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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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Hollywood director to film The Colour in NZ
Source: Thinkstock Hollywood director Peter Webber will film in New Zealand the adaptation of Rose Tremain's highly acclaimed novel The Colour. Set in the New Zealand gold rush in the 1860s, The Colour charts the fortunes of newly-married immigrants Joseph and Harriet Blackstone, who have travelled to New Zealand with Joseph's widowed mother. Finding life as a small farmer more ...
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Garcetti Leads Greuel in Los Angeles Mayor’s Race
LOS ANGELES -- City Councilman Eric Garcetti took the lead in early returns in his bid to become the mayor of Los Angeles on Tuesday, hoping to bring to close a nearly two-year race that pitted him against another moderate Democrat with years of experience at City Hall. But his opponent, City Controller Wendy Greuel, refused to concede ...
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UC hospitals face second day of worker walkout
LOS ANGELES -; Workers at University of California hospitals around the state were expected to picket for a second day before an intentionally brief strike ends early ...
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How Infrastructure Investment Brought America’s Game To Santa Clara California
John Maynard Keynes has been validated once again. Through a wise investment in infrastructure, and in forward growth, the city of Santa Clara, California has turned what once was a center for dried fruit into the high tech heart of the United States. And through this investment in the infrastructure needed for growth, the city has not only gained a status once considered only for major cities, ...
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Garcetti builds growing lead as LA picks new mayor
(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes). Los Angeles Mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti gets a kiss from his wife Amy Wakeland, as they vote early Tuesday morning, May 21, 2013, in Los ...
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San Diego looks to spoil MLB debut for Cards Lyons
Tyler Lyons says he didn't set any sort of timetable for when he wanted to make his first Major League start. And he knows he can't control the length of his initial stint in The Show, temporary though it may be with Jake Westbrook on his way back. But that won't take away from his Major League debut Wednesday night, when the left-hander faces fellow rookie Burch Smith and the ...
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Bumgarner looks to shake off rocky start
Giants left-hander Madison Bumgarner experienced a few firsts in his last start against the Rockies. However, they were ones he'd rather forget. Bumgarner surrendered nine runs to Colorado, exceeding his previous career high of eight on June 21, 2011, against the Twins. He also allowed his first Major League grand slam. That major mistake with two outs in the fifth inning chased Bumgarner ...
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LA voters back measure to cap number of pot shops
Medical marijuana has been legal in California since voters approved it in 1996. However, regulation of so-called pot shops has been haphazard in many communities, none more so than LA. The number of dispensaries in the city surged since 2007, reaching an estimated 1,000 and prompting a series of unsuccessful efforts by city lawmakers to bring order to the ...
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10 geography experts to compete in national finals
WASHINGTON -; Ten young geography experts will field questions about history, cultures, landmarks and climates from "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek as they vie for the title of National Geographic Bee ...
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GOP has lead in Central Valley state Senate race
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -; A Republican is leading a field of five candidates in a hotly contested Central Valley state Senate contest, while Democrats hope to force a runoff election in which they would have a better chance at ...
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Bay Bowl San Francisco to Host 50th Super Bowl
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LAX gets a facelift
Los Angeles International Airport has decided to go under the knife again; the sixth busiest airport in the world is in the final stages of a multi-million dollar face lift of its international terminal, aimed at bringing the airport back up to world class standards in design and service and now there is talk of even further redevelopment for the domestic terminals as well.
LAX was once considered a pioneering facility in the early days of the jet age, the famous Theme Building, built to resemble a flying saucer that has just landed is testament to this period of advancement and modernism. The building features a circular restaurant below four concentric spider-like legs, in-keeping with the space-age theme of the building, this restaurant is called Encounters. Read more
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