Google Scraps Yahoo Partnership

November 5, 2008

Tweet After months of working to overcome anti-trust issues, Yahoo (YHOO: 26.02 -1.96%) and Google (GOOG: 882.79 -0.75%) have called off their “strategic partnership” that would have Google selling ads on Yahoo web properties. Yahoo struck this partnership in a move following it fighting off Microsoft, which earlier this year offered $33-36 per share for [...]

Google Puts 225,000 Square Feet of Palo Alto Office Space on the Market for Sublease… Again

October 24, 2008

Tweet Google (GOOG: 882.79 -0.75%) has once again put its building at 395 Page Mill Road in Palo Alto on the market for sublease. Since signing a 10-year lease for the 224,000 square foot building mid-last year from Jay Paul Company, the building has sat vacant. The building was acquired by the Jay Paul Company [...]

Academia Expected to Partner with NASA For New Campus at Moffett Field

October 11, 2008

Tweet Back in 2000, an academic collaboration was formed with the intent of creating a large shared-use academic and R&D campus at the NASA Research Park at Moffett Field. Now eight years later, it seems the partnership is poised to reach its goal of building that campus and has proposed a plan encompassing affordable housing, [...]

Silicon Valley Office Space Continues to Get Cheaper

September 22, 2008

Tweet Landlords across Silicon Valley are working hard to get space leased, and in the process are offering everything from teaser start rates to bonuses to the brokers. In fact, in the past two months we have seen a dramatic increase in the number of landlords who are looking to entice brokers by providing them [...]

Tesla Motors San Jose Land and Factory Deal: Thanks Government!

September 17, 2008

Tweet Tesla has signed a lease for 89 acres of land in North San Jose off Zanker Road north of highway 237. Tesla is proposing to build a 600,000 square foot headquarters and factory facility. From what is being reported, it seems Tesla got a great deal. Tesla signed a 40-year lease, of which the first [...]

Facebook Looking to Leave Downtown Palo Alto

June 23, 2008

Tweet Faced with low single digit vacancy rates, sky-high rental rates, and rapid growth, Facebook is looking to leave downtown Palo Alto. Kara Swisher, who also revealed Facebook’s revenue numbers, is reporting that Facebook’s migration will begin as soon as the first quarter of 2009. This isn’t new news at all since Facebook had been in [...]

Sequoia Capital Moving into San Francisco; Leases Top Floor at 555 Mission Street

June 20, 2008

Tweet The San Francisco Business Times is reporting that Sequoia Capital has signed up for the top floor of Tishman Speyer’s new tower at 555 Mission Street in San Francisco. The 33-Story, 550,000 SF tower is being built by Turner Construction and is currently seeking LEED certification. It was designed by architecture firms Kohn Pederson [...]

Yahoo Cuts a Deal with Google

June 12, 2008

Tweet Yahoo has entered into a non-exclusive agreement with Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) to allow Google to run ads on Yahoo’s web properties. The deal is estimated to ad approximately $800M a year in cash flow to Yahoo. As of June 8th, Microsoft and Yahoo have concluded their negotiations as well. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has expressed interest in continuing [...]

Google Leases Land at NASA for Development of New High Tech Campus

June 4, 2008

Tweet It’s been rumoured in the past that Google was nibbling at taking down space at Jay Paul’s Moffet Towers Project. In what could be construed as less than favorable news for Moffett Towers, insofar as Google is concerned, NASA announced today that it has inked a deal with Google for 42 acres of land [...]

San Francisco Office Space Leasing Slows

February 4, 2008

Tweet Faced with a possible downturn in the economy, tenants seeking space in San Francisco returned to the sidelines in the fourth quarter. 2007 saw a number of large deals take place including 200K for Google and 170K for O’Melveny & Myers. Rents also saw an uptick in 2007 overall, but that trend seemed to have stalled [...]