New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer recently made a splash when she declared that all food in the company's cafeterias will be free for employees. That's just how it was at Google, Mayer's former employer.
The Federal Transit Administration will provide $900 million to extend San Francisco's rapid transit rail line from the Bay Area into the fast-growing Silicon Valley, the Department of Transportation announced Monday.
Since 1999, it has greeted visitors to San Francisco while standing as a symbol of the Bay Area's status as a tech hub: A Yahoo billboard, retro-styled to look like a 1960s-era motel sign, with the tag line, "A nice place to stay on the Internet."
California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Sunday a bill that prevents local governments from banning the practice of male circumcision.
If any segment of sports fans should be hyper-aware of fan violence, you'd think it might be those in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Hundreds gathered at several San Francisco BART stations to protest officials shutting down cell phone service.
The Bay Area isn't just where your computers and favorite websites are designed.
The start of the perjury trial against former San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds this week doesn't guarantee that the BALCO scandal -- now in its ninth year -- has reached an absolute end, but it represents a culmination of sorts: The scandal's most recognizable figure finally stands before a jury.
In the past month I've eaten poached goat, grilled octopus, the breaded and fried thymus gland of a cow, tagliatelle with rabbit ragu, and the seared liver of a fatted goose.
Actual construction may be down in the United States, but it's boom time for mythical stadium construction in the San Francisco Bay Area.
California faces an almost certain risk of being rocked by a strong earthquake by 2037, scientists said Monday in the first statewide temblor forecast
updated: Wed Nov 14 2007 18:55:00
The U.S. Coast Guard announces a federal criminal probe into the San Francisco Bay oil spill.
The crew of the ship that ran into the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and spilled thousands of gallons of oil into the water last week has retained lawyers and is not complying with requests for interviews from the National Transportation Safety Board, a board member said Wednesday.
Federal investigators were considering Monday whether to file criminal charges in San Francisco Bay's worst oil spill in nearly two decades
Federal investigators have launched a criminal probe into a cargo ship collision and oil spill, the Coast Guard said, which killed hundreds of birds in San Francisco Bay.
updated: Sun Nov 11 2007 09:39:00
Coast Guard video shows damage to a container ship that bumped into the San Francisco Bay Bridge, causing an oil spill.
updated: Fri Nov 09 2007 22:02:00
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger makes comments while visiting the oil spill command center in San Francisco.
An oil spill fouled miles of coastline Thursday, sending environmentalists scrambling to save tarred marine life
When I was 7 years old, my mom took me to the doctor because I had lost a lot of weight, despite a voracious appetite.
What if you could embed newspapers - and their ads - right into the tables where people sip their lattes? That's the idea behind TableTouch, a San Francisco startup that sells a coffee table with a built-in, Wi-Fi-enabled touchscreen and software that lets you browse the latest news stories with your fingers.
Nearly 5,000 nurses in 15 Northern California hospitals began a two-day walkout Wednesday to protest what they said were inadequate contract offerings
Described as "possibly the greatest evolution in boats since the advent of steam," an ingenuously simple concept that combines sun and wind power with sophisticated computer systems is set to transform the future of navigation.
A teenage motorist convicted of causing a freeway collision that killed two members of Tonga's royal family and their driver has been sentenced to two years in county jail.
Chauncey Bailey, 57, editor of the Oakland Post was shot to death Thursday near a downtown courthouse in what police suspect was a deliberate hit
SAN FRANCISCO -- This was supposed to be the Barry Bonds All-Star Game. Everything was perfectly in place for it. The lights. The setting. The annoying, overwrought, over-orchestrated soundtrack. The fawning audience just waiting for the "Applause!" sign. At the start of the game, there was even a touching tribute to Bonds' godfather, Willie Mays, to get the old tear ducts working. This one was supposed to count for Bonds and for all his Bay Area supporters. And for the National League, too.
We've been making fun of the Home Run Derby for a lot of years now. This overblown poking party, you have to agree, is tailor-made for ridicule. Really, a bunch of muscled-up sluggers, taking huge hacks at batting practice-type meatballs? It's like holding a fishing tournament in a bathtub and giving each contestant a stick of dynamite.
Don't you hate it when this happens: You mosey down to your local watercraft showroom to take charge of a cream-colored 20-foot runabout, and the salesman talks you into a 44-foot motor yacht inste...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Major League Soccer is close to making its return to the Bay Area in time for the 2008 season, SI.com has learned. The league is negotiating a deal to allow Oakland A's owner Lew Wolff to operate an MLS franchise sooner than anyone expected, even without a new stadium deal in place, a source close to the negotiations says.
It is warm, way too warm for spring in San Francisco. At seven in the evening in May, it's 70-something and sunny, like some Al Gore nightmare come to life. People arrive at AT&T Park suspicious of the weather, in jeans and a sweatshirt, fleece and khakis, as if this were the old Candlestick and winter might descend in a moment.
It's 7:30 P.M. on a Saturday, and the front door of a Victorian house in Oakland, California, is wide open. The owner of the home directs arrivals through the kitchen -- where Louisiana shrimp stock simmers on the stove and delicate tomato-and-white-corn tarts are being assembled on a tiled table -- and out to the backyard. Guests are gathering under a canopy of trees, sitting on the colorful cushions that surround the low tables.
I'd like to tell you that, here at the Power Rankings, we have three computers churning away every week, using all sort of Pythagorean formulas and Monte Carlo simulations devised by some of the brightest young baseball analysts on the planet. Instead, we're going old school. We're winging it.
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To the beaming delight of a fan base that hasn't enjoyed playoff basketball (or enjoyable basketball, really) in 13 years, the Golden State Warriors won six of their first seven games in March and appear to have the best chance of any of the West's also-rans (your Clippers, Hornets, Kings and Timberwolves) at holding on to the eighth and final playoff spot.
To step off the corporate treadmill in your fifties or early sixties and maintain anything close to your standard of living, you must have a seriously big retirement kitty.
FEW BUSINESS OWNERS WOULD BE SATISFIED with flat earnings growth. But Nina Cooper, whose Bay Area jewelry supply business received an FSB Makeover nearly two years ago, has proudly held her own eve...
Now that we've pointed out which markets are poised for a bull run in the next cycle, we'd be remiss if we didn't also offer some guidance on which locales look the most vulnerable right now.
On your next mini-vacation, head for one of the Coastal Living staff's favorite destinations. These spots have etched a special place in our hearts and we'd like to share them with you.
From weather reports to sports wrap-ups, mobile video content is going local - in a global sort of way.
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake and multiple aftershocks shook the south San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday morning.
"Would this be her first vibrator?"
With interest so high in all things home, no wonder house tours are booming in both number and popularity.
SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - Burst.com, a two-person Internet video company, has sued Apple, claiming that its iTunes and QuickTime software violate Burst's patents. Techdirt says the move was expected after Apple filed suit earlier this year to have the court declare Burst's patents invalid. Last year, Burst brought a patent-infringement lawsuit about Internet video delivery against Microsoft, settling the case for $60 million after alleging that Microsoft tried to crush the company. Both Burst and Apple have hired big legal guns, setting this up to be a case the likes of which we haven't seen since NTP sued Research In Motion over the BlackBerry.
After taking one sip of specialty chocolate maker MarieBelle's velvety Aztec Hot Chocolate, you know you're not drinking your mother's hot chocolate.
There has been an impressive amount of construction in the United States over the last three centuries: All told, we've built more than 300 billion square feet of homes, offices, factories, and oth...
The founders of Joseph Schmidt Confections and Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker found a new kind of richness on Aug. 15, when Hershey announced it had bought their Bay Area companies. Joseph Schmid...
Venture 135 rugged miles west of Kathmandu into the village of Besisahar, and you'll encounter a carriage suspended from a taut wire, safely whisking villagers over one of the treacherously swollen...
Sensory experiences on the subway aren't necessarily a good thing. But riders in Atlanta will soon have a welcome diversion: television. This summer the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority...
Dear Armchair Millionaire: I'm 39 and have never saved a dime for retirement. Now I'm terrified that Social Security is imploding and I'll never be able to retire. What should I be doing to even have a hope of financial security?
Upper-end real estate is red hot, with listings as high as $75 million for a 25,000-square-foot Hamptons mansion that includes its own golf course, and much stronger sales of eight-figure homes, according to a published report.
Americans have been giving generously to help victims of the tsunami disaster that destroyed seaside communities from Thailand to East Africa and killed 155,000 people.
Craigslist, the popular community Web site that generates more than 1 billion page views each month, has cost newspapers in the San Francisco Bay area $50 million to $65 million in help wanted ad revenue, according to a new study.
Two Bay Area passions—wine and tech—have joined forces at VinoVenue, a wine bar recently opened in San Francisco. The twist? There's no bartender needed. Instead, a new system from Italy's Enomatic...
Jurors in double murder trial of Scott Peterson on Monday will inspect the aluminum boat prosecutors say the defendant used to dump the body of his pregnant wife into San Francisco Bay, Court TV reported Friday night.
Wouldn't you really rather be doing something else for a living? Be honest. We might tell our bosses that we love our work. We'll even tell ourselves—sometimes we have to just to get psyched up for...
An expert on tides and currents testified Monday that the bodies of Laci Peterson and her fetus may have been dumped into San Francisco Bay near the spot where her husband claims to have gone fishing the day of her disappearance.
Scott Peterson's father told jurors in his son's double-murder trial Thursday that he was "proud to say Scott is my son."
The U.S. Coast Guard will soon begin enforcing new regulations to try to prevent ships from around the world from delivering unwanted and sometimes destructive cargo.
"Honey, the house has arrived." Welcome to the new world of prefabs, where floor plans, chosen online, are delivered by truck as fully built houses four months later. Some 80,000 homes a year are n...
So can you, too, afford a beachfront condo or, say, a Victorian in the San Francisco Bay Area, if that's more your style?
Sometimes having it all can be a burden. That's not to suggest that the bike you see above is, on its own merits, a heavy cross to bear. The Tarmac, from Specialized Bicycles, is a wondrous racing ...
Just as many people dream of one day being millionaires, for many homebuyers, the dream is a million-dollar home.
A prospective juror in the Scott Peterson trial was dismissed from the case Tuesday after a weeklong investigation.
The judge in Scott Peterson's murder trial ruled Tuesday that evidence dealing with the electronic tracking of Peterson after his wife's disappearance will be admitted in the trial.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys in Scott Peterson's murder trial are due in court again Tuesday to argue whether information gathered from tracking Peterson's vehicles by satellite after his wife disappeared should be admitted as evidence.
For the second time in a week, a new judge was appointed Tuesday to hear the murder trial of a California man accused of killing his wife and their unborn son.
The judge in the murder case of Scott Peterson Tuesday ordered the trial moved to San Mateo County, rejecting prosecution arguments that his decision to order the change was based on falsified survey data.
A judge likely will decide Tuesday the location of the trial of a California man accused of killing his wife and their unborn child.
The likely location for the murder trial of Scott Peterson, charged with killing his wife and their unborn child, has been narrowed to four counties, a California state court official said.
Among the eight largest metro regions tracked by real estate research firm Fiserv CSW, zip codes in and around Los Angeles and Boston saw home values increase the most between 1998 and 2003.
Here's a sign of the times: Even poll questions have turned pessimistic. Search firm Christian & Timbers recently asked more than 200 executives to choose the place they would never want to work, f...
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In these turbulent times, it's a relief to ponder the things you really can count on. The recently departed, love-'em-or-hate-'em New York Yankees will roll into the playoffs again next season. Our...
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Kim Miller is vice president for Internet strategies for macys.com, the online shop of the well-known department store. Established in 1996, macys.com offers more than 250,000 products on its site....
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The New York City real estate lady is stammering, "That, that...that's ridiculous! Why would anyone do that?" Congratulate me. I have done the impossible. In the middle of the wildest housing marke...
Though PeopleSoft's stock trades for less than half its 1998 high, employees still love CEO Dave Duffield: His Pleasanton, Calif., software firm ranks sixth among FORTUNE's 100 Best Companies to Wo...
Pacific Bell president David Dorman wasn't happy. When SBC Communications bought his company's parent last year, he faced his third corporate move in four years. His family had grown to love the Sa...
Xerox executive Bill Skinner camped out at a construction site one night in July 1996 to get a shot at buying a three-bedroom townhouse in Sunnyvale, Calif., the heart of Silicon Valley, for $215,0...
On a stretch of lakefront ten miles southeast of downtown Seattle sits the Barbee lumber mill. Family-owned for three generations, the Barbee is the only working sawmill left in the greater Seattle...
So you've landed the vice presidency, you're spending tons of your company's money at the bistro of the moment, and the maitre d' still sniffs and seats you near the busboy. Now what? For those of ...
BEHOLD THE ERA of the virtual corporation, when business pulses like a quartz watch 24 hours a day. The scattered work and workers are no longer confined to steel and concrete towers or sprawling c...
Stocks of companies based in Miami outperformed those of 23 other metropolitan areas in the first quarter of 1995, according to the exclusive MONEY/ Nordby Cities Index. The Florida city's 12 stock...
Traditional parochial school attire is catching on in Bay Area public schools . . . Parents and administrators claim uniforms help students concentrate on learning rather than their clothes ((and))...
IT IS IRONIC that the U.S., the world's military superpower, was founded not by conquerors but by aspiring homeowners. Yet there is nothing ironic in how housing experts in cities across the countr...
THE two-line lettered sign stood next to a roadside store on a highway heading toward magnificent Mount Rainier and the great green expanse that surrounds Seattle. The sign read: ESPRESSO LIVE BAIT...
Giving America's couch potatoes the tools to actually play Jeopardy along with studio contestants, bet on a basketball player's next move, or finger the killer in a mystery show may sound like the ...
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Before you can move into a house, your lender will require you to buy homeowners insurance. Don't shrug off this expense -- typically $300 to $600 a year on a $100,000 house -- as another forgettab...
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