Palo Alto News

Retailers big and small have beefed up their presence on Facebook, Twitter and other popular social networks well in advance of this week's traditional start to the annual holiday shopping season. Images More Business This is the first holiday season...

Caltrain is jammed due to two fatalities. It is starting to becomea habit of taking a cab back from San Francisco. :)

A scrappy upstart called "Google" surpassed them with a minimalist interface ...Progress! Tech bloggers are in a tizzy over the prospect of tech giants Google or Microsoft getting real-time access to the thoughts of Twitterers, but Valleywag has learned that...

Kevin Craft, who will face Stanford in Palo Alto on Saturday: The last time Craft started a road game, he produced big -- for Arizona State. Interception returns of 38, 45, 100 yards by the Sun Devils were the longest...

Mr. Shah and two other Snapture co-founders graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in 2007 and moved to Silicon Valley shortly after. They work on their iPhone business in their free time from one of their apartments, but said...

Think of it as something that exists only online and in the hearts and minds of the user — like a faux flower on Facebook, or digital couture for an avatar, or a magical shield in a game of warcraft....