Amazon.com is suing the State of Texas in a law suit that could impact many Silicon Valley companies. The problem began four months ago, when Texas sued Amazon for $269 million, claiming that is what it was owed sales tax revenues. Amazon claims that internet sales should not be subject to state taxes, but Texas claims it is subject to state laws because it has a distribution center in the Dallas suburb of Irving. According to a 1992 Supreme Court ruling, that would make the company subject to Texas taxes for sales in that state.
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Tue Mero Mole sits just off Union Avenue on a side-street minimall between Cambrian Go Carts and the Nowhere Bar and Grill. Inside there are bright lime and terra cotta walls and only a half-dozen tables or so. And chances are those tables will be full, because word has gotten out about this little gem.
The ingredients of a noir detective story include betrayal, redemption and a treacherous dame. Paul Braverman’s “No Good Deed,” now at the Pear Avenue Theatre in Mountain View, has all of these elements.
Developer Chuck Toeniskoetter has been named the new head of Team San Jose, following the resignation of Dan Fenton. Fenton recently resigned after a controversial tenure that saw the group that manages the Convention Center raising and losing money.
Classic rock station KUFX has a new home now that Entercom has sold the country’s last commercial classical music station, KDFC, to the University of Southern California. Fans of KUFX will have to readjust their dials to 102.1. The classical music station will continue operating, but as a non-profit.
The kids at San Jose’s Valley Christian High School are the first high school students to send an experiment into outer space. The students and advisers of the school’s Applied Math Science and Engineering Institute designed an experiment to learn how plants grow in space. If it succeeds, it could lead the way to astronauts growing their own food on long space flights.
We are lucky to live in such a bountiful state. Where else can you eat endless crab and pasta, empanadas, silog, and local cheese then learn all about wine making all in one week? Some might say we’re spoiled, so let them, because for us it’s just another South Bay week. Jan 19-26.
Silicon Valley venture capitalist William H. Davidow’s new book, “Overconnected: The Promise and Threat of the Internet” (Delphinium Books; $27.95 hardback), aims to show that the Internet has fundamentally changed the world,
San Jose had its sixth homicide of the year late Monday night, when a 20-year-old man was killed in a drive-by shooting. Police have yet to release many details about the shooting, which occurred at the Cabana Apartments on Poco Way, located near Clyde Abuckle Elementary School.
Possibly trying to spark his moribund team to life, San Jose Sharks General manager Doug Wilson traded a fifth-round pick Tuesday to Atlanta for physical left winger Ben Eager.
