Yahoo is being scrutinized for Taobao, a software program created by one of the company’s partners. The program is used in China and prevents Internet users from evading web censors.
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News about Tim Cook’s compensation package are beginning to leak out to the press, and it seems that he will be rather comfortable in his new job.
Police are investigating a fatal stabbing in San Jose’s Seventrees neighborhood Saturday night, according to San Jose police.
Just a decade ago, the word “tweet” was easily defined as “a weak chirping sound, as of a young or small bird.” That may still be what it means when you’re reading a children’s book, but more savvy logophiles know that a tweet is more commonly used today to describe “a very short message posted on the Twitter Web site.”
The last time Jeanine Sanchez-Harms was seen alive was in July, 2001. Ten years later, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office has determined that Maurice Nasmeh is responsible for her death.
After 35 years of shaping the computer industry, Steve Jobs announced that he is resigning his position as CEO of Apple. Jobs has served as CEO since July 30, 1997. In that time the company’s stock soared 9,020 percent, so that for a brief time this month, Apple was the largest company in the world, valued at $350 billion.
Rising costs and complaints have cast a cloud over one of the city’s favorite events, Music in the Park. The San Jose Downtown Association will decide this fall if this should be the 23rd and final year of the free summer concert series.
When Luis Lourenco was a 12-year-old kid pushing his skateboard down Alum Rock Avenue in east San Jose, the words he heard from every other storefront weren’t “Good morning” or “Buenos dias.” They were “Bom dia.” The neighborhood just east of Highway 101 was once known as Little Portugal. Depending on what GPS system one uses, the name still turns up on some maps, but today the area might be better called little Michoacan or Little Saigon.
San Jose native Joe Cirone has worked in restaurants most of his adult life, but until opening Hay Market Restaurant in Willow Glen three weeks he never had a place that was all his. Years ago, he worked under David Kinch at Sent Sovi and went on to help start restaurants all over the country as a consultant with the CB5 Restaurant Group. But at 41, he tired of living out of a suitcase and wanted to settle down. And he saw an opportunity in Willow Glen.
The news from HP is getting increasingly confusing. Last week, the company announced that it was spinning off its computer and smart phone divisions, and that it was buying the UK-based firm Autonomy for an estimated $10 billion.
