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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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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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  • Center for Investigative Reporting to kill Bay Citizen California Watch brand names

    Robert Rosenthal , follows CIR's acquisition of the remnants of the Bay Citizen last year. Starting May 29, Rosenthal said, the other names will disappear. Berkeley-based CIR launched California Watch four years ago and acquired the remnants of the Bay Citizen in March 2012. Today's announcement appears to mark the death knell of the Bay Citizen's original mission, when the late ...

  • Buyers stand in line for Hayes Valley condos

    Alan Mark has never seen anything like 300 Ivy St. On the first weekend the sales office opened the 63-unit project in Hayes Valley attracted 350 potential buyers, some of whom arrived two hours before the office opened at 11 a.m. The five-story residential condominium, developed by Pocket Development, has attracted over 2,200 potential buyers to its interest list in just 12 weeks. Those ...

  • Vista Equity Partners buys Websense for $1 billion

    Vista Equity Partners agreed to buy San Diego cyber attack protection company Websense Inc. for about $1 billion. Austin-based Vista, led by CEO Robert Smith, closed a $3.5 billion acquisition fund a year ago this week. The 50-person firm has offices in Chicago and on California Street in San Francisco's financial district. In this deal, Vista will pay $24.75 in cash per share for Websense ...

  • San Franciscos iconic Tadich Grill headed to D.C.

    After 164 years of serving up seafood in San Francisco, the city's iconic Tadich Grill is opening a second location in Washington, D.C. The new 7,387-square-foot spot will open next year in the heart of D.C. at 1001 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, sandwiched between Capitol Hill and the White House. It'll have a similar menu to the restaurant in San Francisco in an effort to "introduce ...

  • San Jose Teen Bicyclist Killed In Crash On Way To School

    SAN JOSE (CBS SF) – A teenager riding a bicycle on his way to school was killed in a collision with a vehicle Monday morning in San Jose, a police spokesman said. The bicyclist was a 16-year-old sophomore at Silver Creek High School. The collision was reported at 7:36 a.m. in the area of East Capitol Expressway and Silver Creek Road – near Silver Creek High School, San Jose police ...

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