When twins are toddlers and they dress alike, it can actually be kind of cute. When twins are 30 years old and they dress alike, it gets kind of creepy. That hasn’t stopped the Winklevoss twins from donning identical suits and fluorescent green ties to promote pistachios.
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Silicon Valley is blessed with a number of good South Indian restaurants and the dosa, a thin griddle cake made from fermented rice and lentils, is one of the stars of the menu.
Located at the end of San Pedro Square next to the historic Peralta adobe, San Pedro Square Market will feature about 20 different vendors ranging from a wine bar, wood oven pizza from Naples and a local and fresh produce market.
It all began with a tweet by the CBS “What’s Trending?” Twitter feed on Friday afternoon. For a few brief moments, the world was led to believe that Steve Jobs is dead. A short time later, “What’s Trending?” removed the tweet and issued an oddly worded retraction, “Apologies- reports of Steve Job’s death completely unconfirmed. Live on.”
Rumors are circulating around the web that AOL is interested in acquiring Yahoo. Bloomberg reports that CEO Tim Armstrong of AOL has been in talks with Yahoo’s new council of advisers, now that Bartz is out of the picture. Such a merger, they claim, would help two companies now in decline to regain their momentum against such web giants as Google and Facebook. While Yahoo is valued at more than 10 times the value of AOL, Wired notes that “with additional backing and some kind of plan it wouldn’t be impossible to alter Yahoo’s financial future.”
More than 800 residents, community leaders, elected officials and civil servants gathered and marched in downtown San Jose today to mark the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Mosquitoes collected from south San Jose have tested positive for West Nile virus, according to the Santa Clara County Vector Control District.
A wrong-way driver suffered major injuries in a fiery crash in Palo Alto early this morning. The driver apparently crossed multiple lanes and aimed for a police vehicle, which avoided a collision.
A motorcyclist died from injuries sustained in a crash on U.S. Highway 101 Friday night in East Palo Alto after he lost control of the bike and hit the roadway.
The tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, came with a few valuable lessons—among them was a glaring need for better communication over emergency radios between first responders, a challenge that remains 10 years later.
