The opening of downtown San Jose’s San Pedro Square Marketplace is still a few months off, but the public can get its first peak at the long-anticipated (and long-delayed) market at SJMADE on Sept. 17-18. SJMADE will hold a vendor fair showcasing San Jose artists, designers and brands alongside a handful of market vendors. The event runs 11am-7pm both days.
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Forget about the Mafia. Forget about growing turnips. Facebook has an exciting new social game, which revisits the life of Moses and was produced by Hexify, a Mountain View-based company.
The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, which takes place this weekend at Mazda Reaceway Laguna Seca, is the one time of the year when the world’s coolest old cars, ordinarily hidden in temperature-controlled garages, get a chance to stretch their legs under the warm California sun.
Back in 1859, British astronomer Richard Carrington reported seeing what is now believed to be the biggest solar storm in history. A cloud of electrons, ions, and atoms escaped the sun’s corona and hurtled through space, eventually hitting the Earth.
Despite all the efforts to stop teen smoking, the problem is on the rise in Los Gatos, at least according to a coalition of anti-tobacco activists.
Protests by Anonymous against authoritarian policies hit a little closer to home over the weekend, when the hacker group announced that its latest target is BART. The decision to go after BART was in response to the rapid transit system’s decision to block wireless signals in its downtown stations.
Google’s Larry Page announced that the company has purchased Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, or $40 per share. The move increases Google’s size by roughly 60 percent.
Few people noticed it at the time, but August 12, 1981, was a seminal date in world history. Less than two weeks after the launch of MTV, IBM introduced the original Model 5150 IBM PC.
Google is getting into gaming with the addition of a new Games button to its Google+ social networking site. This means that that Googlers can share the same experience as their nonplussed friends at Facebook.
Oil prices are down again, and with them the value of oil’s leading producers, including Exxon once the largest company in the world. The biggest blow to Exxon came on Tuesday when, for a brief time, it was toppled from its position by Apple.
