Biz Break: Silicon Valley tech stocks fall, but Twitter bucks trend

Problem viewing email? View in Web Browser or Visit our website Monday, August 31, 2015 Biz Break  Biz Break: Silicon Valley tech stocks fall, but Twitter bucks trend Biz Break: Silicon Valley tech stocks fall, but Twitter bucks trend Also: Google's life sciences company ramps up efforts to disrupt diabetes. Apple teams up with Cisco in a move to sell more iPhones and iPads to business customers. Silicon Valley CEO still battling to demolish historic Pebble Beach home It was almost five years ago when Silicon Valley tech venture capitalist CEO Massy Mehdipour went to the county with what might have seemed like an unremarkable request: demolish an aging, 50-year-old Signal Hill Road house and replace it with her 12,000-square-foot dream home. Silicon Valley entity buys $47.5 million Marin mansion The entity listed as new owner of a $47.5 million Belvedere mansion shares a Silicon Valley office suite address with others including a noted high-tech venture capitalist, but a publicist says he had nothing to do with the purchase. Gay pride parade in downtown San Jose draws corporate sponsors, straight supporters, politicians Rainbow flags, balloons and floats spilled onto the downtown streets on Sunday as San Jose's LGBT community revived its SVPride parade for the first time in years to celebrate just how far it has come. Bay Area vineyards withstanding impacts of drought, for now With harvest underway, Bay Area vineyards expect small but high-quality crop this season. Another year of drought, however, could mean major problems for winegrowers and winemakers from Napa Valley and Livermore to Santa Clara Valley and Contra Costa Apple teams with Cisco to promote iPhones, iPads to corporate customers Apple, Cisco working together to improve way iPhones and iPads work on enterprise networks. Samsung to unveil smartwatch with circular face -- but what about apps? NEW YORK (AP) -- Samsung is juicing up its smartwatch with a circular face and more battery life than the Apple Watch, but it's unknown how many apps will be available for it. General Mills sets ambitious goal for greenhouse gas cuts General Mills has set an ambitious goal of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions 28 percent by 2025 -- not just within its own operations but from farm to fork to landfill. Tackling goes high-tech at Dartmouth with new dummies On the Ivy League campus of Dartmouth College, even the football tackling dummies are smart. The team introduced a new MVP as the first practice of the season got underway. Netflix losing high-profile movies as Epix reaches multiyear Hulu deal Hulu will expand its library in October as part of a new deal with cable network Epix. The news came just after streaming giant Netflix announced that it has decided against renewing its agreement in the U.S. with Epix. At a virtual reality expo, VR comes in many forms LOS ANGELES -- A few inches above the floor, a man is suspended from a swing-like apparatus pretending he's flying over a mountain. Magid: Automated sprinkler system knows when it's raining On a rare Palo Alto rainy day, I drove by a house whose automatic sprinkler system was watering the lawn, even though water was falling from the sky. How Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Yahoo handle online accounts after you die A user's guide to how different Internet companies treat our digital data in online accounts when we die. RETURN TO TOP Copyright 2015 San Jose Mercury News, All rights reserved. ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This email is brought to you by the Bay Area News Group, 4 N. Second St., Suite 800, San Jose, CA 95113. You are receiving this email because you have opted in to the program. - If you do NOT want to receive this email in the future, please click to UNSUBSCRIBE.>. - To advertise in this newsletter, click here.