March 11, 2009
After two years of gloating over the iPhone, we finally might have something else to talk about: the Palm Pre, which is to be launched by Sprint on March 15. Both Palm and Sprint have been hit hard by the iPhone, or the lack of a good enough iPhone challenger. There are a lot of [...] .....
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February 17, 2009
Seagate and Sandisk, both storage solutions companies, are having a hard time in this economic environment. Both are leaders in their markets, but need massive restructurings to stay afloat. On January 21, Seagate Technology (NASDAQ: STX), the leader in hard disk drives and storage solutions with......
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February 11, 2009
Yesterday, NVIDIA, the leading graphics chip maker, reported its results for the fourth quarter 2009 and fiscal year 2009. As we saw with Intel and AMD last month, demand has been weak in the chip sector, and NVIDIA been hit hard by it, with a wider-than-expected loss and a 60% slump in sales. Q4....
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January 13, 2009
Over the weekend, it became clear that Carol Bartz really wants the Yahoo! CEO job, and the Board was willing to give it to her. Today, the appointment became official. Carol Bartz is the no-bullshit, down to earth, highly successful former CEO of Autodesk. Her story in Silicon Valley is a lesson in...
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November 16, 2008
[From his Stanford Commencement address] My second story is about love and loss. I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parent’s garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in [...]...
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March 07, 2008
Venture money is pouring into India. But investors are having a hard time finding great deals to soak up those funds....
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