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Second union to strike UC med centers in sympathy with AFSCME on Tuesday unions face limits
UC Davis Medical Center . The University Professional & Technical Employees/Communications Workers of America Local 9119 represents roughly 3,400 workers at UC medical centers in San Francisco, Davis, Los Angeles, Irvine and San Diego. AFSCME -- the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 -- represents nearly 13,000 patient care workers at the academic ...
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Fremont Bank expands wealth management to compete with Wells Fargo others
Fremont Bank is boosting its wealth management offerings as the Bay Area's largest community banks go up against the region's big banks for affluent clients. Fremont Bank ...
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Newsle Inc. raises $1.65 million
Newsle Inc., a San Francisco startup, raised $1.65 million in its first round of venture funding. The company makes software that mines online news for reports about friends or colleagues for users of social networks such as LinkedIn Corp. (NASDAQ: LNKD) or Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB). Two Harvard University computer science students Axel Hansen and Jonah Varon quit school in 2011 to start ...
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Impax board steps in to oversee Hayward manufacturing issues
Larry Hsu is president and CEO of generic drug maker Impax Laboratories Inc. Stung by problems at its Hayward manufacturing plant that led federal regulators not to approve a treatment for Parkinson's disease symptoms, Impax Laboratories Inc. established a compliance committee on its board of directors. The FDA's citation of problems at the Hayward plant are important from the standpoint ...
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Richmond 5-year-old girl dies after SUV flips
Richmond Police Department investigators examine the scene of a fatal rollover crash on the Richmond Parkway at Hilltop Dr. in Richmond, Calif. on Monday, May 20, 2013. A 5-year-old girl died after she was ejected from the sports utility vehicle. (Kristopher Skinner/Bay Area News ...
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Tumblr deal $1 billion new tech price
If you're a social web company and you're not getting acquired for $1 billion, maybe you're not trying hard enough. With today's news that Tumblr will be acquired by Yahoo! for $1.1 billion, Tumblr is just the latest member of the billionaire club. Instagram got its billion in the form of $300 million in cash, the rest in stock, when Facebook purchased the photo-sharing ...
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Thanks for just doing your job
It's a Hollywood clich -- someone thanks the square-jawed military man of action who has just saved them from death or the world from destruction, and he says laconically, "Just doin' my job." This raises the question of whether any employees, square-jawed and decisive or meek and milquetoasty, should be thanked for "just doing their job." Over my decade or so in ...
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San Francisco airport plans $4.1 billion in upgrades over 10 years
San Francisco's airport plans to spend $4.1 billion over the next decade to fund a major upgrade to its facilities. The expenditures will lead to the creation of more than 36,000 jobs, according to San Francisco ...
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San Francisco Favored to Host 50th Super Bowl
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Center for Investigative Reporting to kill Bay Citizen California Watch brand names
Robert Rosenthal , follows CIR's acquisition of the remnants of the Bay Citizen last year. Starting May 29, Rosenthal said, the other names will disappear. Berkeley-based CIR launched California Watch four years ago and acquired the remnants of the Bay Citizen in March 2012. Today's announcement appears to mark the death knell of the Bay Citizen's original mission, when the late ...
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Buyers stand in line for Hayes Valley condos
Alan Mark has never seen anything like 300 Ivy St. On the first weekend the sales office opened the 63-unit project in Hayes Valley attracted 350 potential buyers, some of whom arrived two hours before the office opened at 11 a.m. The five-story residential condominium, developed by Pocket Development, has attracted over 2,200 potential buyers to its interest list in just 12 weeks. Those ...
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Man fatally falls at Bay to Breakers party in SF
The incident happened at an apartment building across from the Golden Gate Park panhandle around 3:30 p.m. Sunday several hours after the race began. Police say the man apparently fell from the roof on to the pavement. Paramedics rushed him to the hospital but he succumbed to his injuries. His name has not yet been released. Also during Sunday's event, police arrested 21 people for ...
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Vista Equity Partners buys Websense for $1 billion
Vista Equity Partners agreed to buy San Diego cyber attack protection company Websense Inc. for about $1 billion. Austin-based Vista, led by CEO Robert Smith, closed a $3.5 billion acquisition fund a year ago this week. The 50-person firm has offices in Chicago and on California Street in San Francisco's financial district. In this deal, Vista will pay $24.75 in cash per share for Websense ...
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San Franciscos iconic Tadich Grill headed to D.C.
After 164 years of serving up seafood in San Francisco, the city's iconic Tadich Grill is opening a second location in Washington, D.C. The new 7,387-square-foot spot will open next year in the heart of D.C. at 1001 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, sandwiched between Capitol Hill and the White House. It'll have a similar menu to the restaurant in San Francisco in an effort to "introduce ...
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San Jose Teen Bicyclist Killed In Crash On Way To School
SAN JOSE (CBS SF) – A teenager riding a bicycle on his way to school was killed in a collision with a vehicle Monday morning in San Jose, a police spokesman said. The bicyclist was a 16-year-old sophomore at Silver Creek High School. The collision was reported at 7:36 a.m. in the area of East Capitol Expressway and Silver Creek Road – near Silver Creek High School, San Jose police ...
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Rimini Street borrows $15 million from Bridge Bank
Rimini Street Inc . borrowed $15 million from Bridge Bank, and plans to spend the money on expanding its business around the world. Redwood City-based Rimini Street does maintenance and support work for business software sold by giants ...
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Bechtel Corp. revenue rises to $37.9 billion in 2012
Bechtel Corp.'s revenue rose 15 percent in 2012 to hit $37.9 billion. A year earlier, San Francisco-based Bechtel reported revenue of $32.9 billion. Bechtel got contracts for $23.9 billion in work in 2012, down from a whopping $53 billion in contracts in 2011. That $53 billion would have been hard to equal -- the company called it an "unprecedented performance." Led by CEO and ...
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Thief begs for mercy after unholy heist
A thief cried out for mercy in the Outer Mission district last week after he was taken down for stealing a man's crucifix, police said. The robbery was reported at about 1:20 p.m. Thursday in the 5200 block of Mission Street. The victim had been walking in the crosswalk at Mt. Vernon Avenue when the suspect, who had been walking past him, reached out and ripped the metal chain and copper ...
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Tough luck for alleged Rub Me groper
This creep is definitely no genie, according to prosecutors. A man accused of grabbing the buttocks of young girls at the Target store in San Bruno while wearing a T-shirt that read "Rub Me For Luck" asked a judge last week to throw out the charges, but was denied. Glenn Albrecht, a 50-year-old UPS deliveryman, faces child molestation charges in connection with two separate alleged ...
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Communication Intelligence Corp. raises $1.15 million
Communication Intelligence Corp . raised $1.15 million by selling preferred stock to the Phoenix Group and some other investors. Redwood City-based CIC (OTCQB: CICI) makes technology used in electronic signatures and document verification. Philip Sassower --age 72 -- is its CEO and chairman. In the past, he was CEO of Phoenix Enterprises LLC, a part of the Phoenix Group. In this deal, which ...
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Tool nailed for storage shed heist
This woman always gets stuck with the tools. A burglary suspect who was fleeing Belmont police earlier this month ditched his car along with his girlfriend, leaving her behind with all the tools he had allegedly stolen from a storage shed, according to prosecutors. Still, 25-year-old Pacifica resident Mitchell James Borden failed to evade officers following the callous May 4 incident, San ...
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Microsofts new Xbox to challenge Apple to Facebook in games
Amazon.com Inc. , which are introducing new software and devices for gaming. Microsoft's updated Xbox will use its Kinect sensor that can recognize faces and movements. The deice will also recommend content based on users' interests. The new Xbox will be in stores by the year's ...
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Target opens San Francisco tech center
Target on Friday unveiled its new technology office in San Francisco that will be its West Coast hub for development of mobile and online services, the Mercury News reports. The office will give the retailer a foothold in the Bay Area, where other companies including Walmart have set up tech centers to take advantage of local talent in developing online technology. Target has hired nearly 20 ...
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San Francisco unions protest Kaiser premium hike
San Francisco's Health Service System has teamed up with labor unions to protest Kaiser Permanente's latest rate hike, the LA Times reports. The system and the unions are demanding that Kaiser provide an alternate proposal and better explain the need for rate increases. Kaiser insures 45,000 public workers in the area. Read more at the LA ...
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Yahoo to update Flickr as it announces Tumblr purchase
Yahoo! Inc. signage is displayed at the company's headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, U.S., on Tuesday, April 16, 2013. Yahoo! Inc., the biggest U.S. Web portal, forecast sales that fell short of analysts' estimates as it continued to lose advertisers to Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. Photographer: David Paul ...
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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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