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Apples Cook faces Senate questions on taxes
In this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012 photo, Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an introduction of the new iPhone 5 in San Francisco. Cook is scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill Tuesday May 21, 2013, to explain the company (TM)s tax strategy, which a Senate subcommittee says lets it avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, ...
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California Must Comply With No Child Left Behind
education mandates that officials across the country consider a burden. The point was made as the U.S. Department of Education announced that it granted three more states waivers to No Child Left Behind, the bipartisan legislation that is closely associated with the administration of George W. Bush. No Child Left Behind required virtually every U.S. student to be academically proficient ...
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Khosla-backed stealthy health care startup Gamgee gets $2M
Mobile health care startup Gamgee, led by former Epocrates tech chief Bob Quinn, has raised $2 million. Gamgee, a stealthy mobile health care startup, disclosed on Tuesday that it has raised $2 million in equity funding. The Palo Alto company led by CEO Bob Quinn has no website but his LinkedIn profile offers some insight into what he is working on. "Funded by Khosla Ventures, I am building ...
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Volunteers Ready to Help Oklahoma Tornado Victims
Massive funnel clouds were videotaped in Oklahoma on Monday. One massive tornado struck Moore, near Oklahoma City, killing more than 50 ...
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Drummond New Foothill Square positive development for East Oakland
Construction workers renovate the old Foothill Square shopping center, Monday, May 20, 2013 in Oakland, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News ...
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Apples overseas tax web cited as Tim Cook prepares to testify
The Washington Post reports that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) shielded some $74 billion in profits from U.S. tax laws with the use of subsidiaries in Ireland. The news came ...
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Google dropping Checkout for Google Wallet
Google Inc. said it is retiring its seven-year-old Google Checkout service this November as it focuses on Google Wallet as a rival for PayPal. The news comes a week after Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) made several major updates to its Google Wallet service, such as the ability to store payment credentials on the Chrome Internet browser. The Google Checkout service allows people to store credit card ...
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Yahoos Tumblr future examined in reports
Marissa Mayer placed on the $1.1 billion purchase of the social platform Tumblr. Mayer is possibly betting Yahoo's (NASDAQ: YHOO) future on the acquisition of a six-year-old blogging startup that has no profit and little revenue. ...
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Flickr updates include 1 terabyte of storage
Yahoo's Flickr photo-sharing service is now offering a full terabyte of storage space, beating out the company's rivals. The larger space was among other updates to Flickr that Yahoo announced Monday, along with its deal to buy the blogging startup Tumblr for $1.1 ...
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Adobe sees complaints over subscription move
the Mercury News reports . Adobe announced earlier this month that it would move the publishing software into the cloud and turn to a subscription-only model, as opposed to local installation. Critics of the change fear that will mean higher costs over time. The subscription plan costs $49.99 per month per user, as opposed to the packaged versions of various components that sell for a few ...
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Business analytics startup Adaptive Planning raises $45 million
The software startup Adaptive Planning has raised $45 million in a funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Also joining in the round were existing investors Onset Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, RBC Venture Partners, Cardinal Venture Capital and Monitor ...
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Media giants pump another $9M into Wanderful
Wanderful Media, led by CEO Ben T. Smith IV, raised $9 million from a large group of media and news companies. Online local deal startup Wanderful Media has attracted another $9 million in funding from its long list of media and news company backers. The Los Gatos startup led by Ben T. Smith IV said there was no lead investor in the round. It included money from Advance Digital, A. H. Belo ...
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In pictures The Hangover Part III premiere in Los Angeles
Bradley Cooper poses with fans upon his arrival for the premiere of The Hangover Part III at the Westwood Village Theatre in Los Angeles. Paul Buck / ...
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Questions remain in deadly Illinois van crash
ST. LOUIS -; Illinois State Police are continuing their investigation of why a van carrying 11 men veered off a southern Illinois freeway and repeatedly overturned, killing five occupants and hospitalizing the other ...
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Unclaimed veterans remains laid to rest in Calif.
SANTA ROSA, Calif. -; The unclaimed remains of 35 military veterans and two military wives have been given formal military burials in Northern ...
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Netflix on pause Los Gatos council pushes development decision back
A rendering of what a new Netflix headquarters could look like in Los Gatos if the City Council approves a development deal. If you were expecting to wake up to a decision on the Netflix campus in Los Gatos this morning, well, sorry to disappoint. The Town Council early Tuesday -- and we mean *very* early -- pushed a decision on the project to its June 3 meeting, after nearly five hours of ...
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Brocade strikes 11th hour deal with A10 avoiding jury trial
Brocade Communications and A10 Networks struck a settlement deal outside a San Jose courtroom on Monday. The move helped both companies avoid a jury trial that would have most likely awarded Brocade more money in its patent infringement case against A10. Brocade Communications on Monday managed to eke out a legal settlement with A10 Networks, just one hour before their case was scheduled to go ...
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Fatigued electorate to make historic choice in Los Angeles
By Jessica Taylor, NBC News Los Angeles will make history when voters elect a new mayor on Tuesday but the runoff race between two Democratic candidates isn’t drawing much interest as turnout could reach a record low despite the more than $33 million that’s been spent on the nearly two year-long contest to succeed outgoing Mayor Anthony Villagarosa. The race pits City Controller ...
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CHP Shuts Down Lane for Overturned Vehicle SR-125 I-8
California Highway Patrol officers have shut down two lanes of northbound State Route 125 south of Interstate 8 Tuesday morning because of an overturned vehicle with someone ...
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Chris Hansen congratulates Sacramento on keeping Kings
SEATTLE - Chris Hansen is not going away in his pursuit of bringing the NBA back to Seattle.Hansen released a statement on his SonicsArena.com website on Monday afternoon, congratulating Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson on his efforts to keep the Kings in California, while also vowing to keep up his pursuit of getting the NBA back to Seattle."Even as we are disappointed with the developments ...
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Elon Musk Were repaying the government on Wednesday
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is paying back the company's $465 million U.S. Department of Energy loan early, and with interest. Tesla plans to repay its U.S. Department of Energy loan this weekon Wednesday, to be exact. In a tweet Monday, CEO Elon Musk wrote, "Given govt loan repayment this week (prob Wed), Supercharger update will be next week. Tesla borrowed $465 million in government money, ...
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Reputation.com co-founder raises $10M for ConsultingMD
ConsultingMD, led by Reputation.com co-founder Owen Tripp, has raised $10 million from Venrock. Owen Tripp set out to protect people's online reputation with his first startup, Reputation.com. Now he is out to protect their health with his new startup, ConsultingMD. "I have a passion for solving big problems," Tripp told me in an interview on Monday. "We started ConsultingMD to ...
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TiVo beats Q1 expectations on surprise subscriber growth
Alviso-based TiVo beat Wall Street's expectations in the first quarter, narrowing its quarterly loss to $10.3 million. Shares of TiVo got a bump in early trading today, after the Alviso-based company posted first quarter earnings that beat Wall Streets expectations. The company lost $10.3 million (or 9 cents per share) in its most recent quarter. Analysts had expected the company to report a ...
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Bay Area teacher arraigned on molestation charges
UNION CITY, Calif. -; A third-grade teacher at an Alameda County elementary school faces dozens of charges related to inappropriate behavior with his ...
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The Formerly Disgraced David Landecker is Back Running for Santa Barbara City Council Again…
, is back. Not only is Mr. Landecker back, but he is being endorsed by the Democratic Women of Santa Barbara County. According to the questionable ...
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San Jose council approves potentially flawed housing development
A housing development in San Jose is becoming increasingly controversial as members of the public have accused the San Jose City Council of violating its own environmental policies with regards to residential developments in the city.
The contention revolved around a 15 acre housing project that will see 89 homes built at the edge of Guadalupe Creek in the south of the city. The site on which the development will take place is a largely underdeveloped area containing, among other things, an unsightly asphalt car park. Read more
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