San Jose Mercury News

When it comes to stock options, the chief executives of information-technology companies get better deals than do their health-care counterparts, but at the vice president level, the fates are reversed....

The Nasdaq's recent slide has put several initial public offerings on hold and could shut the "window" for initial public offerings if the market continues its roller-coaster ride. "I think...

They are the smallest but the toughest, the least-funded but the most innovative branch of the United States military. So when the U.S. Marine Corps wanted to know about the...

He was nearing 20 years in the game when the San Francisco Giants entrusted him with a young prospect named Orlando Cepeda. The opening for his first major-league job came...

Nortel Networks' acquisition of CoreTek Inc. for $1.4 billion in stock last week helps solidify its lead over Lucent Technologies in the optical networking market. Nortel and Lucent are leading...

Kenny Gow made a cross-country pilgrimage to San Francisco in February, like so many other young people before him. But the ruddy-cheeked 18-year-old from Newnan, Ga., wasn't looking to get...

In Silicon Valley's overheated job market, it's no longer a given that a candidate who has accepted a job will show up for work. Take the Web developer at a...

Think back to the bad old days of the Web--way back, say four years ago. Remember those cute, yellow "site under construction" logos with the digging man? You don't see...

Everyone wants fiber-optic speeds in their data connections, and lots of companies have been planting vast amounts of fiber to carry so-called Internet backbone traffic. Everyone also tends to agree...

With so many freshly minted dot-coms peddling so many competing business models and visions, it's getting hard to tell this week's Big Thing from last week's warmed-over roadshow fodder. Right...