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HGST, a unit of Western Digital, intends to construct two big, new buildings in south San Jose in an expansion of its campus that could create up to 1,700 jobs and help develop a transit and technology village for the area, according to documents filed with city planners.HGST, a unit of Western Digital, intends to construct two big, new buildings in south San Jose in an expansion of its campus that could create up to 1,700 jobs and help develop a transit and technology village for the area, according to documents filed with city planners.

The move of legal and professional software development and research positions includes the division known as CounselLink, and will occur in phases through the year.

Aerospace giant Boeing Co. announced that it would reduce its workforce in Southern California by 200 to 300 people who are part of its research and development unit.

Growing life-sciences technology company Arrayit is roughly doubling its footprint, moving south of Highway 101 as the company expands its product and service offerings dramatically.

DC Comics will move its operations from New York City to the Warner Bros Studios lot in Burbank in 2015, according to media reports.

Amazon.com, Inc. today announced it is finalizing plans to open a new 1.2 million-square-foot fulfillment center in Moreno Valley, Calif. Amazon will create more than 1,000 full-time jobs at the fulfillment center when it opens. This will be Amazon’s fourth fulfillment center in the state. The company’s other sites are located in Patterson, San Bernardino and Tracy.

In October 2012, a city reeling from its recent bankruptcy filing saw a glimmer of hope in Amazon’s announcement that it had opened a distribution center and had hired 700 people.

Shinmei Co. Ltd., one of Japan’s largest rice millers and distributors, today formally announced that it will build a $10 million, 28,000-square-foot U.S. headquarters and production plant on six acres in West Sacramento’s Southport Business Park.

Bank of America Corp. is slashing 1,200 jobs in its mortgage division as the company’s refinancing business slows amid rising interest rates.

“Paramount Pictures announced layoffs on Tuesday as part of the studio’s effort to cut costs.

The Hollywood studio, owned by Viacom Inc. of New York, notified employees that 110 staffers will be cut from departments including finance, human resources, IT, legal and marketing.”

Google (GOOG) over the last few weeks has struck deals to rent or buy more than 1 million square feet of offices in Santa Clara County, including the purchase of several Mountain View buildings in recent days, extending a stunning expansion by the Internet giant.

Boeing is shifting more engineering jobs from Washington state to Southern California, the latest in a series of such changes that could see hundreds of jobs moving away.

Kinkisharyo International Inc., the No. 1 supplier of low-floor light rail vehicles in North America, is moving its U.S. headquarters from Massachusetts to El Segundo, bringing about 25 jobs to the South Bay city and another 250 positions to the Palmdale area, where it will manufacture rail cars for the county Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Amazon.com Inc. is pushing ahead with a San Francisco expansion that will grow its footprint in the city to nearly 150,000 square feet.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved plans by the Walt Disney Co. to build a high-tech film and television production studio complex on sprawling ranch land in the Santa Clarita Valley.