Santa Clara Business News

The total complex would include about 3 million square feet of office space, featuring 13 six-story buildings constructed over a large underground parking garage, according to a draft Environmental Impact Report released this week for public review. "It's enough to...

The Gridwise Alliance , a nonprofit coalition of stakeholders developing the Smart Grid, signed a memorandum of understanding today with the International Engineering Consortium , to team up to make utilities more intelligent. Presumably, the Alliance will integrate its intelligent...

Can Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, Silicon Valley's version of the long-squabbling Hatfields and McCoys, really get along? The two chipmakers certainly sounded sincere when they ended their antitrust legal wrangling on Nov. 12. Calling their relationship for more than...

If redevelopment agencies are forced to hand over funds to help close the state's budget deficit, the city's housing department will likely fund just one affordable housing development in the next five years, she said at the meeting in an...

Ex-sales VP at Santa Clara chip company Tvia charged with inflating earnings Posted: 11/17/2009 01:53:39 PM PST Updated: 11/17/2009 02:05:04 PM PST A former sales executive of Tvia was charged Tuesday by the Securities and Exchange Commission with hiding side agreements that...

BridgeWave Communications , a company that provides wireless backhauling services to free high-traffic networks from congestion, has raised $2.4 million of an anticipated $2.5 million round of equity. Based in Santa Clara, Calif., the company is backed by Core Capital...

Chinese game company I Got Game has built an audience of 15 million users with 14 massively multiplayer games launched since 2005...IGG is launching Fish Isle for Facebook this weekend in a foray into the popular social game market. It...

For many of the 1,000-plus developers at the Sprint Open Developers Conference on Tuesday, there was but one word on their lips: Android. More Business While talk in the past has focused on Windows Mobile or Palm, the biggest topic...

The number of available jobs reported by employers also shrank, a sign that the recession is continuing to batter the valley's job market. The state Employment Development Department released September job figures Friday. The drop in the unemployment rate could...

SSDs and the Reliability Factor Posted by Arthur Cole Sep 28, 2009 4:33:46 PM The supposed superior reliability of enterprise-class solid state drives (SSDs) has always been taken with a grain of salt by most IT professionals. The theory is...