Match.com crossed the cities with the highest level of education in either technical or educational fields (no, field work in Anthropology doesn’t count) to come up with the top ten cities to find nerd love. Sunnyvale came in at the top.
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Major League Baseball is streaming live games to Facebook, hoping this will encourage users to sign up for their subscription site. The service will only be available during preseason, though it is possible that MLB will offer at least one free game during the season itself. What they want from Facebook is to see how well it can actually drive traffic to their site.
South Bay schools are sending out hundreds of pink slips as they contend with growing deficits and budget cuts. The decision comes before Gov. Jerry Brown has managed to pass his own budget, and the local budget discussions come with a caveat. If the State fails to pass a proposed tax extension or some other way to increase revenue, the consequences for local schools could be even worse.
HP Chief Leo Apotheker made his public debut on Monday, talking about dividends and cloud computing. Apotheker, who took over from a beleaguered Mark Hurd, was expected to present a clear road map for where he wants to take the tech giant. Some analysts now say that his speech was big on buzzwords but short on content.
Jose Garcia, 17, was shot on Saturday night in South San Jose. Police say that the shooting was gang-related. The perpetrators, also teens fled the scene in a ar, but were arrested a quarter of an hour after the incident occurred. Garcia is expected to survive the shooting.
Local fifth grader Sam Chamberlain is one of five finalists in Sedexo’s nationwide Future Chefs: Healthy Snack Challenge competition. His recipe, “Sam’s Spinach Roll Surprise,” is both delicious and surprising. It’s healthy too, and you can vote for it on YouTube.
Silicon Valley is waiting to see how the earthquake in Japan will affect Silicon Valley firms. Local companies are reliant on Japan, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of semiconductors. A temporary shortage is anticipated, but it is too early to tell how this will affect local companies’ bottom line.
The Board of Trustees of the CSU system may name the next President of San Jose State University as early as March 22. The number of candidates has been narrowed down to three, all from within the CSU network of schools, and all with strong financial backgrounds. This is becoming increasingly necessary as the school prepares to contend with severe budget cuts in the coming year.
The Friends of the San Jose Mounted Unit has launched a campaign to raise money to save the beleaguered unit from inevitable budget cuts. The Pony Up for the San Jose Mounted Unit Raffle is selling 25,000 tickets at $100 a piece. They hope to raise enough money to fund the Mounted Unit through 2012.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt may be tapped by the Obama administration to replace Gary Locke as the next Commerce Secretary. Another possible candidate is former Pfizer CEO Jeffrey Kindler. If this is, in fact, the decision, it pits representatives of two of the country’s largest industries for the coveted cabinet position: high tech and pharmaceuticals.
