Tag "Google"
Back to homepage
Light-rail love affair: CA pols, media stuck in 1980s
Californians with a green streak are in love with mass transit — at least when it involves rail. Buses are far better at helping people, especially poor people, to and from work. But there’s something about rail and how it
Read More
Judge green lights Silicon Valley class action suit
It’s official: Many of California’s biggest tech firms are going to trial. Faced with a class action brought by over 64,000 combined employees, Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, Lucasfilm and Pixar asked U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh to grant a summary
Read More
Andreessen: Does company HQ in CA violate fiduciary duty?
You might remember Marc Andreessen. He co-authored Mosaic, the first decent Web browser, which I remember using when I got on the Net back in 1994. It became Netscape, which became Firefox. He’s still a big tech investor. He just
Read More
Will CA GOP emerge as defenders of embattled techies, tech firms?
Is the present anti-Google, anti-techie agitation in the Bay Area a reflection of anger over how affluent tech workers have driven up rent and reinflated the housing bubble? Or is it a harbinger of broader anger over how California technology
Read MoreAnti-Google ‘terrorism’ endorsed by editor for S.F.-based Salon
The increasingly militant targeting of tech workers in the Bay Area now has a champion: an assistant news editor for the San Francisco-based online magazine Salon. Here’s a sample of Natasha Lennard’s astonishingly glib endorsement of “terrorism” targeting Google workers
Read More
Google buses vs. San Fran govt.
You would think San Francisco’s government would applaud Google for the company’s private buses, which whisk employees around the city. The buses reduce congestion and pollution in the City on the Bay, two big goals of the city government. When
Read More
2013 saw emergence of potential giant CA defense contractor
Most of the reports last month that Mountain View-based Google bought Boston Dynamics — its eighth recent purchase of a robotics firm — focused on how this fit in with so many “moon shot” Google initiatives. Some stories looked forward
Read More
Why CA’s going to thrive: nanotech, biotech and, in particular, Google
I will always remember 2013 as the year that I became a downright-giddy optimist about California’s future. Regardless of the massive incompetence and (mostly legal) corruption of its government leaders, the Golden State is going to be saved by its
Read More
Greenhouse gas research nets Google jet fuel deal
California-based Google is a company famously flush with cash. Last year, the internet giant earned $50 billion in annual revenue for the first time. From that revenue, the company took home nearly $11 billion in earnings. These earnings, and Google’s
Read More
NSA scandal could take huge toll on CA capital-gains revenue
Will the ever-burgeoning NSA spying scandal come back to haunt Jerry Brown and other state leaders when they craft the next budget? Given how much they are counting on capital-gains revenue from executives who cash in their stock holdings in
Read More