Palo Alto, California

Ing **Palo Alto** (, 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.

## Economia

Ing 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. 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:

* Amazon.com's A9.com
* Accenture (Former North American HQ. The main HQ is Hamilton, Bermuda)
* Aricent
* Better Place
* CNF Inc.
* Danger, Inc.
* EPRI
* Facebook
* 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

## Further reading
* 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

* City of Palo Alto official website
* Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce
* Palo Alto Historical Association