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Skyhigh Networks pulls in $20M to keep clouds safe
Skyhigh Networks, led by CEO Rajiv Gupta, raised $20 million this week from Sequoia Capital and Greylock Ventures. Skyhigh Networks CEO Rajiv Gupta says most businesses have no idea how many clouds their workers are tapping into nor the risks that may pose. His company just raised $20 million in venture funding and issued a challenge to prove he is right. Cupertino-based Skyhigh guarantees it ...
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EV plugin locator app startup Xatori acquired
Xatori, a Palo Alto startup led by CEO Forrest North, has been acquired by Recargo. It's Plugshare app that helps locate electric vehicle plug-in stations will continue with that name and North will become Recargo's chief operating officer. Xatori, whose Plugshare app helps electric vehicle owners find the nearest plug-in station, has been sold to Recargo, a Southern California company ...
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Beaumont votes to ban medical marijuana shops
BEAUMONT, Calif. -; A Riverside County city has become the latest to try banning medical marijuana dispensaries in the wake of a state Supreme Court ruling permitting ...
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OC to seek state permission to charge for rescues
http://bit.ly/12t0myy ) says county supervisors voted Tuesday to propose state legislation and Assemblyman Don Wagner has agreed to carry a ...
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Bear Roams SoCal Neighborhood
The bear has been climbing fences and roaming through residences' back yards. The bear surprised two horses as it emerged from one backyard, then walked through another corral with three horses a few blocks ...
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Jenny Lins death remembered with Castro Valley service candlelight walk
CASTRO VALLEY -- A service to mark the 19th anniversary of teenager Jenny Lin is planned for Friday.The public service will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Castro Valley Library. A candlelight walk in downtown Castro Valley will take place afterward.No arrests have been made in the death of Jenny, 14, who was killed in her home on May 17, 1994.The Jenny Lin Foundation sponsored a contest to raise ...
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Gov. Jerry Brown Bay Bridge not going to open unless its ready
BERKELEY -- A little more than a week before engineers are expected to disclose whether the Bay Bridge's new span can open as planned Labor Day weekend, Gov. Jerry Brown said Monday that he's taking the situation "very seriously.""That thing is not going to open unless it's ready, and the engineers are telling me that they're doing the kind of work that will be ...
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Oklahoma Search and rescue expert from Oakland to aid in relief efforts
Dos residentes pasan caminando junto a un auto destruido mientras recorren el martes 21 de mayo de 2013 un vecindario de Moore, Oklahoma, devastado el lunes por un tornado. (Foto AP/Charlie ...
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Hollywood Divided on Google Glass
Steven Tyler Cancels ASCAP Expo Appearance, Offers Naked Google+ Hangout Instead Does Google glass have a bright future in Hollywood? The prototype eyeglasses, which Google has begun offering to developers and select insiders for $1,500 in advance of a major rollout later this year, have become the talk of the tech community. They connect to the Internet and allow wearers to take pictures, send ...
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A day at the Bay Area Maker Faire the greatest show-and-tell on Earth
Bay Area Maker Faire . Hardware hackers, inventors, open-source enthusiasts, and creators of all manner of DIY hardware and software were on hand, and there was a line of people waiting to see them that wrapped around the San Mateo County Events Center's parking lot well before the gates opened at 10am on a Saturday morning. With only a few hours to hit the highlights before my flight, I ...
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Stealthy Clique Intelligence raises $5M of planned $20M
Clique Intelligence disclosed in an SEC filing this week that it has raised $5 million of a planned $20 million funding round. Little else is known about the Redwood City startup but a URL with its name is listed with Dreamworks, whose CTO, Lincoln Wallen, is also listed as a company director. Clique Intelligence Inc. said on Tuesday that it raised for the first $5 million of a planned $20 ...
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Intuit posts 3Q profits that narrowly beat Wall Street estimates
TurboTax currently represents about a third of Intuit's annual revenue. Sales of TurboTax are expected to grow just 4 percent this year, prompting the company to invest more time and money into its online and mobile products. Shares of Mountain View-based Intuit are trading flat in early trading today, after the company posted quarterly earnings that mostly met Wall Streets expectations. The ...
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Change.org says $15M funding wont change it
Change.org, led by CEO Ben Rattray, has taken $15 million in its first big funding round since starting in 2007. Change.org CEO Ben Rattray this week took the first big investment in the company's history but insists it won't change his mind about traditional venture exits. The San Francisco-based online petition site won't go public and won't be sold, Rattray insists. So he ...
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Sonys Amy Pascal On Closing The Money Gap Between Men And Women In Hollywood
Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Lawrence who can demand top dollar. But for the most part because women are relegated to movies with smaller budget or cast as the girlfriend, they earn less. On ...
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Skullduggery In The Water Pipes Newspaper Condemns Californias Plot To Solve States Water Problems
RMS Queen Mary 2 just went under Golden Gate Bridge and arrived in San Francisco Bay (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Almost everyone in the United States has a stake in California's water wars. That's because the state grows most of the fresh fruits and vegetables the rest of us eat. But in recent years farmers haven't been able to get the water they need to grow their crops. The ...
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Analyst Apples brand is worth $185 billion and counting
Apple is the world's most valuable brand, worth an estimated $185 billion. Apple is once again the worlds most valuable brand, worth an estimated $185 billion. Thats the latest estimate from the analysts at BrandZ, who just put out their 2013 list of the 100 most valuable brands. Coming in a close second was Google, whose brand is worth an estimated $113.6 billion. In recent years, both ...
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Judges EA might have stolen college athletes face
Rutger's University football players celebrate after a field goal. Former Rutger's quarterback Ryan Hart sued Electronic Arts, claiming the company stole his likeness for a video game. A 3-member panel of federal judges on Tuesday threw their support behind a former college football player who claims Redwood City-based Electronic Arts stole his likeness for one of their video games. Ryan ...
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Coming up How much for that VC at the lunch table
Tim Draper of Draper Fisher Jurvetson is one of about 20 venture investors up for bid in a charity auction to benefit the Bay Area Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Winners get to pitch them at lunch. More than 20 top Silicon Valley venture investors are now available to the highest bidder for lunch in a fundraiser that benefits the region's Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. The Venture Capital ...
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California judge weighs whether yoga is a religion
Is yoga a religion? That's what a California judge must decide as a lawsuit regarding teaching yoga in public schools goes to trial. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of parents Stephen and Jennifer Sedlock, who contend that yoga is religious in nature and that opting out of the program in public schools would cost their children time that should be devoted to physical education, ...
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5 victims of Ill. van crash were from Baltimore
VANDALIA, Ill. -; Authorities have identified the five men killed when their Pennsylvania-bound van veered off a southern Illinois ...
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Los Angeles voters OK move to curtail medical marijuana outlets
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Voters strongly supported a ballot measure to sharply curtail the number of medical marijuana dispensaries permitted to operate in Los Angeles while boosting taxes on the sale of pot for health reasons, election returns early on Wednesday ...
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Leech Tishman adds California office
Pittsburgh law firm Leech Tishman has opened an office in Pasadena, Calif., led by Alan Kindred and Ivan Posey, veteran intellectual property lawyers who previously operated a namesake practice. It is the firms fourth office. This transaction enabled Leech Tishman to create an intellectual property practice group to its list of services. Leech Tishman Managing Partner Pete Fuscaldo said in a ...
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Sacramento home-price gain is No. 1 nationally
Home prices rose more quickly in the Sacramento region than any other major market in April, the data service Zillow.com reported. Home prices rose faster in Sacramento than anywhere else in the nation between March and April, according to a report issued Tuesday by the real estate data service Zillow.com. Across the capital region, home prices rose 3.4 percent in April. The figure was 4.1 ...
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District attorney will retry Calif. officials charged with corruption
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County district attorney's office plans to retry the case against Bell council members accused of misappropriating public funds by overpaying themselves for sitting on city boards and authorities that rarely met, according to defense attorneys connected with the ...
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California-based Foster Farms recalls grilled chicken breast strips
California-based chicken producer Foster Farms is recalling about 6,165 pounds of its ready-to-eat grilled chicken breast strips because the strips contain wheat and soy — known allergens — which are not listed on the labels of its packages, federal agriculture officials with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service said on Tuesday. There have been ...
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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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