About Us

Mountain View Online is a community news and information website operated by the staff of the Mountain View Voice, a weekly newspaper serving the San Francisco Peninsula city of Mountain View, California. Owned by Palo Alto-based Embarcadero Media, the Mountain View Voice began publishing in 1993.

Embarcadero also owns and operates numerous other websites and publishes the the Palo Alto Weekly, The Almanac (serving Menlo Park, Portola Valley, Woodside and Atherton) and the Pleasanton Weekly. The Palo Alto Weekly became the first newspaper in the United States to publish on the World Wide Web in January, 1994.