Post-Christmas shopping in full swing
Christmas is over, but the shopping sure isn't, as Bay Area consumers slowly made their way back to the malls on Thursday to pick through the post-Christmas sales.
View ArticleThink Local First Santa Cruz business guide features eye-catching photos
SANTA CRUZ -- Golden waves for surfing, a spectacular sunset and towering redwood trees: They could be part of a glossy coffee-table book titled 'Memorable Images of Santa Cruz.
View ArticleBusiness Digest, Dec. 27, 2013: Health insurance deadline Friday
SANTA CRUZ -- Covered California has announced a new deadline of 8 p.m. Friday for people who started an application but were unable to complete it by Monday for coverage starting Jan. 1.
View ArticleTwitter's share price flies past moon, heads toward Mars
Just two weeks ago, when Twitter's share price first topped $50, many pundits wrung their hands, considering the company has yet to turn a profit.
View ArticleBay Federal Credit Union reissues credit cards for 5,000 members
CAPITOLA -- Bay Federal Credit Union has reissued new debit and credit cards for 5,000 of its 55,000 members who could have been among the millions affected by a security breach at retail giant Target...
View ArticleBusiness Digest, Dec. 28, 2013: Verizon adds cell site
CAPITOLA -- Verizon Wireless announces installation of a 4G LTE cell site to improve service along Cliff Drive, Capitola Road and 30th Avenue plus Portola Drive in unincorporated Santa Cruz.
View ArticleSanta Cruz County home values appreciate in 2013
SANTA CRUZ -- Real estate veteran Paul Bailey's forecast in January that home values in Santa Cruz County could rise 30 percent this year has turned out to be on the money.
View ArticleSan Jose-born Chuck E. Cheese sells for $950 million
The parent company of the Chuck. E. Cheese restaurant chain has agreed to be acquired by an affiliate of Apollo Global Management for about $950 million.
View ArticleBusiness Digest, Jan. 17, 2014: Synergy clothing sale this weekend
SANTA CRUZ -- Synergy Organic Clothing plans a sale at all three retail stores Saturday through Monday, offering 50 percent off everything in store and donating 5 percent of sales to Martin Luther King...
View ArticleJeffrey R. Scharf, Everybody's Business: Finding the best outcome
The prisoner's dilemma is alive and well as a driver of government policy.
View ArticleExtreme Santa Cruz sports entrepreneurs share their stories
SANTA CRUZ -- When three-time Mavericks champion Darryl Flea Virostko made $12,000 a month as a surfing star, he had to spend time at trade shows, which he hated.
View ArticleQuinn: Apple needs to take its lumps over antitrust monitor
Last week, a federal judge denied Apple's request to remove a court appointed monitor, whom the firm said was demanding so much that it was hurting Apple's business. Apple has long been secret and it...
View ArticleDeparting Yahoo exec may collect up to $109 million in pay and severance
Henrique de Castro, Yahoo's former No. 2 executive, could end up collecting an eye-popping $109 million for his 15 months on the job, an executive pay firm estimated Thursday, despite being ousted this...
View ArticleBusiness Digest, Jan. 18, 2014: Silke buys Peninsula
SANTA CRUZ -- Silke Communications, based in Eugene, Ore., has acquired Peninsula Communications and its offices in Salinas, Monterey and Santa Cruz. The purchase includes a communications facility,...
View ArticlePeter Boutell, Lending a Hand: New Year's Resolutions for homeowners
New Year's Resolutions for homeowners
View ArticleCool things you can do with a GoPro camera
Users have strapped the small cameras to themselves and then cliff-dived into the abyss. They've attached them to their pets, bikes and cars. And they've shot them into the air, dropped them in the...
View ArticleWolverton: Backing up photos? Safety's in the cloud
After losing hundreds of photos and videos a year ago, I’m determined not to let that happen again, so while I’ve already backed everything up to an external hard drive, I’ve been looking at online...
View ArticleFlickr, Shutterfly, Google Plus and more: How cloud photo services match up
After losing hundreds of photos and videos a year ago, I’m determined not to let that happen again, so while I’ve already backed everything up to an external hard drive, I’ve been looking at online...
View ArticleCassidy: Target hack signals that the privacy war is over − and we lost
At a time when the National Security Agency, websites, social media platforms, stores and even our Nest thermostats are collecting everything they can about us, our best bet might be to simply...
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