One man’s loss is other’s gain; seems that’s the story between Apple and Samsung. Apple’s inability to control Samsung products and tablets in the US has given the South Korean a great rise in Seoul trading.

San Jose happens to be the home of about a hundred medical marijuana shops. The high numbers of such shops are still considered a nuisance, however the city hall has announced that it will be calling upon such shops on Monday to discuss a marijuana tax that might help the broke city to come out of its financial woes.

In a December 23-filed complaint in the federal court in San Jose, California, applications for the Apple iPhone and iPad transmit the personal information of the users to advertising networks without the customers’ consent.

Investigations over the alleged assault of 20-year-old Vietnamese student Phuong Ho at the hands of police officers are all set to begin, according to the San Jose Police Department.

Cisco Systems Inc. is on a roller coaster ride, as it signed its second multibillion- dollar acquisition in less than two weeks. The largest maker of networking equipment has accepted to purchase Starent Networks Corp. in a deal valued at $2.9 billion. 

According to VentureWire reports, the San Jose, California-based InSync Software - the provider of collaborative supply chain software applications for tracking assets-on-the-move - has secured a large part of the expected $4.7 million second round of funding.

A rogue internet service provider named Pricewert LLC has been shut down by the US District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose Division, at the behest of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), marking a much-needed onslaught on the increasing cyber-crime activities.

Beating the analysts’ average estimates of 42 cents per share first-quarter earnings, software-maker Abode systems Inc. reported an almost 45 cents per share earnings, excluding items, for the period that ended February 27.

The second funding round for the San Jose, California-based content-compression software maker Ocarina Networks brought in an investment of $20 million. The round, led by Jafco Ventures, also included current investors - Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Highland Capital Partners - who, together with others, had raised $11 million in the previous round. 

In June, Verizon Communications sued OnlineNic on the accusations of trademark infringement and illegal "cybersquatting. Last Friday, US District Judge Jeremy D. Fogel in San Jose, California awarded Verizon $33.2 million - that is, $50,000 for each of Verizon's 663 addresses that OnlineNic used.