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