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Facebook Twitter to offer Google Glass apps
Google said Thursday that Facebook, Twitter and other social media companies have developed applications for its Google Glass device. The Mercury News reports that the Facebook app will allow users to take pictures with the eyeglass-like device and post them to their Facebook page. A Twitter app will also allow users to share ...
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Feinstein declines call to halt NIF budget cuts
Eric Swalwell , whose district includes Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where the fusion research facility is located. It warned that proposed budget cuts by the Obama administration could force the $3.5 billion project to shut down and cost the jobs of some 500 scientists and engineers. Feinstein responded that it was time to reassess the ...
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Wells Fargo seeking to cancel class-action status in lawsuit
Wells Fargo & Co. will ask a federal judge to reconsider his approval of class-action status in a lawsuit filed by institutional investors, Bloomberg reports. The investors claim the bank marketed a risky securities-lending program as safe. A U.S. District judge in Minnesota granted the class-action status, finding that Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) knew or should have known that the investments it ...
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Yahoo said eyeing Tumblr acquisition for $1 billion
Marissa Mayer, chief executive officer of Yahoo Inc. Reports say Yahoo Inc. is in talks to acquire the social blogging website Tumblr for as much as $1 billion. All Things D first reported rumors of Yahoo's interest in investing in Tumblr. Adweek followed up late Thursday with a report that Yahoo was interested in an outright acquisition, according to several sources. Tumblr to date has ...
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American Eagle to open San Francisco office
American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE: AEO) is based in the South Side of Pittsburgh. American Eagle Outfitters is opening an office in San Francisco and reshuffling operations in New York City. That's part of the news in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article about American Eagle's moves toward melding the retailer's online and brick and mortar operations, something the Pittsburgh Business ...
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Part of Telegraph Avenue to close on Sundays in summer
BERKELEY -- In an attempt to drive more business to Telegraph Avenue over the summer, the city will close a part of it to cars on Sundays for an all-day party with music, food and merchandise.Telegraph will be closed between Dwight Way and Durant Avenue from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. starting June 9 with live music at the intersection of Channing Street and Telegraph the entire day. Restaurants will be ...
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Huge parcel in Fremont slated for development
FREMONT -- A realty firm has bought a big chunk of vacant land in Fremont that is expected to become a key piece of the East Bay city's economic mosaic with office buildings, research and manufacturing facilities, and retail complexes.Newport Beach-based Integral Communities, which develops mixed-use projects, bought the 150-acre site near Interstate 880 and Auto Mall Parkway from San ...
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STAR test scores raise questions but dont prove cheating
Two school districts in the South Bay and East Bay showed dramatic swings in standardized test scores in recent years, similar to the fluctuations in the troubled Atlanta Public Schools, where 35 educators have been charged in a cheating scandal. In investigating the scandal, the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper looked at eight years of test scores from 69,000 schools across the nation and ...
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Police Remove Trespassers From San Francisco State University Dorm
Police respond to Mary Ward Hall on the San Francisco State University campus after reports of unauthorized people in the dorm on May 16, 2013. ...
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NHL Los Angeles 4 San Jose 3
Dustin Brown and Trevor Lewis in the final 2 minutes Thursday rallied Los Angeles to an unlikely 4-3 victory over San Jose. The defending Stanley Cup champion Kings won their sixth consecutive playoff game, letting a two-goal lead get away before coming from behind in the closing moments of the contest. Los Angeles thus took a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference semifinal series. San Jose will ...
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Colorado Rockies fall to Giants after San Francisco rallies from 6-0 deficit at Coors Field
Rockies pitching coach Jim Wright talks to Jhoulys Chacin in the fourth inning Thursday against the Giants. (John Leyba, The Denver Post) The San Francisco Giants own the Rockies like the Oregon Ducks own the CU Buffs. After the teams combined for 20 hits on a summerlike Thursday night at Coors Field, it was the Giants who stood tall with an 8-6 victory.It was San Francisco's 10th ...
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Recent violence increases focus on protecting San Francisco transgender community
Theresa Sparks, the executive director of the Human Rights Commission, spoke at a recent City Hall meeting on the subject of violence against transgender ...
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Boss talk from Kaiser
George Halvorson . If you want to read them yourself, now you can log onto Amazon.com and buy a copy of "KP Inside," a compilation of 101 of the chatty, hortatory missives from one-time wanna-be journalist Halvorson to more than 180,000 doctors and other staff nationwide. The Kindle version is just $2.99. Paperback is $12.34. (Used at $4.96.) The health care giant includes a link on ...
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San Jose Man Accused Of Fatal Stabbings Was Well Known By Authorities
An SFPD officer has been injured and several arrests have occurred after clashes between police and protesters on the campus of San Francisco State ...
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Man Found Dead At San Francisco Marina District Hotel
An SFPD officer has been injured and several arrests have occurred after clashes between police and protesters on the campus of San Francisco State ...
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Man admits to killing S.F. woman
A man has pleaded guilty to killing a woman from San Francisco in Antigua as she made a stopover in the Caribbean island for her sister's wedding. Tishara Daniel made no statement as he entered his plea Wednesday to a charge of murder in the death of 29-year-old Nina Nilssen. The director of public prosecutions in St. John's has not said what sentence he will seek when the ...
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Ex-psychiatrist William Ayres pleads no contest to charges of molesting boys
After years of legal wrangling, Dr. William Ayres, an 81-year-old former San Mateo psychiatrist accused of molesting boys during examinations in the 1990s, admitted to the charges against him Thursday. A wheelchair-bound Ayres pleaded no contest to eight felony molestation charges just four days into jury selection in his second trial in San Mateo County Superior Court. His first trial ended in ...
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SolarCity and Goldman Sachs create $500 million solar fund
San Mateo-based SolarCity Corp. announced Thursday that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. would finance more than $500 million of its solar power projects. The funding for U.S. residential solar leases is the largest such deal ever announced, SolarCity said in a statement. The agreement was initiated last year and the funding expanded in April. SolarCity has raised similar funds from banks such as U.S. ...
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Oft-reviled fisherman in court over illicit haul
The "world's greatest fisherman" has been pinched in a king-size crab scandal. Dennis Sturgell, 60, whom the San Francisco Chronicle once dubbed the "world's greatest fisherman" in a 2008 article, is facing charges of unlawful fishing in connection with an incident in San Francisco last fall in which he allegedly possessed more than 54,000 pounds of Dungeness ...
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Covenant Aviation Security could lose its contract at SFO
The firm that screens baggage at San Francisco International Airport could lose its decadelong contract this fall as the Transportation Security Administration requests proposals from other bidders two years ahead of when the contract was originally supposed to expire. Covenant Aviation Security, America's most prominent private aviation security company, has a national reputation for ...
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Hunter's Point redevelopment going forward
Hunter’s Point and the redevelopment project for the idle shipyard may or may not see a neglected part of the city transformed into a upward moving residential and commercial suburb, but the effort will be a long and costly process.
The Hunter’s Point project is an ambitious plan to redevelop a former naval shipyard and make it one of the premier residential and commercial areas of the city of San Francisco, it will cost a fortune at a time when housing prices are down and will throw up many hurdles for the company, Lennar Corporation, undertaking the project. Read more
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