6 Fitbit employees charged with stealing trade secrets from competitor Jawbone

Each of the defendants had worked for Jawbone before joining Fitbit. | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 5 years ago

Bay Area businessman must pay $136,000 in tech-support scam against elderly

The man, who operated two Hayward-based businesses, settled FTC allegations that he helped a tech-support scam out of India. | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 5 years ago

Who gets Yosemite?

As Californians prepare to vote on whether to divide their state into three, we look at who gets what in the deal. | Continue reading


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Mountain View Nonprofit kicking off 2-year trial to get car dwellers off streets

Goal is to get hundreds of homeless individuals, families into permanent housing | Continue reading


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BART to Berryessa, Milpitas may not happen until late 2019

The long-awaited opening of the BART extension from Fremont to San Jose might not occur until late September of 2019, the most pessimistic forecast yet for the $2.3 billion project. | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 5 years ago

Sky taxi and the uber-rich commute of tomorrow?

Skyryde has begun using small planes and a federally licensed pilot to fly people on quick hops above L.A.’s notorious traffic jams on shorter notice and at lower prices than one generally fi… | Continue reading


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As housing prices rise in Silicon Valley, births fall

Birth rates drop fastest in counties with skyrocketing home prices, new study shows. | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 5 years ago

Intel under investigation over age discrimination in massive job cuts

Federal investigators reportedly looking into whether Intel disproportionately targeted older workers when it cut 12,000 jobs a couple of years ago. | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 5 years ago

CA Proposition 13: On its 40th anniversary we look at its history and what’s new

Prop. 13 came at a time when seniors were losing homes due to increasing property taxes. Today, we look at how the initiative changed the state and what could be in store for the future. | Continue reading


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H-1B visa to green card: Wait time for Indian workers is up to 151 years: report

Indian immigrants with advanced degrees wait longer than their more-skilled and less-skilled peers, think tank concludes. | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 5 years ago

China hacked US contractor, seized sub warfare info

Taken were 614 gigabytes of material relating to a closely held project known as Sea Dragon, as well as signals and sensor data, submarine radio room information relating to cryptographic systems, … | Continue reading


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Nearly half of Bay Area residents say they want to leave

“They couldn’t be more clear what the big problems are,” says an exec at the Bay Area Council, which commissioned the new poll. | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 5 years ago

Facebook shareholders get their turn to grill Mark Zuckerberg

During Facebook’s annual shareholder meeting, one investor advised Facebook’s CEO to emulate George Washington, not Vladimir Putin. | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 5 years ago

People Are Fleeing Silicon Valley for Nevada, Texas and Idaho

More people are trying to leave the high-cost heart of Silicon Valley than anywhere else in California, report finds. | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 5 years ago

City tax plans aimed at Apple, Google could start a new wave, city leaders say

A trio of Slicon Valley cities are all pushing forward with separate plans to impose new taxes on the employers that bolster the economic foundation of their respective communities. | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 5 years ago

Solving the Bay Area housing shortage

Building housing near transit? Yes. Rent control? Not so much. | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 5 years ago

Facebook confirms mega-lease that enables Sunnyvale move

Facebook’s mega-deal in Sunnyvale — which appears to be the largest office deal in the Bay Area so far in 2018 — was previously revealed by this news organization in an exclusive … | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 5 years ago

How technology has redefined the job of the repo man

No longer tethered to a tow truck and able to use big data to find targets, the repossession industry is booming at an unexpected time. | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 5 years ago

China reportedly holding thousands of Muslims in internment camps

“The psychological pressure is enormous, when you have to criticize yourself, denounce your thinking — your own ethnic group,” said Bekali, who broke down in tears as he described the c… | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 5 years ago

Google's speaking bot may have violated two-party recording laws

Bay Area legal experts raised questions about how Google’s possible need to record Duplex’s phone conversations to improve its AI may come in conflict with California’s two-party … | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 5 years ago

Tesla's Value to the California Economy

A new report commissioned by Tesla says the electric carmaker aims to give context to Tesla’s economic impact on the Bay Area and California. Among the findings are that Tesla had more than 2… | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 6 years ago

US identifies suspect in leak of CIA hacking tools

Joshua Adam Schulte, who worked for a CIA group that designs computer code to spy on foreign adversaries, is believed to have provided the agency’s top-secret information to WikiLeaks, federa… | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 6 years ago

Trump at Davos: At last, an embrace by global elites

Donald Trump may have finally gained entry into the exclusive global club of the corporate elites he has long scorned – and which has scorned him. | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 6 years ago

Redwood City establishes waterfront district, approves its first development

Developer receives city approval to build 131 for-sale townhouses along creek in newly created district | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 6 years ago

Thousands of Facebook ads bought by Russian trolls released

The Russian-troll ads, released by Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, addressed hot-button issues such as immigration, protests in the NFL and gun control. | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 6 years ago

Is your lawyer a crook? The California State Bar may soon let you know

Of California’s 190,000 active attorneys, as many as 19,000 may have unreported criminal activity, from DUIs to more serious offenses, according to the State Bar of California. | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 6 years ago

Google CEO unveils new era of robots that sound like humans

Coming soon, Google Duplex will allow the voice assistant to speak with human-like cadence and include artificial intelligence that is able to comprehend context and unclear answers. | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 6 years ago

Are Bay Area residential towers too costly to build?

In a complication along with the skyrocketing construction costs, while ordinary individuals already face dire financial obstacles when they buy or lease housing, it’s possible residential re… | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 6 years ago

5 feet? Shocking SFO video, data reveal Air Canada plane near-misses on taxiway

An NTSB report also found the pilots reported fatigue during the flight, confusion during the approach and the co-pilot had previously been described as “nervous” by flight instructors. | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 6 years ago

BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) to San Jose: SJ Sharks Sue Over Downtown Extension

Loss of parking, construction impacts top their concerns. | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 6 years ago

Construction costs could limit where homes are built in San Jose

Downtown San Jose — seen as a cornerstone of the city’s economy — is one of the sections where development of new housing is unlikely to produce profits for developers, according … | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 6 years ago

Self-driving cars’ shortcomings revealed in DMV reports

The companies testing autonomous vehicles on California roads list the incidents in which a human driver had to take over. | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 6 years ago

Santa Clara, Calif. could adopt ranked choice voting this June

When voters have the power to rank their candidates in order of preference, election results are more fair and representative | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 6 years ago

Gig economy ‘earthquake’:California Supreme Court rules on worker classification

Despite ruling, companies such as Uber and Lyft are unlikely to voluntarily change the way they classify workers, legal expert says. | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 6 years ago

Tesla hit with $2B lawsuit alleging violation of semi truck patents

There’s more drama for Tesla, as a hydrogen truck technology company called Nikola Motor sues the electric carmaker for $2 billion for patent infringement of its truck design. | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 6 years ago

H-1B Abuse: Bay Area Tech Workers from India Paid a Pittance, Feds Say

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@mercurynews.com | 6 years ago

H-1B abuse: Bay Area tech workers from India paid a pittance, feds say

Company says labor department “misrepresented” its use of H-1B workers. | Continue reading


@mercurynews.com | 6 years ago

Open-source DNA website GEDmatch helped crack Golden State Killer case

A free, no-frills genealogy website helped crack one of the most notorious serial killer cases in state history, an investigator said. | Continue reading


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