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Hewlett-Packard Co. ushered in Meg Whitman as its CEO with a $16.5 million compensation package. It hinges on whether the former candidate for California governor can lift the stumbling technology company's stock price during the next two years.
Six Northern California cities made Forbes' list of the worst places to live in the country, including Sacramento at No. 5 for the second year in a row, according to the magazine.
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency is in the Bay Area Thursday and planned to tour an electric vehicle company. It's an industry that has really benefited from the auto-bailout and the stimulus package because a big chunk of that money went to making batteries for electric cars.
Facebook's long-awaited IPO filing lifted the stocks of many Internet companies, including recent laggards Zynga and Groupon. But analysts said the halo effect may fade.
The board overseeing California's teacher pension system has lowered the fund's investment forecast for the second time in 14 months.
The fight to save the Gold Dust Lounge off San Francisco's Union Square continued Wednesday at the Historic Preservation Commission, which will look at whether landmark status should be considered.
Assemblyman Jerry Hill and a consumer watchdog group want the PUC to intervene in a proposal in which they claim PG&E would profit off of ratepayers for gas line improvements in the wake of the San Bruno explosion.
Facebook made a much-anticipated status update Wednesday: The Internet social network is going public eight years after its computer-hacking CEO Mark Zuckerberg started the service at Harvard University.
Social networking-giant Facebook is expected to file for its initial public offering as early as Wednesday afternoon, and that has many in Silicon Valley excited, including luxury car dealers and real estate agents that sell high-end homes.
It's official: redevelopment is dead in cities across California. San Jose, which identified the funds as its largest tool is being forced to deal with the loss of its once mighty redevelopment agency.
San Francisco's newest cruise ship terminal has been named after a former president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.
The San Jose City Council approved a temporary tax break Tuesday to encourage more commercial development in the city.
California regulators said Pacific Gas & Electric Co. can start charging its customers fees to avoid having wireless utility meters installed in their homes.
Alarm company ADT Security Services has agreed to pay $950,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by Contra Costa County prosecutors accusing the company of unfair business practices.
Columbus Manufacturing also agreed to spend $6 million to upgrade its refrigeration system following two ammonia leaks in 2009.
