Business

“There’s Instacart for groceries, DoorDash for food. Where is the laundry solution that is as fast as doing it yourself or better?” asks Matt O’Connor, co-founder and CEO of Texas-based NoScrubs, an upstart seeking to disrupt the clothes-cleaning business.  Having recently launched across Silicon Valley,...

Anyone who grows anything knows working with nutrient-deficient soil is like trying to start a truck with a dead battery. As with the atmosphere above (the air we breathe), the earth beneath our feet has a huge impact on what—and whether—we can grow crops that...

On May 20, just months after plans for Phase 2 of the North 40 mixed-use development were approved, Harmonie Park Development announced it had finally inked a deal to bring two upscale Food & Bev brands—Manresa Bread and Mentone—to a commercial space in the...

Muse Markets arrives in Los Gatos Muse Markets is a vibrant new outlet for local artisans, makers and small businesses. It allows vendors to meet with attendees to buy directly from them. And the items are quite unique. This is not your typical farmers market,...

What do you do when you are growing too much of something everyone used to want, and now, suddenly, consumers want something else? Santa Clara Valley once boasted 100k acres of prune plums, apricots, peaches and cherries, post WWII. By 1960, those orchards were...

Andrea Swan bought The Old Adobe Hair Shop just over 31 years ago after working as a hairdresser at the salon for eight years. March 1, 1995 was Swan's official purchase date for the salon and barbershop. She says that despite being located in...

In connection with the start of Wildfire Awareness Month, Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced its Continuous Monitoring Center, which it's calling a "first-of-its-kind centralized hub" to "detect risk early, prevent wildfires and strengthen reliability for customers." The CMC in San Ramon uses "advanced machine...

If you visit San Francisco's Union Square to shop in 2026, you may be surprised by the mass vacancy in that retail district. From the nine-story mall on Market Street that once housed Bloomingdale's and Nordstrom, to North Face and Williams Sonoma, about half of...

Winegrower Dave Moulton, of Burrell School Vineyards, was clearly concerned. He was experiencing the earliest bud break, flowering and fruit set in his chardonnay and pinot noir vines he’s seen in all his years of growing grapes. “Our roses gave us a clue that mildew...

Melaney Crees, the founder of a Savannah-based botanical skincare brand called Aureterra, will be visiting Ethos in Los Gatos ahead of the day we honor our mothers, and the mother figures in our lives. Organizers say “Reset the Ritual: A Mother's Day Experience” is an...