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Santa Cruz Gang Task Force Arrests Man Who Fled During Probation Check
SANTA CRUZ (CBS SF) — A man was arrested after attempting to flee from officers during a probation compliance check Friday night in Las Lomas, a Santa Cruz sheriff’s sergeant said. Santa Cruz County sheriff’s Gang Task Force went to a home on Harrington Road in Las Lomas to conduct a probation compliance check of Thomas Koch, 24, at about 11 p.m., Sgt. Stefan Fish said. When ...
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Suspect Dies After Struggle With Sacramento Police Officers
SACRAMENTO (CBS/AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of a suspect who died after what’s being described as a violent struggle with Sacramento police officers who were called to a retail store by a clerk who told a 911 dispatcher that she feared for her safety. Police say the trouble started around 6 p.m. Friday when the clerk at a Metro PCS store called 911 and said the man ...
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Bicyclist Injured In Crash With School Bus In San Jose
[…] first because it was the first link in the Feed, a cyclist was hit by a school bus in CA. Bicyclist Injured In Crash With School Bus In San Jose OK it was only technically a bus because it was being used to transport school children otherwise ...
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Search Parties Scour SF For Missing Men
Friends say that he went to the beach by himself after the race. His family, co-workers and friends have spent the week looking for him. They had an organized search Saturday ...
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Good Samaritans Help Nab Campbell Robber
Bay Area Proud is NBC Bay Area's community outreach and volunteering initiative. We hope you'll join us at our events, where our on-air talent often roll up their sleeves and help out on ...
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100s Search For Missing Emeryville Man Last Seen At Bay To Breakers
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — About 200 family members and co-workers from as far away as Washington state gathered Saturday morning to search for an Emeryville man missing since Sunday near Ocean Beach after the Bay to Breakers race. Beau Rasmussen, 27, who walked the Bay to Breakers race, was last seen when he took a photo of friends on his cell phone at 1:30 p.m. at 30th Avenue and John F. ...
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Yahoo Buying Tumblr for $1.1 Billion
Yahoo has agreed to acquire blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash. With more than 300 million monthly unique visitors and 120,000 signups every day, Tumblr is one of the fastest-growing media networks in the world. Tumblr sees 900 posts per second and 24 billion minutes spent on site each month. On mobile, more than half of Tumblr's users are using the mobile app and do an ...
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Giants ATT Park Concession Workers Call One Day Strike
The workers dispute isn't against the Giants. The workers are employed by a company called Centerplate, which is the San Francisco Giants’ food and beverage ...
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Home For Sale in Almaden Valley Catches Fire
Five people were displaced in a house fire this morning in San Jose, fire officials said. Crews responded to a report of a fire at a structure on Timberview Court at about 4:30 a.m., according to fire officials. That is in the Almaden Valley portion of San ...
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Narsai David Book Review A History Of Food In 100 Recipes
is an utterly fascinating hybrid of a cook book and a history book. Of course, no two people trying to write the history of food would pick exactly the same recipes. Here are a few of Sitwell's choices that really caught my ...
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Turkish Premier visits Silicon Valley
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Silicon Valley to see latest informatics developments SAN FRANCISCO - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, "We wanted to see the latest developments in informatics sector by visiting the Silicon Valley before we hold a bid for FATIH project because we plan to realize a similar project in Istanbul." Turkish Prime Minister ...
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White House Agrees DOMA Should Be Repealed But Dianne Feinstein Not A Traitor
WASHINGTON - MARCH 16: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) listens during a news conference on gay marriage on Capitol Hill on March 16, 2011 in Washington, DC. Feinstein and sixteen other Democrats introduced a bill to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) Given how excited people get about taxes, it is surprising ...
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Silicon Valley investors bet on Tesla as electric car age arrives
Tesla again boosted investor confidence by repaying a US$465 million US government energy loan nine years early. The payback comes after Tesla's higher-than-expected sales forecast and its newly launched Model S sedan, which is receiving some rave reviews. "Confidence from investors stems from a range of factors and recent announcements," says the Tesla spokesman Karl Berridge. ...
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Walnut Creek Las Lomas High School wrestler dies suddenly of brain aneurysm
WALNUT CREEK -- With just two weeks left until school lets out for summer, the Las Lomas High School community has suffered a devastating blow with the loss of 18-year-old junior Amir Khakimov, a fierce competitor and athlete who died Tuesday from bleeding in the brain. A student known for his smile and called by his wrestling coach "the glue" that held the team together, Khakimov had ...
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A family remembers a fallen soldier
ALAMEDA -- A shadow of uneasiness fell upon Stephanie Fisher that night as she talked with her son while he prepared to leave for Afghanistan on his third combat tour."I felt the worst kind of dread," Fisher said. "It was deep and dark and all-consuming. I told him, 'Just say you can't go right now.' He said, 'Mom, I have the same feeling as you.'" ...
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Lyft Takes Off With $60 Million
-- Lyft, a mobile ridesharing app, has received $60 million in Series C funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Other investors include Mayfield Fund and Founders Fund. The company launched last June offering a ridesharing app in San Francisco and is now offering 30,000 rides a week. It now is available in Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle. The funding will be used to help Lyft to expand to more ...
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HP to Sell $169 Android Tablet
POSTED February 27, 2013 PALO ALTO -- HP announced plans in April to sell the Slate, an affordable Android Jelly Bean consumer tablet that provides customers with easy access to Google Mobile services with a starting price of $169.With a 7-inch diagonal screen and weighing 13 ounces, the HP Slate is an ideal trusted personal companion, featuring a stainless-steel frame and soft black paint in ...
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Electronics Arts CEO Resigns
POSTED March 18, 2013 REDWOOD CITY -- Electronic Arts, the world's leading gaming company, announced that John Riccitiello will step down as Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Board of Directors, effective March 30. The Board has appointed Larry Probst as Executive Chairman to ensure a smooth transition and to lead EA's executive team while the Board conducts a search for ...
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Google CEO Page has Paralyzed Vocal Cords
Google CEO and co-founder Larry Page announced on his Google Plus page that he has paralyzed vocal cords and also suffers from a rare condition called Hashimoto's thyroditis. Page has not spoken at recent investor events and his voice has been much softer over the past year. Page said a doctor discovered he had left vocal cord paralysis 14 years ago after suffering a bad cold and his ...
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Belkin Buying Ciscos Linksys Unit
POSTED January 25, 2013 PLAYA VISTA - Belkin, a private company based in Playa Vista, CA, with operations and sales in more than 100 countries, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Cisco’s Home Networking Business Unit, including its proven products, technology, well-known Linksys brand and talented employees. With global operations, Linksys’ main office ...
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VC Firms Raised $20.6 Billion in 2012
POSTED January 15, 2013 NEW YORK -- U.S. venture capital firms raised $20.6 billion from 182 funds during full year 2012, a 10 percent increase by dollar commitments compared to full year 2011, and a three percent decline by number of funds, according to Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). During the fourth quarter of 2012, 42 U.S. venture capital funds ...
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PayPal Expands Retail Locations
POSTED January 14, 2013 SAN FRANCISCO -- PayPal announced it has expanded its retail in-store payment acceptance to more than 18,000 locations covering 23 chains. The 23 national brand name retailers now taking PayPal are Famous Footwear, Dollar General, Mapco Express, RadioShack, Spartan Stores, Abercrombie & Fitch, Advance Auto Parts, Aeropostale, American Eagle Outfitters, Barnes & ...
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Marvell Hit With $1.17 Billion Patent Ruling
POSTED Decmeber 27, 2012 SANTA CLARA -- Marvell, a global leader in integrated silicon solutions, announced that on December 26, 2012, a jury in Pittsburgh delivered a verdict in a lawsuit brought by Carnegie Mellon University ("CMU") against Marvell and Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. ("MSI"), Marvell's U.S. operating subsidiary, in the United States District Court for the ...
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LinkedIn Signs Up Over 200 Million Members
POSTED January 11, 2013 MOUNTAIN VIEW -- LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network on the Internet, announced that it has reached 200 million members. New members continue to join LinkedIn at a rate of two per second. The company has added more than 13 million members since its last announcement on November 1, 2012. Since reaching 100 million members in March 2011, LinkedIn has ...
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HTC Introduces The One
, key new HTC Sense innovations that reinvent the mobile experience and set a new standard for smartphones. "People today immerse themselves in a constant stream of updates, news and information. Although smartphones are one of the main ways we stay in touch with the people and information we care about, conventional designs have failed to keep pace with how people are actually using ...
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Silicon Valley's Expo ambitions
Moffet Field, a fairly unknown former military airbase in Silicon Valley near Mountain View and Sunnyvale, may become the centerpiece of the 2020 World Expo if Governor Schwarzenegger and other advocated of a California bid get their way.
California wants one of its cities to host the 2020 World Expo, the event is a seminal one on the world calendar and is expected to draw in over 70 million visitors to Shanghai, the city currently hosting the exhibition, which last six months. Read more
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