Commuters fed up with the Bay Area’s increasingly nightmarish traffic may be getting closer to escaping the snarls in a flying car, with the latest possible exploration of the concept based in Silicon Valley.
On the third day of deliberations, an eight-member jury awarded Apple $290 million in damages in the latest round of its legal battle with Samsung, close to the amount the Silicon Valley tech giant sought for Samsung’s copying of the iPhone and iPad in 13 Samsung smartphones and tablets.
George Blankenship, the Tesla Motors executive and marketing maven who led the company’s retail operations and showroom expansions, has left the company. His departure has not yet been announced by Tesla,
Softbank has leased two large office buildings on the site of the former Circle Star Theater in San Carlos where the software firm is expected to move several hundred jobs and one of its tech subsidiaries, an under-the-radar company called Starburst, local government officials and realty brokers said.
