Just one day after Oracle announced it had hired former HP CEO Mark Hurd as co-president, HP retaliates with a lawsuit to prevent Hurd from taking the position. The lawsuit claims that Hurd is in breach of contract and that his hiring by Oracle puts HP trade secrets at risk. The suit is seen as evidence of a growing rift between the two Silicon Valley giants.
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When he ran for mayor of San Jose, Chuck Reed promised greater transparency. On Wednesday that promise will be put to the test. A committee, headed by the Mayor, will decide whether to succumb to pressure by journalists and citizens’ groups to release information that the SJPD says will invade privacy and hinder its ability to fight crime.
Team San Jose has signed a three-year contract to continue to host the Rock ‘N’ Roll San Jose Half Marathon. This year’s event, scheduled for October 3, will feature everything from funk to acoustic to adult contemporary and end with a concert by Blues Traveler.
Mark Hurd, who was forced to resign as head honcho at Hewlett Packard last month, has taken on a new position as president of Oracle. The move was made possible with the resignation of Oracle’s former president, Charles Phillips.
USAgain, a for-profit venture designed to keep clothing out of landfills, is spreading its drop boxes across the Bay Area, and raising questions about recycled clothing. Green and white drop boxes have already popped up in Los Gatos, Sunnyvale, and Mountain View, and dozens more will blanket the Bay Area over the coming months.
Saturday was moving day for the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition, and over a dozen volunteers came to help out with the move. They hauled the desks and cabinets—and lots of paperwork and office supplies too—3.5 miles to the United Way Building in San Jose, all by the power of their own two pedals.
At the National Buffalo Wing Festival held in, of all places, Buffalo, Chestnut certainly impressed the crowd by gobbling down 169 wings. But denizens of chicken coops everywhere beware. Sonya Thomas, 43, managed to take down 181 and win the coveted crown of feathers.
When one thinks of combining tribal tattoos and clothing, what usually springs to mind are roided-out MMA fighters in Tapout tops or L.A.-trash brands like Ed Hardy.
But Cukui Clothing Company, the latest addition to San Jose’s Japantown, takes a whole different spin on merging body-art-inspired designs and garments. Skulls, cherries, fleurs-de-lis and flash art this is not—Cukui takes its original tattoo designs seriously.
A statue of one of the Wilis in the ballet Giselle has stood in the courtyard of the Montgomery Theater since it was first commissioned in 1979. Now that the city has decided to relocate it to the San Jose Center for Performing Arts in time for an autumn performance of Giselle, the statue has disappeared.
County Assessor Larry Stone has estimated that thousands of properties will be reassessed for far less than they are currently listed, meaning less revenue for the county and city. EBay’s property alone, once valued at over $220 million, is now worth just is now valued at just $131.5 million.
