SAN FRANCISCO — For seven years, Alex Smith lived football’s version of hell. No playoffs, few wins, numerous injuries, unsupportive coaches, multiple offensive coordinators and relentless derision from both fans and media members. Read full article > >

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SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco Zoo officials are stepping up security after a male squirrel monkey was stolen from an exhibit. Two security guards were patrolling the 100-acre zoo on Thursday night when the monkey named Banana Sam was apparently taken. The San Francisco Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/rUqmH5) that security has been doubled this holiday weekend in case the thieves try to return. Read full article > >

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SAN FRANCISCO — Protesters sitting on the ground supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement on the campus of the University of California, Davis, took a face full of pepper spray at close range from an officer in riot gear in an incident that was captured on cellphone video and spread virally across the Internet Saturday. Read full article > >

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SAN FRANCISCO — IBM Corp. ushered in Virginia Rometty as the company’s first-ever female CEO on Tuesday, as Sam Palmisano stepped down from the position. Palmisano, who turned 60 this year, has been CEO for nearly a decade. He will stay on as chairman. Virginia “Ginni” Rometty, 54, is in charge of IBM’s sales and marketing, and has long been whispered about by industry watchers as Palmisano’s likely heir. Read full article > >

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IBM CEO Sam Palmisano steps down as 100-year-old technology company names its first female CEO

SAN FRANCISCO — A new biography portrays Steve Jobs as a skeptic all his life — giving up religion because he was troubled by starving children, calling executives who took over Apple “corrupt” and delaying cancer surgery in favor of cleansings and herbal medicine. “Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson, to be published Monday, also says Jobs came up with the company’s name while he was on a diet of fruits and vegetables, and as a teenager perfected staring at people without blinking. Read full article > >

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SAN FRANCISCO — A copy of Steve Jobs’ death certificate made public Monday indicates that the Apple Inc. co-founder died of respiratory arrest resulting from pancreatic cancer that had spread to other organs. Jobs died last Wednesday at age 56. Apple did not disclose his cause of death, but Jobs had been in poor health for a number of years. Read full article > >

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SAN FRANCISCO — Apple fans are amped. The computer and gadget maker is expected to announce a new, more powerful version of its wildly popular smartphone this week — more than a year after it unveiled the iPhone 4. Last week, Apple Inc. e-mailed invitations to a media event at its headquarters in Cupertino on Tuesday morning. The invite says “let’s talk iPhone,” implying the normally secretive company intends to show off the latest version of the device. In the past, Apple has typically introduced a new iPhone during the summer, but this year it was expected to hold off until the fall. Read full article > >

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Watch Obama’s LinkedIn town hall live at 2:00 p.m. Eastern on 44. . . SAN JOSE, Calif. — Can social media help save the economy? President Obama hopes so, which is why he will appear in Mountain View, Calif., on Monday to preside over a town hall-style event in conjunction with LinkedIn , an online social network for business professionals. Read full article > >

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SAN FRANCISCO — A week after a big win against Oracle, German software maker SAP AG has been dealt a new blow in a theft case involving a now-defunct subsidiary. The Justice Department has criminally charged the SAP subsidiary, TomorrowNow, with 12 counts related to the theft of software and documents from Oracle Corp. websites in a 4-year-old case. The theft, which SAP has acknowledged, led to a $1.3 billion jury verdict against SAP last year. Last week, a federal judge threw out the award, calling it “grossly excessive.” Unless Oracle accepts a lower, $272 million award, a new trial will be ordered in the civil case. Read full article > >

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SAN FRANCISCO — Carol Bartz was fired Tuesday as Yahoo Inc.’s CEO nearly three years into a tenure in which the company fell short of the turnaround she was charged with leading. The company said Bartz will be replaced by Chief Financial officer Timothy Morse on an interim basis. The company plans to search for a permanent replacement for Bartz. Bartz, 63, has had a rocky tenure at Yahoo since she was appointed CEO in January 2009. Most recently, Yahoo settled a dispute surrounding a Chinese payment service called Alipay in a way that ended up diminishing Yahoo’s stake in the company. Read full article > >

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Carol Bartz out as chief executive of Yahoo; CFO Morse to be interim CEO

SAN FRANCISCO — Computers, like humans, can learn. But when Google tries to fill in your search box based only on a few keystrokes, or your iPhone predicts words as you type a text message, it’s only a narrow mimicry of what the human brain is capable. The challenge in training a computer to behave like a human brain is technological and physiological, testing the limits of computer and brain science. But researchers from IBM Corp. say they’ve made a key step toward combining the two worlds. The company announced Thursday that it has built two prototype chips that it says process data more like how humans digest information than the chips that now power PCs and supercomputers. Read full article > >

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SAN FRANCISCO — People across the San Francisco Bay Area felt the rumblings of a small earthquake on Saturday night, but there were no reports of any damages or injuries. The magnitude-3.6 earthquake struck just before 7:05 p.m. and was centered near the city of Hercules at a depth of about 5½ miles, according to a preliminary report from the United States Geological Survey. The epicenter was about eight miles north of Berkeley and 17 miles northeast of San Francisco’s Civic Center. Read full article > >

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SAN FRANCISCO — Google is helping the economy and hurting its stock. The company is hiring so many employees for projects outside its thriving search advertising business that its expenses are growing much faster than its revenue.

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Google’s 1Q earnings rise 18 percent, less than analysts forecast as spending accelerates

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge ruled jurors in the Barry Bonds trial may not hear a freshly rediscovered recording of two key witnesses — ridiculed by the defense as a “miracle tape” — as prosecutors rested their case against the home-run king Tuesday after 2½ weeks and 25 witnesses.

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SAN FRANCISCO — A San Francisco man whose murder conviction was overturned has been ordered released from prison after more than 20 years behind bars.

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