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Enough with those paper receipts [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. defended itself to a federal judge Wednesday amid scrutiny of its aging high-voltage power line system and corporate spending habits, arguing it was not dangerously neglectful of its infrastructure and had allocated its money wisely. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The North Bay fires have destroyed an irreplaceable part of the early history of the Silicon Valley. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The company that operates the Oakland Tribune, Contra Costa Times, San Jose Mercury News and other Bay Area papers has extended voluntary buyout offers to nearly all of its employees and may resort to layoffs as it struggles with a historic slump in the newspaper industry. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As newspapers nationwide struggle to evolve viable business models, Bay Area News Group said Tuesday it will consolidate 11 local newspapers in the East Bay into two regional newspapers and lay off 8 percent of the staff. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LinkedIn's enormously successful initial public offering on Thursday may well come to represent the "Netscape moment" of the social-networking era. That IPO, on Aug. 9, 1995, famously touched off the Internet boom. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Hokubei Mainichi will print its last edition Friday, becoming the second Japanese American community newspaper based in San Francisco to fold in the last two months. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A group of community leaders and journalists did something seemingly unusual last week - they started a newspaper, the Nichi Bei Weekly. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It was another financially painful week for the newspaper industry, from word of its worst-ever quarterly advertising decline to the 17-member Cox Newspapers chain closing its Washington bureau. Searching for ways to cut costs, three dozen newspaper editors found themselves in Atlanta this week being wooed by a longtime competitor now looking to be their partner: CNN. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Hearst Corp. announced Wednesday that Mark Adkins, senior vice president of advertising for Hearst Newspapers, has been named president of the San Francisco Chronicle and its online home, SFGate.com. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Novato residents and business owners were saddened by the surprising announcement by the city's weekly newspaper, the Novato Advance, that it will cease publishing after Sept. 24 due to financial losses. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The California State Automobile Association produced its first road map in 1909. It showed major highways in California and Nevada, and was sent free to all members. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Editorial employees at the Oakland Tribune, Contra Costa Times and other East Bay newspapers will decide June 13 whether to unionize the publications, a battle viewed by some as a test case for organized labor in the rapidly shrinking newspaper industry. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

What's your chance of being caught in an Eliot Spitzer-type financial dragnet? Better than you think. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Nylon or canvas? Trendy new designer or ratty old cloth? Commenting on The Chronicle's stories Friday on environmentally correct grocery bags, readers weighed in on the relative merits of the nonpaper, nonplastic reusable kind. Many were skeptical of the new, pricier lines of reusable bags, preferring what one reader referred to as their "motley collection" of "tattered ... tote bags." There were also suggestions for eco-friendlier ways of disposing of cat litter. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Offers insights on the impact of advance technology on paper-based businesses. Trends in the transition toward paper usage in various industries; Background on the development of electronic bill presentment and payment methods; Issues concerning electronic billing systems.

Remember panic buying? Those weeks after the coronavirus pandemic erupted in March, when essential consumer items disappeared from shelves, and toilet paper in particular became the hottest commodity in the Bay Area? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PG&E Corp. CEO Bill Johnson earned $18.5 million last year, but only on paper. Most of his total 2019 compensation is effectively worthless for now, a new regulatory filing shows. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. paid at least $84 million to four outside law firms in the year leading up to its January bankruptcy filing, court papers show, demonstrating how the embattled utility's legal bills piled up as its challenges also mounted. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Thousands of Pacific Gas and Electric Co. employees are eligible for a combined $130 million in 2018 performance bonuses the utility wants approved as part of the bankruptcy process it entered Tuesday, court papers show. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Q: I am a self-employed independent contractor who works in various locations. I am concerned about the environment and try to do the right thing: I ride my bike or take BART to job sites whenever possible; I print on both sides of sheets of paper and then recycle the twice-used paper; and I handle most paperwork such as bills through e-mail rather than snail mail. Are there other things that small-business owners like me can do to be green? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A paper sign imploring employees to refill the coffee pot wasn't working. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

If you are going through the paper looking for a big story, you can stop here. This is a small one. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Presents information on the publication of the "Fort Worth Business Press" in Texas. Business plan for the newspaper; Predictions for the newspaper; Average age of the paper's readers.

It was unthinkable that he was writing the words. He had jotted them down twice before, only to throw them away. But here he was again, a boxing champion at age 30, putting his retirement speech on paper. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Leafy greens jutted from paper bags on a playground picnic table as kids piled out of Berkeley's Malcolm X Elementary School on Wednesday afternoon. Parents grabbed bags of produce labeled with their names and the contents. PTA volunteer Rebecca Matthews distributed meat and dairy items from a cooler. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The decision by the New York Times to dismiss Jill Abramson, the venerable paper's first female executive editor, has stirred the familiar brew of corporate intrigue and gender politics. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The decision by the New York Times to dismiss Jill Abramson, the venerable paper's first female executive editor, has stirred the familiar brew of corporate intrigue and gender politics. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Twitter on Wednesday priced its initial public offering of stock at $26 per share, making co-founder Evan Williams an on-paper billionaire and generating millions of dollars for other key investors and executives as the San Francisco microblogging service prepares to hit Wall Street on Thursday morning. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In a nutshell: A colorful and stylish pattern puzzle game, using delightful paper-folding animations. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Hearst Corp. on Thursday named a new management team to lead The San Francisco Chronicle, picking a newspaper industry veteran to serve as publisher and a seasoned digital media executive as the paper's president. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Hearst Corp. on Thursday named a new management team to lead The San Francisco Chronicle, picking a newspaper industry veteran to serve as publisher and a seasoned digital media executive as the paper's president. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Money comes in all shapes, sizes and materials - paper, fabric and metal. But many early adopters in the tech community, concerned about privacy and financial stability, are turning their money into ones and zeros - bitcoins, a digital currency that uses algorithms to create the same laws of monetary supply and demand as gold once did. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco Chronicle Deputy Managing Editor Audrey Cooper has been named managing editor, the first woman in the paper's 148-year history to fill that role. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco Chronicle Deputy Managing Editor Audrey Cooper has been named managing editor, the first woman in the paper's 148-year history to fill that role. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Starting this year, San Franciscans may have to pay extra for that recycling bin full of discarded wrapping paper. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Writing meeting or classroom notes on paper with an ink pen might seem anachronistic these days when there are easier digital alternatives, such as typing on a laptop. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Secret surveillance of consumers' cell phones, computers and other electronic devices dwarfs the use of sealed orders for national security investigations, according to a disturbing new paper by a federal judge. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco Chronicle Managing Editor Stephen Proctor, who helped lead the newsroom through a period of dramatic change, has accepted one of the top editorial posts at the Houston Chronicle, the two papers announced Monday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With tax season getting under way, today I'll answer reader questions about property taxes, the new Medicare surcharge starting in 2013 and how to get those old-fashioned paper tax forms. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Solyndra, the solar-cell company whose collapse last week triggered a national debate over green jobs, filed its bankruptcy papers Monday, listing $859 million in assets and $784 million in secured loans. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Today I've got answers to questions from readers who want to know why some California retailers haven't lowered their sales tax rate, how to stop unemployment benefits and whether the government's decision to essentially end sales of paper savings bonds will cut the annual purchase limit in half. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Square, the mobile payments startup co-founded by the creator of Twitter, showed off technology Monday that it said could one day replace cash registers and eliminate paper receipts. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Eric Goldman is an associate professor at the Santa Clara University School of Law and director of the school's High Tech Law Institute. He was previously general counsel at Epinions.com in Brisbane. He has studied the issue of search engine bias, producing several academic papers on the topic, and said he sees no persuasive evidence that Google has acted unfairly. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Nearly four years ago, Livescribe launched with the hope of changing how people use pen and paper. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A research paper by presidential economic adviser Christina Romer has caused a stir in the debate over whether to extend George W. Bush-era tax cuts by validating Republican beliefs that lowering taxes can boost output, while increasing them can have the opposite effect. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Yahoo Inc. stresses that it's still in the online search business, but a series of papers and presentations the company is unveiling at a major conference this week underscore how navigating the Web has less to do with the search box and blue links we know so well. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Chronicle said Monday that remaking its business model by charging more for the newspaper has, as expected, produced a sharp drop in circulation even as it has improved the paper's bottom line. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

While California and other states cut higher education budgets, many countries are spending to boost the number and quality of their graduates, setting the stage for brain drains and brain gains as the global economy emerges from the Great Recession, according to a UC Berkeley research paper. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Here's a start toward solving San Francisco's $522 million budget deficit for next year: Stop being gouged for paper clips and staples. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]