• Rich Data, Poor Data

    Shelly Palmer  Generally speaking, there are two kinds of companies in the world: data rich and data poor. The richest of the data rich are easy to name: Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple. But you don’t need to be at the top of this list to use data to create...
  • VIVA

    EL OBSERVADOR Tuvimos el placer de hablar con los actores Hector Medina and Luis Alberto Garcia (Juan of the Dead, Love by Mistake, El Elefante y la Bicicleta, Clandestinos) de la pelicula VIVA, que es una produccion cubana/irlandesa. La pelicula tiene a un joven peluquero (Héctor Medina) entra en...
  • Innovation Summit

    San Jose/ CALIFORNIA As part of National Small Business Week celebrations, the City of San José will hold the Fifth Annual Entrepreneurship and Innovation Summit on May 6 with workshops and panel discussions to help startups and established companies grow and thrive in San José. Sessions will be offered from...
  • California’s $15 Minimum Wage

    By Josefina López When I saw an interview with Dan Price, founder and CEO of Gravity Payments, explaining why he raised the company’s minimum salary to $70,000 a year I was moved to tears. He said he had gone hiking with a fellow employee and when he heard that...
  • El Salario mínimo

    Por Josefina López Cuando vi una entrevista con Dan Price—el fundador y CEO de Gravity Payments—donde explica por qué había aumentado el salario mínimo de la empresa a $70 mil al año, me conmoví mucho. Dijo que había ido a caminar en la montaña con una compañera y que...
  • LATINO AMERICANS:

    Hilbert Morales / EL OBSERVADOR Latinos are already residents of every state in America. In a recent book, entitled “LATINO AMERICA: HOW AMERICA’S MOST DYNAMIC POPULATION IS POISED TO TRANSFORM THE POLITICS OF THE NATION” was recently published by ‘Public Affairs Books (ISBN 978-1-61939-501-4.  Authors Dr. Matt Barreto (University of...
  • Lo que diga la corte

    Luisa Fernanda Montero / La Red Hispana Lo que decida la Corte Suprema de Justicia en los próximos meses, cuando dicte un fallo que determine si el presidente Barack Obama excedió sus poderes o no, señalará en gran medida el curso moral que regirá en Estados Unidos de aquí en...
  • 5 de Mayo

    International Jazz Day Celebration April 30 / 2pm Hammer Theater 1 Washington Sq San Jose, CA Free   MACLA Family Art Day April 30 / 12pm MACLA 510 S 1st St San Jose, CA Free   SVRG Roller Derby Bouts April 30 / 6pm San Jose Convention  Center – South Hall 150 W San Carlos St San...
  • Immigration Corner:

    Raul Ray, Esq. On November 20, 2014, President Obama announced executive actions that would expand the existing DACA program and create a new program to allow parents of U.S. citizens and permanent residents to remain in the U.S. and work without fear of deportation. The DACA program would expand...
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