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Silicon Valley tops nation for job opportunities: Glassdoor survey
Santa Clara County is the best job market in the country when it comes to hiring opportunities and No. 2 when it comes to employee satisfaction, according to a new survey by Glassdoor, but is near the...
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San Jose tech campus sells at triple its prior value
A north San Jose tech campus has just been bought by an insurance company that paid triple what the office complex traded for less than three years ago, a deal that is a reminder of how hot the...
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Uber driver is employee, California labor agency rules
Updated: In a potential blow to Uber’s low cost ride-sharing business model, the labor commission in California has ruled that an Uber driver is an employee of the company, but Uber said Wednesday that...
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Wages in Bay Area outstrip USA, powered by tech boom
Average wages in Santa Clara County are 60 percent above the pay levels nationwide, and wages gaps with the United States also exist in the Bay Area’s other major urban centers, according to a new...
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Zenefits opens second Arizona office to continue hiring spree
Zenefits has opened yet another office in Arizona, the latest of many signs that the startup is on a growth streak unparalleled in the subscription software business. San Francisco-based Zenefits...
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Tech workers unhappy despite wage and hiring boom
In many ways it’s a boom like no other. Tech workers in Santa Clara County are seeing their wages grow more than twice as fast as the wages of all other employees in the region. The surge in tech...
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Silicon Valley tech stocks fall amid sour day on Wall Street
The Silicon Valley 150 Index slumped on Monday, in tandem with an overall down day on Wall Street. The index of 150 technology, biotech and other advanced tech companies from the Bay Area fell 0.9...
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Santa Clara County has nation’s strongest job market — by far
Santa Clara County boasts the nation’s strongest job market, and the South Bay region is No. 1 by a wide margin over its closest contenders, a new report out Tuesday from the federal government shows....
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Larry Ellison group buys hotel in downtown Palo Alto
A group controlled by software tycoon Lawrence Ellison has paid the equivalent of $1 million per room for a boutique hotel in downtown Palo Alto, a transaction that, experts said Monday, underscores...
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Google plans expansion in Mountain View, now eyeing north San Jose
Google is expanding in its hometown of Mountain View — and for the first time is strongly considering planting its flag in north San Jose in a big way, an indication that job growth in Santa Clara...
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Pure Storage proposes $425 million IPO
Mountain View-based Pure Storage has proposed an initial public offering of its stock that would raise $425 million, according to a regulatory filing. The company, which makes storage hardware based on...
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Twitter plunges ahead of possible decision to tap Jack Dorsey as CEO
San Francisco-based Twitter plunged on Thursday ahead of the company making it official that co-founder Jack Dorsey will be the tech company’s permanent CEO, according to a report Wednesday. Dorsey,...
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Google reorganizes as Alphabet, new company structure slated to trade Monday
Google announced on Friday that it would officially reorganize into a new holding company, Alphabet Inc., with the first day of trading under the new structure scheduled for Monday, Oct. 5. Mountain...
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Pure Storage starts trading below IPO price of $17
Pure Storage shares plunged more than 5 percent from the flash data storage company’s initial public offering price of $17 in an IPO that was valued at $425 million. Mountain View-based Pure Storage...
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Report: Apple widens share of PC market despite slowing Mac sales
Apple has widened its share of the personal computer market, although the technology giant suffered a slump in its sales of Macs, according to estimates from research firm IDC. Cupertino-based Apple...
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SanDisk shares jump on reports it’s up for sale
Milpitas-based SanDisk soared on Wednesday over speculation that the maker of flash memory devices was exploring a potential sale amid a consolidation of the tech sector. Shares of SanDisk jumped 12...
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SanDisk shares hop as it reportedly edges closer to a sale
SanDisk shares jumped 5 percent on Tuesday with word that the semiconductor company had entered into advanced negotiations on a deal to sell itself. Western Digital is in advanced discussions to buy...
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SanDisk agrees to sell itself for $19 billion
SanDisk on Wednesday agreed to sell itself to Western Digital for nearly $19 billion in cash and stock in a deal that underscores a fresh consolidation of the semiconductor industry. Milpitas-based...
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EBay stock leaps after earnings beat and rosy outlook
Shares of eBay jumped higher Thursday, the day after the company reported third-quarter profits that topped Wall Street’s expectations, offered a rosy outlook for the upcoming holiday season, and...
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HP split triggers stock jump for HP printer and PC firm, not for HPE
Palo Alto-based HP and Hewlett Packard Enterprise both meant higher prices for investors on Monday, the first trading day after the two companies emerged from a split of the old Hewlett-Packard. HP,...
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