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San Franciscos Michael Crabtree tears Achilles but not expected to miss entire season
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Coach Jim Harbaugh confirmed that 49ers No. 1 wide receiver Michael Crabtree suffered a torn right Achilles tendon and that Crabtree underwent surgery Wednesday morning. Harbaugh also said that Crabtree is not expected to miss the entire 2013 season, though he declined to give a timetable for Crabtree's return. The injury happened Tuesday during a 7-on-7 drill ...
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49ers Extend Team Voice Ted Robinson
preseason contest between the two teams, with Denver holding an 18-16 edge over San Francisco. During last year's preseason matchup in Denver, the 49ers defeated the Broncos 29-24.-This will mark Denver's first preseason trip to Candlestick Park since 2009 when the 49ers edged the Broncos ...
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Chez Panisses grand reopening
Robin MacSwain, left, and June Johnson, background, work on a new frame installed on the fire damaged Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley on Tuesday April 30, 2013. The restaurant has been closed since the March 8 fire. (Doug Oakley/Bay Area News Group) (Doug Oakley) its reservation phone line May 27 at 9 a.m., and online reservations can be made ...
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Messaging app imo.im raises $13.3 million
MSN , Steam, VKontakte and Yahoo. The service enables private and group chat, sharing of multimedia files and photos, voice and text messaging and searching of chat histories. The company claims more than 7 million mobile downloads, 750,000 unique daily visitors and delivery of an average of 50 million messages per ...
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Kaiser goes for the gold LEED certification for all major projects
"By adopting the LEED standard for all new major construction, we are demonstrating our commitment to green building strategies and to the total health of our communities," said Don Orndoff, Kaiser's senior vice president of National Facilities Services. Kaiser Permanente, the Oakland-based healthcare giant, plans to score LEED gold certification for all its new major projects ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...