Larry Magid: China ownership grabs headlines, but TikTok has reasonable teen safety policies

siliconvalley.com On Tuesday, President Biden signed a law that would require ByteDance, a Chinese company, to sell TikTok within the next year or face a ban in the U.S. TikTok has said that…

Sell Any Rally Now and Grab These Passive Income Dividend Kings

247wallst.com The stock market has been on a massive roll since last October. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq finished the first quarter up over 10%, and the venerable Dow Jones Industrial…

‘You Want to Get Smacked?!’ San Jose Mayor’s Team Gets Into Wild, Physical Scuffle with Man While Trying to Film Street Interview

mediaite.com What was supposed to be an interview with San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan (D) turned into a physical scuffle between a passerby and an off duty police officer working as the…

'GalaxyCon Exclusives' Presents Limited Run Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 150 Variant Cover

benzinga.com FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., April 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- GalaxyCon, the largest independently owned consumer and fan engagement company, has partnered with IDW's Teenage Mutant…

Zscaler Introduces First of Its Kind Digital Experience Monitoring Copilot to Enable IT Support and Operations with AI

benzinga.com SAN JOSE, Calif., April 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ZS, the leader in cloud security, today announced groundbreaking innovations - ZDX Copilot, Hosted Monitoring, and Data…

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…

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…

Meta's Reality Labs posts $3.85 billion loss in first quarter

cnbc.com Facebook co-founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, speaks at an Oculus developers conference while wearing a virtual reality headset in San Jose, California. Meta…

New California bill would restrict line-skipping service Clear at airports in name of equity

foxbusiness.com New legislation being proposed in California would restrict the expedited security screening company Clear from operating in the state’s airports, as proponents say 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…

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…

Map shows new California high-speed rail routes

newsweek.com A series of maps show the full extent of California's proposed high-speed rail routes that would provide an efficient and quick way of travel between the state's major…

The least affordable metro areas for America's middle class

cnbc.com California remains one of the most expensive states to live in, according to a recent Creditnews Research study that found America's middle class is being priced out. In the…

There's only one way left to fix Tesla: fire Elon Musk

businessinsider.com Tesla is on the brink again. Sales are slowing even after the company slashed prices. The company is laying off 10% of its workforce — 14,000 workers from Shanghai to San…

Mixed-use downtown San Jose housing tower may sprout on retail site

siliconvalley.com SAN JOSE — A highrise being eyed in downtown San Jose could sprout on part of a retail center site and add several hundred residences to the urban core of the Bay Area’s…

Saying goodbye to the Burger Pit, another classic San Jose joint

siliconvalley.com Kevin Ashford showed up with his camp chair at 9 a.m. Tuesday, first in line for the last day of business at the Burger Pit on Blossom Hill Road. ”I’d like to get the last…

Brickbat: Who's Counting?

reason.com An estimated 171,000 Californians are homeless, making up about 30 percent of all homeless people in the U.S. The state spent $24 billion in fiscal years 2018–2023 on 30…

Bay Area housing complex lands key loan despite sour real estate scene

siliconvalley.com MILLBRAE — A big transit-oriented development has landed a crucial loan that will buoy the financial fortunes of a residential complex next to a BART station, the project’s…

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…

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,…

Tesla layoffs draw suit claiming not enough warning for California workers

siliconvalley.com By Robert Burnson | Bloomberg Tesla Inc. was sued by a former employee who claims the company’s decision to lay off about 10% of its workforce in a global retrenchment…

How Logitech used webcams in conference rooms to collect data on how employees use the office

aol.com In 2022, as keyboard and software maker Logitech was nearing the end of a lease on its U.S. headquarters in Newark, Calif., company leaders were confronted with a question…

Los Gatos eases story pole restrictions for new developments

siliconvalley.com Story poles may help Los Gatos residents get a sense of how much space new developments will occupy, but the state told town officials that requiring the poles may keep new…

New California bill would ban line skipping service Clear from airports in name of equity

aol.com New legislation being proposed in California would ban the expedited security screening company Clear from operating in the state’s airports, as proponents say the service…

Constance Wu-Starring ‘East Bay’ Picked Up by Level 33 for North America, World Sales (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com “East Bay,” a dark comedy film starring “Fresh Off the Boat” and “Crazy Rich Asians” star Constance Wu, has been picked up for North American distribution and world sales by…

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…

Cadence Design Systems Stock Drops On Weak Q2 Guidance

investors.com Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), a maker of electronic design automation software, late Monday topped analyst estimates for the first quarter but guided well below views for…

Cash for your backyard? Companies, homeowners try to capitalize on a California law

marketplace.org Since 2018, a number of U.S. cities and states have changed their laws to allow more housing in most single-family neighborhoods. Among them are Minneapolis; Austin, Texas;…

California could ban Clear, which lets travelers pay to skip TSA lines

cbsnews.com A new bill, the first of its kind in the U.S., would ban security screening company Clear from operating at California airports as lawmakers take aim at companies that let…

Baby boomer packed housing markets are unfazed by higher mortgage rates

aol.com Housing is all out of whack. Real estate is cyclical, and typically when mortgage rates shoot up, sales decline, and home prices fall; and eventually because home prices…

Bitcoin's next gen tokens are here. Inside the Silicon Valley hacker house where 17 coders helped build the new memecoin market

cnbc.com In the East Foothills of San Jose, California, 17 coders working for the popular ordinals marketplace maker, Magic Eden, piled into a 4-bedroom, 3,875 square-foot house…

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…

US shoppers buy less bread in bad news for farmers

siliconvalley.com Michael Hirtzer | Bloomberg News (TNS) America’s wheat crop is making a comeback. Too bad U.S. grocery shoppers want to buy less food made with it. Related Articles Business…

Baby boomer filled housing markets are seeing more supply and falling prices

fortune.com Housing is all out of whack. Real estate is cyclical, and typically when mortgage rates shoot up, sales decline, and home prices fall; and eventually because home prices…

Big San Jose apartment project lands key piece of real estate funding

siliconvalley.com SAN JOSE — A big San Jose apartment project that could sprout in downtown San Jose has landed interim funding while the site’s developer scouts for financing to construct…

ACR Poker's Next High Stakes Adventure Comes To Stunning Montenegro With Life-Changing Payouts

benzinga.com SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, April 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- ACR Poker's High Stakes Adventures are the richest travel prize packages in poker and now they've unveiled the next…

Elon Musk and Tesla: Is the CEO’s controversial behavior responsible for company’s struggles?

siliconvalley.com The richest man in the world says and does what he wants. And often, it’s contentious and provocative. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has attacked U.S. election integrity, embraced…

From McDonald's to Chipotle, here are the restaurants that have decided to raise menu prices in California

businessinsider.com California franchisees who run restaurants from McDonald's to Vitality Bowls have passed higher wage costs to consumers. Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty…

Cost of work visas surges, upping the ante for multitude of California's small businesses

latimes.com Ally Bolour, an immigration attorney, says extra visa expenses have made some clients delay planned expansions to the U.S. When his entertainment industry clients want to…

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…

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…

Analyst reboots Roku stock price target ahead of earnings

thestreet.com The radio comedian Fred Allen once expressed his disdain for television by declaring, "They call it a medium because nothing is well done." But that was a long time ago. TV…

Startups want to geoengineer a cooler planet. With few rules, experts see big risks

npr.org Startups want to geoengineer a cooler planet. With few rules, experts see big risks SAN JOSE, Calif. — One morning late last year, an RV pulled into a parking lot on the…

America’s 10 Greenest Cities

247wallst.com We should all strive to live in harmony with the Earth, no matter where we live. Disregard for our home is only doing damage to ourselves and our posterity. Wherever…

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…

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…

Judge Approves Google $62 Million Location Privacy Settlement

mediapost.com A federal judge has granted final approval to a class-action settlement that requires Google to pay $62 million for allegedly collecting and storing location data from…

Super Micro Stock Plunges 18% On Lack Of Preliminary Results. It's A Big Sell Signal

investors.com Super Micro Computer (SMCI) stock plunged Friday after the data-center computer specialist announced the date for its next quarterly earnings report without giving…

Synaptics Astra™ SL-Series Wins Best in Show at Embedded World

benzinga.com SAN JOSE, Calif., April 19, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Synaptics® Incorporated SYNA today announced that its Astra SL-Series of embedded AI-native Internet of Things (IoT)…

Super Micro Stock Plunges 18% After Computer Maker Doesn't Give Preliminary Results

investors.com Super Micro Computer (SMCI) stock plunged Friday after the data-center computer specialist announced the date for its next quarterly earnings report without giving…

California Forever study outlines Solano County’s economic gap

siliconvalley.com Solano County has the lowest wages and highest unemployment of any Bay Area county, according to a new study released by California Forever and authored by Michael Genest,…

Professional services firm’s Santana Row deal in San Jose is long-term: official records

siliconvalley.com SAN JOSE — A professional services titan that recently struck a deal for a big office lease in San Jose crafted the agreement as a long-term commitment to the Santana Row…