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  • Drummond New Foothill Square positive development for East Oakland

    Construction workers renovate the old Foothill Square shopping center, Monday, May 20, 2013 in Oakland, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News ...

  • Apples overseas tax web cited as Tim Cook prepares to testify

    The Washington Post reports that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) shielded some $74 billion in profits from U.S. tax laws with the use of subsidiaries in Ireland. The news came ...

  • Google dropping Checkout for Google Wallet

    Google Inc. said it is retiring its seven-year-old Google Checkout service this November as it focuses on Google Wallet as a rival for PayPal. The news comes a week after Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) made several major updates to its Google Wallet service, such as the ability to store payment credentials on the Chrome Internet browser. The Google Checkout service allows people to store credit card ...

  • Yahoos Tumblr future examined in reports

    Marissa Mayer placed on the $1.1 billion purchase of the social platform Tumblr. Mayer is possibly betting Yahoo's (NASDAQ: YHOO) future on the acquisition of a six-year-old blogging startup that has no profit and little revenue. ...

  • Flickr updates include 1 terabyte of storage

    Yahoo's Flickr photo-sharing service is now offering a full terabyte of storage space, beating out the company's rivals. The larger space was among other updates to Flickr that Yahoo announced Monday, along with its deal to buy the blogging startup Tumblr for $1.1 ...


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Jigoku [DVD]

Jigoku [DVD]

The afterworld is an ugly place in Nobuo Nakagawas morbid cult classic Jigoku, the literal translation of which is Hell. It is precisely in hell--or, more specifically, numerous hells--that the final third of the film takes place, and it is Nakagawas brutal, surreal imagining of the realms ... ...

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  • Adobe sees complaints over subscription move

    the Mercury News reports . Adobe announced earlier this month that it would move the publishing software into the cloud and turn to a subscription-only model, as opposed to local installation. Critics of the change fear that will mean higher costs over time. The subscription plan costs $49.99 per month per user, as opposed to the packaged versions of various components that sell for a few ...

  • Business analytics startup Adaptive Planning raises $45 million

    The software startup Adaptive Planning has raised $45 million in a funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Also joining in the round were existing investors Onset Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, RBC Venture Partners, Cardinal Venture Capital and Monitor ...

  • Oakland hills Crews watch for hot spots in Joaquin Miller Park

    A firefighter works on hotspots among the trees as crews finish off a brush fire near Skyline Blvd. in the hills above Oakland, Calif. on Monday, May 20, 2013. (Kristopher Skinner/Bay Area News ...

  • Veteran of Richmonds neighborhood wars changes life

    Eric Welch, a fellow with the City of Richmond's Office of Neighborhood Safety, visits one of the four locations where he was shot in Richmond on May 7, 2013. Welch is moving on from his rough background and has been chosen to serve as Summer Policy Fellow for the Campaign for Youth Justice in Washington, D.C., this ...

  • Green Beret from Hayward buried in Arlington National Cemetery

    A Green Beret from Hayward who died of injuries sustained in combat in Afghanistan was laid to rest Monday with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery.Sgt. 1st Class James Grissom's family, including his wife, parents and sister, attended the burial of his cremated remains.The family chose Arlington in Virginia over other military cemeteries, said his father, Jim Grissom, of ...

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