California tenants will have more days to pay rent or respond to eviction lawsuits, according to a bill Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law on Wednesday. State law maintains that tenants have three days to comply with lease terms or pay rent, and five days to respond to eviction proceedings. The new provision swaps calendar days to court days — no longer counting weekends and holidays in the respondent’s timeline. As rents continue to rise across the Bay Area and beyond, proponents see the…

Against the scale of the issues involved, the congressional hearings held so far about the companies and their clout have often felt petty, misinformed and sharpened for political point-scoring. And President Donald Trump’s assertion last week that Twitter, Facebook and Google are biased against conservatives only raised the stakes.

Telecommunications equipment provider Calix is moving its global headquarters from Petaluma to North San Jose, where it plans to hire hundreds of additional employees.

However, he says details are still being worked out regarding the HQ location and the number of current workers who will relocate to Colorado.

A former accountant for the city of Cupertino was arrested Wednesday for allegedly embezzling almost $800,000 in public funds, city officials said. Jennifer “Yuen-Cheng” Chang, formerly a senior accountant with the city, was arrested by the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office on suspicion of embezzling $791,494 from the city between 2000 and 2014, the city said in a statement on Wednesday. The county District Attorney’s office has brought 68 criminal charges against Chang, who is accused of…

Looking ahead to its business post-Disney acquisition, 21st Century Fox has invested $100 million in Caffeine Inc., a next-generation social broadcast platform for gaming, entertainment and other creative content. The investment in teh Redwood City-based business is part of a larger round in which existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners and others participated, though only Fox’s share was disclosed. In addition, Caffeine announced a content agreement with Live Nation (NYSE:…