Summary List Placement The first impression you make on a recruiter, a prospective client, or a potential partner often isn’t your business card or your resume. It’s your LinkedIn profile. And that’s a good thing! Rather than being confined to a piece of paper, you have a blank slate (well, a few blank fields) to […]
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s WeChat download ban
Summary List Placement A federal judge in California on Saturday issued a temporary injunction against the Trump administration’s download ban on WeChat, the Chinese-owned social media messaging app, that was slated to begin Sunday. “The court grants the motion on the ground that the plaintiffs have shown serious questions going to the merits of the […]
Campbell community briefs for the week of Sept. 25
CUHSD candidate forum The League of Women Voters-Southwest Santa Clara Valley is hosting a Sept. 30 online forum for candidates for the Campbell Union High School District board. District 4 incumbent Linda Goytia is running against Basil Saleh, an alumnus of the high school district, in the Nov. 3 elections. Board president Kalen Gallagher, the district […]
Teen birder wins Audubon photography award
A young member of the Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society recently won national recognition for his photography. Vayun Tiwari, 16, of Sunnyvale was named the Youth Winner of the National Audubon Society’s 2020 Photography Awards for a shot he took of a Northern Jacana, a marsh bird of the tropics, along the New River in Belize. […]
Latest line: A good week for Connerly, bad one for Daimler
Ward Connerly Former UC regent and advocate of Proposition 209, the 1996 ballot measure that curbed affirmative action, seems headed for another win as a new poll finds only 31% support Prop 16 to reinstate such programs. Daimler German automaker agrees to pay $286 million to California to settle charges that it put software on […]
Coronavirus economy: In Mountain View, tech gives and takes away
It’s a warm Friday afternoon at a Mountain View sports pub just a stone’s throw from several Google offices, and tables inside and out should be filled with people celebrating the end of the workweek. But the long barroom with seating for 80 is closed by coronavirus regulations, and on the outdoor patio — despite […]
TV this week: Can Emmy Awards pull off a socially distanced show?
Chuck Barney’s TV and streaming picks for Sept. 20-26 DON’T MISS: The “72nd Primetime Emmy Awards” — Late-night funny man Jimmy Kimmel is our virtual host for a socially distanced Emmy telecast that will look like no other. Kimmel is set to do the gig from a stage in Staples Center, but there will be […]
Los Gatos community briefs for the week of Sept. 25
New at NUMU Face coverings are mandatory for visitors to New Museum Los Gatos, but they don’t have to be as ornate as those created by San Francisco artist Lauryl Gaumer, whose work will be featured at NUMU Sept. 25-Jan. 24. Gaumer’s “In the Artist’s Studio” exhibit will feature works from her (Un)Wearable series, which […]
Cooking: Make an easy end-of-summer slaw
It’s officially the end of summer. A change of seasons is always a good time to switch gears and do a little cleaning — consider it a spring clean, but in the fall — and nothing too taxing, mind you; we’re all under a little stress these days. A simple project will feel like an […]
Atlassian’s US salaries revealed: How much the $42 billion giant pays engineers, product managers, data scientists, and more (TEAM)
Summary List Placement Even during the coronavirus pandemic, the $42 billion Australian software giant Atlassian has continued to grow. Launched in 2002, Atlassian now sells a wide variety of products — including Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Trello — to help people collaborate on both software and business projects. It started off by selling software that […]
Saratoga community briefs for the week of Sept. 25
Candidate forums The League of Women Voters-Southwest Santa Clara Valley is hosting online forums for candidates for Saratoga City Council and the Saratoga Union School District board. The council forum is set for Sept. 28 at 7 p.m. Six candidates are running for two seats on the council, being vacated by Mayor Howard Miller and […]
Man fatally shot in East Oakland
OAKLAND — A 26-year-old man was fatally shot Sunday morning in East Oakland, police said. His name has not been released yet but police said he was an Oakland resident. The man was found about 1:34 a.m. Sunday in the 1400 block of 85th Avenue after police responded to ShotSpotter alerts. He was pronounced dead […]