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Oakland man who posed as an FBI agent arrested for violating probation
SAN FRANCISCO -- Federal authorities recently arrested a Hayward man for violating his probation after he impersonated an FBI officer and want to know if the public has ever come into contact with him while he pretended to be an agent.Max Joseph Plog-Horowitz, 21, who often goes by the alias "Max Heartmann" was convicted of charges including impersonating a federal officer on March 25 ...
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Family friends search for Emeryville man who vanished after Bay to Breakers race
SAN FRANCISCO -- The mystery surrounding an Emeryville man who vanished after running Bay to Breakers on Sunday only deepened Tuesday, as family and friends from as far away as Oregon and San Diego arrived to hunt for clues but found no sign of the 27-year-old.No John Does at hospitals matched Beau Rasmussen. A search of jails turned up nothing, as did an extensive search of the coastline from ...
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Netflixs Ted Sarandos Reveals His Phase 2 for Hollywood
Algorithms, deep pockets and a disdain for the existing TV model as the chief content officer reveals why the agent who talked about their budgets was "remarkably ill-informed," and countering "the managed dissatisfaction of the entire entertainment ...
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San Francisco Bay Area awarded ’16 Super Bowl
Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...
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Edison CPUC Reach $37M Settlement on Southern California Fire
The California Public Utilities Commission has reached a proposed $37 million settlement with Southern California Edison over fallen power lines blamed for starting the October 2007 Malibu Canyon Fire. Santa Ana winds knocked three jointly owned utility poles to the ground, sparking the fire that burned 6 square miles, destroyed dozens of structures and burned 36 vehicles. The agreement deals ...
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Intercontinental missile test-launched in Calif.
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -; The U.S. Air Force launched an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile from a California base on Wednesday, a month after the test flight was postponed because of tensions with North ...
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Orange accelerator startup AlephCloud raises $7.5M
AlephCloud, led by CEO Jieming Zhu, raised $7.5 million in funding. AlephCloud Systems Inc., a startup that offers technology to manage content privacy and keep track of where it came from in public clouds, said it raised $7.5 million on Wednesday. The Sunnyvale startup founded by Jieming Zhu and Roy DSouza said the funding was led by Handbag LLC, a new venture firm created by former Crosspoint ...
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ScaleMatrix Joins Dell for Cloud Computing Services
Cloud computing is software and computer storage marketed as a utility. Software and storage are located off a client’s premises and accessed via the ...
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Wandering Bear Surprises Horses in Corral
A bear wandered through a neighborhood north of Los Angeles for more than an hour Wednesday morning with squad cars and a helicopter on its tail as it scaled fences and surprised several horses in their ...
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NetApp cutting 900 jobs
NetApp Inc. said Tuesday it is eliminating 900 jobs as part of a business realignment, as well as increasing dividends and its stock-repurchase program. The data-storage provider said in a letter to Sunnyvale officials that 235 of the cuts will be at its headquarters in the ...
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PayPal offering new mobile payments service
the Mercury News reports . The new services from eBay's PayPal will also allow customers to order tickets for sporting events on StubHub, also an eBay company, and have them sent to the user's digital PayPal ...
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Intel CEO begins shakeup
Intel Corp. has announced a broad company reorganization and the creation of a new unit aimed at mobile technology. The shakeup comes just days after the company's new ...
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Richmond sets deadline for Chevron compensation agreement
Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX), the San Ramon, Calif.-based energy giant, is planning to invest part of $10 billion in a joint venture in West Africa, the San Francisco Business Times ...
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Blue Coat buys Solera Networks
The Web security provider Blue Coat Systems Inc. has agreed to buy Solera Networks for an undisclosed sum. Sunnyvale-based Blue Coat said it expects the deal to close within 30 days. Solera Networks makes big data security analytics software. Solera is based in South Jordan, Utah, and has raised a total of $51 million in venture funding, ...
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Juniper Seagate join Trinity in $10M Cloudscaling round
Cloudscaling, led by CEO Michael Grant, raised $10 million in a round that included Juniper Networks and Seagate Technology as new investors. "Elastic cloud" startup Cloudscaling said on Wednesday that it raised $10 million in a round that included Juniper Networks and Seagate Technology as new investors. They joined existing investor Trinity Ventures in funding the San Francisco-based ...
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Skyhigh Networks pulls in $20M to keep clouds safe
Skyhigh Networks, led by CEO Rajiv Gupta, raised $20 million this week from Sequoia Capital and Greylock Ventures. Skyhigh Networks CEO Rajiv Gupta says most businesses have no idea how many clouds their workers are tapping into nor the risks that may pose. His company just raised $20 million in venture funding and issued a challenge to prove he is right. Cupertino-based Skyhigh guarantees it ...
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EV plugin locator app startup Xatori acquired
Xatori, a Palo Alto startup led by CEO Forrest North, has been acquired by Recargo. It's Plugshare app that helps locate electric vehicle plug-in stations will continue with that name and North will become Recargo's chief operating officer. Xatori, whose Plugshare app helps electric vehicle owners find the nearest plug-in station, has been sold to Recargo, a Southern California company ...
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Beaumont votes to ban medical marijuana shops
BEAUMONT, Calif. -; A Riverside County city has become the latest to try banning medical marijuana dispensaries in the wake of a state Supreme Court ruling permitting ...
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OC to seek state permission to charge for rescues
http://bit.ly/12t0myy ) says county supervisors voted Tuesday to propose state legislation and Assemblyman Don Wagner has agreed to carry a ...
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Bear Roams SoCal Neighborhood
The bear has been climbing fences and roaming through residences' back yards. The bear surprised two horses as it emerged from one backyard, then walked through another corral with three horses a few blocks ...
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Jenny Lins death remembered with Castro Valley service candlelight walk
CASTRO VALLEY -- A service to mark the 19th anniversary of teenager Jenny Lin is planned for Friday.The public service will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Castro Valley Library. A candlelight walk in downtown Castro Valley will take place afterward.No arrests have been made in the death of Jenny, 14, who was killed in her home on May 17, 1994.The Jenny Lin Foundation sponsored a contest to raise ...
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Gov. Jerry Brown Bay Bridge not going to open unless its ready
BERKELEY -- A little more than a week before engineers are expected to disclose whether the Bay Bridge's new span can open as planned Labor Day weekend, Gov. Jerry Brown said Monday that he's taking the situation "very seriously.""That thing is not going to open unless it's ready, and the engineers are telling me that they're doing the kind of work that will be ...
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Oklahoma Search and rescue expert from Oakland to aid in relief efforts
Dos residentes pasan caminando junto a un auto destruido mientras recorren el martes 21 de mayo de 2013 un vecindario de Moore, Oklahoma, devastado el lunes por un tornado. (Foto AP/Charlie ...
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Hollywood Divided on Google Glass
Steven Tyler Cancels ASCAP Expo Appearance, Offers Naked Google+ Hangout Instead Does Google glass have a bright future in Hollywood? The prototype eyeglasses, which Google has begun offering to developers and select insiders for $1,500 in advance of a major rollout later this year, have become the talk of the tech community. They connect to the Internet and allow wearers to take pictures, send ...
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A day at the Bay Area Maker Faire the greatest show-and-tell on Earth
Bay Area Maker Faire . Hardware hackers, inventors, open-source enthusiasts, and creators of all manner of DIY hardware and software were on hand, and there was a line of people waiting to see them that wrapped around the San Mateo County Events Center's parking lot well before the gates opened at 10am on a Saturday morning. With only a few hours to hit the highlights before my flight, I ...
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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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