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  • Intel Names Krzanich as New CEO

    POSTED May 2, 2013 SANTA CLARA - Intel Corporation announced that its board of directors has unanimously elected Brian Krzanich as its next chief executive officer (CEO), succeeding Paul Otellini. Krzanich will assume his new role at the company's annual stockholders' meeting on May 16. Krzanich, Intel's chief operating officer since January 2012, will become the sixth CEO in ...

  • The Funded YesGraph

    YesGraph raised $1.2 million. Here are the latest fundings from Silicon Valley companies, announced or filed recently with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Funded is a recurring feature where we post new fundings that cross our desks, as well as an archive of past fundings. Click here to search the database. Palo Alto-based YesGraph Inc. raised $1,201,979 in equity and series ...

  • Google Oracle among companies dropping subsidiaries from disclosures

    Google's disclosures of overseas subsidiaries have dropped from 100 in 2009 to 2, and both of those are in Ireland, according to the Wall Street Journal. Google Inc. and Oracle Corp. are among companies taking advantage of a Securities and Exchange Commission rule that allows companies to not disclose overseas subsidiaries unless their operations are "significant." For a ...

  • Joaquin Miller Elementary celebrates African American Living History Day

    Fourth-graders at Joaquin Miller Elementary School celebrate, learn and relive the history of the migration of African-Americans to California from the south in the 1940s with music, dance, costumes, food and ...

  • Hope Hype And Health In Silicon Valley

    hype cycle " - a jolt of excitement when I arrived, thrilled to be immersed in the scene, taking me to the "peak of inflated expectations," followed by the "trough of disillusionment" as I became better at separating out mythology from achievement. Now, I've reached what I can only hope is the "plateau of productivity." I've an even deeper belief ...


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Movie Review

À Nous la Liberté [DVD]

À Nous la Liberté [DVD]

One of the great ironies of Ren Clair's Nous la Libert is that it is widely considered to be a groundbreaking movie in pioneering the use of sound, yet Clair had initially been one of the staunchest opponents to making the movies talk. ...

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  • Bay Bridge documents reveal decisions that led to broken bolts

    OAKLAND -- Caltrans and private engineers deliberated three months in 2003 over the proper corrosion method to use on high-strength steel rods for the new Bay Bridge, a decision that led to the embarrassing failure of 32 rods a decade later.Documents reveal a series of back-and-forth letters and emails on the subject among more than two dozen engineers and designers from Caltrans and the hired ...

  • Pickup Crashes Into San Francisco’s Outer Mission Driver Flees

    Authorities said a truck crashed into this home near Florentine and Morse in San Francisco’s Outer Mission neighborhood on May 22, 2013. ...

  • Bill would prevent genetic-testing firms from using surreptitiously obtained DNA

    If you want to keep your DNA to yourself, be sure not to leave any stray hairs, Q-tips or underwear lying around. There are genetic testing companies out there willing to reveal your most intimate biological secrets to anybody -- without your knowledge or permission. And under California law, such genetic snooping is perfectly legal.Now, legislators in Sacramento are considering a bill to change ...

  • Oakland Unified announces candidates for District 4 seat

    The meetings are long, the hours unpaid and the complaints loud, but a dozen candidates including Anne Campbell Washington, chief of staff to Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, are hoping to fill the Oakland Unified School's District 4 board seat left vacant when Gary Yee stepped down to become acting superintendent on July 1. The challengers come from a variety of professional and personal ...

  • Driver dies after being impaled by metal rod on I-580 in Livermore

    LIVERMORE -- A 33-year-old Lodi man died after he was impaled by a metal rod that burst through his windshield on westbound Interstate 580 early Wednesday morning, police said. A spokeswoman from the Alameda County Coroner's officer identified him as Michael Cox. Cox was alone in the car and no one else was injured, said a spokesman from the California Highway Patrol. CHP officers responded ...

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