California Jobless Rate Rises Back Above 12 Percent
The unemployment rate in California is climbing again, hitting 12 percent in July as the state added just 4,500 payroll jobs for the month.
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The unemployment rate in California is climbing again, hitting 12 percent in July as the state added just 4,500 payroll jobs for the month.
More than 40 bands are performing at this , the 11th year of the event.
Bay Area homeowners are rushing to take advantage of mortgage rates that have hit another record low.
Federal officials are suing a San Jose Panda Express, accusing the restaurant of making Latino workers clean toilets and perform other menial work while Asian employees stood around and watched.
IBM announced Thursday that it has built two prototype chips that it said processes data more like how humans digest information than the chips that now power PCs and supercomputers.
If the settlement is approved, it will resolve a lawsuit that was filed last year alleging that NUMMI and Toyota Motor Corp. violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.
California prosecutors have filed a major lawsuit against several lawyers and call center operators for allegedly running a nationwide scam to dupe desperate homeowners into paying thousands of dollars to join dubious lawsuits against the country's largest banks.
In a sign that the Google-Motorola deal could face heavy antitrust scrutiny, Google included an unusually high breakup fee in its deal terms, according to a document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday.
While the news is anything but rosy around the nation, an economic summit in San Jose on Thursday produced a positive outlook for the Bay Area.
Palo-Alto-based Hewlett-Packard Co. said Thursday that it will discontinue its tablet computer and smartphone products and may sell or spin off its PC division, bowing out of the consumer businesses.
The state auditor's office is adding teacher pensions to the list of high-risk issues facing California government.
Cost pressures are only compounding challenges at the San Francisco-based retailer, which has been working to revive sales across all of its brands.
Beer and college have long gone together. Now a Northern California university is lending its name and logo to a local beer maker.
The suit is seeking $3 million from the owners and operators of the Tower Car Wash for unfair business practices.
Small business owners in Silicon Valley are calling on Amazon and other online retailers to end their campaign against California's new sales tax law.
