Sunnyvale-based Yahoo! will cut 5% of its workforce as Q1 reports show a drop in net profit of 78%. CEO Carol Bartz, at the helm since January, is deadly serious about preserving core performance, keeping a "wall...
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"Former Spansion CEO, concerned about fired employees, returns severance " Declaring "I am literally in tears" over the firing of 3,000 employees at computer chip maker Spansion, the company's former chief executive...
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"Spansion restores executive pay as it lays off 3,000" Pay raises for executives as it lays off employees??? ""Spansion’s board of directors last week restored the 10 percent cut in pay given to its executive...
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"Robotic radiosurgery system offers non-invasive treatment alternative for tumors anywhere in the body Sunnyvale, Calif. (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - Accuray Incorporated (Nasdaq: ARAY), a global leader in the field of radiosurgery, announced today that Japan's...
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Murder Investigation Underway, Baby Found Safe
Now that her child has been found, police return their focus to solving the death of 24-year-old Alisha L. Spencer. Spencer's body was found Saturday near a...
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. saidit is cutting about 10% of its work force, or about 1,650 jobs, andwarned that weaker-than-expected sales hurt results in its recentquarter."AMD, locked in a battle with Intel Corp. over chips known as microprocessors, said it expects...
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After more than half a decade of legal battles, one California couple must remove their redwood trees so that their neighbor's solar panels will not be obstructed. I was a California resident for more than half my...
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Should we be flattered that hackers want our status updates and newsfeeds? Who knows what can happen once they figure out that "Rob is...feeling a little blue today." Ahh!"Social networking sites like...
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"Previously, he served as vice president of marketing at Varian, Inc., overseeing the company's scientific instrument business. Mr Woelk will replace Bill Gignac, who will remain with the company.
"I am extremely excited to join Picarro as I believe the company has a...
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Yahoo management has been publicly humiliated in Washington recently for disclosing information to the Chinese government about a dissident journalist in China. House Foreign Affairs Committee Charman called Jerry Yang a 'moral pygmy' among other things. Now it...
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"The demonstration, the first in the industry between two different vendors, took place in Navini's test facility in Richardson, Texas, using Navini's Ripwave(R) MX8 base station running Mobile WiMAX software and a CPE reference design prototype based on the Fujitsu MB86K21...
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""Innovalight is developing a very attractive approach to lower the costs of conventional solar energy," said Bjorge Gretland, managing partner for Convexa Capital who joins the board of Innovalight. "The company's silicon ink process to make cheaper solar cells offers huge...
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"Bennett Porter is wickedly busy these days. She has just been promoted to Yahoo's head of marketing for Southeast Asia, so she's frequenting the parabola between Singapore and corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. Yet Ms. Porter still is in the process of disengaging...
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"Because the new Yahoo Mail has been available to all of the service's users for almost a year in beta form, its enhancements aren't a secret, but Yahoo is announcing some new improvements.
For example, all users...
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Hat tip to JD for this one. If anyone is around it should be worth attending. Let us know what goes down."I can't make it, but this sounds interesting: The evolution and growing influence of social news sites
will be the topic of a panel Thursday night at Yahoo!...
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