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The City Council is expected to expedite the construction of four new rental housing projects in North San Jose, valued at about $1 billion. The projects are expected to add 8,800 new jobs to the local construction industry. In order to ease the projects’ construction, the Council voted unanimously to lift the current affordable housing requirements in redevelopment zones, which, they claim, have prevented a number of potential projects from moving forward.
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Applied Materials Leads in Corporate Giving
BusinessNews Nov 05, 2010, by Danny Wool
At the Corporate Philanthropy Awards on Thursday night, local companies were honored for giving back to the community and the world. Applied Materials was honored for donating $5.2 million dollars to charitable causes, while other companies and firms received recognition for the money and time they donate to help others.
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Women Making an Impact in Silicon Valley
Business Nov 04, 2010, by Danny WoolMeg Whitman and Carly Fiorina aren’t the only women who have had an impact on Silicon Valley. Some of the most successful companies here count woman as their majority shareholders. Between 2008 and 2008, the top 25 companies owned by women have either maintained the same revenue stream in 2009 that they had in 2008 or succeeded in growing their revenue.
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Intel Is the Greenest of Them All
BusinessEnvironment Nov 03, 2010, by Silicon Valley NewsroomProposition 23 was defeated last night, and California will continue on its path to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Some Silicon Valley companies are already taking giant steps forward, but none of them has gone quite as far as Intel. According to the EPA’s Green Power Partnership, the company already gets 50 percent of its electricity from a wide variety of renewable sources
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Google Takes on the Federal Government
BusinessPolitics Nov 02, 2010, by Danny WoolGoogle is suing the federal government, claiming that the Department of the Interior tailored its specs Microsoft products, effectively shutting Google out of the bidding process, and losing it a potential 88,000 government employees as clients.The lawsuit argues that Google’s own products are inherently more secure than Microsoft’s for handling sensitive documents and emails.
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Google and Gates Take on Big Oil in Prop 23 Debate
BusinessEnvironmentPolitics Oct 26, 2010, by Danny WoolGoogle’s Sergei Brin and Microsoft’s Bill Gates are donating millions of dollars to defeat Prop 23, the ballot initiative which would suspend the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. Spending for and against the contentious measure could top the $154 million record set in 2006 by Proposition 87. In the past two weeks alone, opponents of Prop 23 have raised $11.9 million.
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Twelve-year-old is seventh-grader Alex Miller is $3,000 richer thanks to a bug he found in browser Firefox by Mozilla. The University Prep Academy student spent about an hour and a half every day for ten days scanning Firefox for bugs and hoping to win the bounty.
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Networks Block Shows from Google TV
BusinessNews Oct 22, 2010, by Danny WoolOnce there were only three networks in America: ABC, NBC, and CBS. Then came cable and the rise of Fox. Now TV is set to take another turn with the rise of Google TV, and the Big Three, the original networks that once dominated the tv-scape, are fighting back to maintain their position. while they are still locked in negotiations with Google about airing their shows on the new platform, they have blocked their shows from being viewable on Google TV. Fox is considering following suit.
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Fans of the Sharks sitting in the luxury suites of the HP Pavilion, will be advertising Citrix, a Fort Lauderdale-based high-tech company. The idea is to make these executives who occupy the suites aware of the services that Citrix offers. It is the first time that the HP Pavilion has signed a sponsorship agreement of this kind with any company.
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Manufacturing False Memories
BusinessNews Oct 21, 2010, by Danny WoolMemory is a fickle thing, and the triggers that spur memories can be even more fickle. Aza Raskin, Creative Lead for the web browser Firefox, warned that some very sophisticated advertisers are looking into memories, and trying to find ways to reshape them and promote their products. They’ve even found the platform to do that: Facebook.
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