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    Blue Gene leads, but look out for Roadrunner

    Wi-Fi in the vineyards
    Agriculture uncorks new technology

    Jun 24, 2007, East Bay Business Times

    Sensor and Wi-Fi technologies are putting more science into the art of vineyard management, a business known for clinging to traditional methods. Grape Networks announced what it believes is the largest wireless sensor network for agriculture ... Meanwhile, Livermore's Wente Vineyards ...   Read more.           Press Club Award
    Dec. 3, 2006, East Bay Business Times

    Livermore lab's Blue Gene/L supercomputer is still the world's fastest, but Los Alamos' Roadrunner system may leave it in its dust. If successful, Roadrunner will bring with it a new era of computing that will be measured in quadrillions, instead of trillions, of calculations per seconds. Last month's latest Top 500 supercomputer list ...   Read more .  

    Find your Web audience — then buy it, says Quantcast

    Golden Baseball League brings new teams, deals to '08 season​

    Dec. 6, 2009, Silicon Valley Business Journal

    ​Quantcast Corp. has developed technology that helps broker target advertising on the Internet. The San Francisco startup provides data to companies such as Time Inc., NBC Universal and Bloomberg that helps them sell ads for specific audiences.   Read more .  
    May 11, 2008, East Bay Business Times

    The Golden Baseball League enters its fourth season this month with a renewed key corporate sponsorship, new television deals and momentum ... (This feature includes an interview with David Kaval, GBL founder and now president of the Oakland A's.)    Read more.

    Elon Musk unveils space taxi to ferry astronauts​

    S.F. 49ers to host Bears in first regular-season game at Levi's Stadium

    May 30, 2014, San Francisco Business Times

    SpaceX founder Elon Musk and company executives on Thursday night unveiled the company's next spacecraft, a space ferry that could carry seven astronauts into low-Earth orbit. (Daily short on Elon Musk, also founder of Tesla Motors, Palo Alto and Fremont, )   Read more .  
    April 24, 2014, San Francisco Business Times

    The NFL's 2014 regular-season schedule, released Wednesday, plots a strong opening for the San Francisco 49ers at the new Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara. (Daily short on the opening games at the San Francisco 49ers' newly built Levi's Stadium.)    Read more.

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    Behold the candidates' contributors
    Gov. Brown vs. Whitman

    Documentum thrives at merger plus three​

    Oct. 1, 2010, San Francisco Business Times

    One theme that rang out in the gubernatorial debate was Meg Whitman's saying Jerry Brown will be "beholden" to the unions ... and Brown's countering that Whitman will be beholden to the business community ... But a look at our contributors' database shows there's a lot more to, well, behold.    Read more .         
    Sept. 28, 2006, East Bay Business Times

    For Documentum, EMC's merger management is paying off. When EMC acquired Documentum for $1.8 billion in 2003, it appeared to be the story of an East Coast giant coming to devour the smaller software company. Three years later, the outcome tells a different tale.    Read more .  

    CRE: Webcor thrives in downturn with technology, green focus

    Golf club designer hits long drive combining high tech with tradition​

    Nov. 6, 2009, Silicon Valley Business Journal

    ​Webcor CEO Andy Ball has changed the way his company does business, adopting construction technology and green building practices. Webcor developed virtual building software that pulls all of a project’s plans together and analyzes it through 3-D modeling.    Read more .  
    Nov. 15, 2007, East Bay Business Times

    Hayward is again home to a Bay Area golf tradition as the second-generation golf club designer Jesse Ortiz this month launches his new design studio, three years after opening the Bobby Jones Golf Co. to rekindle a tradition going back nearly half a century.   Read more .

    PC Gaming Alliance brings together top competitors from Intel to Microsoft​

    M&As: Microsoft to buy Skype for $8.5B Intel to acquire McAfee for $7.68B

    May 10, 2011, San Francisco Business Times

    Microsoft Corp. has agreed to buy Skype Technologies SA for $8.5 billion in cash, the company confirmed Tuesday.  (Large M&As are essential stories for business journals. Especially in the early morning, it's a race to see who can compile details and post to the Web first.)   Read more .
    Aptil 18, 2008, San Francisco Business Times

    Global Inventures has helped assemble a group of normally fierce computer industry competitors - Intel and AMD, Acer and Dell among them - to develop common standards they hope will aid the multibillion-dollar PC gaming industry grow even larger.   Read more .