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Economy
Because of the California gold
rush, San Francisco became and remains the banking and financial center of
the U.S. West
Coast. It is the home of the twelfth district of the U.S. Federal Reserve as well
as major production facilities for the U.S. Mint. The Pacific Exchange, a
regional stock exchange, is
located in the financial district. Many major American and international banks and
venture capital firms have all set up their regional headquarters in the
city.
Companies headquartered in San Francisco
- Anchor Brewing
Company
- Bechtel
Corporation
- Charles Schwab
- CNET
- Dolby Laboratories
- The Gap
- Levi Strauss &
Co.
- Macromedia
- McKesson
Corporation
- Pacific Gas
& Electric (Frequently referred to as PG&E)
- Sega of America
- The
Sharper Image
- VIZ
Media
- Wells Fargo
- Williams-Sonoma,
Inc.
- Wired Magazine
- Japanese
Weekend
- Craigslist
- Method
Some 65 km (~ 40 miles) south of San Francisco is the Silicon Valley, which
holds much of the computing business in the world. Apple Computer and Symantec are
based in Cupertino. Electronic Arts and Oracle Corporation
are based in Redwood City.
Sun Microsystems, Intel, Applied Materials, and
McAfee are
headquartered in Santa Clara. Yahoo! is
headquartered in Sunnyvale. Google
is headquartered (at the "Googleplex") in Mountain View.
Cisco
Systems and Adobe Systems are
headquartered in San Jose. Hewlett Packard is in Palo Alto near Stanford
University.
Outside of Silicon Valley, in the East Bay, Pixar
Animation is located in Emeryville. ChevronTexaco (fomerly of
San Francisco) and IPIX are based in San Ramon, Safeway is based in Pleasanton, and
C & H Sugar Company is based in Crockett. LucasArts is
located in Marin County,
though the company plans to relocate to the Presidio in the next few
years.
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