Larry Klayman, an American attorney based in Florida, is suing Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg for $1 billion.
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Last year, San Jose’s Lowell Elementary School received the California Distinguished School Award. This year, it received the state’s Title I Academic Achievement Award.
Dell Computers may be more closely associated with Texas than with Silicon Valley, but the company is establishing a foothold here too—and a pretty big foothold at that.
San Jose City Council is planning on outsourcing security at Mineta International Airport to the County Sheriff’s Department. According to officials, the new contract could save the city millions of dollars at a time when the city is facing a budget crunch and the airport’s modernization project has left it with a $1.3 billion debt.
Five reasons to look forward to the work week: learn Italian wines, Seasick Steve, Family Room, Robert Silverman’s Beethoven, Shen Yun.
Japantown’s Cukui hosts an exhibition of lowrider photography by Trevor Traynor, opening Friday, Apr. 8.
Seasick Steve spins yarns about hard-living and easy-dying at the Blank Club on Tuesday, Apr. 5.
Power went out for almost two hours in downtown San Jose on Friday morning, from the Fairmont Hotel on First Street over to the corner of San Fernando Avenue.
An international group of innovators flocked to Sunnyvale on Thursday to pitch their ideas to Silicon Valley investors. They represented 34 different businesses from 15 countries as disparate as Luxembourg and Egypt, but they all shared a belief in their high tech achievements’ marketability both at home and in the international market (which is a good thing, especially if you come from Luxembourg, which has a population about half the size of San Jose).
Don Pellman is the fastest senior citizen in the world. He ran the 100 meter race in record time, and went on to break a record in the high jump too. Then there is his pole vaulting expertise. Sergei Bubka watch out. The Santa Clara senior cleared 1.00 meters.
