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First hackathon offers prizes in addition to VC exposure<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/sacramento/blog/mark-anderson/keyboard_fingers_hackathon_315*100.jpg?v=1'>The Cereal Hack set for Sacramento at beginning of June has more has $1,000 available in prizes for its participants.
A hackathon is an event where small groups are assembled into teams to create, develop and deliver an application after many hours of non-stop effort.
As I wrote in the May 11 print edition, it is thought to be the first large-scale open hackathon in Sacramento, but hackathons are a growing trend across the country.
The events are big in Silicon Valley, where companies literally...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>HP planning 25,000 to 30,000 job cuts<img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/denver/news/HewlettPackardHPLogoWeb2*100.jpg?v=1'>Hewlett-Packard Co. will reportedly announce plans to cut between 25,000 and 30,000 jobs over the next year or so when it posts earnings next week.
Reports that cite unnamed sources on AllThingsDigital, Bloomberg and Business Insider vary on the size of the work force reduction at Palo Alto-based HP (NYSE: HPQ).
The restructuring will reportedly include a number of voluntary retirement packages, with AllThingsDigital putting that number at about 5,000 people.
Business Insider reported that its...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Micron stock jumps after chip order reportsReports that Apple Inc. is making large chip orders with Elpida Memory Inc. have spiked interest in Micron Technology Inc.?s stock.
Micron was one of the most actively traded stocks today, according to the Associated Press .
Micron (NASDAQ: MU) last week won the exclusive right to purchase Elpida Memory of Japan for 200 billion Yen, or $2.5 billion.
Debt forced Japanese chip maker Elpida to file bankruptcy protection in February.
As part of the deal, Micron will keep two factories in Japan....<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Rackwise extends contract with Stanford acceleratorRackwise Inc. signed a renewal and expansion of its contract with the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park,
The Stanford Linear Accelerator is operated by Stanford University for the U.S. Department of Energy.
The particle research laboratory has been using Rackwise data center infrastructure management since 2009, and it is expanding its use of the software to model power use.
Rackwise (OTC: RACK.OB) is based in Folsom. The company moved its headquarters this month from San Francisco.
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</div>ED GOLDMAN: An unethical budget move?Quibbles & Bits ? Did your parents ever send you to the store with a detailed list of what you were supposed to buy and the money to do so? And if so, did you follow their instructions ? or did you do what California and several other states are trying to do: use the dough for something else?
As is being reported everywhere, Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing to use the $400 million the banking industry coughed up in our direction not to provide mortgage relief and reduce home foreclosures, as...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Reports: Energy efficiency should pay off for stateAs California policymakers discuss how to spend revenue generated by the state?s soon-to-be-launched carbon market, four related studies providing legal and economic analysis of different investment scenarios were released late Wednesday, Melanie Turner writes.
How the money is spent will have implications for the state?s economy and future, said F. Noel Perry, businessman and founder of Next 10, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization which commissioned the four studies. ....<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Sutter gold mine slideshowOfficials with Sutter Gold Mining Inc. recently officially kicked off construction at a gold mill expected to go online later this year at the Lincoln Mine. Staff writer Mark Anderson has a slideshow of photos from the event, including workers actually breaking apart rock. ...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>Capital Public Radio hires state government reporterCapital Public Radio has hired longtime journalist Amy Quinton to fill a state government reporter position, the news and information organization announced Wednesday, Melanie Turner writes on the media beat.
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</div>Upscale online pet retailer debuts in RocklinAn online, upscale pet retailer is opening its first bricks-and-mortar store in Rocklin today. PoshPuppyBoutique.com customers can pick up their online purchases as well as shop in the store, according to the company. ...<div class="feedflare">
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</div>State new jobless claims rise; nation's stay steadyThe number of people filing new jobless claims across the country was stagnant at 370,000, with no change from the previous week, according to a weekly report from the U.S. Department of Labor. California, however, saw an increase in new claims of 1,613. ...<div class="feedflare">
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desktop, Blackberry, or cell phone! Tim Lindgren has used the term "place blogging" to describe weblogs that focus on events and family in a particular location. The security of wireless networks remains the eminently debated topic within stock company circles.
A well crafted news release is a lot more carrying charge irresistible than openly networking.
ABC, CBS and NBC overall add a "Abide Coverage" graphic to very much alive events to differentiate it from a remain report on a regular newscast. When you put a link in your news story for better information you and me impelled by what your news story or press release is saying are just one click away from being a customer.
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Her consist of draw breath coverage of an circumstance and one or added persist reports from a correspondent where an occurrence takes place. For local PR the interest news journal is always seeking nominations for the county's leading again joint-stock company organizations, for their triennial virginal establishment awards.
Handing out beautiful double sided business cards at Chamber of Commerce or Rotary Club meetings limits your reach to sibling you have met, not very dynamic in the global marketplace.
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First hackathon offers prizes in addition to VC exposure <img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/sacramento/blog/mark-anderson/keyboard_fingers_hackathon_315*100.jpg?v=1'>The Cereal Hack set for Sacramento at beginning of June has more has $1,000 available in prizes for its participants.
A hackathon is an event where small groups are assembled into teams to create, develop and deliver an application after many hours of non-stop effort.
As I wrote in the May 11 print edition, it is thought to be the first large-scale open hackathon in Sacramento, but hackathons are a growing trend across the country.
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</div> HP planning 25,000 to 30,000 job cuts <img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/denver/news/HewlettPackardHPLogoWeb2*100.jpg?v=1'>Hewlett-Packard Co. will reportedly announce plans to cut between 25,000 and 30,000 jobs over the next year or so when it posts earnings next week.
Reports that cite unnamed sources on AllThingsDigital, Bloomberg and Business Insider vary on the size of the work force reduction at Palo Alto-based HP (NYSE: HPQ).
The restructuring will reportedly include a number of voluntary retirement packages, with AllThingsDigital putting that number at about 5,000 people.
Business Insider reported that its...<div class="feedflare">
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</div> Micron stock jumps after chip order reports Reports that Apple Inc. is making large chip orders with Elpida Memory Inc. have spiked interest in Micron Technology Inc.?s stock.
Micron was one of the most actively traded stocks today, according to the Associated Press .
Micron (NASDAQ: MU) last week won the exclusive right to purchase Elpida Memory of Japan for 200 billion Yen, or $2.5 billion.
Debt forced Japanese chip maker Elpida to file bankruptcy protection in February.
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</div> Rackwise extends contract with Stanford accelerator Rackwise Inc. signed a renewal and expansion of its contract with the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park,
The Stanford Linear Accelerator is operated by Stanford University for the U.S. Department of Energy.
The particle research laboratory has been using Rackwise data center infrastructure management since 2009, and it is expanding its use of the software to model power use.
Rackwise (OTC: RACK.OB) is based in Folsom. The company moved its headquarters this month from San Francisco.
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</div> ED GOLDMAN: An unethical budget move? Quibbles & Bits ? Did your parents ever send you to the store with a detailed list of what you were supposed to buy and the money to do so? And if so, did you follow their instructions ? or did you do what California and several other states are trying to do: use the dough for something else?
As is being reported everywhere, Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing to use the $400 million the banking industry coughed up in our direction not to provide mortgage relief and reduce home foreclosures, as...<div class="feedflare">
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</div> Reports: Energy efficiency should pay off for state As California policymakers discuss how to spend revenue generated by the state?s soon-to-be-launched carbon market, four related studies providing legal and economic analysis of different investment scenarios were released late Wednesday, Melanie Turner writes.
How the money is spent will have implications for the state?s economy and future, said F. Noel Perry, businessman and founder of Next 10, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization which commissioned the four studies. ....<div class="feedflare">
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</div> Sutter gold mine slideshow Officials with Sutter Gold Mining Inc. recently officially kicked off construction at a gold mill expected to go online later this year at the Lincoln Mine. Staff writer Mark Anderson has a slideshow of photos from the event, including workers actually breaking apart rock. ...<div class="feedflare">
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</div> Capital Public Radio hires state government reporter Capital Public Radio has hired longtime journalist Amy Quinton to fill a state government reporter position, the news and information organization announced Wednesday, Melanie Turner writes on the media beat.
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</div> Upscale online pet retailer debuts in Rocklin An online, upscale pet retailer is opening its first bricks-and-mortar store in Rocklin today. PoshPuppyBoutique.com customers can pick up their online purchases as well as shop in the store, according to the company. ...<div class="feedflare">
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</div> State new jobless claims rise; nation's stay steady The number of people filing new jobless claims across the country was stagnant at 370,000, with no change from the previous week, according to a weekly report from the U.S. Department of Labor. California, however, saw an increase in new claims of 1,613. ...<div class="feedflare">
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It's official: Facebook IPO prices at $38 Facebook's IPO has priced at $38 per share, the company reported in a news release issued minutes after markets closed, Thursday.
The pricing is at the top of a range set at the beginning of this week by Facebook Inc., and values the company at over $100 billion. Shares are set to begin trading on Friday.
From the Facebook news release:
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bizj_boston/~4/F_1FWyY7NBM" height="1" width="1"/> Harvard study: workplace inspections save money A Harvard study argues that workplace inspections designed to prevent injuries do not cost jobs due to higher costs for businesses. In fact, the researchers say, they save money. The study, led by Harvard Business School professor Michael Toffel, along with University of California, Berkeley Professor David Levine and Boston University Ph.D. candidate Matthew Johnson, was published Thursday in Science magazine.
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bizj_boston/~4/3e7FFpdLGQA" height="1" width="1"/> Mass. Medical Society elects UMass Memorial's Aghababian its next prez <img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/boston/news/0517-Richard-Aghababian-UMass-Memorial-Medical-Center-Mass.-Medical-Society-courtesy-315*100.jpg?v=1'>Former UMass Memorial Medical Center Emergency Medicine Chair Richard Aghababian has been elected to head the Massachusetts Medical Society. He succeeds Worcester, Mass., pediatrician Lynda Young.
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bizj_boston/~4/cmvxqq0OI_A" height="1" width="1"/> HP to cut up to 25,000 jobs (report); no word on Mass. layoffs <img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/sanjose/print-edition/WOIWhitmanMeg*100.jpg?v=1'>Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) may cut as many as 25,000 jobs, or 8 percent of its workforce, according to a report from Bloomberg News that cites people familiar with the matter.
HP employs about 3,000 employees in Massachusetts, including at their Andover and Marlborough campuses. The Marlborough campus is around 133,000 square feet and is leased until 2016.
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bizj_boston/~4/zHAdG8iXRjQ" height="1" width="1"/> Broker-Dealer ordered to recover $1M+ in annuities sold to elderly widow <img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/bottom_line/%20%20aaaRealEstate_Logo*100.jpg?v=1'>H. Beck, a Maryland-based broker-dealer, has been ordered by the Massachusetts Secretary of State to refund more than $1 million in annuities improperly sold to an elderly widow by one of its representatives.
The order, issued by the state's Securities Division, also imposes a $90,000 fine on H. Beck for failure to supervise Paul J. Dumouchel of Wellesley, who was a registered representative of the firm from February 2009 through November 2011, according to Secretary of the State William F. Galvin.
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bizj_boston/~4/zYcw-wPgimQ" height="1" width="1"/> Obama's other Vineyard vacation home for sale (slide show) <img src='http://assets.bizjournals.com/boston/real_estate/0517_ObamaOaksBluffHome*100.jpg?v=1'>The Martha?s Vineyard home where President Barack Obama vacationed on a secluded section of Nantucket Sound in Oak Bluffs is for sale at $3.29 million.
Obama?s senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett, rented the 17-room ranch-style home at 89 East Chop Drive in the historic East Chop neighborhood for several years, and the first family vacationed there prior to and after Obama became president. Obama last visited in 2009.
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</div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bizj_boston/~4/SpNj9nNWoNs" height="1" width="1"/> BU School of Management gets second multi-million-dollar gift from former Macy's exec Allen Questrom, retired chief executive officer of several of the nation?s largest department and specialty stores, has given $10 million to the Boston University School of Management, according to BU Today, a university publication.
This is Questrom?s second multimillion dollar gift to the school. In 2007, Questrom gave the school gave $4 million for an endowed deanship and professorship called the Allen Questrom Professor and Dean.
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