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Challenges Mount for Southern California International Gateway
When the Los Angeles City Council on May 8 approved the final environmental impact report for construction of BNSF Railway's $500 million near-dock intermodal yard in Southern California, the approval proved to be the beginning of a journey rather than the end of a ...
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MOGL Adds Hawaiian Airlines
San Diego-based MOGL has added Hawaiian Airlines to its roster of companies participating in its tech-enabled loyalty platform that issues cash rewards to customers at ...
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Cards Top Padres Take Series
The Padres scored 13 runs on 15 hits against the Nationals and win 13-4. They've won 11 of 14 at home, and ---- could it be ---- the most vilified offensive ballpark in baseball has become hitters' ...
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California police arrest man for alleged Disneyland scam
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. – Authorities say a man has been arrested after claiming to be a member of the Walt Disney family and giving away invalid Disneyland passes. Los Angeles County sheriff's officials say the man called himself "Stephen Disney" and had a fake driver's license and tax forms that falsely claimed income from the Walt Disney Corp. The statement says he ...
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Joe Francis Apologizes for Appalling Interview With The Hollywood Reporter
I deeply regret the remarks attributed to me in the interview with the Hollywood Reporter. They were hurtful and do not reflect my true feelings. While I disagree with the jury's verdict as I am completely innocent of the charges and intend to appeal, I was afforded a fair trial, and if I lose at the appellate level, I will reluctantly but fully accept the jury's verdict. This was a 6 ...
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Amazon expands Kindle Fire sales to 170 countries
Amazon.com Inc. said its Kindle Fire tablets are now available for preorder in more than 170 countries, with its app store online in nearly 200, PCWorld reports. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is hoping the lower-priced tablets, the strongest challenge yet ...
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London Underwriter Becomes First to Insure California Carbon Credits
Parhelion Underwriting Ltd. became the first insurer to offer a policy to protect companies from the invalidation of carbon offset credits sold as part of California's cap-and-trade program. Parhelion, based in London, will sell insurance for permits originally issued by the Climate Action Reserve, an independent registry in Los Angeles, the companies said in an e-mailed statement today. ...
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Blackstone Prologis said to buy warehouse portfolio for $960 million
Stephen Schwarzman, chairman and chief executive officer of Blackstone Group LP. Prologis Inc. has joined Blackstone Group LP in a deal to purchase a portfolio of 17 million square feet of warehouse space for about $960 million, according to reports. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. owns 80 percent of the portfolio, Bloomberg reports. Blackstone is expected to operate 9.5 million square feet of the ...
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Apple Amazon Google targeted in European tax probe
Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., testifies at a Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing in Washington. European leaders on Wednesday met to discuss how global firms such as Apple Inc. and Google Inc. have managed to pay nearly no taxes on sales revenue generated on the continent, the Mercury News reports. The meeting took place as the U.S. Senate this week looked ...
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Negative equity still weighs on Sacramento home market
Home sale prices are soaring in Sacramento, but more than a third of homes in the region are still under water, according to a Zillow analysis released Thursday. Home sale prices are soaring in Sacramento, but more than a third of homes in the region are still under water, according to a Zillow analysis released Thursday. In the first quarter of 2013, 37.5 percent of homes were worth less than ...
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Walnut Creek approves downtown apartments
The Walnut Creek City Council has approved a 141-apartment project that will include 18,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, the Contra Costa Times reports. Laconia Development is set to build the 164,615-square-foot project, called 1500 California, on a 1.23-acre site in the city's downtown. The development will consist of two six-story glass towers on California Boulevard, with ...
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Discovery to launch online network
Hoping to hook in younger viewers, Discovery Communications is launching an online network to show original series for free, using resources from the online producer Revision3, the Wall Street Journal reports. Discovery bought San Francisco-based Revision3 for $30 million in May of last year. The new Discovery online network, called TestTube, will initially run 15 original shows. They will be ...
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Square launches mobile payments in Japan
Square Inc. CEO Jack Dorsey. Square Inc. has announced available of its mobile-payments system in Japan, its first market outside the United States. Merchants in the country will be able to get a Square credit card reader for free and accept payments for 3.25 percent of each transaction. The company is working in a partnership with Sumitomo Mitsui Card Corp. in the country, where people have a ...
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Rumor Apples iWatch pushed back to 2014
Apple Inc.'s smart watch won't launch until the second half of 2014 because of both hardware and software issues, according to KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. New rumors today about Apple's supposed smart watch. An analyst with KGI Securities says he believes the device won't launch until the second half of 2014 because of both hardware and software issues. In a note, ...
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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 prison labor?
California has a famously large budget deficit, budget cuts are being made to a number of state programs and services, but what hasn’t been considered is the cost avoidance potential of the state’s over 40,000 minimum-security prisoner’s, many of whom are already saving the state money by providing labor in return for shorter sentences.
With California budget deficit expected to be somewhere between $12 billion or as high as $25 billion for 2010 alone, state legislators have been anxiously looking for ways to reduce state expenses, cutting budgets wherever possible, but already existing programs operated by the state may present an opportunity for cost-savings in the areas of construction, services and maintenance of buildings and amenities. Read more
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