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As the wider brokerage industry figures out how to cut real estate costs in a work-from-home era, one firm, Charles Schwab Corp., said Tuesday it was closing offices in five cities because employees in those locations are now working from home.

Major League Baseball's takeover of San Diego Padres' broadcasts involved months of planning, a playbook MLB is following this week with Arizona Diamondbacks' telecasts

SEC registered investment advisory firm SageView Advisory Group has expanded its growing national footprint with the acquisition of Retirement Benefits Group (RBG) San Diego.  

Deepika Padukone from the much-anticipated film, describing her character as a hope for a better tomorrow. Directed by Nag Ashwin, the big-budget sci-fi movie also stars Prabhas, Amitabh Bachchan and Kamal Haasan.Vyjayanthi Movies, the banner behind 'Project K', shared the poster on its official Twitter page on Monday night.

Major League Baseball will take over broadcasts of Arizona Diamondbacks games after a federal bankruptcy judge on Tuesday granted a motion for Diamond Sports to reject its rights agreement

The European Union has slapped a $475 million fine on U.S. biotech giant Illumina for buying out cancer-screening company Grail without the approval of the 27-nation bloc’s antitrust watchdog

Major League Baseball says teams have collected 94% of the money they have been owed by Diamond Sports

Three Federal Reserve officials on Monday said policymakers will need to raise interest rates further this year to bring inflation back to the central bank’s goal. 

The owner of the Los Angeles Times has sold the San Diego Union-Tribune to MediaNews Group

United States President Joe Biden began his trip to Europe on Monday with a visit to London where he met with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and King Charles-III. The US President described the relationship between the two nations as «rock solid.» The meeting between Biden and Sunak comes ahead of a key NATO meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania's capital. Biden, who is on a three-nation visit, made his first stop at the UK before heading later in the day for a NATO leaders summit in Lithuania.

A 14-year-old who went missing from her family’s home outside San Diego was found by military police inside the barracks at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, authorities said Thursday.

Gold Cup soccer tournament, which kicked off on June 24 and runs through July 16, the excitement continues to build. The highly anticipated 2023 Gold Cup is set to take place in 13 cities across North America this summer. Teams such as the USMNT, Mexico, Canada, Jamaica, and Costa Rica are expected to make strong runs in the tournament, adding excitement to the upcoming knockout round stage, which promises intriguing matchups. The matches will be hosted in various cities including Toronto, Arlington, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Glendale, Harrison, Inglewood, Paradise, St. Louis, San Diego, Santa Clara, and Houston (twice). The USMNT aims to achieve a historic feat by becoming the first team to win consecutive Gold Cup titles since Mexico's triumph in 2009 and 2011. Meanwhile, the other participating teams are determined to break the trend of USA vs. Mexico finals, which have dominated the tournament since 2017.

Director Nag Ashwin's highly-anticipated film, Project K, boasting a star-studded cast including Amitabh Bachchan, Deepika Padukone, Kamal Haasan, Prabhas and Disha Patani, is set to make its debut at the renowned San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) later in July. The exciting news was shared by Vyjayanthi Movies, the production company, through a tweet, causing Amitabh Bachchan to express his elation on Twitter with a reaction post. “...

Some office workers in Tokyo and Hong Kong have a hidden weapon against blistering summer temperatures. Slipped discreetly into a pocket in the collar of special business shirts, Sony’s Reon Pocket 4 device rests a cool metal pad against the back of the neck.

Kuchlbauer in North Carolina and Ryan Bomba in Chicago. It was smoke from wildfires, the odor of an increasingly hot and occasionally on-fire world. Kuchlbauer had flashbacks to the surprise of soot coating her car three years ago when she was a recent college graduate in San Diego.

Banks are the lifeblood of a nation’s economic system, and any bank collapse is disturbing. Last week saw two failures. On March 8, Silvergate Capital — the cryptocurrency-focused banking company — entered into voluntary liquidation. On March 10, United States regulators shut down and seized the deposits of tech-oriented Silicon Valley Bank in what was being called the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history. Both California institutions were victims of bank deposit runs. 

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin's latest salvo against “shitcoins” has ended up with him simply being sent more of it.

Silvergate Capital (SI), the San Diego crypto bank under investigation by regulators, said it shut down, sending ripples through an industry that’s been on edge since the collapse of FTX in November. Its shares lost almost half their value.

According to a Mar. 7 announcement from the University of California San Diego (UCSD), the post-secondary institution has received a 15 million USD Coin (USDC) donation from the Balvi Filantropic Fund. The foundation is currently directed by Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin and "is a scientific investment and direct gifting fund for deploying quickly to high-value COVID projects that traditional institutional or commercial funding sources tend to overlook." As told by UCSD, the donation is the largest gift of its kind to a U.S. university and will be used to establish the Meta-Institute for Airborne Disease in a Changing Climate, "The Airborne Institute."

When Les Borsai was managing the American rock band Unwritten Law in 1998, its drummer “borrowed” a hire truck and crashed it through the window of the Bahia Hotel lobby in San Diego.

Major toy manufacturing company Mattel announced the launch of the official Masters of the Universe (MOTU) digital collection in collaboration with the non-fungible token (NFT)-native digital toy company Cryptoys. The first batch of heroes and villains comes on November 9.