Business Thu, March 11, 2010
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Netflix Stock Jumps
Jan 28, 2010, by Liz Franz BusinessNetflix stock leaped 20 percent this morning in response to its fourth quarter ‘09 financial report released Wednesday.
According to the report, the number of online movies viewers is up and last year’s goals were surpassed.
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Netflix Makes Deal With Warner
Jan 08, 2010, by Liz Frantz BusinessYesterday Netflix & Warner Brothers Home Entertainment reached an agreement to allow online streaming videos while delaying the availability of rentals.
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With the new year, Los Gatos’s new commercial burglar alarm ordinance has gone into effect.
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Silicon Valley Auto Group Changes Hands
Dec 17, 2009, by Liz Frantz Business
Purchase of the local luxury car dealership Silicon Valley Auto Group (SVAG) by the San Francisco-based Qvale Auto Group (QAG) was completed Wednesday, consummated at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Main Street showroom. Poised with scissors in hand were Kjell Qvale, the 90-year-old founder of the family-owned business, and Mayor Diane McNutt. Town Manager Greg Larson and several members of the Town Council stood beside them holding the ribbon, waiting for cameras to be ready.
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Los Gatos Firm’s 3D TV
Dec 09, 2009, by Silicon Valley Newsroom BusinessBy this time next year, HDi, Ltd. of Los Gatos will be marketing its new 2D/3D TV for the low, low price of $10,000-$15,000.
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Have House, Need Bentley
Dec 03, 2009, by Silicon Valley Newsroom BusinessDeveloper Sandy Harris is offering a Bentley Continental Coupe to the first four people to buy a plot of land on a 66-acre stretch on Shady Lane.
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Creamy Buzz
Jul 23, 2009, by Stett Holbrook Business
Like many Silicon Valley high-tech workers, San Jose’s Sheri Tate dreamed of leaving the world of cubicles and long boring meetings to start her own business. As a marketing and product manager for various technology firms, she figured that her business would be high-tech related. Instead, she went a more low-tech but far tastier route—superpremium ice cream.
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Netflix to be Acquired by Amazon?
Jul 13, 2009, by Eric Johnson BusinessTechCrunch is reporting that Netflix stock is surging today because the Los Gatos-based company is about to be aquired by Amazon. MG Siegler, a reporter for the online tech-news blog, calls the story a “hot little rumor.”
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On Schedule, El Camino Hospital Los Gatos Opens
Jul 13, 2009, by Colleen Watson Business
“Ninety days” was the theme of this ceremony on Friday afternoon. Ninety days to change from Community Hospital of Los Gatos to El Camino Hospital Los Gatos, ninety days to staff a hospital, and ninety days to reopen for the community. “This ribbon-cutting ceremony represents a promise kept to this community,” said Ken Graham, CEO of El Camino Hospital. “And here we are just 90 days later.
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Town Council Approves Controversial Building
Jun 02, 2009, by Colleen Watson Business
Last night’s town council meeting brought out quite the crowd. About a dozen people came by to speak about about a proposed building on 15400 Los Gatos Boulevard. While most came to air their displeasure at the new building, and voiced concerns about how it would increase traffic, cause safety issues and possibly block views, a few came to support the project and its design.
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Los Gatos Skateoard Shop Announces Big Contest
May 21, 2009, by Colleen Watson Business
NC Boardshop in Los Gatos announced today that it will host the Red Bull Triple-Set on June 14. The Red Bull Triple Set is a best-trick contest that got world recognition when it was featured in the skateboarding video Strange Note and in Skateboarder magazine last year.
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Wozniak Lends Expertise to Educational Website
May 07, 2009, by Colleen Watson BusinessSteve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Inc., has joined TechForEducators.com’s board of advisors.
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Netflix Booms in Bad Times
Apr 21, 2009, by Eric Johnson Business
Netflix, the Los Gatos-based movie-rental company, is expected to deliver good news on Wall Street today. Forbes is reporting that the DVD-by-mail pioneer, which is scheduled to report its first-quarter earnings this afternoon, will show good numbers.
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David Kinch Wins Big on Iron Chef
Mar 18, 2009, by Stett Holbrook Business
Kinch and his competition sous chefs James Syhabout and John Paul Carmona took the event very seriously and practiced for weeks after service ended at Manresa in timed cooking trials. So when the day in Kitchen Stadium finally came (which happened to be last June) for me the battle was over before it started. While Kinch called the event “nerve wracking,” he and his crew absolutely slaughtered the flatfooted Flay. OK, I’ll say it: they flayed him.
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El Camino Accelerates Hospital Plans
Mar 17, 2009, by Colleen Watson Business
Ken Graham, CEO of El Camino Hospital, brought some good news to the Los Gatos Town Council meeting Monday night. He reported that instead of acquiring Community Hospital of Los Gatos in June, as planned, El Camino will be acquiring the hospital on April 11. That means Community will be closing temporarily on April 10, and re- opening in mid-July, almost eight weeks earlier than previously thought.
