Morning Wrap: 4/19/12

News and notes:

• On the stand in Oracle’s lawsuit against Google, Google CEO Larry Page testified that his company didn’t obtain a license to use the Java software technology, asserting that it didn’t need one. Mercury News
• Speculation ramped up that Pleasanton-based Safeway may be a takeover target. SF Business Times
• A tweet that purported to be from missing and presumed kidnapped Morgan Hill teenager Sierra LaMar turned out to be a hoax. Mercury News
• Berkeleyside asks, ‘Can Telegraph Avenue get its mojo back?’
• A man who drove his SUV into the bay from the Marina district last month with three teenagers inside was acquitted of reckless driving and child endangerment. Bay City News Service
• Menlo Park sealed the deal to let Facebook eventually add thousands of employees to its new campus. Palo Alto Daily News
• UC Davis police chief Annette Spicuzza, criticized for last November’s pepper-spraying of students, announced she’s retiring, effective today. AP
• Pleasanton approved 500 more apartments near the Dublin-Pleasanton BART station. Contra Costa Times