Whole Foods penalized for overcharging California customers
Whole Foods Markets has agreed to pay nearly $800,000 to settle charges it shortchanged customers across California by charging more than the advertised price for a variety of items, the Los Angeles...
View ArticleYahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's nap at Cannes draws snark, sympathy
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer earned headlines, criticism and sympathy after she arrived late to a client dinner and reportedly said she overslept.
View ArticlePebble Beach Food & Wine co-founder bought out
MONTEREY >> The co-founder of the company that runs Pebble Beach Food & Wine has been bought out.
View ArticleNet neutrality advocates 'occupy' Google
Occupy Oakland protesters staged a demonstration calling for for net neutrality Tuesday at Google headquarters in Mountain View.
View ArticleBiz Break: Gaggle of Silicon Valley tech firms suffer big post-earnings dives
Today: Wall Street ends week on a down note as Pandora, Maxim Integrated and Informatica plummet after their earnings reports.
View ArticleBusiness Digest, July 26, 2014: Freeline Design Surfboards marks 45 years Sunday
SANTA CRUZ Freeline Design Surfboards marks 45 years Sunday Freeline Design Surfboards is celebrating its 45th year in Santa Cruz 2-6 p.
View ArticleShareholders approve Safeway's $9.2 billion sale to Albertsons
About 96 percent of the outstanding shares of Safeway were voted in favor of the merger at a meeting at Safeway's headquarters in Pleasanton.
View ArticleAnnieglass founder fosters art in Algeria
WATSONVILLE >> Despite her recent visit to Algeria as an official U.S. arts envoy, Annieglass founder Ann Morhauser isn't looking to trade the busy life at her Watsonville studio for a...
View ArticleBox, Dropbox rethink future in midst of price war
Thanks to a price war launched by Google, Amazon and other tech giants, almost anyone with a laptop or tablet can get cloud storage for less than the price of a latte. That means Box and Dropbox, once...
View ArticleAmazon's quarterly losses alarm investors
Jeff Bezos is testing the patience of investors after Amazon missed analysts' estimates for a second straight quarter, sending the shares tumbling almost 10 percent Friday.
View ArticleBe wary of online mortgage lenders, solicitations
We have all received offers that sounded too good to be true. The challenge is to discern what is real from what is bogus.
View ArticleSanta Clara County has highest median household income in nation, but wealth...
Santa Clara County has the highest median household income in the nation, but the county's tech-fueled geyser of wealth has created a widening income gap between its high earners and its middle- and...
View ArticleGoogle investing in new super-fast Pacific Internet cable
Google is investing in a high-speed underwater Internet cable that can transmit data "10 million times faster than your cable modem.
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VC quarterly report: Looking a lot like the last dot-com boom
Any way you slice it, the second quarter this year has been bigger and better for VCs and startups than any other quarter in about a decade -- and we may have the dot-com boom to thank for at least...
View ArticleFacebook Messenger app: Myths vs. reality
Facebook's recent effort to force people to adopt its standalone mobile messaging app has privacy-concerned users up in arms. Many of them believe the app is especially invasive.
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