The California Supreme Court has handed a victory to the San Francisco Bay Guardian in its antitrust lawsuit against SF Weekly.

A federal jury in Oakland awarded the German software company SAP to pay rival Oracle $1.3 billion for copyright infringement.

Netflix appears to be pushing customers to get more of their movies through online streaming.

California added 39,000 non-farm jobs in October. But the state's jobless rate remained unchanged at 12.4 percent.

Bay Area home sales continued to slide in October, according to new figures from MDA Dataquick. Also, Gap today announced its third-quarter profits fell 1 percent. But the clothing chain said increases in online and international sales helped drive revenue up 2 percent.

Biotech pioneer Genentech is facing job cuts over the next two years. Swiss parent company Roche today announced it plans to cut 6 percent of its workforce. Also, the explosion of smart phones is having a profound impact on businesses.

San Francisco's mayor today unveiled new electric vehicle charging stations that may signal the future for electric cars. In its own bid to recharge its faltering business, Yahoo! today announced an alliance with the hot web discount broker, Groupon.

Facebook is getting a lot of attention today with the announcement of a new messaging system. The social networking giant has also grown enough to nudge aside eBay to become the third largest Internet-only company in the U.S.

Facebook is expected to unveil an email system that's reportedly being called a "Gmail killer" within the walls of the Palo Alto social networking company. Also, auction house Christie's is hoping to get $160,000 for an original Apple-1 computer.

The state may have financial problems, but the people of California are doing a pretty good job of managing their debt loads. That's according to the latest survey by Credit Karma, a San Francisco-based credit monitoring service.