Last week Cisco announced that it was laying off 6,500 employees. Now the company is asking San Jose to release it from its commitment to develop 1 million square feet in Alviso by 2012.
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There will be no medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Gatos. The decision was made at a public meeting Monday night. Though these meetings in other cities have gotten heated, the Los Gatos version was serene, since no one actually spoke, either for or against the dispensaries.
When it opened four years ago Dio Deka represented a new breed of Greek restaurant: modern, upscale and sexy. The Los Gatos place became an instant hit where the previous Italian restaurant in the Hotel Los Gatos failed to generate any sparks. Today Dio Deka is part of a new resurgence of high-end Greek restaurants in Silicon Valley.
I knew that industrial meat production in America was a disaster—a disaster for the environment, for the people who work in the feedlots and chicken warehouses and for the animals unlucky enough to live their short, miserable lives in cruel confinement. But it takes actually seeing how the vast majority of livestock are raised to really turn my stomach and my conscience.
It seems that everyone is taking advantage of the Netflix price hike to grab a piece of the pie. Blockbusters is offering new deals for new users, and the Huffington Post recently published articles on regular and offbeat alternatives to Netflix.
Anonymity has long been a bastion of the Internet. For many it’s a plus, but others see it as a problem. Apparently Google+ is moving toward the latter position. They are insisting that users use their real names to get an account.
Police are investigating a shooting that killed one East Palo Alto teenager and hospitalized another Sunday night.
On Thursday, July 28, the San Jose Museum of Art hosts ArtRage, an after-hours affair that features cocktails, live music, and arts and crafts for adults. The all-ages event goes from 7pm to 10pm and is $5 for non-museum members.
China had a history of making cheap knockoffs and selling them as the real thing. This includes everything from useless Wal-Mart tchatchkes to Rolexes to electronics, but now there’s a new trend that is redefining knock offs.
The robbery occurred in February. Armed bandits raided the Unigen complex in Fremont and made off with $37 million in high-powered NAND computer chips.
