San Jose Mercury News

The mantra has become the cliche, and the cliche has become a self-fulfilling prophecy: The Internet changes everything. Nothing proves this more than the formidable battle to move the immovable...

Universities, pension funds and endowments are sinking more of their portfolio into venture capital funds in the Bay Area. Executives from the biggest multinationals are flocking to the offices of...

America Online Inc. gave a few more hints last week about its plans for bringing Internet services to televisions through a line of special set-top boxes, saying it wants to...

Thousands of new high-paying tech jobs are created every month and the country is filled with stories of programmers turned stock-option millionaires, but American students apparently aren't impressed. A new...

People who surf the Internet often start from a customized Web page--where they find specific news, stock quotes and other free services they use over and over. Now, Yahoo! Inc....

Cisco Systems Inc. of San Jose, Calif., the dominant equipment-provider for corporate data networks, is expanding its reach into the world of consumer communications. Its main strategist on that front...

STATES, LOCAL GOVERNMENTS WILL FEEL REVENUE SQUEEZE How do you stir up a crowd that makes Marie "Let them eat cake" Antoinette sound like a populist? Easy: Call for fair...

Marketed like a line of Gap T-shirts, the iMac and other modish computers have ruffled the buttoned-down computer industry. But bright colors may be only the beginning of a trend...

John W. Thompson, who was named chairman and CEO of Symantec Corp. last month, will become the only African-American executive running a top Silicon Valley company, a position that is...

Yes, the pill helps clear acne, too; but is it right for you? Every day, young women file into the student health center at Stanford University and ask for prescriptions...