San Francisco Bay Area job growth is back to the salad days of the dot-com boom. August saw a surge of nearly 23,000 new jobs, the highest since at least early 2000. If Silicon Valley were a state, it would
The European Union and United States government-funded Global Carbon Project (GCP) released their latest Atlas that tracks annual CO2 emissions by 196 countries in cooperation with Sunday’s People’s Climate March and President Obama’s keynote speech at the United Nations Global
Last week, Breitbart News noted that Texas public pension plans had the highest asset percentage of any state pension program invested in hedge funds, with one plan at almost a quarter of assets invested. It didn’t take long for Texans
“Entrepreneur” is a French word for one who gets in the middle between a buyer and a seller. In the last couple of years, Silicon Valley start-ups such as Uber valued at $18 billion, Airbnb valued at $10 billion, and
The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell by more than expected last week, suggesting that a sharp slowdown in reported job growth during the prior month has not derailed the strong trend in employment growth in
California Public Employees’ Retirement System, known as CalPERS, announced recently that it is terminating all of its investments in hedge funds after the conviction of their former CEO, Federico R. Buenrostro Jr., for hundreds of millions in fraud involving the funds. Hedge fund management has,
Although Steve Jobs is credited as the best technology innovator in the history of Silicon Valley, he was actually an art major in college. Jobs credited his creative talents as the secret sauce in building Apple Computer as the most
The Silicon Valley tech giants that have been engaging in widespread internet surveillance of their customers’ shopping preferences, general attitudes, and deepest life-style secrets have failed to appreciate the mounting global concern over their record on online privacy and security. Yet
In the run-up to the “People’s Climate March” scheduled for September 21, the non-partisan U.S, General Accountability Office (GAO) just doubled its estimate for coal plants expected to retired to comply with the Obama Administration’s new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
For the first time in our nation’s history, the majority of American households are run by single-persons, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. From 70.6% in 1970, the percent of married couples has crashed through the 50% level early in
Of the UK’s North Sea energy deposits, 96 percent of oil and 47 percent of gas production are in Scottish waters, according to geographic studies by the University of Aberdeen. Since oil production came on line in the 1970s, the
The day after Nevada lawmakers approved a package of tax incentives worth $1,538,000 per job to persuade California based Tesla Motors Inc. to build its Gigafactory battery plant in the state, California Governor Jerry Brown, who is rumored to be
The Walt Disney Co., DreamWorks Animation, Digital Domain, Pixar, Lucasfilm and Sony Pictures are among the defendants in a new multi-billion dollar class-action suit contending that Hollywood studios and their vendors conspired to suppress tech workers’ wages through secret “non-poaching” agreements. The suit follows
Digital First Media, the New York owner and operator of the nation’s second-largest newspaper chain, announced Friday that it will “evaluate and consider strategic alternatives” that could lead to a quick sale of some or all of the hedge fund-sponsored
Governor Brian Sandoval of Nevada signed a package of bills on September 11 to provide Tesla Motors $1.3 billion tax breaks as reward for the company choosing to build its $5 billion Gigafactory in the state. The facility might eventually provide
Calico, a company led by former Genetech CEO Art Levinson and backed by Mountain View-based Google Inc. said on September 11th that it had inked a $1.5 billion, 10-year research and commercialization deal with AbbVie Inc. to develop treatments for Parkinson’s and Lou
The highly respected Pacific Crest Securities downgraded Apple stock on September 10th, citing stagnant iPhone growth, “lack of compelling features” on the new Apple Watch, and not enough investment “potential for upside (earnings) estimates.” As I wrote on September 9th, with
Latinos represent the fastest growing segment of California’s population and its electorate. In August, Univision released a survey, “Winning with Hispanics in the Midterms: The Why, The How and the What” that showed Latinos comprise 28% of the Golden State’s eligible voters
Some polls now show a slim majority of Scotland voters intending to vote on September18th for independence from the United Kingdom after 300 years of political union. Such an action would destroy the post-World War II doctrine of the inviolability
Following Tim Cook’s goofy performance in San Francisco last June at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, the performance at today’s supposed big iPhone 6 launch at the Flint Center for the Performing Arts in Cupertino, California was an even bigger yawn. In
Biologists at UCLA have identified a gene that can slow the aging process throughout the entire body when “activated” remotely in key organ systems. Scientists activated a gene in fruit flies’ intestines called AMPK that is a key sensor that
With Chinese Internet behemoth Alibaba being preliminarily valued at $165 billion as it prepares for its initial public offering (IPO), it seems that investors are playing the same type of dangerous game they played in 1999. At the time, “I
After all the hokey-pokey about how committed Tesla is to California, the company chose Sparks, Nevada to manufacture batteries at its new 26 acre “Gigafactory” where it is already laying a foundation, according to a CNBC report citing the Nevada Governor’s
Apple Inc. was mildly embarrassed on September 2nd that private celebrity nude photographs and videos, including those with Jennifer Lawrance and Kate Upton, were allegedly hacked from iCloud accounts and then went viral after being posted online. But Apple, Inc. stock
The $7.5 billion California Proposition 1 Water Bond (Assembly Bill 1471, “Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014”) on the November ballot promises to provide more above ground water storage for the first time in 40 years in
