Business & Real Estate

Courtesy of SILVAR
The Silicon Valley Association of Realtors received the Diamond Global Achievement Program Award for 2018 from the National Association of Realtors earlier this month.

The Silicon Valley Association of Realtors Global Business Council received the Diamond Global Achievement Program Award for 2018 from the National Association of Realtors at the Realtors Conference & Expo earlier this month in Boston.

SILVAR President Bill Moody and Executive Officer Paul Cardus accepted the award on behalf of the council.

The Silicon Valley Community Foundation Board of Directors recently named Nicole Taylor the organization’s new president and chief executive officer.

Officials on the Board Search Committee said Taylor is a leader who brings together a background in Bay Area philanthropy, nonprofit administration and fundraising with experience in both the private and public sectors. Foundation officials noted that Taylor embodies their values of “courage, collaboration, accountability and more.” Taylor will meet with all SVCF staff in the coming weeks.

Q: What is a contingency?

A four-year bachelor’s degree is commonly considered the minimum entry point for the higher-paying jobs of the future. But if you are going to borrow money to complete one, you can and should determine in advance how much you can afford to borrow based on the career you wish to pursue.

Suppose you are interested in becoming a software engineer. You can use data from PayScale.com to figure out how much you can borrow. Visit payscale.com/college-salary-report/majors-that-pay-you-back/bachelors and click “Major” to sort the data. Software engineer is the degree with the 48th best earning potential.

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Local software startup Netskope Inc. has moved its headquarters from downtown Los Altos to Santa Clara after outgrowing its Third Street space, above.

Local software startup Net- skope Inc. has moved its headquarters from downtown Los Altos to Santa Clara after outgrowing its Third Street space.

According to Netskope’s website, the growing company has three locations outside the U.S., in India, London and Melbourne. Employees at the now-vacant 270 Third St. office have relocated their main hub to 2445 Augustine Dr. in Santa Clara, said Netskope’s marketing director Fitz Barth.

Courtesy of Jason Davis
Jim Davis Automotive last week marked 36 years of operations under owner Jim Davis. Davis, center, is flanked by BJ Correia, left, and Brian Nakai, mechanics at the shop.

A well-loved auto shop that services cars for customers all over the South Bay, including residents of Los Altos and Mountain View, hosted a celebration Nov. 8 for the man behind the muscle, Jim Davis.

Jim Davis Automotive at 3972 El Camino Real in Palo Alto boasts a 4.5-star rating on Yelp, with his perfect rating broken by a single one-star review from a Seattle woman who had a poor experience with one of the mechanics. The owner apologized personally in a response to her post.