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Violin Memory tunes up for $172.5 million IPO 27 Aug 2013 | 03:25 am
Violin Memory filed for its long-awaited initial public offering on Monday, saying it plans to raise up to $172.5 million. The Mountain View-based maker of data storage systems led by CEO Donald Basi...
Eric Schmidt says Larry Ellison is full of hooey (but in much nicer terms) 27 Aug 2013 | 03:00 am
People have been pestering Google Chairman Eric Schmidt about Larry Ellison’s snark against Google and CEO Larry Page in a recent interview. So much so that he took to Google+ to defend his company (b...
Century Berryessa 10 lands a swanky gym - and you should see this locker room 27 Aug 2013 | 12:49 am
Remember that luxury health club proposed for Redwood City we told you about earlier this month? Now it's your turn, San Jose. San Rafael-based Syufy Enterprises has submitted a planning application ...
Sequoia's Doug Leone on investing in China, being No. 4 Midas VC 26 Aug 2013 | 11:45 pm
A pair of IPOs last year — ServiceNow and CafePress — helped propel Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital to No. 4 this year on Forbes magazine's annual Midas List ranking of the top VCs in the country. Anot...
Disconnected America: 1 in 3 adults don't have broadband access 26 Aug 2013 | 11:30 pm
It's easy to forget in uber-connected Silicon Valley, but not every American sports two smartphones, a tablet, a laptop and two wireless routers. In fact, a new study from the Pew Research Center rev...
VMware snags veteran Microsoft exec as CIO 26 Aug 2013 | 11:16 pm
VMware has tapped Tony Scott, Microsoft's former corporate vice president and chief information officer, to be the Palo Alto company's CIO and senior vice president. Scott will manage VMware's global...
Santa Clara County's 10 biggest taxpayers: Do you know who made the list? 26 Aug 2013 | 11:03 pm
Santa Clara County's top 10 biggest taxpayers brought in $10 million more last year for the county than they did in 2011, according to the county assessor's annual report released earlier this month. ...
RingCentral hopes to dial up $100 million in IPO 26 Aug 2013 | 10:59 pm
RingCentral, the cloud-based telephone provider, filed on Monday to raise about $100 million in an upcoming initial public offering. The San Mateo company led by CEO Vlad Shmunis has raised more than...
Pay to track your dream Yahoo ID - but you can't have 'Batman' 26 Aug 2013 | 10:43 pm
If you've ever been denied the Yahoo username of your dreams, you're in luck. Today, Yahoo said it will notify users who last month filled out a wishlist with their screen name choices to find out if ...
NSA eavesdrops on love interests, spawning hilarious trending on Twitter 26 Aug 2013 | 07:08 pm
Call it love in the Prism age. The Wall Street Journal reports that National Security Agency officers have used the agency’s eavesdropping power to spy on love interests. The practice even has its own...
