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redOrbit staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online Apple released an 82-page report on Tuesday that describes the vast economic benefits of its proposed spaceship-inspired Apple Campus 2 facility in Cupertino, California. The company is already the largest employer in Cupertino, and the second-largest tech employer in Silicon Valley, with some 64 percent of the its workforce living in Santa Clara County, 1,285 employees of which reside in Cupertino. About 14 percent live in...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online It was enough to make you wonder if he was being serious or not. Of course, this was Steve Jobs, a man not often prone to making jokes. In June 2011, in the midst of Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs stopped by a Cupertino City Council meeting to share his plans for a brand new Apple campus that very closely resembled a spaceship. This design met with the typical, easy jokes about Jobs...
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Demand for housing in Santa Clara County continued to rise in August, with the sale prices for both single family homes and condos exceeding the listing price in an average purchase, according to statistics compiled by MLSListings. For single family homes, in nine of 17 submarkets, the average seller sold the home for more than he or she asked for, with sellers in Mountain View, Los Altos, and Sunnyvale pocketing, 104.84 percent,...
Michael Harper for RedOrbit.com It seemed like a crazy joke at first, possibly created by the folks at the Onion. Last June, in the middle of WWDC 2011, Steve Jobs made headlines of a different sort when he popped in on a Cupertino City Council meeting to present his plans for a second Apple campus. “Apple’s growing like a weed,” began Jobs. “As you know, we’ve always been in Cupertino. We started in a little office park, and eventually got the buildings that we’re in...
CUPERTINO, Calif., May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bay Area's premiere bowling alley, Bowlmor Lanes Cupertino, announces the opening of its newest event space and lounge, the Silicon Valley Bocce Club. Adjacent to the center's 32 glow-in-the-dark lanes, the Silicon Valley Bocce Club features two full sized bocce courts, table shuffleboard, ping pong tables, air hockey and billiards in a chic, modern lounge setting. The luxe space is currently in soft open and will celebrate its Grand...
MELBOURNE, Fla., April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- When Cate Vincent dropped her iPad four weeks ago, she never dreamed it would lead to a coveted meeting in Cupertino, at Apple headquarters. When she dropped her iPad, Cate, a grandmother, on vacation in Florida, quickly grabbed a pair of pinking shears and a plastic file folder, and designed a handle for her iPad so it would never slip out of her hands again, then climbed back into bed. "I thought what happened next was all a...
Unitek College is delighted to announce that all three of our campuses reported outstanding NCLEX test passing performance for 2011, for our largest program, the Licensed Vocational Nursing (LVN). Fremont, CA (PRWEB) February 18, 2012 Unitek College is delighted to announce that all three of our campuses reported outstanding NCLEX test passing performance for 2011, for our largest program, the Licensed Vocational Nursing (LVN). The NCLEX test is the ultimate quality and performance...
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Dec. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Rick Bartalini Presents announced that tickets for the filming of Bill Maher's new comedy special "CrazyStupidPolitics: Bill Maher Live from Silicon Valley" will go on-sale Friday, December 16 at 10:00 A.M. Tickets for the February 23, 2012 concert at San Jose Center for the Performing Arts will be available at www.RBPconcerts.com and www.Ticketmaster.com. Along with the top-rated HBO hit "Real Time" and a new bestselling book...
The city council of Cupertino, California has posted updated renderings and general layout drawings for the upcoming “Apple Campus 2 Project” for Apple and the scale of the proposed building is quite impressive, reports Steven Musil for CNET. Located across town from the company’s current headquarters, the plans were originally pitched to the city council by the late Steve Jobs in June of this year. Encompassing 2.8 million square-feet, the office building, which would boast a...
Surrounded by his wife and immediate family in his home in Palo Alto, California when he died, Steve Jobs will be remembered for his creative spirit and marketing vision. His death certificate lists “respiratory arrest” as the immediate cause of death with “metastatic pancreas neuroendocrine tumor” as the underlying condition causing respiratory problems, Poornima Gupta of Reuters is reporting. Jobs was listed as “high-tech entrepreneur” with “some college” as his education...
