused the city's cable car conductors of pocketing fares, stirring the ire of the union | |
|
| Jan.21 |
SF City Hall |
Mayor Meets with Cable Car Operators |
|
| Jan.28 |
San Jose |
Silicon Valley eyes wireless network |
|
| Jun.7 |
San Jose |
Voters Reject BART Expansion Tax
|
| Jun.26 |
BART |
'Spare The Air Day' Means Free Commute |
|
| Jul.8 |
SFO |
Low Ridership On BART Airport Extension |
|
| Jul.17 |
BART |
Spare The Air Leads To Free Commute |
|
| Aug.2 |
San Francisco |
Muni Delays All Day Due To Derailment |
|
| Sep.29 |
Dublin |
BART Breaks Ground On New Station |
|
| Oct.9 |
BART |
Ridership Reaches Record |
|
| Nov.1 |
Fremont |
Feds Approve BART Extension
|
| Nov.29 |
Tiburon |
Agassi suffers a loss in sale of home |
|
|
| 2006 |
|
| Jan.6 |
Google |
Google Opens Doors Of Online Video
|
| Jan.19 |
Google |
Feds Seek Records in Porn Probe| The Bush administration has subpoenaed Google for details on what its users have been looking for | |
|
| Jan.24 |
Google |
Google censors itself for China| Leading internet search company has agreed to censor some of its services to satisfy Beijing's restrictions | |
|
| Mar.14 |
Google |
Judge Siding With Feds Over Subpoena |
|
| Mar.17 |
Google |
Google Need Not Turn Over Records A federal judge ordered Google to give the Bush administration a peek inside its search engine
|
| Jun.7 |
Google |
Google goes to Congress Co-founder Brin is asking members to block Internet access providers from charging Web sites more
|
| Oct.24 |
South of Market |
Oracle OpenWorld Convention Invades SF| The city has been invaded by the more than 42,000 people from 120 countries at the $30 million event | |
|
| Nov.28 |
YouTube |
Verizon to show YouTube on phone |
|
| Dec.5 |
Yahoo |
Extensive Shake-Up
|
|
| 2006 |
|
| Jan.18 |
San Rafael |
Bartz stepping down as Autodesk CEO |
|
| Feb.1 |
Oakland |
Impasse In Teacher Contract Talks |
|
| Feb.16 |
Stanford |
Commerce secretary speaking to students |
|
| Mar.17 |
Oakland |
Chertoff Concerned About Bay Area Ports U.S. Homeland Security Secretary wants to ensure that there's 'adequate security to bring prosperity'
|
| Mar.24 |
Barry Bonds |
Judge denies Bonds' bid |
|
| Apr.24 |
Sun |
McNealy steps down as CEO| Sun Microsystems' Scott McNealy replaced by Jonathan Schwartz, who had served as COO and president. Scott McNealy, 51, is ending a long career as one of Silicon Valley's most colorful and controversial CEOs. McNealy will rem... | |
|
| May.10 |
Oakland |
Teachers Ratify New 2-Year Contract |
|
| Jul.6 |
San Francisco |
Levi's CEO to step down by end of year |
|
| Jul.17 |
San Francisco |
Levi Strauss Names New CEO |
|
| Jul.30 |
Cisco |
British prime minister visits with execs |
|
| Aug.31 |
Oakland |
Coke exec to become Clorox CEO |
|
| Sep.12 |
HP |
Dunn to Step Down Patricia Dunn will step down as chairwoman amid a widening scandal. She will be succeeded by CEO Hurd
|
| Sep.22 |
HP |
CEO Offers Apology; Chair Resigns Now| Mark Hurd announced that the fallout over the scandal also appeared to take down 2 senior HP employees | |
|
| Sep.26 |
San Francisco |
Sharper Image CEO Steps Down |
|
| Sep.28 |
HP |
General counsel resigns from company |
|
| Oct.4 |
HP |
Criminal Charges Filed Against Dunn| California's attorney general filed charges against former HP Chairwoman Patricia Dunn and 4 others | |
|
| Oct.5 |
San Jose |
HP's Dunn Smiles In Court, Faces Charges |
|
| Oct.11 |
Santa Clara |
McAfee fires president; CEO retires Antivirus software provider fired Kevin Weiss, and announced that George Samenuk will retire after options probe
|
| Oct.11 |
San Francisco |
CNet Chairman Steps Down Over Probe |
|
| Nov.3 |
San Francisco |
McKesson execs acquitted of fraud |
|
| Nov.15 |
San Jose |
Dunn Pleads Not Guilty In Spy Probe
|
| Dec.11 |
HP |
CFO Bob Wayman to retire
|
| Dec.13 |
HP |
Congress Asks CEO To Explain Cashout |
|
|
| 2006 |
|
| Mar.22 |
Bay Bridge |
Two Bids For Suspension Span |
|
| Apr.18 |
Bay Bridge |
$1.43 Billion Deal Should Complete Work |
|
| Apr.20 |
Bay Bridge |
Contractor Named For Suspension Project |
|
| Apr.23 |
Carquinez Bridge |
Crews Dismantling Old Carquinez Bridge The eastern span of the 1927 bridge will be removed as part of the process to dismantle the entire bridge
|
| May.12 |
San Francisco |
Questions Surround Concrete Supplier
|
| Dec.7 |
Bay Bridge |
Final Skyway Segment Placed After 3 years of preparation, the final concrete deck segment will be lifted into place. It was shipped from Stockton
|
|
| 2006 |
|
| Jan.19 |
Bay Area |
Bay Area Home Sales Decline In December
|
| Feb.16 |
San Francisco |
Home Sales Down 20% From Last Year |
|
| Mar.17 |
Bay Area |
Bay Area housing market cools |
|
| Jun.18 |
Marin County |
Convicted Rapist Evicted From Apartment |
|
| Jun.21 |
San Francisco |
Home Sales Drop, Prices Rise |
|
| Aug.2 |
San Francisco |
Muni Delays All Day Due To Derailment |
|
| Aug.3 |
Bay Area |
Foreclosures Soar In Bay Area |
|
| Aug.11 |
SF City Hall |
Mayor Approves Affordable Housing Law |
|
| Aug.17 |
Bay Area |
Bay Area home sales fall |
|
| Oct.17 |
Bay Area |
Bay Area Home Prices Down| The median price for a home in the was $611,000 in September, 1.5% less than in August | |
|
| Nov.29 |
Tiburon |
Agassi suffers a loss in sale of home |
|
|
| 2006 |
|
| Feb.28 |
Google |
Stock Takes Hit After CFO Comments |
|
| Mar.23 |
Google |
Google Will Be Added To S&P 500
|
| Nov.21 |
Google |
Google jumps past $500 Google is leaving the shares up nearly 500% since the search engine went public little more than 2 years ago
|
| Dec.27 |
Apple |
Report of options probe, shares rebound| There is a report that feds are investigating whether company officers forged documents to sweeten executive stock grants | |
|
|
| 2006 |
|
| Mar.13 |
Oakland |
Labor Stalemate Slows Crime Fight
|
| Mar.16 |
Oakland City Hall |
PD Reaches Tentative Labor Agreement |
|
| May.18 |
Bay Area |
Bay Area executives to add employees |
|
| Sep.6 |
HP |
HP Sought Director Records in Leak Probe Investigators sought private telephone records while hunting for leaks to the media of confidential information
| HP ousts veteran member of board George Keyworth. The techniques of the investigation relied on an illegal data mining method known as 'pretexting'
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|
| 2006 |
|
| Mar.14 |
Japantown |
Japantown Sale Worries Residents |
|
| May.23 |
Hercules |
Town To Seize of Wal-Mart Land| The City Council voted unanimously to pursue using the power of eminent domain to seize 17 acres | |
|
|
| 2006 |
|
| Jun.25 |
SF Downtown |
100’s Of Thousands For Pride Parade
|
|
| 2006 |
|
| Feb.11 |
Chinatown |
Thousands turn out for Chinese Parade Hundreds of thousands welcomed in the Year of the Dog. The route ended in Chinatown
|
| Feb.28 |
Barry Bonds |
Barry Bonds Impersonates Paula Abdul
|
| Feb.28 |
San Francisco |
Dramatic Upswing In SF Film Production
|
| May.17 |
South of Market |
Piece of Titanic Docks Atop Metreon 15 tons of the 94-year-old wreck, C-deck hull, were hoisted by crane to the roof
|
| Jun.25 |
SF Downtown |
100’s Of Thousands For Pride Parade
|
| Aug.5 |
Stanford |
Marching band suspended for trashing |
|
| Aug.18 |
San Jose Downtown |
No Longer-Free SJ Jazz Fest Opens |
|
| Aug.31 |
Redwood City |
Madden Game Grosses $100m In 1 Week |
|
| Nov.28 |
Napa |
Pelosi's Business Scrutinized
|
|
| 2006 |
|
| May.15 |
SF Bayview |
PG&E Shuts Down Old Power Plant The natural gas-fired plant was shut down more than 25 years after neighbors began campaigning against
|
| Jul.22 |
PG&E |
PG&E Urges Conservation During Heat
|
|
| 2006 |
|
| Jun.18 |
Marin County |
Convicted Rapist Evicted From Apartment |
|
| Nov.6 |
Dublin |
Doctor wanted on rape charge Dr. Tony G. Shiu accused of sexually battering 2 men and taking hundreds of photographs of patients
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