RANDY PENCH / Sacramento Bee A crew tended to honeybee hives sent from North Dakota to pollinate Central Valley almond trees.

OAKDALE – In sheer numbers, it's the biggest migration of workers in the world. This month, nearly three-quarters of all the nation's commercial honeybees will be in California's ever-expanding almond orchards to do the work that only a bee can do: gather pollen from the blossom of one tree and drop it in the blossom of another.

Petco Animal Supplies said yesterday it has collared Circuit City's finance chief, Michael E. Foss, to be its executive vice president and chief financial officer. The move brings to the San Diego pet-food seller a financial executive from a much bigger corporation

Chip-making rivals Qualcomm and Broadcom said yesterday that they've agreed to dismiss legal claims against each other that involve four patents in two federal court cases.

After more than a decade of fierce opposition, U.S. and Mexican officials came to the Otay Mesa border crossing yesterday to announce a pilot program that will open highways on both sides of the border to truckers from either country.

PALO ALTO – Facebook.com's mastermind, Mark Zuckerberg, is sitting on a gold mine that could make him the next Silicon Valley whiz kid to strike it rich. But the 22-year-old founder of the Internet's second-largest social-networking site also could turn into the next poster boy for missed opportunities if he waits too long to cash in.