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Bacchus increases wine holdings with DeLille Panther Creek investment
Bacchus Capital Management LLC has boosted its wine holdings with capital investments in DeLille Cellars of Washington and the Oregon winery Panther Creek ...
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Maker Faire draws crowds in San Mateo
The Maker Faire Festival this weekend drew tens of thousands of people to the San Mateo County Fairgrounds to check out the latest do-it-yourself technology and projects. More than 120,000 people were expected to attend the annual event over the ...
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5 challenges Marissa Mayer faces on TumblrYahoo deal
Tumblr's traffic has grown rapidly since its founding, but has dipped in recent months. Its official: Yahoos Marissa Mayer cut a deal to acquire microblogging site Tumblr for $1.1 billion. The site gives Yahoo instant access to some 108 million bloggers, most under the age of 25. But the deal isn't without its share of challenges. Here are Mayers five biggest hurdles to overcome: 1: You ...
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Slideshow Steampunk Google Glass other fun from Maker Faire
Sign at entry to the Maker Faire shows the way to a few of the many attractions that covered the sprawling San Mateo event center grounds. Lock-picking anybody? "I leave my mind at home so I won't lose it at work," read a sign at the Maker Faire in San Mateo over the weekend. The annual mashup of Burning Man, science fair and gadget makers' heaven had on full display what its ...
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Exclusive 49ers COO on Super Bowl Santa Clara as the next SoMa
Paraag Marathe is the COO of the San Francisco 49ers. On Tuesday, team owners for the National Football League will decide between Santa Clara and Miami for the 2016 Super Bowl L. In an edited interview, Niners COO Paraag Marathe, a 12-year veteran of the team, shares his thoughts on Super Bowl prospects at the new $1.2 billion Santa Clara stadium and drops hints about a new, high-end 49ers ...
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2-year-old Calif boy struck in driveway by car
http://bit.ly/19Rt4vP ) the incident occurred shortly after 11 a.m. Sunday when the woman was backing out of her driveway. Police say the woman didn't see her son when she struck ...
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Websense agrees to be taken private for $905.9M
NEW YORK -; Shares of Websense surged in premarket trading on Monday after the data security company agreed to be taken private for about $905.9 ...
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Longshoreman dies after truck plunges in SF Bay
OAKLAND, Calif. -; Authorities have identified a 78-year-old Port of Oakland longshoreman who died after his truck plunged into the San Francisco ...
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Prison booze could play role in Calif murder trial
FRESNO, Calif. -; Defense attorneys say one of the two inmates accused of killing a California prison guard in 2009 was so drunk on potent homemade liquor that he couldn't understand an FBI agent's Miranda warnings ...
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Drugmaker Elan plans string of acquisitions
Elan Corp. PLC plans to pay about $338 million for a privately held, Austrian drug developer and at least $110 million for stakes in two other companies as the Irish drugmaker continues to refocus after unloading its main revenue source, an ownership stake in the multiple sclerosis drug ...
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Beach Boys Croon California Girls Live on Reunion Tour
expressed doubt regarding another full-fledged Beach Boys reunion in February. The Beach Boys' next tour date is set for September 27th in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, led by Love and ...
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Report NetApp cutting hundreds of jobs ahead of Tuesday earnings
NetApp is reportedly preparing to cut 10 percent of its global workforce. Sunnyvale-based NetApp is reportedly cutting as many as 1,200 jobs worldwideroughly 10 percent of its workforceahead of its earnings report on Tuesday. Last week, Piper Jaffray issued a private analysts note warnings investors of the impending layoffs. The Times of India today reported that the company was cutting 300 jobs ...
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How to Design Your Own Silicon Valley
For decades, people have asked a deceptively simple question: can you replicate the magic of Silicon Valley? Can you do this in businesses, organizations, and communities to unleash innovation, anywhere in the world? This is more than an academic mystery. The answer affects real lives. Every day, countless opportunities are passed by to invent better solutions, create new jobs, improve quality ...
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Oaklands 39th homicide second of the day
OAKLAND -- Police are investigating the city's second deadly shooting in less than 14 hours after a man was killed in West Oakland Sunday night. Officers were called at 6:30 p.m. to the 2900 block of West Street for a report of shots fired in the area, police said. When officers arrived they found a man suffering from gunshot wounds.The man was transported to a local hospital where he was ...
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Dont buy that MacBook Air Product refresh apparently coming in June
Supplies of Apple's MacBook Air are dwindling at retailers, which means a product refresh could be imminent. Apples Worldwide Developers Conference is coming next month, and the product rumor mill is in full swing. One of the top rumors today is that the Cupertino-based company will reveal a new MacBook Air, running Intels forthcoming Haswell chip. Apple Insider reports the available ...
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YouTube It would take 16 years to watch a single days worth of video uploads
YouTube celebrated its 8th birthday this weekend. More than 1 billion people visit the site on a regular basis. By the time you finish reading this article, YouTubers will have uploaded anywhere from 100 to 200 hours of video to the site. Thats an awful lot of funny cats. The Google-owned video juggernaut celebrated its eighth birthday over the weekend, and revealed its users are now uploading ...
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Coming up Instagram founders without filters
Kevin Systrom, right, and Mike Krieger, founders of Instagram, will be interviewed by Digg founder and Google Ventures Partner Kevin Rose in a Commonwealth Club event on May 30. Now that Yahoo has agreed to pay $1.1 billion in cash for the Tumblr blogging site, it's timely to have last year's billion-dollar buyout babies coming up on a Commonwealth Club talk. Instagram founders Kevin ...
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Yahoo Japan Hackers stole 22 million user IDs
Yahoo Japan reports hackers hit their site for the second time in less than a month, this time stealing 22 million user IDs. Yahoo Japan is telling its 200 million users to change their passwords, after hackers apparently stole 22 million user IDs in an online raid last week. It doesnt appear the hackers were able to steal passwords or password information, nor that the raid affected users ...
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Covered California to release list of health plans rates
Covered California, the new state health benefit exchange, will release a tentative list of health plans and rates for the program at a board meeting in Sacramento Thursday. Covered California, the new state health benefit exchange, will release a tentative list of health plans and rates for the program at a board meeting in Sacramento Thursday. The meeting will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in ...
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Yahoo makes Tumblr deal official vows not to screw it up
This is a screenshot of on an animation that ran on Marissa Mayer's Tumblr about buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion, which included a promise to run the blogging service as a separate business and "not to screw it up." Click the next panel to see the rejoinder to this acknowledgment about Tumblr users' unease over the deal. Yahoo confirmed that it will pay $1.1 billion for Tumblr on ...
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History of the City of Santa Barbara Part VII
ne of the most significant catalysts for the architectural development of Santa Barbara was a massive earthquake which struck at 6:42 a.m. on June 29, 1925. The earthquake destroyed or damaged many commercial buildings in Santa Barbara's business district, most of which were built of un-reinforced masonry. Unlike the commercial buildings, the vast majority of the residential structures in ...
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Yahoo takes big leap with $1.1B deal for Tumblr
Commuters who manage to make it from southwest Connecticut to New York City for work should consider staying in the Big Apple all week as crews begin rebuilding 2,000 feet of track following a commuter ...
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NBC 7 News in the Morning
Watch NBC 7 San Diego News in the Morning live weekdays 4:30 a.m. - 7 a.m. If you're seeing black, chances are the broadcast is in commercial. Stay ...
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Toll road between Highway101 and Monterey Peninsula Highway 156 stretch a candidate
It's just a 4-mile stretch of country road, but Highway 156 is a vital link between the Monterey Peninsula and the Bay Area -- and now it could become the first toll road north of Los Angeles. In a report released Thursday, the Transportation Agency for Monterey County says converting the outdated two-lane Highway 156 into a nearby four-lane toll road between Highways 1 and 101 could be ...
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Sacramento gas prices creep near $4
The average price of a gallon of regular gas in Sacramento is $3.998, compared to $3.982 last week. Gas prices continued to rise in the Sacramento region, hovering close to the $4 mark. The average price of a gallon of regular gas is $3.998, compared to $3.982 a week ago, according to the AAA Fuel Gauge Report. Thats an increase of 1.6 cents, and still 16.4 cents more than last month. A year ...
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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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