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As of 2020, 38 Fortune 500 companies had headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area. [1] San Francisco-based businesses are not listed here; the subset of San Francisco-based businesses by type is at the list of companies based in San Francisco. This list includes extant businesses formerly located in the Bay Area, which have moved, or been ...
The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is an American private, 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization founded in 1912. BBB's self-described mission is to focus on advancing marketplace trust, [2] consisting of 92 independently incorporated local BBB organizations in the United States and Canada, coordinated under the International Association of Better Business Bureaus (IABBB) in Arlington, Virginia.
The Bay Area consists of nine counties (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma) and 101 municipalities. [5] One, San Francisco, is a consolidated city–county. California law makes no distinction between "city" and "town", and municipalities may use either term in their official names. [6]
I was talking recently to BBB spokeswoman Alison Southwick for another WalletPop story, and we drifted to another topic: the trend of banks being reported to the Better Business Bureau (complaints ...
The ethnic makeup of San Francisco is 15.2% Hispanics or Latinos of any race (15.2%), 84.98% Non-Hispanic. According to the 2020 census, San Francisco has a minority-majority population, as non-Hispanic European Americans comprise less than half of the population at 39.8%, down from 92.5% in 1940. [9]
The Ventura County Star was founded in 1925 by the John P. Scripps Newspaper Group, which merged with E. W. Scripps in 1986.Around 1936, the Star acquired the Ventura Free Press (which itself was founded in 1875), and began publishing as the Ventura County Star-Free Press in 1938.
San Francisco/San Jose Cable Stations. CBS News Bay Area - Pairs with KPIX (CBS) & KPYX (KPIX+) Comcast Hometown Network - Cable TV in SF. CreaTV San Jose - Public access channel. NBC Sports Bay Area - Broadcasts some games on KNTV/San Jose & KSTS/San Jose. NBC Sports California - Broadcasts some games on KNTV/San Jose & KSTS/San Jose.
Amber Frey, the former mistress of murder suspect Scott Peterson, leaves the San Mateo Superior County Courthouse after a delay in Peterson's trial Aug. 18, 2004, in Redwood City, Calif.