Palo Alto, California
Ing Palo Alto (mayayagkas /ˌpæloʊˈæltoʊ/, ibat keng Spanish: palo: "taiktik" (o "asias" o "pun dutung") ampong alto: "matas") metung yang California charter lakanbalen atiu keng pangulungalbugan a suluk ning Santa Clara County, king San Francisco Bay Area ning California, USA. Mipalagiu ya keng pun dutung a El Palo Alto. Ing lakanbalen kayabe ya ing Stanford University ampo ing puntanggapan da reng dakal a Silicon Valley high-technology compania, kayabe ne ing Hewlett-Packard, VMware ampong Facebook. Agpang keng 2000 census, ing lakanbalen atin yang populasiun a 58,598 pakatuknang.
University Avenue | |
Palayo: P.A. | |
Karinan keng Santa Clara County ampo keng state ning California | |
Coordinates: | |
Bangsa | United States |
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State | California |
County | Santa Clara |
Mumunang Tiknangan | 1769 |
Incorporated bilang lakanbalen | 1894 |
Gubiernu | |
- Mayor | Peter Drekmeier[1] |
Lualas | |
- Kabilugan | 25.6 sq mi (66.4 km2) |
- Gabun | 23.7 sq mi (61.3 km2) |
- Danum | 2.0 sq mi (5.1 km2) |
Katas/kabilian | 30 ft (9 m) |
Populasiun (2007) | |
- Kabilugan | 61,200 |
- Populasiun Pangasiksik | 2,475.3/sq mi (955.8/km2) |
Time zone | PST (UTC-8) |
- Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC-7) |
ZIP codes | 94301, 94303, 94306 |
Area code(s) | 650 |
FIPS code | 06-55282 |
GNIS feature ID | 0277572 |
Website | http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/ |
Economia
mag-editIng Palo Alto ssususyu ya bilang pangkalibutarang pangecomiang tulduk keng Silicon Valley, ampo karinan de ring maiggit a 7,000 businesses papaobra kareng maiggit a 98,000 katau.[2] Many prominent technology firms reside in the Stanford Research Park on Page Mill Road, while nearby Sand Hill Road in the adjacent city of Menlo Park is a notable haunt of venture capitalists. The city’s economy generally follows the economic trends of the rest of the Silicon Valley. Well-known companies and research facilities headquartered in Palo Alto include:[3]
- Amazon.com's A9.com
- Accenture (Former North American HQ. The main HQ is Hamilton, Bermuda)
- Aricent
- Better Place
- CNF Inc.
- Danger, Inc.
- EPRI
- Genencor
- Hewlett-Packard
- IDEO
- Merrill Lynch (largest office outside New York, NY)
- Ning
- NYSE
- PAIX
- Photobucket
- SAP AG (North American HQ. The main HQ is Walldorf, Germany)
- Schering-Plough Biopharma
- Socialtext
- Space Systems/Loral
- Tibco Software
- The Wall Street Journal
- Varian Medical Systems
- VMware
- Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (technology law firm)
- Xerox
References
mag-edit- ↑ Mayor and City Council. City of Palo Alto. Retrieved on 2009-05-08.
- ↑ Palo Alto Business Facts
- ↑ Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce list of Major Employers (archived)
Further reading
mag-edit- John Jenks, David Crimp, C. Michael Hogan et al., Engineering and Environmental Evaluations of Discharge to the Coast Casey Canal and Charleston Slough, prepared by Kennedy Jenks Engineers and Earth Metrics Inc. (1976)
- Santa Clara County Heritage Resource Inventory, Santa Clara County Historical Heritage Commission, published by Santa Clara County, San Jose, Ca., June 1979
- A description of high-tech life in Palo Alto around 1995 is found in the novel by Douglas Coupland, Microserfs.
- Coleman, Charles M., P. G. and E. of California: The Centennial Story of Pacific Gas and Electric Company 1852–1952, (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1952).
- Hanson, Warren D., San Francisco Water and Power: A History of the Municipal Water Department and Hetch Hetchy System, (San Francisco: San Francisco Public Utilities Communications Group, 2002).
- Map: PG&E Backbone Gas Transmission System, (San Francisco: Pacific Gas and Electric Co., undated).
- Map: Water Conveyance, Treatment, and Distribution System, (San Jose: Santa Clara Valley Water District, 1978).
- Earthquake Planning Scenario Special Publication #61, (Sacramento, California: State of California, Division of Mines and Geology, 1981).
- $117,730,000 Bond Offering: Transmission Agency of Northern California, (Sacramento, California: Transmission Agency of Northern California, 1992).
External links
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