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  • School burglarized after Facebook computer donation

    A month after Facebook reportedly donated computers to a San Bruno elementary school that had been burglarized, thieves struck again Tuesday, police said. At 8:41 p.m., officers reportedly responded to a burglary alarm at El Crystal Elementary School at 201 Balboa Way. Officers discovered a window had been shattered and also a door forced open to one of the classrooms, San Bruno police Lt. Tim ...

  • Brave clerk scares off armed thug

    A courageous corner store clerk in the Mission District called a gun-toting thug's bluff Wednesday and thwarted the robbery, police said. About 6:30 p.m., a thug reportedly walked into the liquor store in the 3000 block of ...

  • Lyft gets $60 million from Andreessen Horowitz et al.

    Zimride Inc., maker of the Lyft mobile device ride dispatching application that is earning private vehicle owners money and the ire of traditional taxi firms, has raised a $60 million Series C round of venture funding led ...

  • Cloudscaling raises $10 million

    Trinity Ventures , Juniper Networks and Seagate. Founded in 2006, San Francisco-based Cloudscaling was previously a cloud consulting company that pivoted solely into making software products in 2011. Cloudscaling's CEO ...

  • Twitter links ads to TV programs

    Taking advantage of the fact that large numbers of people love to tweet about television programs they are watching, Twitter Inc. is testing targeted ads linked to the TV ads its users likely see, the company said Thursday. Linking promoted tweets with TV content would give San Francisco-based Twitter a new way to tap into what remains the largest ad spending category -- television ...


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Night Train Murders (L’ultimo treno della notte) [Blu-Ray]

Night Train Murders (L’ultimo treno della notte) [Blu-Ray]

Note: This essay contains spoilers and reveals the films ending, so if you have not seen it already, proceed with caution. Throughout the 1970s and 80s the lower rung of the Italian film industry was a veritable factory in the low-budget horror rip-off trade, shamelessly ... ...

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  • Arms but no hammer in Laundromat spat

    It was a clean break. Two women decided not to press charges against each other after a brawl at an Oceanview Laundromat last weekend. The dispute spun out of control when one of the women removed the other woman's clothes from a dryer, police said. About 6:45 p.m. Sunday, police responded to the 200 block of Broad Street and spoke with one of the women, who claimed the other woman had ...

  • Wibidata raises $15 million

    WibiData, a maker of technology that uses data to make better computer applications, has raised a $15 million in a Series B round of funding led ...

  • Visa Inc. hires JP Morgan Chases Ryan McInerney as president

    Charlie Scharf . McInerney was CEO of consumer banking at JP Morgan Chase (NYSE: JPM), overseeing a network of 5,600 bank branches and some 75,000 employees. That unit had about $14 billion in revenue. He steps into a slightly reconfigured president's role that has been vacant a couple of months ...

  • Daily Madden 49ers Must Prepare For A Season Without Crabtree

    Michael Crabtree tore his Achilles tendon in practice Tuesday. Coach Jim Harbaugh said Crabtree could return in mid-November. But John Madden told the KCBS Radio morning crew the 49ers should prepare for a full season without him. ';It’s a tough loss. It’s a big loss,'; Madden said. ';I think it’s one of those things that maybe he could be back this year, ...

  • Kaiser Anthem Blue Shield and Health Net head list of Covered California plans for 2014

    Covered California's Peter Lee. Kaiser Permanente, Anthem Blue Cross, Blue Shield of California, Health Net and nine smaller, regional health plans will participate in Covered California next year, the health benefit exchanged authorized by the Affordable Care Act. The smaller participants include the Bay Area's Alameda Alliance for Health, San Francisco-based Chinese Community Health ...

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