Troy Wolverton writes: There’s no good reason to bar consumers from unlocking their phones and threaten them with jail time if they do; that policy is outrageous, unfair – and just plain unnecessary.
The Dow closed at an all-time high Tuesday. The S&P 500 Index looks to be close behind. And then there’s the Nasdaq. The tech-heavy index reached its highest point in a dozen years. But it’s still 36 percent below its all-time high of March 10, 2000, when it peaked at 5,048.62. Tuesday it closed at 3,224.13.
San Bruno-based SharesPost, one of several private exchanges that run “secondary markets” to buy and sell stock in companies that aren’t publicly traded, will announce today that it has effectively sold the platform to the Nasdaq exchange.
Brazil is building what is considered one of the most advanced semiconductor businesses in the Southern Hemisphere, and it wants Silicon Valley engineers to apply for jobs.
Jawbone design guru Yves Behar has unveiled his latest brainstorm: a device to help golfers improve their games and share stats with friends. The system combines hardware and software to record each swing and upload such information as distance and accuracy to a smartphone app.
A government watchdog group and several environmental organizations are calling on the Federal Election Commission to take enforcement action against San Ramon-based Chevron for a $2.5 million campaign contribution they say violates federal law.