Bristol Myers Squibb closes immuno-oncology, cell therapy-focused Redwood City site

fiercebiotech.com One of Chris Boerner’s first tours as the new CEO of Bristol Myers Squibb was of a 256,000 square-foot research facility in the Bay Area concentrated on the tumor…

Chart: How much more will it cost you to own vs. to rent a home in the South Bay

siliconvalley.com Not surprisingly, California cities rank high in a new list of places where it is cheaper to rent vs. to own a starter home. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, Calif. ranked…

Tesla laying off 3,300 workers in CA due to declining sales, increased competition

abc7.com Tesla laying off 3,300 workers in CA due to declining sales, increased competition Earlier this month, CEO Elon Musk announced the company would be slashing its workforce by…

SunPower details Bay Area job cuts, will slash more than 100 jobs in region

siliconvalley.com SAN JOSE — SunPower has decided to chop 100-plus Bay Area jobs, part of the company’s move to launch wrenching cutbacks and reduced costs in a California solar energy market…

Book Review: “On the Move” Is a Must-Read Account of U.S. Climate Migration

nakedcapitalism.com Yves here. The press has been reporting on more and more extreme weather events, not just unusual heat but also torrential rains that dramatically flooded Dubai. That’s on…

San Francisco Buyers Bring Its Luxury Housing Market Back to Life

wsj.com A recovery is under way in the Bay Area, as interest-rate shock finally wears off and stock-market gains fuel high-end home sales

U.S. map shows "hazard zones" for rising sea levels, tsunamis

newsweek.com A map by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reveals the areas of the U.S. that are most at risk from flooding and tsunamis as the sea level continues to…

Billionaire heiress, 16, whose mom founded Flickr and dad founded Slack vanishes in San Francisco's notorious

dailymail.co.uk The heiress to a $1.6 billion tech fortune vanished from her mother's home in affluent Marin County, California, four days ago and is feared to be wandering the streets of a…

San Jose-based solar-power firm cutting 1,000 workers

siliconvalley.com By Mark Chediak | Bloomberg SunPower Corp. will eliminate more than 25% of its workforce as the company copes with a prolonged slump in the rooftop solar business. SunPower…

Big San Jose manufacturing and industrial project pushes forward

siliconvalley.com SAN JOSE — A big manufacturing and industrial complex proposed for empty land in San Jose that could accommodate hundreds of jobs is taking a key step forward. The project…

Who’s selling your digital data? California offers tools to protect online privacy

siliconvalley.com By Khari Johnson | CalMatters If you visited a Planned Parenthood in the continental United States in the past few years then the company Near Intelligence, a data broker,…

90-unit affordable housing development opens in Sunnyvale

siliconvalley.com Sunnyvale is now home to 90 units of new affordable housing. Local government and community housing leaders gathered on Tuesday for the grand opening of Meridian, which…

How ‘Dìdi’ Director Sean Wang’s Bay Area Roots Helped Him Make His Feature Debut

hollywoodreporter.com Like many coming-of-age directorial feature debuts, Dìdi (弟弟) is semiautobiographical, but Sean Wang’s personal background played as much of a role in literally making the…

Tesla to lay off thousands of employees in Fremont and Palo Alto

ktvu.com Electric vehicle company Tesla will lay off thousands of employees across its Bay Area locations this June, according to documents filed with the California Employment…

Verizon to offer Latin music fans the chance to win a VIP experience at La Onda

benzinga.com NEW YORK, April 24, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Starting today through May 13, Verizon is inviting Latin music fans to for a chance to win a trip to Festival La Onda by…

California Faces Up to $20 Billion in Costs to Update Grid for EV Mandates

tftc.io Researchers at the University of California, Davis, Yanning Li and Alan Jenn, have identified that nearly two-thirds of the state's feeder lines are currently inadequate to…

Study: More than 25% of Americans expect to never retire

siliconvalley.com By Fatima Hussein | Associated Press WASHINGTON — More than one-quarter of U.S. adults over age 50 say they expect to never retire and 70% are concerned about prices rising…

Tesla plans huge Bay Area job cuts, including Fremont car factory

siliconvalley.com FREMONT — Tesla has decided to slash thousands of jobs in the Bay Area, including layoffs at the company’s electric vehicle factory in Fremont, staffing reductions that are…

BranchOut Food Announces Third Contract with Nation's Largest Retailer, to Total $8M in Annualized Revenue

benzinga.com New commitment valued at $300,000 brings total annualized value to over $8M BEND, Ore., April 24, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BranchOut Food Inc. BOF, a pioneering food…

Column: As taxpayers tire of handouts to billionaires, Major League Baseball demands public funding for a Vegas stadium

latimes.com The latest rendering of a proposed ballpark for the Oakland Athletics after their planned move to Las Vegas. The longest-running melodrama in sports is less about events on…

Once the West Coast’s crown jewel, San Francisco’s real estate market is crashing

nypost.com San Francisco, once the crown jewel of the West Coast, is now teetering on the brink of collapse — and it seems like nobody is sounding the alarm. The city’s housing market,…

Take a look inside the California estate celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz just listed for $8.995M

businessinsider.com Annie Leibovitz's estate in Bolinas, California, had previously been photographed by famed American photographer Ansel Adams. Jacob Elliott Celebrity photographer Annie…

California lawmakers are tired of Clear’s airport line-cutters

fastcompany.com California could become the first state to transform backlash to services offering front-of-queue privileges into a law that targets TSA line-jumpers. The California Senate…

Tech CEO on the merits of virtual work: ‘To think we should work in the exact same way as our industrial forefathers just seems odd to me’

aol.com Marco Zappacosta doesn’t need to see his people to trust them. That’s why Thumbtack, the online directory geared at matching homeowners with service professionals that…

Dunn-Edwards Paints will move into some Kelly Moore Bay Area stores

siliconvalley.com SAN JOSE — Dunn-Edwards, a big paint retailer, will greatly widen its footprint in Northern California by adding 17 stores in the region, a welcome expansion poised to fill…

Firefighter, forester, trail builder: The first US Climate Corps jobs are here

siliconvalley.com Alicia Clanton | (TNS) Bloomberg News Restoring coastal ecosystems with oysters in Florida, protecting forests from wildfire in California and maintaining a cultural site…

Post Malone, Tyler, the Creator, The Killers, Sturgill Simpson to Headline 2024 Outside Lands Festival

billboard.com This summer’s Outside Lands Festival (Aug. 9-11) in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park will feature headlining sets from Tyler, the Creator, The Killers and Sturgill Simpson,…

Tyler, the Creator, The Killers and Sturgill Simpson to Headline Outside Lands 2024

variety.com Tyler, the Creator, the Killers and Sturgill Simpson have been tapped to headline the upcoming Outside Lands Festival, taking place on August 9-11 in San Francisco, CA. The…

Can anything stop Nvidia’s Jensen Huang?

economist.com Jensen Huang is a man on a mission—but not so much that he does not have time to tell a good story at his own expense. Last spring, when his semiconductor company, Nvidia,…

SV Chat: Meet the man who programs those wild movies at Alamo Drafthouse

siliconvalley.com Jake Isgar is onstage at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission theater in San Francisco trying to convince a full house that the 1988 B (minus) film “Primal Rage” is well worth…

Tech CEO on the merits of virtual work: 'To think we should work in the exact same way as our industrial forefathers just seems odd to me'

fortune.com Marco Zappacosta doesn’t need to see his people to trust them. That’s why Thumbtack, the online directory geared at matching homeowners with service professionals that…

High-speed rail to Las Vegas is coming as soon as 2028. Here are more details

latimes.com Passengers board the train at the Brightline Fort Lauderdale Station, part of the intercity rail line connecting Miami and Orlando, Fla. Southern Californians can expect to…

Saratoga Dry Cleaners to close April 30 after 40 years

siliconvalley.com After almost 40 years of serving the local community, Sean and Choon Lee will close Saratoga Dry Cleaners on April 30. The dry cleaners at 14495 Big Basin Way actually…

Is David Ellison Ready To Run Paramount?

thewrap.com Skydance Media CEO David Ellison may be able to withstand rolling a plane more than one time per second. But is the producer and part-time daredevil flier ready to take the…

California housing developers win first ‘builders remedy’ battles in fight to bypass local zoning

siliconvalley.com A year-long tug-of-war between California cities and developers over the state’s anarchic “builder’s remedy” law is starting to make its way to the courts as litigants spar…

Could the Supreme Court make it easier for Bay Area cities and beyond to clear homeless camps?

siliconvalley.com Against the backdrop of growing public frustration over a deepening homelessness crisis, the U.S. Supreme Court could soon make it easier for cities in the Bay Area and…

A Gen X couple moved from California to Massachusetts to escape high housing costs: 'We still pinch ourselves over how lucky we are.'

businessinsider.com Steve Dalton and Sydney Sauber recently moved from the Bay Area to Worcester, Massachusetts. Steve Dalton Steve Dalton and Sydney Sauber left California for a lower cost of…

Kaiser nurses rail against AI use in hospitals at San Francisco protest

sfstandard.com Clad in red shirts and holding signs reading, “Trust nurses, not AI,” hundreds of nurses from across California picketed outside Kaiser Permanente's San Francisco Medical…

California Homeowners: Insured No More Amid Fire Danger

statista.com America's largest and, for some owners, only option for a home insurer is pulling back its operations in the state of California, leaving many with no more options to secure…

U.S. Bank’s new health care practice is a shot in the arm for its Bay Area growth

bizjournals.com U.S. Bank has seen its business banking presence in the Bay Area double over the past five years.

PG&E strives to slow pace of increases in electric and gas bills: company CEO

siliconvalley.com RICHMOND — PG&E’s top boss held out hope Monday to the utility’s beleaguered ratepayers that they can expect customer monthly bills to flatten out and someday even fall…

63 Albertsons in California to be sold to C&S Wholesale if Kroger merger OK’d

siliconvalley.com Kroger and Albertsons Cos. on Monday, April 22 announced a revised plan to divest 579 stores, 63 of them in California, to C&S Wholesale Grocers as part of a proposed $26.4…

Oscars: Film Academy Updates Rules and Campaign Protocols, Announces Changes to Special Awards

hollywoodreporter.com As the film awards industrial complex reemerges from a brief hibernation following the 96th Oscars and begins thinking about the 97th, which will take place on March 2,…

Oscars to Require Theatrical Runs in 6 Cities for 2025 Awards

thewrap.com The Oscars have instituted stricter rules for theatrical distribution for the Academy Awards that will take place in March 2025, the Academy announced Monday. The new rules,…

New Rules For 2025 Oscars Affect Best Picture, Drive-Ins, Qualifying Metro Areas & More

deadline.com The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revealed some rules changes for the 97th Annual Academy Awards next year. Among them are putting the brakes on the…

Oscar Rules Updated for 2025 Awards: Original Score Shortlist Increased, Drive-In Theater Eligibility Removed and More

variety.com The Academy’s Board of Governors has approved the new awards rules and campaign regulations for the 97th Oscars ceremony to be held on March 2. Significant changes have been…

Yvonne Orji Developing Yaa Gyasi’s Novel ‘Transcendent Kingdom’ For Sony Pictures Television

deadline.com Sony Pictures Television has optioned the novel Transcendent Kingdom written by Yaa Gyasi to be developed by producer Yvonne Orji under her First Look Deal. The second novel…

Travel Troubleshooter: I accidentally paid twice for my hotel. Can I get a refund?

siliconvalley.com DEAR TRAVEL TROUBLESHOOTER: I recently reserved and paid for a room at the Marriott Vacation Club Pulse at Custom House, Boston, through Booking.com. I prepaid $1,191 for my…

David Ellison's journey from trust fund kid to media mogul vying to buy Paramount

latimes.com David Ellison Ellison’s Skydance Media is a strong contender to acquire Paramount Global in a deal that would give the 41-year-old control of the storied movie studio behind…

US Strategy for Great Power Competition: More Graft and Hope for Wonder Weapons

nakedcapitalism.com The problems with the so-called “arsenal of democracy” are well known. It can’t produce enough shells to keep up with its client states’ wars. Elsewhere, there are design…

El Sobrante: Police once again raid Appian Way massage parlors in sex trafficking investigation

siliconvalley.com EL SOBRANTE — In what should hardly come as a surprise to any who has been paying attention, police here raided two massage parlors on Appian Way as part of an investigation…

California gas prices are spiking again, what’s going on?

siliconvalley.com It just might be time to buy an electric vehicle. Or a bike. Gas prices are spiking again in the Bay Area — as much as 20 to 30 cents a gallon higher than the California…

Here's where the world's top 0.001% are putting their money, according to wealth experts

cnbc.com The uber wealthy live a world apart and their investing strategies also look vastly different from the average investor's portfolio. "While there is no official threshold,…

Home is where the honeybees are: Cupertino beekeeper shares knowledge with locals

siliconvalley.com During the spring, honeybees are just about everywhere in the South Bay, and so is beekeeper Jack Carter. Armed with a cellphone with a honeycomb-patterned case and a garage…

It’s not just skyscrapers and high-density

siliconvalley.com Outside Morgan Hill in southern Santa Clara County, an orchard could be razed for 320 single-family homes. On a pasture on the northern edge of Benicia, cows could give way…

Gov. Phil Murphy Visits Hollywood to Tubthump New Jersey Production Tax Credits: ‘Our Incentives Are as Competitive as Any in the World’

variety.com Gov. Phil Murphy has made TV and film a top priority for New Jersey ever since he took the helm of the Garden State in 2018. This week, Murphy made a West Coast swing to…

In bid to keep Roots soccer in town, Oakland to buy county’s shares of former Raiders practice site, Coliseum lot

siliconvalley.com After months of back-and-forth negotiations with Alameda County went nowhere, Oakland officials have proposed spending a combined $20 million to buy the county’s ownership…

Sid Sriram, The First South Indian Artist To Perform At Coachella, Discusses The “Beautiful Blur” Of Playing The Fest & Being Discovered By A. R. Rahman

deadline.com Thirteen years ago, a young Sidharth Sriram promised himself that the first time he would attend Coachella would be the first time he performed. Last weekend, that dream…

List: Where to find cheap gas in the South Bay right now

siliconvalley.com As gas prices surge in the Bay Area, many drivers are willing to go the extra mile to find a cheaper tank of gas (think Costco). Here are the cheapest gas stations to fill…