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• Issue arises for California leaders over venture capital performance disclosure.

  - 2004-12-15

  By Matt Marshall, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 15--State leaders, led by the regents of the University of California, are discussing legislation to placate venture capitalists upset by the disclosure of information about how they are performing....

  Tags: Benefits, California, CalPERS, FINANCE, Investment, leader, performance, San Jose Mercury News

• San Jose Mercury News, Calif., technology notebook column.

  - 2004-12-06

  San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 6--MAGAZINE FOR BLOGGERS IS NO RED HERRING: After Red Herring magazine met its dot-com doom last year, founder Tony Perkins said he swore off print publications. The tech pundit has now gone back...

  Tags: Blogging, California, INTERNET, NetFlix Inc., notebook, Red Herring, San Jose Mercury News, SEARCH

• An emotional leave-taking occurs for California's top Democrat.

  - 2004-12-01

  By Kate Folmar, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 1--SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- John Burton has dominated the Senate with curses and charm. He has gone head-to-head with action star Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger without blinking. He even once battled...

  Tags: California, E-mail, Fax, San Jose Mercury News, Strategy, U.S. Senate

• Buick's future is in focus at San Francisco International Auto Show.

  - 2004-11-26

  By Matt Nauman, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 26--With the revival of Cadillac, new cars from Chevrolet and the strong start for Hummer, General Motors is beginning to prove it can successfully revive lagging brands. ...

  Tags: brand, Branding, Buick, California, car, General Motors Corp., MARKETING, San Jose Mercury News, sedan

• Former California banker banned from securities industry for life.

  - 2004-11-23

  By John Boudreau, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 23--Former Silicon Valley technology banker Frank Quattrone, convicted on criminal charges of obstructing justice, has been barred from the securities industry for life by regulators for allegedly refusing to...

  Tags: California, E-mail, FINANCE, Government, Investment, IPO, NASD, Regulations, San Jose Mercury News, Strategy

• Marshals shut down Santa Cruz, Calif., pirate radio station.

  - 2004-09-30

  By David L. Beck, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 30--Guns drawn, agents of the U.S. Marshals Service served a warrant on a tiny Santa Cruz pirate radio station early Wednesday, rousting and frisking the pajama-clad residents of...

  Tags: agent, California, FCC, Government, MARKETING, radio, San Jose Mercury News

• Turner Broadcasting to distribute shows through San Mateo, Calif., firm.

  - 2004-09-29

  By Dawn C. Chmielewski, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 29--Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting System will distribute some of its best-known shows through Akimbo, a San Mateo start-up that plans to deliver video to television over the Internet....

  Tags: California, In-Stat, INTERNET, San Jose Mercury News, Turner Broadcasting, TVs

• U.S. economic recovery will continue to inch along.

  - 2004-09-08

  By Dawn C. Chmielewski, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 8--The boom won't be back anytime soon as the plodding pace of the national economic recovery will continue over the next two years, according to a respected report...

  Tags: California, job, recession, recovery, San Jose Mercury News, University of California at Los Angeles

• California lawmakers pass bill to grant immigrants access to driver licenses.

  - 2004-08-28

  San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 28--SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Rushing to wrap up the legislative session on a final marathon day, lawmakers approved a measure that would allow up to 2 million undocumented immigrants to apply for California...

  Tags: California, Government, Governor, immigrant, Insurance, San Jose Mercury News, U.S. Senate

• Particle accelerator project at Stanford University spurned.

  - 2004-08-21

  By Glennda Chui, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 21--Physicists have picked an approach for building the next great particle accelerator -- rejecting one developed at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in favor of a rival technology from a...

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