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Review Googles new music plan solid serendipitous but touchy interface can cause mis-taps
LOS ANGELES - Google Inc.'s new music service offers a lot of eye candy to go with the tunes. The song selection of around 18 million tracks is comparable to popular services such as Spotify and Rhapsody, and a myriad of playlists curated along different genres provides a big playground for music lovers. The All Access service represents Google's attempt to grab a bigger piece of the ...
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5 California Things to Know for Thursday
Covered California, the agency running the state's health insurance marketplace, unveils details of the program, including how much it will ...
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Nations largest firefighting planes to leave Cal
The planes were based at Victorville since 2005 but state budget problems prompted the end of an exclusive state contract. The owners are getting work with the U.S. Forest ...
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OC to pay $2 million to settle retaliation suit
SANTA ANA, Calif. -; Orange County has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit by a former sheriff's lieutenant who was demoted after running against ex-Sheriff Mike ...
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FilmOut San Diego celebrates 15 years
Lukas Haas and Wilson Cruz in "Meth Head," a film directed by Jane Clark that is the Spotlight Film at this year's 15th annual FilmOut San Diego LGBT Film Festival, to be held May 29-June 2 at the Birch North Park ...
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Sacramento ranks No. 10 for working women
Sacramento ranks No. 10 on a list of best large cities for women in the workforce. It may pay to be a woman working in the Sacramento region. A new study by NerdWallet puts the city at No. 10 for best big cities for women in the workforce. NerdWallet, a finance and credit card information service, looked at U.S. Census Bureau data from 366 metro areas and ranked them on highest pay, smallest ...
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QB3 partnership to open new large life sciences incubator
QB3 associate director Douglas Crawford, in the under-construction QB3@953: Helping life sciences startups through the 'valley of death.' A unique real estate partnership including the University of Californias QB3 institute will expand San Franciscos amount of biotech incubator space by 50 percent, providing enough room for 20 to 30 young companies. QB3 and Dewey Land Co. Inc. expect to ...
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How an Entirely New Autistic Way of Thinking Powers Silicon Valley
In today's business world, disruption is a constant force that never lets up. At the annual WIRED Business Conference: Disruptive by Design, we celebrate the creative power of bold new ideas and the people that make them happen. See the event ...
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Heres the 5-year-old whose pitch won over 20 VCs
This is 5-year-old Rhett, who is being treated for acute leukemia and made a special pitch that convinced more than 20 VCs to auction themselves for a lunch to benefit the Bay Area Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Click here to watch his video, "Dear Mr. VC." Your average Silicon Valley VC probably hears hundreds of pitches a month but none more effective than this one made by a ...
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UC sex assault cases mishandled federal complaint alleges
Attorney Gloria Allred said that some of the complaints allege a hostile environment for women and others charge colleges with violating the federal Clery Act, which requires accurate reporting of campus crimes. Women "will no longer accept the status quo where rapes and sexual assaults are swept under the rug and condoned by college administrators," Allred said in a statement released ...
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Oakland City Council New budget rules approved amid tensions
OAKLAND -- With just over a month to adopt a budget, Oakland council members approved rules aimed at preventing a repeat of last year when the final budget plan was introduced at the last minute with no chance for public vetting.The new law, passed 6-2 after a testy debate, forbids council members from submitting major budget amendments within three days of the final meeting when the budget is ...
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California jobless claims shoot up by 15000
California reported the largest jump in new jobless claims of 15,060. It attributed the change to layoffs in the service industry. The number of people making new jobless claims across the country dropped by 23,000 to 340,000, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. California saw a huge increase in new claims. The four-week moving average was 339,500, or a drop of 500 from the previous ...
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Rental startup Flightcar lands in Boston eyes more airports
Flightcar, co-founded by CEO Rujul Zaparde, is opening its second car-sharing location at Boston's Logan International Airport in time for Memorial Day weekend. Vehicle-sharing startup Flightcar is opening its second location, Boston, just in time for Memorial Day weekend and plans to be at up to five airports by year's end. But CEO Rujul Zaparde told me this week that he and teen ...
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Coming up 3D printing for Bootstrappers
The Bootstrapper's Breakfast happens on the fourth Friday of every month in Mountain View. The talk at the monthly Bootstrappers Breakfast Meetup in Mountain View this week is about how to leverage 3D printing for startup and small businesses. Paul Spann of Spann Enterprises, a longtime mechanical engineer at various Silicon Valley tech companies, is making the presentation. He believes that ...
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Gamers get opportunity to become master at University of California
Video game masters will soon have the chance to be validated as the University of California rolls out a new one-year program, the Silicon Valley Business Journal reports. A new master's of science degree program in games and playable media will be offered in the fall, the university announced Wednesday. "They will learn to be independent game makers, and they can go on to work in the ...
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Tampa Bay Area Drying Out as Holiday Weekend Approaches
According to Bay News 9 Meteorologist Juli Marquez, rain chances are only 20 percent today as showers move inland and to the other side of the state."After our wet days, rain chances start dropping and drier air moves in," Marquez said. "It will be partly sunny today with some slight chances of isolated showers and storms - mainly to the east of the Bay area. It will remain warm ...
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Swallows lawsuit may delay Petaluma bridge work
PETALUMA, Calif. -; A lawsuit accuses state and federal regulators of causing the death of dozens of migratory cliff swallows by placing nets on a Sonoma County bridge during a highway widening ...
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LA jury gets case in killing of aspiring model
LOS ANGELES -; The case has gone to the jury in the murder trial of a woman accused of strangling an aspiring young model and actress in her Santa Monica ...
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Northern California landslide stabilizes
LAKEPORT, Calif. -; Officials say a Northern California subdivision that partly sank into a hilltop has stabilized after several homes, roads and sections of a sewer system were ...
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Santa Barbara Business Beat
The Association of Women in Communications, Santa Barbara, will present its 2013 Women of Achievement Awards to Marsha Bailey, founder and CEO at Women's Economic Ventures, and author Kathleen Sharp at a luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. June 5 at the Montecito Country Club, 920 Summit Road, Santa Barbara. Admission to the luncheon is $45 for AWC-SB members and $60 for non-members. For ...
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San Antonio Spurs and Golden State Warriors react to playoffs semi-final Game 6 - video
The San Antonio Spurs beat the Golden State Warriors 94-82 in Game 6 of the NBA's Western Conference playoffs semi-final, to go 4-2 up in the series. Spurs coach Greg Popovich says a strong defensive performance won the game and his team did well to hold the Warriors to around 80 ...
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Hi Its Ari $ing Emanuel and I plan to shake up Hollywood
Sean Parker, the billionaire technology investor and onetime president of Facebook, will never forget being on the receiving end of an Ari Emanuel onslaught. It was 2009. Emanuel, the famous Hollywood agent, had been e-mailing Parker because a friend had suggested they connect. "I knew who he was," says Parker, who, like so many others, conflated Emanuel with Ari Gold, his alter ego on ...
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When Hollywood Wants Good Clean Fun It Goes to Mormon Country
The film's premise sounded fun and wry and a little hokey. It was aiming for that Pixar-ish sweet spot, which is typical of the animated shorts that B.Y.U. students have made every year since the program started in 2000. (See, for example, ...
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UnitedHealth Aetna and Cigna opt out of California insurance exchange
Kaiser Permanente, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of California are all expected to participate in the state-run market for individual health ...
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Distraction burglars who hit Torrance victims arrested in Orange case
Erika Ephraim, 19 Two suspected gang members have been charged with committing a distraction burglary in the city of Orange just months after they were convicted of victimizing elderly victims in Torrance, police said Wednesday. Mickey Christian Mitchell and Erika Ephraim, both 19-year-old Anaheim residents, were arrested by Torrance police officers earlier this month in connection with the ...
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Sacramento vulnerable to massive disaster
If a major earthquake were to occur tomorrow, Sacramento could potentially be devastated by massive flooding on-par with that seen in New Orleans during Katrina. The state’s major fresh water systems would be destroyed and 25 million would be without fresh water, while millions would lose their homes, but for all this, funding to upgrade the city’s levees is hard to come by.
When Hurricane Katrina barreled into US states along the Gulf Coast in 2005 it caused chaos and devastation in a part of the world considered among the most developed and stable. Read more
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