PUBLISHED: December 22, 2008 at 6:15 a.m. | UPDATED: August 14, 2016 at 2:56 a.m. Google, Yahoo, Cisco, Intel, AMD and other companies are slashing employees and cutting expenses. And then there’s Salesforce.com. During Thanksgiving week, the San Francisco-based software company began driving a big white truck — a traveling billboard — up and down Highway 101 as part of a major recruiting push. “W

A sliding share price and gloomy forecasts have prompted speculation that Sun Microsystems might be a tempting takeover target for acquisition by Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu or another tech giant. A sale would be momentous, involving billions of dollars and spelling the demise of one of Silicon Valley’s most venerable companies. But no one has confirmed any talks. Executives at the Santa Clara server

By John Boudreau | Mercury News, Bay Area News Group, John Murrell | Mercury News and Matt Nauman | Mercury News, Bay Area News Group Assuming that the FCC gives its blessing in a timely fashion, the first of an eventual parade of phones based on Google’s open Android operating system will be brought to market in the fall by T-Mobile, the No. 4 wireless carrier in the United States,, according to

Yahoo introduces service that lets users broadcast their location Yahoo executive Tom Coates recently went to England and rendezvoused with more than 100 random friends who just happened to be in Old Blighty as well. Coates found them thanks to Fire Eagle, a new database service Yahoo launched Tuesday. Fire Eagle scoops up real-world location information the way Web crawlers swallow Web pages and

After successfully fending off takeover attempts by Microsoft and billionaire Carl Icahn, Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang could face a new group of critics Friday: Mom and pop shareholders. For months, Yang has taken a beating for turning down Microsoft’s offer to buy Yahoo for $33 per share. Institutional investors took the unusual step of scolding Yang in the press, while Icahn released witheri

Intel, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard join forces to promote cloud computing Intel, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard joined Tuesday in a broad research effort to advance cloud computing, where the Internet is used to deliver computing services to users. The announcement from the three tech giants isn’t the first such collaboration to involve universities and government. Last October, Google and IBM kicked off

Ending months of rumor, serial entrepreneur Marc Andreessen has joined Facebook’s board of directors in an appointment that brings together two tech wunderkinder credited with developing the business path of the Internet. “I know Marc will be a great mentor to me and our leadership team,” Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s 24-year-old founder, said in a press release that announced Andreessen’s appointme

Google to build employee housing at huge new complex at NASA’s Ames Research Center After cooperating on several scientific projects, Google and NASA announced Wednesday they have negotiated a long-term lease that will allow the Internet search giant to build a major tech campus at the space agency’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View. Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are known for th