Applied Materials, Inc. announced Wednesday it will cut between 1,300 and 1,500 employees, or 10% and 12% of its global workforce, over the next 18 months as part of its restructuring plan.
SI.com has dispatched writers to report on the 32 NFL training camps across the country. Here's what George Dohrmann had to say about the 49ers' camp in Santa Clara, Calif. For an archive of all the camp postcards, click here.
A mechanical failure on a roller coaster at an amusement park in Santa Clara, California, on Monday afternoon left 24 people stranded for hours on the ride, some as high as 80 feet off the ground, authorities said.
A mechanical failure on a roller coaster at a Santa Clara, California, amusement park Monday afternoon left 24 people stranded for hours on the ride, some as high as 80 feet off the ground, authorities said.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) -- Veteran cornerback Dre' Bly signed a one-year deal Thursday with the San Francisco 49ers, who moved quickly to fill the spot created by Walt Harris' knee injury.
I don't want to necessarily say that investors were displaying a bit of good old-fashioned irrational exuberance Thursday following Wells Fargo's projected results.
Rob Sparno recently did something that 12.5 million Americans would kill to do. He did something that has never been attempted by this many people at once in the 60 years the government has been keeping records. He did something that's getting only more difficult with every day.
A sixth person has died after a shooting in a townhouse in Santa Clara, California, police said Monday.
Software and computer networking company Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced Friday it will cut up to 18%, or 6,000, of its staff in a cost-cutting move.
Dates: Nov. 24-26 Site: Lahaina Civic Center, Maui, Participants: St. Joseph's, Texas, Indiana, Notre Dame, North Carolina, Chaminade, Oregon, Alabama Official website
Applied Materials, Inc. announced Wednesday it will cut between 1,300 and 1,500 employees, or 10% and 12% of its global workforce, over the next 18 months as part of its restructuring plan.
SI.com has dispatched writers to report on the 32 NFL training camps across the country. Here's what George Dohrmann had to say about the 49ers' camp in Santa Clara, Calif. For an archive of all the camp postcards, click here.
A mechanical failure on a roller coaster at an amusement park in Santa Clara, California, on Monday afternoon left 24 people stranded for hours on the ride, some as high as 80 feet off the ground, authorities said.
A mechanical failure on a roller coaster at a Santa Clara, California, amusement park Monday afternoon left 24 people stranded for hours on the ride, some as high as 80 feet off the ground, authorities said.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) -- Veteran cornerback Dre' Bly signed a one-year deal Thursday with the San Francisco 49ers, who moved quickly to fill the spot created by Walt Harris' knee injury.
I don't want to necessarily say that investors were displaying a bit of good old-fashioned irrational exuberance Thursday following Wells Fargo's projected results.
Rob Sparno recently did something that 12.5 million Americans would kill to do. He did something that has never been attempted by this many people at once in the 60 years the government has been keeping records. He did something that's getting only more difficult with every day.
A sixth person has died after a shooting in a townhouse in Santa Clara, California, police said Monday.
Software and computer networking company Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced Friday it will cut up to 18%, or 6,000, of its staff in a cost-cutting move.
Dates: Nov. 24-26 Site: Lahaina Civic Center, Maui, Participants: St. Joseph's, Texas, Indiana, Notre Dame, North Carolina, Chaminade, Oregon, Alabama Official website
Sandra Ferguson makes a reservation at a San Jose, California, hotel through ParkSleepFly.com. But when she tries to check in, the hotel has never heard of her. Does ParkSleepFly.com owe her a refund for the $180 she has to spend for long-term parking?
Days of moist, cool weather helped firefighters get a handle on a destructive wildfire in the Santa Cruz Mountains that scorched 3,900 acres and at least 29 homes
An aggressive wildfire has burned 10 homes and spread across 3,000 acres in Northern California, officials said Thursday.
With energy prices soaring, affordable solar power would be welcomed by any entrepreneur looking to trim the electric bill. Trouble is, power generated by the most widely available technology - panels covered with photovoltaic (PV) systems, which translate sunlight into AC current - still costs two to three times more than electricity generated from coal and other fossil fuels. That may be about to change.
The company was founded in 1968 by Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore, two of the original brains behind one of the major players in early computer chip development, Fairchild Semiconductors.
Before it degenerates into a rant, and then a plea, this must first serve as a memorial. I was greeted Monday by this above-the-fold headline in the San Francisco Chronicle: SANTA CLARA DEPUTY SHERIFF VEERS INTO CYCLISTS KILLING 2.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- For Mark Nugent, the football recruiting process began in earnest for the third time on Saturday. Nugent, a pest control sales rep from Davenport, Fla., rode the recruiting rollercoaster with stepsons Jonnie (Tuskegee, 2004) and Vincent Williams (Florida State, 2008). On Saturday, Nugent came to the Orlando-area Nike Combine with his youngest son, Karlos, to begin what might be the wildest ride yet.
Antitrust investigators in South Korea have wrapped up a two-year probe into Intel Corp.'s activities in the country, the company said Tuesday.
This is better than the ball pit at Chuck E Cheese's! -- Dee, St. Louis, Ala.
The San Francisco 49ers professional football team announced on Thursday they would move to Santa Clara, California by 2012 in a decision that could impact San Francisco's bid for the 2016 Olympics.
Security software firm McAfee Inc. said Wednesday that its chairman and CEO George Samenuk would step down following an internal investigation in the ever-widening options backdating scandal, sending its shares soaring.
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake and multiple aftershocks shook the south San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday morning.
With gas prices over $3 a gallon in many parts of the country, companies and transit benefit providers alike say there's a boom in interest for any program that can help take the bite out of filling the tank.
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Chipmaker Intel said Thursday it was providing its stockholders with a quarterly cash dividend.
Commuting to a job can be a pricey proposition these days. To ease the pain, three major companies are awarding cash bonuses to employees who buy fuel-efficient cars.
National Semiconductor Corp., makers of computer chip components, Thursday reported quarterly sales and earnings fell from the same period last year, but beat estimates -- news that sent its stock higher.
8x8 VideoPhone, $299 for one; $499 for two Once a Jetsons fantasy, high-quality affordable videophones are becoming a reality. The 8x8 Packet8 VideoPhone delivers live shots of the person you're ta...
As the flu season nears, companies forced to cut back or cancel their flu vaccine programs are coming up with alternatives in a bid to keep employees healthy.
Investors might flee from technology stocks Wednesday, while watching for signs of life in the retail sector, after Intel disappointed traders with results released after the bell Tuesday.
You're on a business trip, and you have two hours between meetings. It's time for your midday run. But the thermometer is giving you 95 reasons not to get out there, and the humidity is chiming in ...
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Intel Corp. shares may be a stock to watch Wednesday, a day after the No. 1 chipmaker posted strong first-quarter results but barely missed the consensus sales target.
Investors hungry for earnings news may push shares of Applied Materials higher Thursday following news the No. 1 chip equipment maker swung to a quarterly profit.
This past summer things looked pretty bleak for 8x8. Quarterly losses at the tiny Santa Clara, Calif., firm were $1.5 million on shrinking revenues of $1.6 million. Meanwhile the stock was stuck at...
It was January 1999 in Silicon Valley, the epicenter of the dotcom bubble. Seated in his parents' living room in Santa Clara, Nipun Mehta, then a 23-year-old software developer, was pitching his id...
As the chairman and former CEO of Intel, the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer, Andy Grove has been a brilliant business strategist. FORTUNE sat down with him recently at Intel head-quarte...
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The IT business is full of stories about salesmen promising the moon and delivering only rocks. But two-year-old Peribit may be one of the few outifts that really delivers.
In the Pokemon universe, characters gain strength by "evolving" into superpowered versions of their primary-colored selves. Pokemon licenser 4Kids seems to have learned this trick well, emerging on...
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Netscape wonderboy Marc Andreessen's latest project, Loudcloud, has a lot of people talking--mostly because the company is planning an IPO in the next several months. These days IPOs attract buzz (...
Let's face it: Computers stink. I get paid to play with them all day, install new software, and troubleshoot problems, so I like them. But for you, every time they save the day there's another time...
Judging from the behavior of newly public Internet stocks, you'd think investment bankers haven't a clue about how to price an initial public offering. (Well, that may be partly true: Only psycholo...
Every hospital room is filled with objects that some medical professional decided were necessary--everything from lifesaving medical equipment to syringes and trash cans. "There is an entire profes...
When I was a teenager, I tried out the first commercial videophone at the 1964 World's Fair and thought it was incredibly cool. Sitting in an AT&T booth, I punched a few buttons on a box with a TV ...
What's the hottest tech company you've likely never heard of? Applied Materials of Santa Clara, Cal., whose stock has quadrupled over the last 12 months. A 30-year-old company with 1996 sales of $4...
"You like me! You really like me!" No, it's not Sally Field. It's the gushing of an electrical engineer attending the Westech Career Expo, a job fair for hardware and software engineers. The June W...
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Q. My wife and I have received a pitch from our alma mater to participate in a charitable remainder unitrust. We have a portfolio of stocks worth $50,000 that we originally bought for $6,000. Our c...
There is at least one group of folks who have figured out a way to make money on the Internet: professional Web surfers, who log on all day, every day, looking for sites that are useful, interestin...
If you plan to slap a low ceiling on your '95 budget, you're not alone. Since 1993, Americans have gunned their spending by an average rate of almost 5% per year, while personal income grew only 4%...
Peter Firestone, a senior manager in Ernst & Young's information technology consulting division, believes in getting close to his clients. So close, in fact, that he has no permanent office. Instea...
Since the early 1980s, Coherent (COHR, OTC, $14) has been a leader in lasers. ''They've always been one of the best,'' says Robert W. Benson, manager of the Pioneer III mutual fund in Boston, which...
South Korea, one of Asia's Little Tigers, has lost some of its roar. This year the nation's GNP is growing at around a 5% annual rate -- not bad, but a far cry from 1990's 9.3%. Many blame the snar...
Software that will make life on the road a lot easier for business voyagers will likely be offered on the much anticipated Newton, Apple Computer's so- called Personal Intelligent Communicator, whi...
Here's an economic puzzle: While executives are sitting around brooding over the terrible state of business, many have been investing vigorously in | equipment and machinery to increase efficiency ...
WHEN THIS 50ish executive's marriage ended, so did his long-range investment plans. His divorce settlement requires $25,000 in annual support payments to his ex-wife for the next five years. Zickli...
Because we do not have a monetary or banking system in the Soviet Union as you have, I came to the U.S. to study banking practices in the world's biggest market economy. Under the Soviet privatizat...
Don't look now, but the personal computer is shrinking. In recent months, four PC makers -- Atari, NEC, Poqet and Zenith -- introduced mini-machines, known as notebook computers, that are even teen...
Everything about the latest Supreme Court decision on affirmative action -- lumpily labeled Johnson v. Transportation Agency, Santa Clara County, California, et al. -- seems totally unastonishing. ...
Trucking industry analysts think this could be the year Viking Freight begins delivering more reliably to investors. At a recent $17.50 a share, Viking stock is about 40% above its price a year ago...
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Voicemail of Santa Clara, California, has developed a telephone-answering machine with a difference -- it gives each caller a tailor-made message. For example, using a push-button phone and a speci...
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