Shares of Fremont tech startup 3Par soared a whopping 85 percent today, and prominent California property developer and venture capitalist Edmund Shea Jr. has died at the age of 80.

Beginning Sunday, banks will no longer be able to charge certain overdraft fees unless the customer gives explicit permission. Also, HP faces a legal battle stemming from its board's ouster of CEO Mark Hurd.

Shares of San Jose-based Cisco Systems took a 10 percent hit today, after the company urged caution on its outlook. Also, hundreds of Chase mortgage customers showed up at an Oakland hotel today to see whether they can negotiate new terms.

Wells Fargo says it plans to appeal a federal court order to pay California customers $203 million for unfair overdraft fees -- and California credit card holders are carrying higher balances than a year ago.

PGE says it will continue its push to install smart meters in Northern California homes despite public relations troubles, and Netflix shares jumped on word of a new online film streaming venture.

Google and Verizon today unveiled a joint policy proposal on the controversial issue of net neutrality. Also, shares of Hewlett-Packard plunged as investors tried to make sense of CEO Mark Hurd's sudden resignation.

Hewlett-Packard announced this afternoon that CEO Mark Hurd has resigned effective immediately -- and Christina Romer, chief economic adviser to President Obama, is leaving her post and returning to UC Berkeley.

Federal regulators are abandoning their recent effort to negotiate a compromise on net neutrality rules -- and a former Google employee can go forward with his age discrimination suit.

Santa Clara-based Intel has agreed to settle a federal antitrust lawsuit -- and venture capital investment in U.S. clean tech companies soared last quarter.

Consumers are still being careful about spending, but that hasn't stopped Oakland-based Clorox from increasing profits in the last year -- and the Port of Oakland reports business is improving.