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  • WordPress claims bump up from Tumblr deal

    Rival blogging service WordPress claimed late Sunday that its imports from Tumblr shot from roughly 600 posts per hour to 72,000 as news of Tumblr's pending acquisition became known. All Things D cited ...

  • Second union to strike UC med centers in sympathy with AFSCME on Tuesday unions face limits

    UC Davis Medical Center . The University Professional & Technical Employees/Communications Workers of America Local 9119 represents roughly 3,400 workers at UC medical centers in San Francisco, Davis, Los Angeles, Irvine and San Diego. AFSCME -- the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 -- represents nearly 13,000 patient care workers at the academic ...

  • Fremont Bank expands wealth management to compete with Wells Fargo others

    Fremont Bank is boosting its wealth management offerings as the Bay Area's largest community banks go up against the region's big banks for affluent clients. Fremont Bank ...

  • Newsle Inc. raises $1.65 million

    Newsle Inc., a San Francisco startup, raised $1.65 million in its first round of venture funding. The company makes software that mines online news for reports about friends or colleagues for users of social networks such as LinkedIn Corp. (NASDAQ: LNKD) or Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB). Two Harvard University computer science students Axel Hansen and Jonah Varon quit school in 2011 to start ...

  • Impax board steps in to oversee Hayward manufacturing issues

    Larry Hsu is president and CEO of generic drug maker Impax Laboratories Inc. Stung by problems at its Hayward manufacturing plant that led federal regulators not to approve a treatment for Parkinson's disease symptoms, Impax Laboratories Inc. established a compliance committee on its board of directors. The FDA's citation of problems at the Hayward plant are important from the standpoint ...


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Movie Review

The Break-Up

The Break-Up

Star power is an interesting thing, especially when it goes wrong. Simply because of the presence of Vince Vaughn in The Break-Up, people have been entering the theater under the impression that they're in for an uproarious romantic comedy--When Harry Met Sally by way of ... ...

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  • Richmond 5-year-old girl dies after SUV flips

    Richmond Police Department investigators examine the scene of a fatal rollover crash on the Richmond Parkway at Hilltop Dr. in Richmond, Calif. on Monday, May 20, 2013. A 5-year-old girl died after she was ejected from the sports utility vehicle. (Kristopher Skinner/Bay Area News ...

  • Tumblr deal $1 billion new tech price

    If you're a social web company and you're not getting acquired for $1 billion, maybe you're not trying hard enough. With today's news that Tumblr will be acquired by Yahoo! for $1.1 billion, Tumblr is just the latest member of the billionaire club. Instagram got its billion in the form of $300 million in cash, the rest in stock, when Facebook purchased the photo-sharing ...

  • Thanks for just doing your job

    It's a Hollywood clich -- someone thanks the square-jawed military man of action who has just saved them from death or the world from destruction, and he says laconically, "Just doin' my job." This raises the question of whether any employees, square-jawed and decisive or meek and milquetoasty, should be thanked for "just doing their job." Over my decade or so in ...

  • San Francisco airport plans $4.1 billion in upgrades over 10 years

    San Francisco's airport plans to spend $4.1 billion over the next decade to fund a major upgrade to its facilities. The expenditures will lead to the creation of more than 36,000 jobs, according to San Francisco ...

  • San Francisco Favored to Host 50th Super Bowl

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