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  • Amazon expands Kindle Fire sales to 170 countries

    Amazon.com Inc. said its Kindle Fire tablets are now available for preorder in more than 170 countries, with its app store online in nearly 200, PCWorld reports. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is hoping the lower-priced tablets, the strongest challenge yet ...

  • Blackstone Prologis said to buy warehouse portfolio for $960 million

    Stephen Schwarzman, chairman and chief executive officer of Blackstone Group LP. Prologis Inc. has joined Blackstone Group LP in a deal to purchase a portfolio of 17 million square feet of warehouse space for about $960 million, according to reports. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. owns 80 percent of the portfolio, Bloomberg reports. Blackstone is expected to operate 9.5 million square feet of the ...

  • Apple Amazon Google targeted in European tax probe

    Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., testifies at a Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing in Washington. European leaders on Wednesday met to discuss how global firms such as Apple Inc. and Google Inc. have managed to pay nearly no taxes on sales revenue generated on the continent, the Mercury News reports. The meeting took place as the U.S. Senate this week looked ...

  • Walnut Creek approves downtown apartments

    The Walnut Creek City Council has approved a 141-apartment project that will include 18,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, the Contra Costa Times reports. Laconia Development is set to build the 164,615-square-foot project, called 1500 California, on a 1.23-acre site in the city's downtown. The development will consist of two six-story glass towers on California Boulevard, with ...

  • Discovery to launch online network

    Hoping to hook in younger viewers, Discovery Communications is launching an online network to show original series for free, using resources from the online producer Revision3, the Wall Street Journal reports. Discovery bought San Francisco-based Revision3 for $30 million in May of last year. The new Discovery online network, called TestTube, will initially run 15 original shows. They will be ...


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Movie Review

The Cell [DVD]

The Cell [DVD]

"The Cell" takes an old science fiction trope--what if we could somehow enter into another person's subconscious--and uses it to explore that unique horror of the machine age: serial killing. And, as flashy and visually inventive as the film is, its greater importance lies in the way it explores the duality of serial killers in a way most films won't dare. ...

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  • Square launches mobile payments in Japan

    Square Inc. CEO Jack Dorsey. Square Inc. has announced available of its mobile-payments system in Japan, its first market outside the United States. Merchants in the country will be able to get a Square credit card reader for free and accept payments for 3.25 percent of each transaction. The company is working in a partnership with Sumitomo Mitsui Card Corp. in the country, where people have a ...

  • Get to Know Nick Kasa

    Kasa met the Raiders coaching staff at the Senior Bowl in January and believes the relationships he built there have been helpful in his transition to the NFL. "I think it helped out a ton because I know them all already," said Kasa. "I love all the coaches too. I think they're all great guys, great coaches, and so it was definitely helpful to meet them all before I got here. ...

  • QB3 partnership to open new large life sciences incubator

    QB3 associate director Douglas Crawford, in the under-construction QB3@953: Helping life sciences startups through the 'valley of death.' A unique real estate partnership including the University of Californias QB3 institute will expand San Franciscos amount of biotech incubator space by 50 percent, providing enough room for 20 to 30 young companies. QB3 and Dewey Land Co. Inc. expect to ...

  • UC sex assault cases mishandled federal complaint alleges

    Attorney Gloria Allred said that some of the complaints allege a hostile environment for women and others charge colleges with violating the federal Clery Act, which requires accurate reporting of campus crimes. Women "will no longer accept the status quo where rapes and sexual assaults are swept under the rug and condoned by college administrators," Allred said in a statement released ...

  • Oakland City Council New budget rules approved amid tensions

    OAKLAND -- With just over a month to adopt a budget, Oakland council members approved rules aimed at preventing a repeat of last year when the final budget plan was introduced at the last minute with no chance for public vetting.The new law, passed 6-2 after a testy debate, forbids council members from submitting major budget amendments within three days of the final meeting when the budget is ...

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