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Michael Dell Cans Execs He Handpicked to Save Company
From Silicon Alley Insider, Dec. 31, 2008: After Dell founder Michael Dell came back as CEO in 2007, he hired former Solectron chief Michael Cannon as president of global operations and former Oracle exec Mark Jarvis as chief marketing officer.Some $22.8
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House Prices Plunge Again, Now Down 25 Percent
From ClusterStock.com, Dec. 30, 2008:House prices plunged again in October, with the rate of year-over-year decline accelerating to a new record high of 19%. The peak-to-trough decline in the Case Shiller 10-city index is now 25%; the 20-city index is dow
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What a Year: Tech Ticker Highlights from 2008
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... Well, mostly the worst of times, as this collection of Tech Ticker highlights from the past year reveals. From Nouriel "Dr. Doom" Roubini's grim views on a potential housi
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Treasury GMAC Bailout a Fraudulent "Kiting" Scheme?
From ClusterStock.com, Dec. 30, 2008: The Bush Administration seems determined to extend the US auto industry's life until January 21st come hell or high water. The latest sign of this desperation? The Treasury just bailed out GMAC with $5 billion of taxp
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Shhhh! You'll Wake the Valley!
All is very quiet today in the Valley as public companies everywhere go into hibernation mode for the week between Christmas and New Year's Day. Its like one big MacBook Pro shut down, with the pulsing power light the only sign of tepid lif
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2008 Tech Report Card: Rating the CEOs and Startups
AllThingsD blogger Kara Swisher calls herself the schoolmarm of the Internet. Heres how she grades the most powerful people in Silicon Valley:Most underrated execs? They include Mark Hurd of HP, Bobby Kotick of Activision Blizzard, an
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Macke and Adami: 'Bailout' Equals 'Failure' and Other Word Associations
Fast Money's Jeff Macke and Guy Adami aren't the shy, retiring types, so we thought it'd be fun to get their unfiltered commentary on some of the year's biggest themes, events and people.As you'll see in the accompanying video, neither
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Happy Holidays from the Team at Tech Ticker
Like many of you, Tech Ticker is taking a break to celebrate the holidays but we're not shutting down completely.Starting today through Jan. 1, we will be publishing some videos taking a look back at 2008 and ahead to 2009; we'll also be posting b
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BlackBerry Storm and Stress: RIM vs. Apple
From All Things Digital:Apples iPhone hasnt supplanted Research In Motions BlackBerry as the gold standard of mobile business tools, but give it another year or so and it just might. According to new research from ChangeWave, the iP
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Kara Swisher Predicts the Biggest Stories of 2009
For the past few months, all anyone can talk about are banks, the markets, and bailouts. But that wasn't all of 2008. In Silicon Valley, startups mostly took a back seat, for a year of the big boys jousting for market position, dominance and attention. Th
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I Can't Believe He Said That: 2008 in Quotes
As the clock winds down on an extraordinary year in finance, we take a look back at some of the most notable quotes from some of the most notable players of 2008, including:The policymakers: Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and Tre
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Home Sales Tumble Again, Hopes for a Bottom Fade
Hopes that low mortgage rates will solve the housing crisis took another blow today on news of weaker-than-expected sales of both new and existing homes for November.Here are the lowlights: Existing home sales tumbled 8.6% from October (which was revised
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Valley Buzz: Web Addicts at War, the Short, Skinny Tail and More
Valley blogger Om Malik just sent a very sweet Twitter that read, San Francisco on Holiday Break feels like the small cute town it used to be. Everyone is being so nice to each other. Well, mostly.Michael Arrington of TechCrunch has picked a
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Madoff's Non-Trading Strategy and the Noels' Sad Christmas Tale
Each day brings more eye-opening revelations in the Bernie Madoff scandal. Here's a rundown of the latest: Madoff actually made very few trades in recent years and presumably kept most of the fund's assets in Treasuries, the WSJ reports. (This explains wh
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The Dumbest Calls, Smartest Calls and Biggest Outrages of 2008
Investor and blogger Paul Kedrosky has been a regular guest through the ups and downs of 2008, ringing alarm bells on commercial real estate, the dangers of falling
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Bailout Nation: Insurance Industry in 2009?
According to Swiss Re, 2008 was an epic year for natural catastrophes, not just those on Wall Street. The Zurich-based company said that insurance losses were $50 billion industry-wide, the second costliest year on record. The most costly was 2005, when H
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Beware of Zombie Banks!
What's keeping blogger and investor Paul Kedrosky up late at night? It's a fear of what he calls "Zombie Banks," or the next ticking time bomb in the world of finance. The collapse of money markets and equities has unleashed a torrent of cash lo
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Does Palm Deserve Another $100M?
Roger McNamee, Bono and the rest of the Elevation Partners crew have invested another $100 million in Palm. This makes a total of $425 million so far for Elevation, despite shrinking sales and a $506 million loss for the company last quarter. All hopes se
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Madoff Scheme Tightens Noose on Fund of Funds
From ClusterStock, Dec. 22, 2008:Bernie Madoff's biggest sales operation, Fairfield Greenwich Group, made more than $500 million over the past five years channeling investors to Madoff, the NYT says. We continue to believe the firm's days are num
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Big Three Get Reprieve from White House, Not from Terminal Illness
The White House threw ailing U.S. automakers a lifeline on Friday, pledging $13.4 billion in TARP funds starting now, and an additional $4 billion in February if certain progress is made. ...
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