The XPrize Foundation said Wednesday that it’s kicking off a $100,000 contest to build mobile apps from the deep pool of data that’s already available on the world’s oceans.
Software giant Oracle said its $9.3 billion takeover of NetSuite would be completed on Monday, after more than half of the cloud-storage company’s shareholders gave their approval to the deal.
Voters wondering where they will cast their ballots Tuesday should turn to the local elections office website as the California Secretary of State’s website appears to be having problems.
In a move that could spread to other universities, about 80 information tech workers at UC San Francisco are facing layoffs and have begun training their replacements — lower-paid tech workers from an Indian outsourcing firm.
Broadcom said Wednesday it will acquire networking-equipment maker Brocade Communications Systems for $5.5 billion in a deal that the communications chipmaker said will improve its position in the cloud-based data-storage technology market.
California State Controller Betty Yee was in Fresno on Thursday encouraging Central Valley entrepreneurs to build a healthy business community in the Fresno area that would rival other well-known technology and science hubs in the state.
The ACLU argued in federal court Wednesday that a 125-year-old California law banning voters from showing their marked ballots to others is in conflict with the right to freedom of expression.Voters will have many options at the polls Tuesday. Taking a selfie of their ballot won't be one of them.
The Bay Area’s dominant rail systems — BART and Caltrain — are bursting at the seams as ridership is rapidly overwhelming the services. Meanwhile, Los Angeles is in the midst of a major rail system expansion.
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson and Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes have extolled the advantages of marrying the nation’s second largest wireless phone provider with a leading entertainment company.
The backers of Proposition 54 don’t have to do much to explain their motivation for imposing a waiting period for final action on bills by the California Legislature.
Earlier this week, Twitter Inc. announced it would be cutting 9 percent of its budget and laying off more than 300 employees working out of its San Francisco headquarters. It followed with the announcement Thursday that it was going to jettison Vine.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is taking an open approach in its outline to help protect against cyberattacks because the staff and engineers who develop new cars and trucks are learning as they go.
The executive overseeing Google Fiber said on Tuesday that the service will suspend plans to expand its fast gigabit fiber Internet service into other cities, including San Jose, and will reduce staffing.
The huge cyberattack that crippled the Internet and disabled dozens of websites Friday appeared to be the biggest attack of its kind that the world has ever seen.
Cars are getting smarter, more connected and closer to a future where they can drive themselves. Against that backdrop, an array of technologists, investors, car executives, transit experts and others convened at San Francisco’s Dogpatch Studios on Thursday for a conference delving into changes in how people get around.
An Indianapolis cloud services consultancy has agreed to be acquired for $500 million in a deal that will create one of the world's largest information technology companies.
The mobile lab is run by Santa Clara University students and has been making its first trips to South Bay schools over the past two months.The hope is that the school will have its own 3-D printing class at some point, but until then, math and robotics teacher Alexi Badoui said the Mobile Maker Lab serves as an excellent introduction.
Obama noted that while Silicon Valley may produce lots of cool stuff that can improve our lives, its methods are no substitute for the principles of government.
In the federal government’s push to expand cybersecurity training, it has targeted all levels of education and designated nearly 200 colleges and universities as National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense.
Stanford students and the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration are teaming up to improve data on missing or dead Syrian refugees. It’s part of a Stanford University class, Hacking for Diplomacy, in which about 30 students work with various State Department units to help solve global problems with technology.
They may not get it this year, but boosters of energy storage technologies want their sector to get the same tax credits that the federal government extends to the wind and solar industries.
