Sales of routers and switches, which together account for nearly 60 percent of its annual revenue, are slowing down. In response, Cisco has been focusing on expanding into higher-growth areas like security and data centers.
The Bay Area now has 746,100 technology jobs, topping the record set during the dot-com era by 21,000 jobs, according to this newspaper's analysis of Employment Development Department statistics for the nine-county region. Despite worries about a potential slowdown, experts are saying a "Tech Bubble 2.0" doesn't appear to be on the horizon.
With amateur operators increasingly buzzing corporate headquarters, sports venues and the private homes of tech celebrities, emerging counter-drone technologies could soon spawn an intriguing cat-and-mouse game in California's increasingly crowded skies.
Assemblywoman Autumn Burke, D-Inglewood (Los Angeles County), seeks to speed up the evolution of car technology from polluting to clean by introducing a very-late-in-the-legislative-session bill this week. It would require 15 percent (300,000) of new cars sold in the state be emissions-free by 2025.
High-speed Internet could do wonders for a city like Redding, and it's an idea Adam McElvain, a Redding City Council contender, hopes to turn into a possibility with the backing of downtown business owners and community members.
Google's experimentation with wireless Internet delivery is intended both as a means for the company to more cheaply reach users with its own high-speed service, as well as an incentive to its competitors to extend ultra-high-speed Internet.
The California State Auditor called on lawmakers Thursday to give the state Department of Justice control of the statewide gang intelligence sharing database, which auditors found riddled with problems possibly related to its unusually autonomous governance structure.
Google's plan to roll out super-speedy fiber service in cities across the country has largely been put on hold, after it successfully pressured Comcast, AT&T and others to accelerate their own plans for lightning-fast Internet.
Last May, Google obtained final permits from San Jose for a three-year fiber network construction project that would have employed 100 people, however this week put a hold on its plan.
San Diego’s Nervana Systems, which has developed an artificial intelligence platform for analyzing massive amounts of data, has agreed to be acquired by Intel.
The county asks for the federal tax identification number, the state tax identification number and the state Board of Equalization tax identification number, plus a background check for the owner and operators via Live Scan.
Concerns about the potential harmful effects of radiofrequency radiation have dogged mobile technology since the first brick-sized cellphones hit the market in the 1980s.
Google has told at least two Silicon Valley cities that it is putting plans to provide lightning-fast fiber Internet service on hold while the company explores a cheaper alternative.
Using technology that has diagnosed problems in the Amazon rain forest and the jungles of Borneo, researchers can pinpoint which trees are becoming too dry to survive, even when they may appear perfectly healthy.
The popularity of drones poses challenges for policymakers and legislators: How can they minimize the drawbacks of the technology while it’s still under development, without stifling the innovation necessary to make the field grow?
Police officials on Monday will brief a City Council committee on the Modesto Police Department’s new drone program, which consists of two of the unmanned aerial vehicles.
Moon Express, which operates out of Cape Canaveral, Florida, and the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, got the OK to proceed with plans to send a small robotic lander to explore the moon's surface in the fall of 2017.
By all indications, by the end of this year the California Energy Commission will adopt energy efficiency guidelines for computers, becoming the first state in the nation to do so.
Now that Yahoo Inc. is being sold, what other struggling tech companies might soon find themselves on the auction block? Here are five possible candidates, including three from California.
The last time state lawmakers tried to place limits on drones in the skies above California, they were met with the veto of Gov. Jerry Brown, who said he did not want to create new crimes to enforce bans on the use of such devices. This year, the pushback to new rules is coming not from the governor but through the lobbying efforts of a budding industry.
Intel's changes in the executive suite continued Monday with a new chief information officer hired from Dow Chemical. Paula Tolliver replaces Kim Stevenson, who will now run Intel's largest division, which includes PCs, mobile devices and the emerging Internet of Things.
Tesla Motors and SolarCity announced Monday that their corporate boards — minus Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who serves on both — have agreed to combine the two companies into a renewable energy powerhouse, in a deal worth roughly $2.6 billion.
The move is designed to create a demonstration area ahead of completed public-private negotiations with the city of Santa Cruz to co-develop a new $30 million $40 million broadband utility citywide.
Agriculture leaders and entrepreneurs gathered Wednesday in downtown Fresno to lay the groundwork for a mission to make Fresno an agriculture-technology leader.
Apple, looking for ways to counter continued declines in sales of the iPhone, is now saying that the company's new growth engine rests on consumers continuing to buy apps, music and switch over to Apple Pay.
Esri founder Jack Dangermond made the case over the weekend to county leaders from throughout the United States that his product can become a new language that the whole world can grasp in sharing data.
