San Jose Mercury News

San Jose chip technology company Tessera on Thursday will try to fend off a proxy effort launched by Starboard Value, a New York hedge fund that has targeted several other Silicon Valley companies the firm believes are underperforming.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson of 'Modern Family' fame and Minnie Driver are welcomes addition to the judging panel for Season 10 of 'So You Think You Can Dance.'

The fire was reported just before 11 a.m. at Singleton Road and Locke Drive, southeast of Andrew Hill High School off East Capitol Expressway west of Highway 101.

New survey shows in California fewer motorists appear to be using hand-held cellphones as they drive along state highways and city streets.

MARTINEZ -- Two teens have been charged with attempted murder for shooting two Albany High School students near the BART tracks in El Cerrito earlier this year, authorities said Tuesday.

Skyhigh Networks, a Cupertino company that aims to help customers keep track of which cloud-based software their employees are using, on Wednesday will announce a $20 million funding round from Sequoia Capital and Greylock Partners.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the storm over the agency's targeting of conservative groups told Congress on Wednesday that she had done nothing wrong in the episode, and then invoked her constitutional right to refuse to answer lawmakers' questions.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- A 33-year-old Polish man received a face transplant just three weeks after being disfigured in a workplace accident, in what his doctors said Wednesday is the fastest time frame to date for such an operation.

The Alameda County Bomb Squad was called to a Livermore neighborhood Wednesday morning after a resident reported an open box of ammunition sitting on the sidewalk, not far from where classes at nearby Andrew N.

An Arizona restaurateur, fed up after years of negative online reviews and an embarrassing appearance on a reality television show, posted a social media rant laced with salty language and angry, uppercase letters that quickly went viral last week, to the delight of people who love a good Internet meltdown.