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Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth CenturySilicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth CenturyWhat accounts for the growing income inequalities in Silicon Valley, despite huge technological and economic strides? Why have the once-powerful labor... Read More >
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TOKYO -- The Prius hybrid has spearheaded sales growth for Toyota Motor in Japan for more than a year, helped by government subsidies.
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Change aims to cut carbon footprint
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Cisco Systems, the giant San Jose maker of networking equipment, intends to buy Arch Rock, a San Francisco developer of smart-grid software.
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District attorney lays out prosecution's case in opening statement at 9 a.m.
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The U.S. Justice Department confirmed Monday that Hewlett-Packard paid $55 million to settle claims that the Palo Alto tech giant gave illegal kickbacks to other companies that recommended HP products to government agencies.
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Facebook users can access Places and share their whereabouts -- and those of friends with them -- with their Facebook contacts.
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Time was that Silicon Valley companies accused Microsoft of corporate treachery. Now Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has turned the tables, filing a marquee-quality lawsuit Friday that accuses Google, Apple, Yahoo, eBay, Facebook, YouTube and Netflix of patent infringement.
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Netflix released an app that puts its instant streaming service on Apple's iPhone and iPod touch. The app is a free download, with content available to Netflix subscribers who pay $8.99 a month or more.

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On Aug. 12, a Boeing 767 commercial night flight from Hawaii was six miles out from Mineta San Jose International Airport when it was struck with a laser beam.
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As of Tuesday, the results of all searches made from Yahoo sites came from Microsoft's Bing search engine, a milestone for an alliance that the two companies hope can take on Google in search.
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A former Santa Clara County correctional officer who was convicted of sexually abusing his young niece was sentenced Monday to 12 years in prison and waived his right to appeal the decision.
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It was part old-home week, part newfound-liberation day and part just an afternoon to rock out to music in the sun as thousands gathered Sunday at Discovery Park for the 35th annual San Jose Pride Festival.
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