Legal action against Google by four UC Berkeley students has ballooned into two lawsuits by 890 U.S. college students and alumni alleging the firm harvested their data for commercial gain without their consent.
That commodity, known as electromagnetic spectrum, allows military officials to navigate the fog of war, tech-savvy teenagers to surf the Internet, and is worth billions of dollars and has sparked a modern-day gold rush.
Critical transportation projects all over the state are being shortchanged and threatened with delays because of the Legislature’s failure to find a way to fund them.
California Public Utilities Commission members on Thursday voted unanimously to approve the transfer of phone licenses, a blessing needed by Charter to complete the merger of three cable companies.
The investment made by the Silicon Valley superpower goes to Uber's biggest rival in China, Didi Chuxing, which serves around 90 percent of China's car-hailing service market.
Angel investors are usually the first or early-stage investors — often friends and family — who put money into startups and expect returns after many years when the companies go public.
The most common response when a corporate database gets hacked is for the business to offer a year of free credit monitoring, a measure that will alert people to suspicious activity involving their credit files but will do nothing to prevent it: Is this enough?
First unveiled by Elon Musk in 2013, the hyperloop would speed travelers at 760 miles per hour through a network of sealed tubes, the passengers riding in capsules that would surf on electromagnetic waves within the tubes.
The business of HP Tech Ventures, which will be conducted by a team located in Palo Alto, will focus on strategic investments and cooperation in areas such as 3-D printing, virtual reality, hypermobility, the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, and smart machines.
Superpublic is coming to San Francisco next month and aims to upend the stereotypes of stodgy bureaucracy with a workspace where policymakers, academics, entrepreneurs, industry experts, nonprofit leaders and others can jointly tackle urban problems and devise futuristic solutions.
The Rancho Santa Fe Association approved a letter of intent with Hotwire Communications to build out a one-gigabit to 10-gigabit speed fiber-optic network to every home in the Covenant.
Fresno leaders hope to put a few more dollars into the city treasury by leasing bits of parks and other city land to an outdoor advertising firm for a handful of digital billboards.
Nearly six years after it filed its original complaint, Oracle is bringing Google to court Monday in a bid to get the Mountain View tech giant to pay for copyright infringement.
The Federal Communications Commission said it had approved the $71 billion deal, as expected, with conditions designed to spur competition among Internet service providers and increase the number of homes with broadband Internet connections.
The university will relocate its Silicon Valley professional masters program, Silicon Valley-facing research and Silicon Valley Extension to a long-term home in Santa Clara just off U.S. 101.
The panel at the Milken Institute Global Conference explored how hyperloop and autonomous vehicle technology could reshape Los Angeles and other cities.
Musk said that Tesla may be able to build 1 million vehicles per year using just its Fremont facility and the Gigafactory, a massive battery plant under construction near Reno.
After decades in the spotlight as a hardware-centric firm selling PCs, servers and mainframes, the 105-year-old tech giant has made a dramatic shift into a realm that few understand: cognitive computing.
A report concluded that barring a major drought, the “district has adequate supply to meet future demand through 2040 in average years and in the first two years of a multiple-year drought.”
The ride-sharing company developed an in-person “partner support center” at 301 Vermont St. in San Francisco to have their problems addressed on the spot at a location that functions like a mashup of the Apple Genius Bar and the DMV.
The U.S. Supreme Court has held that police can search phones with a valid warrant and compel a person in custody to provide physical evidence such as fingerprints without a judge’s permission.
Amazon.com posted first-quarter profit of $513 million, or $1.07 per diluted share, nearly doubling the 58 cents expected by analysts and swinging from a $57 million loss in the same quarter last year.
On Thursday, Riverside became the second city to use its new solution, the Machine Network, which uses patented technology called Random Phase Multiple Access. Initially Riverside will use it to monitor its electricity grid.
Apple shares ticked back up a couple of percentage points Wednesday after disappointing quarterly results sent them plunging more than 8 percent in late trading the day before.
In February, Starboard Value moved to replace Yahoo’s entire board, nominating its own hand-picked candidates; as part of Wednesday’s settlement, Starboard will withdraw those nominations.
Amazon and Microsoft, as well as other tech firms that rent out computing power and storage, are rapidly becoming some of the biggest spenders in the corporate world, as they lay down the bases for a future in which most computing will take place in the so-called cloud.
The move is part of the department’s participation in the White House Police Data Initiative, which is intended to use data and technology to strengthen trust and impact, according to a police news release.
