In The News: Google's Q2 Earnings, Online Security and the New Boom

A lot happens in Mountain View. A lot. The city of approximately 75,000 people increases to more than 100,000 in the daytime, when people come from other Bay Area cities to work.

On weekends, attractions like Shoreline Amphitheatre, the Center for the Performing Arts and the hundreds of restaurants in the city serve as great day trips.

With so much going on and a lot of media attention focused on Mountain View, we decided to help you sort through it and compile some of the top news stories for you in one place. Feel free to add links of stuff we may have missed in the comment section below.

• Newspaper cover all aspects about Google's business, especially the company's quarterly earnings announcements. Google's revenue's rose $6.97B beating analysts expectations, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.

• If you have grown worried about the amount of your personal information easily accessible on the Internet, you are not alone. San Jose Mercury reporter talks to security experts including one at Symantec about the future of online security.

• People have begun to predict that a new boom, and a new bust, heading to Silicon Valley again. The San Jose Mercury explores how the round of companies being purchases now can effect local real estate and neighborhoods.

• Former Mountain View resident and journalist Jose Antonio Vargas made a guest appearance on The Colbert Report. Antonio announced to the world that is an undocumented immigrant last month and host Stephen Colbert questioned him about his decision to do so.