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Thursday July 9, 2009. Carmela Guizar-Sanchez, left, and Selena Ontiveros in Guizar-Sanchez's Santa Clara home.

Plans for a BART extension into Silicon Valley got a $40 million boost this week from a state transportation fund.

Alison van Diggelen took all this business about anyone being a citizen journalist seriously.

Yahoo! is investing significantly in Cloud Computing to support the company's global applications and audience of more than 500 million users.

The names Warren Hellman and Arthur Rock are usually associated with top-flight business deals.

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"It means not sending out people who are innovators who want to become Americans," said Lofgren, one of the congressional leaders who meets this week to discuss the matter with President Barack Obama.

June 30, 3:42 AM Comment RSS The City of San Jose , the capital of the Silicon Valley , will take a step closer to becoming 100% energy independent by building the first organics-to-energy biogas facility in the U.S. This technology, has already been proven successful in Europe.

A request to remove three trees in the parking strip on the Bird Avenue side of the shopping center at the corner of Bird and Minnesota avenues will be discussed at a public hearing on June 23.

With an ever-increasing number of companies now buying computing, storage, and networking power as they need it from the cloud, it is hardly surprising that SYS-CON's industry-leading International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is going from strength to strength.

California will shed more than 1 million jobs before the recession ends this fall - and the East Bay will struggle more than other areas to end its economic slump - according to a report released Wednesday by economists at the University of the Pacific.

In 1970, when the state established the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, San Jose's population was 446,000 and San Francisco's was 716,000. San Francisco was unquestionably The City in the region then, and in the South Bay, cherry orchards and prune yards were realities instead of ironic names for shopping centers.

Anh Tran has an incredibly ambitious plan that you might be tempted to dismiss as unrealistic and naive.

Spire Corporation , a global solar company providing turnkey solar factories and capital equipment to manufacture photovoltaic modules and solar systems worldwide, today announced that it has amended its current Revolving Credit Facility.

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Santa Clara County Poet Laureate Nils Peterson attends the unveiling a 100 line poem entitled "A Family album Santa Clara County, 2009" during a news conference in San Jose on June 23, 2009.

Silicon Valley is facing a brain drain of high-achieving foreign-born students, more of whom are leaving in the face of a chilly local immigration environment in a trend experts say will hurt U.S. high-tech industry competitiveness in the long run.

Downtown Redwood City is a hip place, with inviting restaurants, a splendid theater district, a majestic old courthouse and - best of all - people.

Online registration is now open for Flash Memory Summit 2009, the only conference dedicated entirely to flash memory and solid-state drive applications, at http://www.flashmemorysummit.com . Flash Memory Summit takes place August 11-13 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in the heart of the Silicon Valley.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Campbell chats before his appearance at the Silicon Valley Leadership Group June 19, 2009 in Santa Clara.