SF Giants’ Alex Cobb comes within one out of a no-hitter against Reds
SF Giants’ Alex Cobb was one out away from a no-hitter SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As dusk turned to night, the blue supermoon rose over the horizon at McCovey Cove, a lunar event so rare that it isn’t expected to happen again until 2037. So two rarities in one night would have been incredible. That…
Should the SF Giants get in on the Los Angeles Angels fire sale?
SF Giants are still in the playoff picture. Could they use some of the Angels’ discarded players? SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Angels responded to Shohei Ohtani’s UCL injury and the team’s exit from the playoff picture with a stunning salary dump fire sale. According to ESPN, the team waived starter…
Thought San Jose’s 2022 mayor’s race was expensive? Experts say brace yourself.
A $20k limit on candidates reimbursing their campaign loans was nixed in response to a SCOTUS ruling from last year Last year’s contentious mayoral race in San Jose between Matt Mahan and Cindy Chavez was a costly battle between business and labor interests, shattering the city’s all-time campaign spending record by more than $8 million.…
After Salesforce hiked its product prices by an average of 9%, some unhappy customers are considering switching to Microsoft or HubSpot
Salesforce raised its list prices in August for the first time in seven years. Wall Street analysts say the move may boost sales for the second quarter. Cost-conscious customers are mulling alternatives from competitors such as Microsoft and HubSpot. Most Wall Street cheered when Salesforce announced its first price increase in seven years in July,…
My YouTube channel makes up to $1 million in ad revenue a month. Here’s how I went from producing free videos for other creators to 14 million subscribers of my own.
Rebecca Zamolo has over 14 million subscribers on YouTube and over 17 million followers on TikTok. Zamolo talks about how she got started on YouTube and built her first 1 million subscribers. She also shares how she used Musical.ly, a now-defunct music-video app, to build her audience. This essay is based on a conversation with Rebecca…
High school girls volleyball rankings: Bay Area News Group Top 15
St. Francis, Archbishop Mitty are once again the Top 2 teams in the Bay Area to start the season Bay Area News Group Top 15 (From the Mercury News and the East Bay Times) (Records up to Monday) ST. FRANCIS (2-0) is ranked first. Final ranking in 2022: 1 So far, the team has defeated…
The hits keep coming: Beyonce, Swift and Ed Sheeran shows raise big bucks in Bay Area
Beyonce’s Renaissance World Tour arrives at Levi’s Stadium on Aug. 30. When Taylor Swift’s massive, sold-out Eras Tour stopped in Santa Clara in late July, she did more than break the venue’s curfew (twice) and send 100,000 Swifties into sing-along ecstasy. She also started a spending spree that cost the local economy tens of millions…
What happens if your mortgage company goes bankrupt?
Bankrate.com (TNS) Erik J. Martin Banks, like any other business, can go out of business or go bankrupt. And, while it doesn’t happen very often, when it does, it has the potential to send shockwaves throughout the financial world. Consider the weekend of March 10, when the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and then Signature…
Users beware: Trail apps have been leading to problems in public lands
Government agencies meeting with AllTrails and others to sort out long-standing issues Last week, veteran mountaineer Dale Atkins was climbing the difficult Kelso Ridge on Torreys Peak, a popular 14,000-foot peak in Colorado, when he met a woman in her 20s who had discovered the complexity of the climb required route-finding skills beyond her experience…
