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Meg Whitman – Pulling HP out of a nose dive
Hewlett-Packard Co. announced a massive drop in quarterly profits amid more than a year of harsh waters. For this past fourth period ended Oct. 31, 2011, H-P’s revenue dropped 3% and net income plummeted 91%. Newly appointed
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Wikipedia fundraising gets a generous $500k from Brin Wojcicki Foundation
Just two days after Wikipedia’s eighth annual fundraiser kicked off this past Wednesday, Google co-founder Sergey Brin and wife, Anne Wojcicki, co-founder of genetic testing company 23andMe donated half a million to Wikimedia Foundation.
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Yelp Announces IPO…Yet Another Company
In my article I wrote yesterday, Angie’s List was going public and I said Yelp was right around the corner. However, I did not think it would be immediately the next day. Yesterday (Thursday),
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SOPA: Could This Be The End Of YouTube?
The debate in Congress over intellectual property – particularly patent law – has been picking up more and more media coverage lately. However, one area that has mostly flown under the radar until now
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IPO Craze, Angie’s List Goes Public and Yelp.com Gets Ready to Follow
With the new tech craze that is gripping the market, two soon to be publicly traded websites are being tapped by investors, Angie’s List Inc. and Yelp Inc. On Wednesday, Angie’s List priced its
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Bare Bones Expenses for Orthopedic Surgeons: 3-D bone printing at 10% cost of traditional bone models
Before preparing for surgery, orthepedic surgeons often find it necessary to use a model of the patient’s bone in order to plan for the surgery. These bone models are also used for practice surgeries
Read More »Apple replaces Steve Jobs with Levinson as chairman, Adds Disney’s Iger to Board
Apple Inc has named Arthur Levinson, a long-time board member, as a non-executive Chairman of the Board. Levinson is the chairman and former CEO of Genentech Inc. He had been an Apple board member since
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IBM Became a Buffet for Buffett
Warren Buffett, billionaire investor of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., gobbled up $10.7 billion worth of shares from International Business Machines Corp. This amounts to a 5.4% stake in IBM and the value has already increased
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Delayed release, but iTunes Match will make up the time
The legacy of Steve Jobs continues as Apple announced on Monday, November 14th, 2011, iTunes Match. Jobs mentioned back in June that Apple was coming out with a service that would centralized users music
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Step Aside Optimus, Amazon Prime Is In the House
Amazon.com Inc. has been very successful in recent years as it has gone from a website that sold paperback books to an online mega mall that sells everything imaginable, as well as their own brand of
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