Colm O’Regan tackles adaptability in life this week.

The chief financial officer of the Californian custom product company Zazzle tells reporter Pádraig Hoare why he made Cork his new home last year.

Taosieach Enda Kenny has said he "does not want to commit" to refunding water charges until after a special Oireachtas Committee looks into the issue, writes Elaine Loughlin, Irish Examiner Political Reporter in Palo Alto.

The Ford Fiesta - the ‘Feshty’ as it is known throughout rural Ireland - is celebrating 40 years on our roads, having first being introduced in 1976, Declan Colley

COURTNEY Duhring hails from Palo Alto in San Francisco, but moved to Cork this year to set up the main Irish Eventbrite customer services hub. 

Christian Benteke and Divock Origi have remained behind at Liverpool's Stanford University base, while the rest of the team travel to Pasadena.

The family of Aoife Beary who remains in a critical condition after falling from a collapsed balcony in Berkeley, California, last month are expecting her recovery to be “long and slow”.

Two self-driving prototype cars, one operated by Google Inc and the other by Delphi Automotive Plc, had a close call on a street in America’s Silicon Valley street earlier this week, a Delphi executive said.

CHINA BODY-SEARCHED 10,000 PIGEONS

THE surprise is how long a backlash took to come. When I was a child in a heat-hazed suburb to the north of Palo Alto, almost no one had heard the term Silicon Valley.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are donating $120m (€88m) to the San Francisco Bay Area’s public school system.

Cindy Crawford was every inch the supermodel at 48 on the red carpet for the premiere of Return to Zero in Hollywood.

This week’s show looks at what Silicon Valley and other startup communities have that Ireland can emulate. Kehlan talks to the former Mayor of San Diego, an Irishman making it big in Palo Alto and also takes a look at why Israel is one of the biggest startup scenes outside of the United States. All this and the usual SME news round up.

US-founded drug firm, Jazz Pharmaceuticals is to spend up to €50m on a new manufacturing facility in Co Roscommon; creating more than 200 jobs in the process.

A total of 220 jobs were announced yesterday.

THE BESTSELLING biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson is most notable for revealing that the innovator and aesthete genius behind Apple — the world’s most successful company — was in many ways a giant, semi-autistic toddler.

Internet media giant, AOL Global Operations is to expand its Irish operations with the addition of 35 software engineering jobs over the next year.

Some 4,000 workers at Hewlett Packard in Ireland are waiting to hear if their jobs will be affected after the company announced its to cut its global workforce by 8%.

FACEBOOK Inc’s plan to relocate its main US base to Menlo Park, California, may result in $366 million (€274m) in new temporary construction spending in the surrounding area.

Jennifer Lopez is reportedly dating dancer Casper Smart.

There was no makeshift memorial or candlelight vigil for Steve Jobs at the Apple Store in downtown Chicago. The news of his death, and then the tributes and condolences, were in news alerts, tweets and messages pulsing through the gadgets inside.

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke optimistically about prospects for treaties that would ease US arms export controls to Britain and Australia.

CALIFORNIAN Mike Slabaugh does not have a stomach — and neither do his 10 US cousins.

Mike Slabaugh does not have a stomach. Neither do his 10 cousins.

SONIA O’SULLIVAN makes her seasonal debut over 5,000m at tonight’s track meet at Stanford, California.

Two months after taking office Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is using his star power – and risking his considerable reservoir of goodwill – to persuade California voters to approve loans worth $15bn (€12bn) to ease the state’s budget crisis.