Chase Bank is looking to expand its footprint in the Bay Area with plans to open 25 to 30 new locations this year, the Oakland Tribune reports. The plans include new branches in the East Bay,...

Netflix has had an interesting year, ranging from a new, tough-to-spell-or-remember division called Qwikster, to a Saturday Night Live spoof of that very same move, to a dropping share price, to a...

Flaming Lips singer Wayne Coyne proudly read a Proclamation from SF Mayor Ed Lee Tuesday night at Bimbos, officially declaring February 21-26 "Noise Pop...

Bay Area Proud is NBC Bay Area's community outreach and volunteering initiative. We hope you'll join us at our events, where our on-air talent often roll up their sleeves and help out on...

Justim Triano looked like he was ready to celebrate, wearing a Mardi Gras scarf, but says the police presence has him thinking about going home. There is no organized event in San Jose. But there...

OAKLAND -- The old-fashioned light source for an apparent midnight snack is being blamed for an apartment fire that displaced four people from an apartment complex this morning, the Oakland Fire...

BERKELEY -- Two people were displaced and two firefighters suffered minor injuries from a fire that damaged a residential art gallery this morning, the Berkeley Fire Department said.The single-alarm...

Chase Bank is planning to expand its branch network by at least 25 locations in Northern California, a push that could create hundreds of new jobs in the region this year.The goal for Chase is to...

Attorneys for Coroner Robert Foucrault have asked a judge to toss out the remaining accusations from the parents of Steven Wolkoff, who argue that their son's brain tissue was improperly kept...

There are thousands of salmon swimming through the lazy currents of the Mokelumne River. In an industry where numbers have faltered for several years, this should be good news. But a recent study...

Officials have confirmed that a skull uncovered last week by a construction crew in San Carlos is from an American Indian man and will be reburied Wednesday on the block where he was found.People...

California's largest health plans have improved their care for diabetic patients, but many need to do better at treating children with throat infections, testing for lung disease and helping...

San Francisco fire crews are on the scene of a pole and transformer fire that knocked out power to thousands of PG&E customers in San Francisco's Mission District, according to fire and...

GigaOm Leaked documents published by GigaOm from a Facebook presentation to be made next week show a new group of premium ads planned for the social...

Follow this company has reportedly confirmed plans to build a new data center on 160 acres of land it has bought in Oregon. The Cupertino company (NASDAQ:AAPL) paid $5.6 million for the...

Vicki Thompson BloomReach co-founders Ashu Garg, left, and Raj De Datta came out of three years of stealth development Wednesday with their Mountin View company's "web relevance...

California has come of the best Mexican cuisine in the United States, and guacamole is one of the most important components when it comes to great Mexican food. The guacamole sets the bar, so when...

SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – A startup company is testing out a service that will let subscribers watch over-the-air television programming on their iPhones and iPads. CNET Editor-at-Large Brian...

MOUNTAIN VIEW (CBS 5) — A diet drug developed by a Bay Area company gets a second chance in front of the FDA. On Wednesday, a panel of experts will meet to advise the Food and Drug...

42-year-old Margaret Juanita Suazo is accused of helping her son take part in a gang-related stabbing in San Jose on February 16, 2012....

Apple released a developer preview of OS X Mountain Lion, the ninth major release of the OS X operating system, which brings popular apps and features from iPad to the Mac and accelerates the pace of...

The U.S. Deparment of Justice and the European Union have approved Google's proposed $12.5 billion deal to acquire Motorola Mobility. Google says the deal with Motorola Mobility will help...

Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock announced that he will step down as Chairman of the company along with three other directors. The move comes just two weeks after Yahoo co-founder and former CEO Jerry...

-- Joyent, a global provider of cloud computing software and services, announced it has completed an $85 million funding round, with European group Weather Investment II providing the majority of the...

POSTED November 9, 2011 SAN JOSE -- Adobe Systems provided a business update for its fourth quarter fiscal year 2011, ending Dec. 2, 2011. The company projects record revenue but says it will cut...

POSTED December 13, 2011 SANTA CLARA - Intel Corporation reported third-quarter results, setting new records for microprocessor units shipped, EPS, earnings and revenue, which was up 28 percent...

POSTED October 23, 2011 SANTA CLARA -- Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Inc., officially opened his company's newest research and development center here in Silicon Valley this week,...

POSTED October 14, 2011 MENLO PARK -- Khosla Ventures, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm, announced that the company has raised a new $1.05 billion fund to help great entrepreneurs...

POSTED September 28, 2011 NEW YORK -- At a press event in New York City, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled a new lineup of Kindle handheld readers including the Kindle Fire, a tablet with Amazon's...

POSTED April 29, 2010 PALO ALTO -- HP announced that its board of directors has appointed Meg Whitman as president and chief executive officer. She replaces Leo Apotheker, who was fired after 11...

POSTED August 3, 2011 SANTA CLARA -- Broadcom Corporation of Irvine, a leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, has agreed to...

POSTED September 20, 2011 LOS GATOS -- Netflix CEO Reed Hastings issued an apology to customers that he messed up with the company's recent price increase. After seeing the company's stock...

POSTED August 12, 2011 SANTA CLARA -- Intel Capital announced a $300 million Ultrabook Fund to help drive innovation in this new category of devices....

POSTEDSeptember 3, 2011 ENGLEWOOD, CO -- Netflix was dealt a blow this week after failing to come up with a new deal with Starz Entertainment, a leading provider of streaming movies for the online...

POSTED July 29, 2011 LOS GATOS -- Netflix, the world's largest online movie subscription service, has begun streaming of the hit series Mad Men starting Wednesday. Viewers can now immerse...

POSTED August 3, 2011 SAN JOSE -- Adobe Systems has announced the first public preview release of Adobe Edge, a new HTML5 web motion and interaction design tool that allows web designers to bring...

, the company’s newest cloud service. Office 365 is now available in 40 markets, and it brings together Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Exchange Online and Microsoft...

POSTED July 18, 2011 SAN JOSE -- Cisco Systems detailed plans to reduce its global workforce by approximately 6,500 employees, which includes approximately 2,100 employees who elected to participate...

POSTED July 2, 2011 REDWOOD SHORES -- Oracle announced that it has agreed to acquire Pillar Data Systems, a startup owned by its own CEO Larry Ellison. No amount was provided by Oracle for the...

POSTED June 9, 2011 PALO ALTO -- HP today said that the Wi-Fi version of HP TouchPad will be available in the United States beginning on July 1. HP's first webOS tablet will be available in...

POSTED May 19, 2011 MOUNTAIN VIEW -- LinkedIn, a social networking site for business professionals, saw its IPO welcomed by Wall Street by more than doubling in its first day of trading (Symbol:...

POSTED May 6, 2011 SANTA CLARA -- Intel Corporation announced a significant breakthrough in the evolution of the transistor, the microscopic building block of modern electronics. For the first time...

POSTED May 10, 2011 REDMOND, WA -- Microsoft Corp. has agreed to buy Belgium video calling company Skype for $8.5 billion in cash. Skype is owned by an investor group led by Silver Lake. This is...

POSTED April 12, 2011 SAN JOSE -- Adobe Systems has launched Creative Suite 5.5, the latest package of its top-selling web authoring software and is now offering subscriptions to users for the first...

POSTED April 13, 2011 SAN JOSE -- Cisco announced a realignment of its operations with the exit of most of its consumer businesses and realign the remaining consumer business to support four of its...

, a leading provider of free, real-time online restaurant reservations for diners and reservation and guest management solutions for restaurants, announced the 50 winners of...

POSTED April 5, 2011 SANTA CLARA -- Texas Instruments has agreed to acquire long-time rival National Semiconductor for $25 per share in an all-cash transaction of about $6.5 billion. The acquisition...

POSTED March 29, 2011 SAN JOSE -- eBay Inc. announced that it has agreed to acquire GSI Commerce, a leading provider of ecommerce and interactive marketing services, for $29.25 a share, or total...