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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.
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.
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.
The ACLU is accredited by the Better Business Bureau, and the Charity Navigator has ranked the ACLU with a four-star rating. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] The local affiliates solicit their own funding; however, some also receive funds from the national ACLU, with the distribution and amount of such assistance varying from state to state.
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 San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a region of California surrounding and including the San Francisco Bay. [8] The Association of Bay Area Governments defines the Bay Area as including the nine counties that border the estuaries of San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and Suisun Bay: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma, and San ...