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  • NHL’s Colorado Avalanche Will Make Patrick Roy Next Head Coach

    Updated 34 minutes ago

    The Colorado Avalanche reached an agreement in principle with Patrick Roy to become the franchise’s next coach and vice president of hockey operations, the National Hockey League team said.

  • HP-Autonomy Merger Suit Should Be Put on Hold: Lawyers

    Updated 1 hour, 6 minutes ago

    Hewlett-Packard Co. and investors who are suing over the company’s $8.8 billion writedown related to the acquisition of Autonomy Corp. are jointly asking a federal judge to put the case on hold until July 31.

  • Salesforce Forecasts Miss Estimates on Weak Software

    Updated 42 minutes ago

    Salesforce.com Inc., the largest maker of online customer-management tools, forecast profit for the fiscal second quarter that missed some analysts’ estimates as companies curtail spending on new business software.

  • Google Said to Consider Buying Waze Presaging Bidding War

    Updated 25 minutes ago

    Google Inc., maker of the Android operating system, is considering buying map-software provider Waze Inc., setting up a possible bidding war with Facebook Inc., people familiar with the matter said.

  • Google Said to Face New Antitrust Probe Over Display Ads

    Updated 14 minutes ago

    Google Inc. is facing a new antitrust probe by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display- advertising market to illegally curb competition, people familiar with the matter said.

  • Mutant Cockroaches Learn to Avoid Sugar to Outsmart Traps

    Updated 59 minutes ago

    Roaches that have been hard to exterminate may be a variety that have decided sugar doesn’t taste quite so sweet as bait anymore, researchers found.

  • Fannie Mae Winning at the Alamo Prompts Lender Angst

    Updated 59 minutes ago

    Fannie Mae is snatching potential profits away from mortgage lenders as it posts record earnings that are fueling industry concern the government-backed company is regaining its swagger even as lawmakers plot its demise.

  • Pandora Quarterly Revenue Advances Helped by Mobile Users

    Updated 42 minutes ago

    Pandora Media Inc., the biggest online radio service, reported a first-quarter loss that matched analysts’ estimates as mobile revenue surged and the company controlled costs. The stock rose in late trading.

  • Coronavirus, Playboy, C&C, Argo: Intellectual Property

    Updated 51 minutes ago

    The novel coronavirus found in Saudi Arabia has been patented by scientists outside the country, Deputy Health Minister Ziad Memish told the World Health Assembly in Geneva.

  • Austin Ventures Said to Reduce Fund Size for Early-Stage Focus

    Updated 46 minutes ago

    Austin Ventures, the biggest backer of technology startups in Texas’s capital city, is reducing the size of its next fund by half from its prior fund as it focuses on younger companies, said two people familiar with the matter.

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In San Francisco, 65 percent of the population rents and the remaining 35 percent are homeowners. And in the past year the San Francisco real estate market has seen an 19.4 percent increase in value, with a median sales price of $805,000, according to Zillow.
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